Template:QOTW - The Rape of Heather Willis/Plot (Part 1)
Angie puts a bottle of hot sauce to discipline The Willis sextuplets for bad grades and bad behavior, and got more than be bargained for from Deanna and Brynn.
Heather is raped by Deanna's former classmate Bobby Joe Bones after she comes home from grocery shopping. Heather says it was Bobby Joe Bones (who happens to be an intern at Craven Gifts) that raped her even though she never saw his face but she recognized his voice after he blindfolded Heather and eventually gets her pregnant.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Deanna becomes furious and lashes out in a profanity-driven tirade as Deanna was raped seven years ago by a fellow classmate Horatio Cruz, who happens to be notorious as Craven Gifts' biggest deadbeat customer, further enraging Ava. At the hospital, Deanna and Heather begin to talk about the situation as they both have been rape victims. It was revealed that Deanna was raped by Horatio Cruz, after attending a graduation party at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Upon learning about this by way of overhearing Heather and Detective Rush talking about the rape, Deanna states to Ava and Angie she never told them until now as Deanna only told her her paternal grandfather and paternal grandmother in 2011 and even tried talking about it to Tom shortly before his death.
Ava, Angie, and the Willis family has problems coming to grips on how Heather could let something like this happen to her which infuriates Heather as much as Deanna, whom herself tells Heather that she isn't alone. She reveals she was also raped and prasied Heather for reporting her rape.
Nancy Bones, who is Bobby Joe's wife, tells the Quillsville P.D. at the time of the rape, her husband Bobby Joe was at home with her which further complicates the charge against him. Bobbby Joe ends up threatening and harassing Heather about keeping quiet. When Ava and Deanna finds out about this, it sends Ava over the edge in which a confrontation ensues between Ava and her employee. Detective Lilly Rush works on trying to convince Nancy Bones to come clean about her husband's actions.
The Willis family and Quillsvillians are desperate to get justice for Heather and Deanna's rape and come up with several plans with only Ava, Heather, and Deanna being successful: Ava, with the help of her team of mostly females at Craven Gifts' main branch (as revealed by Ray Grissom and pointed out by Adrienne Fansler) obtain DNA evidence from Josh Kaufman, Bobby Joe, and Horatio Cruz, as well as Heather's rape kit and pregnancy test. Deanna has her own rape kit in the freezer as she held on to DNA evidence and called Maury Povich after she reveals that Horatio raped Deanna after Ava saw a child that looks familiar to Deanna.
After being felt ignored by the justice system years, Deanna finally turns on Ava and Angie. When Ava tries to tell her that she's taking her problems out on everyone else, she brings up her delinquent past and tells her that she is "the furthest thing from" the perfect father. Deanna also informs Ava that when she and Brandi have their second child, she is considering never seeing her again. Ava is reduced to tears and profusely apologizes to Deanna. Then Deanna confronts Angie who, unable to comprehend her insults, thinks that her transgendered daughter's argument is amusing, even when she points out her destructive tendencies and that she'd go to jail if anyone saw her treatment of her. It dawns on Angie that she's being insulted when Deanna calls him a "wasted woman." Shocked, she demands Ava make Deanna stop, but Deanna refuses on the grounds she didn't stand up for her. Within moments, all three of them turn their abusive criticisms on each other, ending with Angie running away to the master bedroom crying, and leaving Deanna and Heather to discuss what just happened. Despite Heather complimenting her for standing up for herself, Deanna concludes in a deleted scene that the family cannot survive without a "lightning rod" to absorb its dysfunction, and that the enduring antagonism helps keep them together.
Ava and Deanna tries to convince Heather to obtain as much evidence needed to catch her rapist, but Heather learns she is pregnant as a result of her rape. Later, at the alley, Ava, Melissa, Tiffani and Pamhouser discuss the matter, asking if the police can completely solve the situation. Melissa suggests that "police will not do shit" unless there's enough DNA evidence, she suggests killing the rapist, with Tiffani and Pamhouser (as a police officer and state trooper, respectively), is against the idea saying Heather could be charged with first degree murder and wiping out the rape while Ava says it does take one sperm to get pregnant (implying Heather's pregnancy test and rape kit are the only evidence). Tiffani and Pamhouser are still against the idea but Ava and Melissa are in favor of the idea as long as it is justified.
