sharks. When Jerry skipped town to let his older brother Ben take the blame in a robbery at a Deli, Roger was left to deal with loan sharks and came home to Peggy and Billy beaten up. Then Roger started to become verbally abusive to Peggy. And then when it came out about the one-night stand (Peggy expressed she could feel sympathy for Rita who was going through a similar ordeal in her trial as Peggy had eight years earlier), Peggy finally told Roger that their marriage was over! Peggy took Billy to live in Boise, Idaho. (Although in November 1977, Peggy returned to town, but left Billy in a Boise boarding school. Peggy would remain in town and working at Cedars until November 1979, but had very little interaction with Roger, and mainly was a support to all of her friends at Cedars. Peggy would end up moving back to Boise, Idaho and living with Billy.) Roger took up briefly with Hillary Kincaid Bauer, who was still vulnerable from having learned of her father's double life. Rita, who had grown close to Hillary and felt protective of her, saw that Roger was merely seeing Hillary to get to Ed and Mike (since she had been revealed to be their half-sister). On October 9, 1978, Rita confronted Roger about his misguided relationship with Hillary. Roger became enraged, blaming Rita for his own failed marriage to Peggy (due to his providing Rita an alibi during her murder trial) and raped Rita. By this time, she had patched things up with Ed and they were engaged. Rita, afraid to tell Ed for fear that he wouldn't believe her (given her and Roger's history), remained silent and they were married in November 1978. Roger also was involved with Dean Blackford, after Roger discovered the de Vilar affidavits. Dean tried to run down Roger with his car, in the Spaulding garage, but Dean didn't succeed. After Dean died, Roger stole the affidavits and would blackmail his then-boss, Alan, with them. Roger also bought a revolver, for protection, and stayed briefly in Katie and Hillary's apartment to investigate the hit-and-run (Roger assumed it was Rita wanting revenge for the rape, until he stumbled upon evidence pointing to Dean), until he wooed Holly into marrying him. (This would cause Hillary to break-up with Roger, despite the fact at the time she was working briefly at Spaulding