

He's mad that nobody cared about their problems before and says Walter was going to turn up proof that Conservo was poisoning everyone. That money only covered one round of his wife's chemo. He explains that Conservo Solutions came to town offering money for mining rights, in his case $50,000 but their operations contaminated the water which is making everyone sick.

It turns out he just shot his goat, which was also sick. When they hear a shot fired they pull their weapons. There they find another local rancher, an elderly black man. An examination of the goat's head- also riddled with pre-cancerous lesions- leads Nick, Ray, and Detective Frankie Reed to another farm out in Cable Springs. The wife shows Nick a goat's head that she received, Godfather-style, the day before her husband's murder. Adams' wife doesn't want to talk about what her husband was talking to the pushy reporter about because she signed a non-disclosure agreement with the local gas mining company Conservo Solutions where Adams worked. Adams had ties to the reporter and to Walter. The next day the investigation turns up another dead body Richard Adams, found by Greg, Nick, and an assist from Detective Frankie Reed. She won't tell Brass and Ray what they talked about - she's working on a big story- but does tell them to look into Walter's wife also being sick. Something of a loner who lived on a farm, whose wife died last year, had final and constant contact with a reporter with a small local newspaper. Not in the sulfur springs it turns out, however, as the water from his windpipe is different from the water in the springs. The dude, Walter Burns, they discover upon autopsy was riddled with cancerous lesions but died of drowning. Three teens go skinny dipping in a sulfur spring and discover a dead man as they frolic. The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
