The two lowest puppets in the Watergate scandal see their stories end. Was it worth all the human misery?
It strikes me that if it weren’t for Dorothy’s tragic death, there’d be little left forlens on the well-worn Watergate scandal by telling the story from the lowest rung of political power, which was also the deepest level of involvement. But what happens to Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy from here on out, including at trial, mostly happensthem rather than because of them, so much so that the obligatory “Where are they now?” epilogue seemed on the cusp of rolling for most of the last episode.
McCord’s conspiracy theory seems bogus. It has to be bogus. Why kill Dorothy Hunt to keep Howard Hunt silent? Just kill Howard Hunt! Why kill a commercial plane full of innocent people to kill Dorothy? Just kill Dorothy! And yet … there are just enough unsettling details that a distressed and fearful Howard can’t help but indulge it.
From the outset, though, it’s clear there’s more on trial than the seven men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Judge John Silica is an activist judge; he insists that the prosecutor establish more than guilt. He wants to know everything about the break-in, including who paid the men to do it — a suggestion that’s almost insulting to Liddy and Hunt, patriots who probably would have done the dumb thing for free, just for the frisson of power.
I have no idea what I’m supposed to feel at this point. When the guard in charge of new inmate processing barks for a naked Howard to “lift your stick,” it’s a joke. When Liddy slaps his ass to spread his cheeks and tells the guards to “drink it in, ladies,” it’s a joke. But these bozos have nine kids between them. Fran Liddy’s a schoolteacher. Howard sold Witches Island without even warning the kids, who have grown to hate him.
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