Ashley Flowers

She wants them to know that their mom didn't leave them.

And then she hard pivots back to the morning of July 4th, asking what his first thoughts were.

But he just says more of the same that he said back in 97.

But maybe we're just getting a bite-sized version of what his mind has been doing for the last 10 years.

Like families of the missing say that ambiguous loss is the hardest.

Without knowing what happened,

Everything is a possibility.

And listen, I'm not out here trying to be like the defender of Rick.

I'm just saying that like I've gone back and forth more times than I can even count on cases we've covered over the last eight years.

I've gone back and forth more times than I can count on this very case alone over the last few months.

And I'm not the one living with it day in and day out.

But like Rick, this is something he actually says.

He tells Detective Byron he is living it every single day.

He and the kids still talk about her.

He sees things all the time that remind him of Bonnie.

And he is much more emotional, he says, as he's gotten older.

Just very sentimental.

And it's at that point that Detective Byron brings the conversation back to a more focused question.

She asks Rick if there is anything that he thinks she should know.

And it's not new information that he brings up.