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Before that happens, however, the simmering tension between Jackie Rohr and Decourcy Ward is raised to a boil. This wouldn’t amount to much more than a pissing contest between two men if they weren’t dragging every law enforcement agency in Massachusetts into the scrap. In addition to pursuing his belief that Jackie is the one who dropped the unconscious Holly Gunner on the hospital steps, Ward is reaching back to last season to resurrect the memory of Clay Roach, Jackie’s snitch who supposedly committed suicide. After learning from Siobhan that Jackie has dropped by the house several times, Decourcy decides to return the favor. Jenny invites him in for coffee, but doesn’t take the bait when he mentions Roach, the man who corrupted her daughter. When she tells Jackie about the visit later, she makes it clear that she’s fine with whatever he did to the aptly-named Roach.
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Near the top of that list is frenemy Decourcy Ward, who is convinced Jackie dropped the comatose Holly Gunner on the steps of St. Eligius hospital. When Jackie gets wind of Ward’s interest, his response is to make it personal by digging for dirt. He tracks down a law school friend of Decourcy’s, who points him toward his rival’s old flame, Sierra Mills, a wealthy white banker. He thinks he’s hit paydirt when he learns Sierra had an abortion, but his source throws cold water on that potential piece of blackmail, telling him that Sierra’s father ordered the procedure Ward didn’t find out about until it was over.