The only Walker who could ever keep a secret
Remember that scene at the end of Separation Anxiety, when Nora admitted that she doesn’t feel that anything has actually happened to her until she tells her family about it, and Kitty opined that perhaps that’s why they’re all so bad at keeping secrets?
It makes you wonder: By that way of thinking, did William Walker even exist at all?
I mean, this guy was the Unknowable King, a master at not telling everything that happened to him. Many secrets have come out since his death, but not ’cause he told ‘em. He carried them to his grave, and apparently we haven’t dug everything up yet, because here’s the ABC’s press release for the season finale:
SARAH DISCOVERS ANOTHER DEVASTATING SECRET THAT WILLIAM WALKER HAS KEPT FROM THE FAMILY, ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC’S “BROTHERS & SISTERS” “Prior Commitments” - Kevin and Scotty make a commitment to be life partners, Saul finally deals with his identity in a public way, and the family discovers that William (guest starring Tom Skerritt) kept yet another painful secret from his family, on the season finale of “Brothers & Sisters,” SUNDAY, MAY 11 (10:02-11:00 p.m., ET).
You know, there’s been talk of ABC pushing this show to skew younger, but I don’t know; seems more to me that they’re being pushed to be a better lead-out for Desperate Housewives, ’cause we’re just a Devastating Secret or two from moving Nora to Wisteria Lane.
My one faint hope is that this new Big Secret will take some of the pressure off Rebecca’s paternity reveal to be the biggest Big Secret, and so therefore she may squeak through and remain a Walker, while more novel outrages take the stage. That would be some consolation.
Still … is this going to be a pattern, that secrets about William keep being revealed once a season or so? Sooner or later, surely, they’re going to run out of good secrets and wind up revealing that he threw a Game Night with the Joneses one year to pay off a bad debt, say, or once got busted for smoking pot with Emily Craft. Writers, stop the madness now. Whatever secrets William has left, can’t he just be buried with them?
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 am
Perhaps the R on that password for the computer account stood for Robert, and Robert is actually Kitty’s brother! Oh the madness!!!
Perhaps one of the reasons all of the Walkers have to share everything is that their Dad did not share much, who knows.