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[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for<\/b> Murder in a Small Town<\/a><\/i><\/b> Season 2 Episode 2, \u201cBlood Wedding.\u201d]<\/b><\/p>\n As the title of the episode warned, Tuesday\u2019s (September 30) new Murder in a Small Town<\/i> saw what should\u2019ve been a happy day of nuptials turn into a homicide investigation after the father of the bride was murdered and the mother of the groom (portrayed by guest star <\/a>Camryn Manheim<\/a>) became the key suspect due to the decades-long blood feud between the families. As it turned out, it was a third party \u2014 the owner of the resort the wedding was actually taking place in \u2014 who did the deed in retaliation for a real estate deal-gone-wrong. Whether the couple can fully move forward in any semblance of bliss or if their families\u2019 feud will wage on past this tragedy remains to be seen.<\/p>\n The case of the day wasn\u2019t the only domestic drama to be seen in the episode, either. As Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland<\/a>) welcomed his second daughter, Stephanie, for a visit, she didn\u2019t seem too pleased with Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk<\/a>) being around. However, Cassandra took the girl\u2019s pointed comments about her \u2014 like saying she expected someone frumpier \u2014 in stride and treated her with grace, ultimately winning her over.<\/p>\n \u201cCassandra and Holly have a lovely relationship throughout this season, [with] a little kind of investigation of their own. And then Steph comes back, and\u2026 there\u2019s a little bit more tension. It\u2019s a little more complicated. I like that Cassandra kind of wins them over with her fierceness, her commitment to change, and to doing things that might make her unpopular, and throwing caution to the wind. Hopefully, we\u2019ll get the chance to explore more of their dynamics, because it is complex territory, and his daughters end up being very generous with Cassandra,\u201d Kreuk told TV Insider of her take on the dynamic.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, there\u2019s that element of them recognizing that their father is actually happy, although he\u2019s not changing in the ways that they\u2019d wish \u2014 he\u2019s still quite stoic and silent and not particularly present \u2014 and so there\u2019s a sheer challenge with Cassandra and the daughters to make this man be a better version of himself,\u201d added Rossif Sutherland.<\/p>\n Cassandra\u2019s desire to win people over also played out on a wider scale when she attended her first town council meeting since being elected and had her feet held to the fire by Mayor Christie Holman (Marcia Gay Harden<\/a>) over her desire to use funding for an arts center. Although Christie tried to frame Cassandra as too idealistic for Gibsons, she delivered an impassioned response that had the crowd roaring with approval as she said, \u201cWell, Christie, here\u2019s how I see it. Gibsons is truly special. That\u2019s why I moved back here five years ago. But it could be better, and it can be. An arts center can be part of that.. Programs and initiatives that remind us who we are when we aren\u2019t just counting business. That means dreaming dreams and being brave and, yes, encouraging each other to keep our nerve because I love this place, and I am not giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n About that speech, Kreuk said, \u201cCassandra came back to this small town on purpose. She came back because she had a vision for our community, and she thought she could enact that vision through the library. And then she starts to realize that it\u2019s too limited. So she decides to try doing it through town council, which I think she\u2019ll start to realize, too, that it\u2019s much more complicated than she thought. So I think in the beginning [of the season], she\u2019s not super politically savvy so much as she\u2019s passionate, and she knows what she feels like is right and what\u2019s wrong, and she\u2019s going to stand up for it because that\u2019s just the person that she is. And so she gets herself into some trouble because she is so righteous in her stance, which you see her express in that episode and also later on in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n Murder in a Small Town<\/i><\/b>, Tuesdays, 8\/7c, Fox<\/b><\/p>\n