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| - The body of Chief of Police Howard Perkins is delivered to Coggins' mortuary by Officer Linda Esquivel and Selectman Jim Rennie, to which he laments the increasing number of bodies. Coggins consoles Linda before she leaves, after which Rennie attacks Coggins, accusing the Reverend of being "high as a kite" on "[their] stuff." Coggins doesn't deny it, and remarks that they no longer have to worry about Duke revealing their crimes. Rennie then takes Duke's keys and the two leave. Later on that day, Coggins is waiting outside the town hall in Duke's car when Rennie enters the vehicle, and tells the Reverend that Duke kept no record of the propane shipments in his office. When Coggins postulates that Duke kept those records at his house, Rennie informs him that Duke's house now belongs to Linda and instructs Lester to pay a visit to the Perkins residence. He spots Linda later on talking to Officer Freddy Denton. He checks on Linda and makes sure she is doing alright since Duke's death the night before. She tells him she was fine, and Coggins continues on his way. The consoling was only a ploy however to snatch Linda's keyring which included the key to Duke's house. Coggins arrives at the Perkins Residence and uses Linda's keys to enter the house, searching Duke's office before discovering an enveloped taped to the underside of a desk drawer. Inside he finds invoices and receipts from Jackson's Propane, and uses a match to light the paperwork on fire. He then tosses the flaming pages into a trashcan, accidentally causing the drapes next to the trashcan to ignite, and his attempts to smother the flames only cause them to spread faster. Bystanders soon arrive and gaze at the fire, to which what was left of the Chester's Mill police also arrive on the scene. Coggins calls for help from inside just as officers Linda, Fred, Paul Randolph along with Dale "Barbie" Barbara arrive, and Barbie instructs the onlookers to bring their garden hoses in order to put the fire out. Julia arrives shortly after, taking photographs of the fire while Barbie orders the rest of the bystanders to fill up buckets, pots, and trashcans with water. Linda then hears Coggins calling for help and rushes into the house while Rennie flees the scene. Inside Duke's house, Linda breaks into the office to find Coggins and drags the Reverend out to safety just before a propane tank beside the house explodes, causing the neighbors to scatter. Coggins is treated by an EMT, and after putting out the fire by destroying the Perkins Residence with a bulldozer, Rennie confronts him privately before they are approached by Linda; Coggins claims that he went into Duke's house to get a suit for the Sheriff's burial, but doesn't remember much about how the fire started. Rennie tells Coggins they need to make up a story as to how the fire got started. A day later, Rennie visits with Lester Coggins at the Chester's Mill Clinic, demanding to know why the Reverend burned Duke's house to the ground. Coggins claims only that the evidence of the propane purchases has been destroyed, and Rennie reminds him that they must "trust each other" because they are now the only two people who know of "this drug business." Rennie then instructs Coggins to return his mortuary in order to deal with Fred's body. Later that night, Rennie, Barbie and Linda return to Coggins' mortuary with Randolph's body after the officer went crazy after accidently killing Freddy Denton when a bullet he fired richochet off the Dome, and was sent to prison but had escaped and hunted down, then ultimately killed. While Barbie and Linda are inside, Rennie confirms that Coggins is clean.
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