We begin at a house in the night, with a guy writing some letter. After he shoots himself, we cut to our main character Lee Raybon taking a stroll, and driving off, and back to a bookstore building or something, to meet with some people associated with Akron, an investment company. Lee reveals to the group that he’s a truthstorian. After meeting some of the team, including Frank Martin, Bob, Allen, and Cathy, Lee talks about his interest in the church pamphlet they have, and that it’s important that the Tulsa community get that pamphlet back, and confronts him about buying up black owned businesses in Oklahoma. Lee steals the painting in the Lobby via bribery, and he talks with a guy at the at the Heartland Press building, about Dale Washberg, the guy who killed himself at the beginning, and that it deserves another follow-up article, much to the disagreement of the dude.
At Sweet Emily’s Diner, where a server is talking to him about his Washberg piece. Suddenly a stranger named Marty walks in, and they begin talking, specifically about Lees “hit piece” story, and some symbolism involving poetry, and what the people in the diner are missing. Lee hits the road, and interacts with some locals, and is told by one of his acquaintances that there were some guys who were loitering and looking for him. Lee leaves the painting with Dan, and he heads into his bookstore and up to his research room, where he gets jumped by some guys, who are mad that he put them in his article as Skinheads and Nazis. After getting knocked out, he heads to the Washberg estate sale to get some of the rare books they have, and he talks to his ex about his payment problems, catching up a bit, and then talking to his daughter about custody. Finally, we arrive at the estate sale, where Lee runs into Ray, who talks to him about being there after he wrote an article about the Dale Washberg suicide, and tells him about the good, rare books Dale’s study.
Lee heads up to the study, and begins to look for clues, finding freaky stuff in a dresser, and some interesting things in a schedule. Vicky comes into the room, and conversates about him being there, obvious romantic tension alert. After leaving him in the room, she suddenly gets a call from Betty Jo, telling him that Lee can’t be there. Looking through the old book, Lee finds the note Dale wrote, and Vicky kicks him out of the estate. The next morning at Lee’s neighbor Dan’s office, and asks him to store the note, and goes to sell the painting at Rays antique store, telling him to get the crime novels at the estate for him. At a cattle auction with his daughter, Donald Washberg (Dale’s brother and potential governor) is there, and it seems like he’s getting a little cozy with Betty Jo, Dale’s wife. Lee gets kidnapped by the skinheads again because he wrote another article about them, and they bring him to an Akron property, where we see Allen again. Allen and the skinheads then go to a bridge, where Allen winds up killing the skinheads. Lee is rescued by Marty, and Lee takes off in fear before Marty can explain who he is, discovering wads of money in the car in the process.
This show is ok. It wasn’t too spectacular, but it wasn’t terrible. It was more of like a “oh something happened” than a “wow look what happened!” It doesn’t seem like a show that would pique interest for very long, though the mystery with the family seems a little interesting. Hopefully the next few episodes will change that, and it will be more intriguing.
Rating 6.8/10