I was expecting some bombshell from Pead, but it more like a fizzle. If he wanted to stick it more to MacNeill, he could have had a sequence like:
"Is there any doubt in your mind that he loved you dearly for all that time and perhaps even to this day?"
"But in your mind it ended when you were arrested, and you just strung him along for years until you were released because you were terrified and/or lonely?"