Mary tried to play the confused old woman trick in order to get out of being arrested, but the officer wasn’t buying it. When the officer didn’t find any spare keys with Mary, he arrested her on the spot and led her to the police station.
Mary sat silently in the back of the police car, the weight of the night’s events sinking in. What had started as an innocent search for her family’s past had spiraled into a tragic mess, and here she was, handcuffed, heading to the police station with no real answers.