Flashbacks Finally Bring Answers in 'Criminal Record’s Penultimate Episode

Everything we’ve been waiting six episodes for was finally revealed in Criminal Record’s seventh episode entitled “The Sixty-Twos.” The episode flashes back to late summer 2011, Adelaide’s murder and Errol’s confession. We get A LOT of context for what was going on with all the characters we’ve been following. Hegarty’s wife/Lisa’s mother had died six months before, leaving them both devastated. Hegarty has bought the young (and not heroin-addicted) Lisa a puppy as a way to cheer up the daughter, who has had her whole world “come crashing down.”

“Eleven days from x-ray to a hole in the ground, there was no time for any of it,” Hegarty tells Tony, giving us more information about how sudden his wife’s death was. He is juggling so much. He’s still grieving (we learn that he only got two weeks of compassionate leave after his wife passed away). He’s adapting to being a single parent (in the midst of work, he calls Lisa’s babysitter to remind her that the omelets are to have absolutely no tomatoes.) “The thing about your mom. That’s all she wanted was for you to be happy,” he tells Lisa.

Hegarty isn’t so sure Errol is their guy. He’s revealed to be much more of a by-the-books detective than we have been led to believe. “Show me the facts. Show me the history of violence,” he barks. Adelaide and Errol had been together for five years. Errol was like a father to Patrick. They were planning to get married. Flashbacks show them happy and getting engaged with a toy ring.