[FITZ]

he plans to marry his fiancé with whom he has begun having children, but he can't while his wife is still living;

Can't he just be given a divorce so he can do whatever with his lover and let his wife be with the family who loves her? Or is it insurance money he's after?

[MHGinTN]

Is it, perhaps, that he is afraid she will gain, via rehabilitation therapy, sufficient language skills to divulge how she came to collapse and chronicle the abuse Michael has showered upon her?