Today in Salem: The Sheriff pounds on the door of the stubborn Giles Corey’s son-in-law. Now that Corey has been executed, and wife Martha is condemned to die, the Sheriff is to seize everything they owned and sell it for the benefit of the King. But the Sheriff is more interested in quick money, so he gives the son-in-law a choice: surrender the goods, or pay the Sheriff a hefty sum in cold hard cash. The son-in-law chooses to pay, and spends the next few days dredging up the money.