Heather, Deanna, Tabby and Shushu hear the conversation from the den, where Heather has been hiding as she has not been in the kitchen for two days, where Tabby and Shushu discuss gravely injuring the rapist if he does come back. Heather then goes to Quillsville United Methodist Church (with a flask of vodka), where she sits in the sancuary before being accompanied by Tabby and Shushu, who sense Bobby Joe is in the church's men's restroom waiting to attack Heather, but Tabby and Shushu growl, bark and meow Bobby Joe as he tries to apologise to Heather, who hides and is scared for her life. Tabby and Shushu continue growling as Heather arrives at the Willis home as Ava arrives as Angie is at The Drunken Hoosier with Stephanie, Christiana, Jennifer McDavid, and Lilly Abhrams.
Ava then tells Tabby and Shushu to come with her in her truck (who speeds off at 80 miles an hour), Ava, Tabby, and Shushu decide to vicously attack Bobby Joe at his home after learning Judge Akim Anastopuolo set Bobby Joe's bail at $10,000, which Nancy paid in full after selling Bobby Joe's guitar.
Having expected charges against her for assaulting Nancy and Bobby Joe herself with Tabby and Shushu involved, district attorney Pia Yoque reveals to Ava, Angie, Deanna, Heather, Mayor Kelso, Tina Kelso, Commissioner Wolf and Detective Rush they simply do not have enough evidence to proceed yet does inform Ava that her aggravated battey charge against Bobby Joe are nothing and tells Mayor Kelso his approval rating is at an all-time low. Ava and Heather lash out at Yoque attempting to prove her wrong as Ava convinces her she will have enough evidence to proceed once the DNA comes back. After informing Yoque about the fact she is two days pregnant and giving Yoque her positive pregnancy test, Heather flashes her breasts at Yoque and takes Tabby and Shushu (both give her the finger as they are about to leave) outisde the courthouse. After Heather leaves, Yoque decides to charge Ava and Heather for bribery and disorderly conduct and added indecent exposure to Heather as she flashed her breasts to Yoque in the courthouse as well as using excessive force on Nancy Bones. Ava convinces to changes Yoque's mind by sending in attorney Glenn Turner from Port Melissa.
At the Quillsville Police Station, Tiffani reveals to Detective Rush that Bobby Joe did in fact commit three rapes in high school (a 2006 rape of a 10 year old girl in Marion, a 2007 rape of a special education teacher in 2007 and a Babyface High School freshman in 2008). She also discovers Bobby's wife, Nancy, committed aggravated battery in 2004 in Port Melissa and arson in 2019).
Convinced that justice will not be served, Heather gets her own gun, however, as she enters the kitchen, she is knocked out so that Bobby Joe can rape her a second time, during which Heather is seemingly strangled to death. Bobby Joe then goes to grab Heather's body, but she throws Shushu on him (of which she claws him) and Bobby Joe get bit by Tabby. Heather then pulls her gun at Bobby Joe but she misses twice since he is only shot twice in the left side and on his right leg until one final shot hits him finally kills Bobby Joe. It is revealed to be Tabby taking that fatal shot by saying, "if anyone's going to take that bastard down, it's going to be me." Heather is relieved as she was the one to have solved her own rape case and becoming one of the few rape victims to do so. Heather's victory is briefly short lived as Tiffani arrests Heather for first degree murder.
Heather went to trial and testified in her own defense that she researched the 2007 Brigitte Harris case. In a deleted scene prosecutors maintained that Heather had intentionally wanted to take revenge on Bobby Joe. Heather revealed to Judge Akim Anastopoulo that her motive for the killing was not only revenge, but an act to prevent Bobby Joe from raping her and other women.
The judge found Heather not guilty of first-degree murder nor second-degree manslaughter. Anastopoulo stated on the news that "I did not feel that she (Heather) deserved to get any murder charges or anything. So I decided to rule against Mayor Kelso, the Quillsville Police and award the woman $250,000 plus some civil penalties." In Anastopolo's ruling, he states, "The only person who has to get murder charges has to be Bobby Joe Bones and Nancy Mughmaw Bones. The judge does give Heather six months of probation.
At a press conference at his house, Mayor Lee Kelso executes an order to ban all sex offenders and rapists from living and/or working from Quillsville, on the basis that Heather's rape was the 500th since January 2019. The deputy mayor is also present as Mayor Kelso quietly says through his teeth for her to be quiet.
