[Palladin]

The beer-swigging Edmunds sounds a lot like the TV character (many years ago) Jim Rockford,P.I....hanging around, looking disheveled, seen here and there. Maybe an undercover FBI guy? When they didn't pick him up at the park at the vigil...little alarms went off. Come on, now--the cops see a guy who may be holding captive a young girl kidnapped from her home--and they don't throw him on the ground and cuff him? This is all so strange.

[ET(end tyranny)]

But the kidnapper is supposed to have a gun. If they approached the guy at the vigil, he might start shooting....