Great episode, Fred! The new format really works.
But Chad, where is it that Murphy suggests she's only been married once? In every reference I can think of, she's always had the two exes. In Storm Front:
"Sometimes, Murph," I panted, "you make things just a little harder than they need to be. Anyone ever tell you that?" I bent down to her, and slipped my cuffed wrist beneath her arm and around her back, drawing her own arm back with me, my right arm and her left bound by the handcuff.
"My ex-husbands," she moaned.
Then in Summer Knight:
...In other pictures she was shoving cake into his mouth, drinking through linked arms, the usual wedding fare. He had carried her to the getaway car, and the photo-Murphy's face had been caught in a moment of laughter and joy.
"First husband?" I asked.
Then in Blood Rites:
Murphy finished the candy bar. "My baby sister is engaged. She's going to be showing up this weekend with her fiancé, and I am going to be there without a fiancé or a husband. Or even a boyfriend. My mother will never let me hear the end of it."
"Well, uh, you had a husband, right? Two of them, even."
She glared. "The Murphys are Irish Catholic," she said. "My not one but two, count them, two divorces won't exactly wash clean the stigma."
I guess you might be thinking of the time we actually deal with Rick in
Proven Guilty, as she uses the singular, but it doesn't really contradict the notion of Murphy having two exes:
I blinked at her for a second, and then remembered. “Oh, right. The ex.”
“Ex-husband,” Murphy said, her tone sour. Her back was rigidly straight, and her eyes flickered with stormy emotions. “Current brother-in-law.”
“Which is icky,” I said.
“And I don’t like him being here,” Murphy said. “But it isn’t my call. And it’s possible that I have issues.”
And Mickey, I'm going to be road tripping during A-Kon, alas! Then a week after I return, I'll be heading up to New York! I AM UNEMPLOYED NO MORE! Hired within three days of graduation. I win!
