Tom

**Tom** is a high-rate lawyer hired by the Landry family after Megan is investigated in the death of Luke Chambers.

## Biography

### Summer 2000

On or around July 19th, Debbie Landry has her ex-boyfriend Keith hire a lawyer to help their daughter Megan with her legal problems. Megan's new lawyer, Tom, talks to her and Debbie at the kitchen table. The sex tape gives Isabella's team an angle they can sell, and Megan jokes about being a jilted lover. With the fingerprints and her being the last one to see Luke starts to tell a story. He answers the phone for jury selection and walks off. Debbie thinks he seems good, and Megan adds that he seems expensive too. She assumes the money came from Steve, then realizes she isn't telling her something. Debbie hasn't asked Megan's father for anything in 12 years, and Megan is taken aback by the answer. She shouts that Debbie said they didn't need him and wouldn't ask him for anything. Debbie knows, but won't let her pride get in the way of getting Megan the best possible defense. It is too important to her. Megan swears to pay him back every cent. The lawyer returns, needing to take them down to the station.

Tom, Debbie, and Megan arrive at the Sheriff's station. Megan sees Isabella in an office room with her lawyer and they lock eyes for a long time until a deputy shuts the door.

Sheriff Myer asks Megan when she first learned Luke was missing. She learned the same day as everyone else, the day after the party. He asks why her fingerprints were on the gun. Megan used the gun last summer when a bunch of them went out to the cabin. He asks she was mad at Luke after the Christmas party, though Tom answers with no comment. Myer asks if she wanted revenge for him breaking her heart. Tom responds with no comment.

On July 23rd, Tom meets with Megan in the Landry home. Tom asks Megan where she went when she allegedly took Luke home. They just drove around for a while and then ended up at the cabin, which is the murder site. It would've been nice for him to know that. He reminds her this is real life and not fiction. It doesn't look good for her and asks when the last time she saw Luke was. It was early that Saturday morning but claimed she hasn't been back to the cabin since then. Debbie listens from the kitchen. He asks if there's anything else she hasn't told him as they can't afford any more surprises. He needs to be prepared for whatever is coming. She insists that's it.

Megan and Tom enter the sheriff's station and she sees Jeff at the counter. Isabella and Rebecca leave as the duo are entering. In an interrogation room, Sheriff Myer shows Megan the letter that Luke left his dad. It says he's running away and seeing family in Virginia. They found Megan's fingerprints on it, though she always said she didn't know Luke was planning to leave. Megan admits he did tell her about him running away. Yet all the times Myer asked, she lied. She lied about dropping him off at home, lied about knowing he was leaving, and now about the letter. Megan insists it was to protect him. She didn't know why he ran away, just that he was scared, but she didn't know what. Myer snaps at her and Tom insists they're done. If he wants to question Megan more he'll have to place her under arrest. Megan stands and leaves with Tom, but not before glancing down at the letter first.

Myer turns on a tape recorder in an interrogation room with Megan and Tom. He just received information that sheds new light on things. She's been playing fast and loose with the truth since Luke disappeared. He paints her a new picture. On January 1st, Luke disappeared without a trace, and Megan was the last person to see him alive. Megan insists he ran away, but Myer calls it her version of events. The letter backs her up, but Myer points out that it has her fingerprints on it. She was helping him, but he questions that or if it was just part of a cover-up. Tom asks if he has a point or if it's just a fairytale. Myer continues that Luke was the love of Megan's life. But by all accounts, their relationship was never the same after the sex tape. Too many secrets, too many lies, and it all got worse when she found out she was pregnant. Tom wants to talk to his client, but Myer presses that he believes Megan and Luke went to the cabin, and she told him he was pregnant. He rejected the idea of a baby with her, of a future with her. So she killed him.

## References

1. ↑ 2.03 - "Bloody Knuckles"
2. ↑ 2.04 - "Springing a Leak"