Boyde and Jo’s Rescue Bond

The Lighthouse

This flow traces the trust Jo Staveley and Adrian Boyde build after Oliver deliberately causes Boyde to relapse.

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Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

A Priest Loses Control A Priest Loses Control from "The Lighthouse". Alcohol and Public Humiliation The Collapse Adrian Boyde falls drunk during a church service, bringing embarrassment and distress to his congregation.

A Priest Loses Control from "The Lighthouse". Alcohol and Public Humiliation The Collapse Adrian Boyde falls drunk during a church service, bringing embarrassment and distress to his congregation.

Alcohol and Public Humiliation The Collapse Adrian Boyde falls drunk during a church service, bringing embarrassment and distress to his congregation. His alcoholism and loss of faith lead him to resign from his parish. A New Refuge He comes to Combe through a connection of Mrs. Burbridge. The island offers a chance at sobriety and useful work, but not freedom from his history.

Oliver Engineers a Relapse Oliver Engineers a Relapse from "The Lighthouse". A Human Being Used as Material A Deliberate Invitation Nathan Oliver invites Adrian Boyde to supper and gives him wine, knowing Boyde is an alcoholic.

Oliver Engineers a Relapse from "The Lighthouse". A Human Being Used as Material A Deliberate Invitation Nathan Oliver invites Adrian Boyde to supper and gives him wine, knowing Boyde is an alcoholic.

A Human Being Used as Material A Deliberate Invitation Nathan Oliver invites Adrian Boyde to supper and gives him wine, knowing Boyde is an alcoholic. Oliver wants to observe the effects for a novel. A Recovery Destroyed Boyde relapses and disappears from the island. Oliver’s artistic curiosity becomes an act of deliberate cruelty, remembered by those who help Boyde recover.

Jo Brings Him Back Jo Brings Him Back from "The Lighthouse". Care in Isolation A Rescue in London Joanna Staveley finds Boyde drunk at her flat and takes him to an isolated cottage near Bodmin Moor.

Jo Brings Him Back from "The Lighthouse". Care in Isolation A Rescue in London Joanna Staveley finds Boyde drunk at her flat and takes him to an isolated cottage near Bodmin Moor.

Care in Isolation A Rescue in London Joanna Staveley finds Boyde drunk at her flat and takes him to an isolated cottage near Bodmin Moor. She helps him dry out and remains with him for weeks. A Friendship Formed Jago Tamlyn also helps keep watch. Boyde returns to Combe sober, carrying an unspoken debt to the people who refused to abandon him.

A Confidence Kept A Confidence Kept from "The Lighthouse". A Priest’s Obligation Martha’s Disclosure Martha Padgett tells Adrian Boyde that Nathan Oliver fathered Dan.

A Confidence Kept from "The Lighthouse". A Priest’s Obligation Martha’s Disclosure Martha Padgett tells Adrian Boyde that Nathan Oliver fathered Dan.

A Priest’s Obligation Martha’s Disclosure Martha Padgett tells Adrian Boyde that Nathan Oliver fathered Dan. Boyde receives the information in a religious confidence and cannot simply pass it to the police or the young man. A Difficult Moral Task He must encourage Martha to tell her son herself. His concern for Dan places him between pastoral secrecy and the possibility of preventing future harm.

The Final Visit The Final Visit from "The Lighthouse". A Failed Attempt to Intervene The Long Walk After visiting Mrs.

A Failed Attempt to Intervene The Long Walk After visiting Mrs. Burbridge, Adrian Boyde takes the cope back toward Chapel Cottage by a route that takes too long. He may have called on Dan Padgett to persuade him to confess. Care Meets Violence Boyde’s effort to help may expose him to the killer. Dan murders the man whose care once represented hope, turning a bond of rescue into a tragic moral collision.

Before Boyde comes to Combe

During one of Oliver’s earlier visits

Several days after Boyde disappears

After Martha Padgett tells Boyde her secret

Monday night, shortly before Boyde dies