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How come Harper drops the dime on Fay?


It's obvious that she had nothing to do with the kidnapping and was coerced into the wetback
smuggling and torture of Betty by her brutish husband (at one point she even tries to help Betty...

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Didn't she know that Robert Wagner was involved in the kidnapping and they would get half a million dollars from Sampson's family? She was an accessory before the fact by not alerting the authorities that a kidnapping was going to take place. I think.

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While Sampson used Fay for perverted sex (his being "kinky" is about the only bit of info she lets slip when Harper leads her on and gets her drunk), she wasn't involved with Robert Wagner, Betty Fraley was.

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