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Post by TBerkNeela was on him about keeping secrets but I've missed the reveal of
'the Big Secret'.
Wha-hopen?
TBerk
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He was a sexually abused child. That is why he stood by and let that
convicted child molester teacher get beaten up by his brother in law
several episodes back. Last episode, he almost beat up an innocent
man when there was an misunderstanding, perhaps a deliberate one, by
the child that he has grown fond of. Her mother is waiting for a
heart transplant and as a result she was in foster care. She
misreported, again perhaps deliberately because she doesn't want to
be there, of how the foster father was nearly naked in front of her
and it creeped her out and he acted more like a kid than an adult.
After Brenner roughed him up a little (pushing and shoving and
grabbing of shirt and coat collars, no actual hitting) it turned out
that the foster dad had walked out of the shower with a towel on at
the same time the was coming home from school or something. Total
accident. Again, maybe she misinterpreted the foster dad's actions or
she deliberately lied in order to be taken out of there. As far as I
know she is still there.
At anyrate, the point was that he flew of the handle and he has never
gotten professional help for the abuse he suffered as a child. He
doesn't talk to anyone about it, particularly he didn't tell Neela,
who heard about it through Archie's big mouth. She feels slighted
that, from her POV, he told Archie but not her implying that he
trusted Archie more than her despite Neela and Brenner being in a
close relationship. In truth though Archie figured it out with his
seething on the surface anger and erratic, near violent behavior to
the convicted child molester weeks before, including standing by as
he was beaten up. The secret of his abuse is caustic to his life as
the abuse itself, causing self destructive behavior including getting
drunk in the middle of the day (although he has the good sense to
call in sick when he wants to go on a bender) and as noted go after
people who he thinks could be a molester. Also I think maybe, that
Neela was fishing for an excuse to leave the relationship her being
torn between Brenner and Ray. She did give him a chance to open up
but you just don't open up like that.
I can see why Neela would be hurt for him not to let her in but she
can't expect someone to just open up like that. But that was not the
only thing as to why Neela broke up with him. She just didn't feel
that the relationship felt right, and that there was something out
there better for both of them. So it seems that Ray has got Neela and
Brenner has lost her.
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----->Hunter
"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907