Missy Blaylock

Missy Blaylock appears as a campus reporter whose work brings her into the public spectacle surrounding William Henry Devereaux, Jr. After a goose is found hanging from a tree on campus, she arrives with a camera and conducts a sound check before interviewing him amid placards, chants, and watching colleagues. The scenes show her moving between a reporter’s public role and a more personal, inquisitive connection to Devereaux and Tony Coniglia.

Reporting the Campus Protest

Missy arrives as the crowd outside Devereaux’s office has grown. When he steps into the hall, she takes him by the elbow and draws him toward the camera. The protest is already underway: demonstrators repeat the previous Friday’s chant, and colleagues who are not teaching have come out to watch. Missy’s sound check and interview turn the hallway into a media scene as well as a campus confrontation.

The Goose and the Interview

Missy asks Devereaux about his earlier threat to kill a duck each day unless he received a budget and about the dead bird found hanging from a campus tree that morning. Someone corrects her: it was a goose. Devereaux declines to comment, drawing a groan from the crowd, while someone accuses him of having done it. The distinction between the threatened duck and the dead goose becomes a small but telling interruption in the public questioning. Missy then reports that Richard Pope, the campus executive officer, considers Devereaux innocent. Devereaux counters that Pope could know this only if he had committed the act himself, adding that Pope also lacks a budget. The inference catches Missy off stride; she asks whether Devereaux is accusing Pope of involvement, then continues the interview by asking whether there will be more killings. Her questions keep the focus on the unresolved incident, even as Devereaux redirects the exchange toward the university’s budget problem.

Private Questions and Personal Connections

After the public encounter, Missy tells Devereaux that she still needs to speak with him about his friend Tony Coniglia. She says something strange happened after Devereaux left, but does not explain what; she asks him to get Tony to tell him about it and says she will otherwise tell him herself. Devereaux indicates that he would rather not pursue the subject unless Tony brings it up. The exchange establishes Missy as someone with information about Tony’s private life, but the scene does not disclose what happened. Missy also asks Devereaux privately whether he killed the bird, correcting herself from duck to goose when he reminds her of the distinction. Her question echoes the public interview, but away from the camera and crowd. Across these encounters, she pursues both a campus story with an unresolved culprit and a personal matter involving Tony, while the available scenes leave both lines of inquiry open.