Home Before Dark Season 1, Episode 2 recap: Did Kim kill Penny Gillis?

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Abby Miller and Jim Sturgess in “Home Before Dark,” premiering April 3 on Apple TV+ /

Matt reconnects with his father and his family finally learns the truth about what happened all those years ago in episode two of Home Before Dark.

We start to get some answers in episode two of Home Before Dark about what really happened on the night of Richie’s abduction and the reason why everyone in town seems to hate the Lisko family.

The hour starts in a somewhat jarring fashion as Hilde walks into a dark kitchen to find an older man messing around with knives. We quickly learn that the man is the house’s real owner and Matt’s father. It seems that Hilde’s article disturbed him enough to send him wandering back home.

In the morning, Matt returns his father to his nursing home and checks on him. His father keeps calling him “Frankie,” who we learn is another old “friend” of Matt’s and he was one of the police officers that was on the scene at Penny’s death.

Frankie stops by to visit Matt’s father and make him feel bad about not visiting enough. Matt didn’t even know who the “chairman” was, which turns out to be his dad’s way of saying he wants to listen to old Frank Sinatra records.

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While visiting his father, Matt learns that Frankie told him something important, but we don’t know what yet. We also learn that he was the one who boarded up the attic. Matt tries to get answers out of him as to what’s inside the safe. It doesn’t work.

Perhaps the most valuable thing we discover in this episode is why the Lisko’s are social pariahs in Erie Harbor.

It turns out, when Matt was put on the witness stand as a kid, he told the jury that he didn’t believe Sam Gillis was guilty of abducting Richie.

Everyone else in town believed Sam was behind it, including Matt’s father. He pushed Richie to “tell the truth” and condemn Sam, but Matt didn’t listen. Matt’s decision caused a massive rift between himself and his dad and the town at large.

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All these years later, and Matt still believes what he said in court that day. He tells Bridget that while he didn’t see the man in the van abduct Richie, the voice was not Sam’s.

Poor Bridget, she gets the short end of the stick this week as she tries to find a suitable daycare for Ginny, only to get the cold shoulder from everyone she meets. Everyone, that is, except the nice woman who runs the ice cream shop. She finally tells Bridget what happened back in the day that led to the Liskos getting blacklisted. Afterward, Bridget confronts Matt, and that’s when he comes clean about everything.

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