In the fourth episode of Lady in the Lake, Maddie started to achieve some form of stability as a journalist at The Baltimore Star. She linked Tessie’s murder to some kind of government experiment, and that got her a post at the newspaper’s helpline desk. But that revelation caused Tessie’s father and Maddie’s former lover, Allan Durst, to reprimand her at a public event. Maddie ended up unleashing her anger on Seth, thereby putting the mother and the son at odds with each other. And when Maddie thought that she could go home and take a breather, she found herself face-to-face with the alleged child killer, Stephan Zawadzkie. Elsewhere in the city, Cleo had started to make a living by exploiting Shell Gordon’s rigged betting racket. But when Gordon learned that the police were rounding up the goons who tried to kill Myrtle on his orders,...