The setting of this story is so unusual and atmospheric, one almost can't help thinking it should have been directed by David Lynch. Conspiracy fans could have a field day (much more so today than back in 1991) picking apart the goings-on at this gentlemen's club "not unlike the Bohemian Club out west": The code of secrecy, the brothers' - oops, members' blind loyalty to each other, the ominous hand signs, the silent ballots and ruthless punishments - we've sure come a long way from Loretta's beauty parlor in Cabot Cove! The quotes are priceless: "To expel someone is to lose influence." "Bankers, stockbrokers, developers - we all need each other." But this is still Jessica's tale, after all, so in the eleventh hour, order is restored and the secret society meets its comeuppance. Don't they all?...