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Chappaqua Poison

Discovery

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Act I

Post 6

The Illness

Something is wrong with Steve. Conflicting diagnoses. Tara moves in to take care of him. The symptoms don't match any single explanation. Neither does her attentiveness.

Pre-2018 ECS 75

Act III

Post 9

The Brooklyn Apartment

Tara finds an apartment in a mob neighborhood down the street from her sister. She asks Steve to come help look at places for the baby. He goes to the hospital instead. The door closes behind him.

2016–2018 ECS 80

Act IV

Post 19

The Niacin Flush

A wine-and-art event. Two women who walk past the table too many times. Fifteen minutes later, his skin turns red and his body heats up. Tara records the entire episode. He recognizes the feeling from exercise supplements: niacin.

2018–2019 ECS 88
Post 20

She Asked Me to Put Drugs in Your Wine

The nanny approaches Steve in the kitchen: 'This will probably get me fired.' She has a brother in the FBI. Her brother told her to tell Steve immediately. Tara has been putting Seroquel in Steve's wine. Her response: 'I do it all the time.' Then 'We all do it.' Then 'They did it.' In her text to Dr. Gopal that night, Tara buries the admission inside a complaint about the nanny. In her sworn court filing, the number becomes two. The confession shrank. The witness chose silence a year later.

2018–2020 ECS 95