[M.M, Hughie and Annie visit a woman named Valerie Hunter, whose family had an incident involving Liberty]
I mean... It's been 48 years. What good is dredging all this stuff up now gonna do?
Honestly, we don't know. But we still need to hear it.
I tried to get people to listen. [laughs] Lord knows, so many times I tried. But a little black girl accusing a white superhero of murder in these parts?
Yeah.
It was during one of those summer rains that you just knew was coming by the smell in the air. I was eleven years old, asleep in the back seat of my folks' Ford. My brother Myron, he was driving.
[In a flashback, Myron sees a woman standing in the middle of the road while driving with a young Valerie. He slams on the brakes, causing the tires to screech.]
What's the trouble, ma'am?
Get out. [tries to grab Myron]
Hey!
Your car was involved in a robbery tonight.
No, it wasn't. I–I had it. I don't know nothing about any robbery.
Just confess! [punches Myron]
Why are you doing this to me, lady? Ain't you supposed to be a hero?
I am a hero… for killing a black piece of shit like you.
[Valerie watches Liberty punch Myron so hard, blood sprays onto the windshield. She walks outside and sees that Myron's face is severely disfigured. Cut back to Valerie in the present day.]
I wanted to go to the police. But my folks, they thought it was pointless. So when that man from Vought–When he showed up and he offered us that money, we just took it. Two thousand dollars. That is what my brother's life was worth. Just two thousand dollars. But y'all have gotta promise me that you won't tell anybody that I sat here and I talked to you. Because if that woman finds out that I opened my mouth, she's gonna kill me.
Ms. Hunter. That woman, Liberty… Nobody's seen her since 1979. I mean, she's probably dead by now.
[chuckles] Oh, no, no. [pause; grabs a newspaper from a table] Right here. That's her… right there. That's Liberty.
[Valerie shows Stormfront on the front page, leaving Hughie, Annie and M.M. speechless]
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