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Poor Pete!  Dead and gone and finally noticed! 

A friend who is a devoted fan of the actor, Stivi, who played Pete so very well, sent me her own carefully hoarded screen caps of Pete.

That poor tortured, abused boy!  Who doesn't remember that pathetic scene where he and Mike Caffee are sent to find a suit for Freddie Cork's dead son, and find the evidence of the son's homosexual relationship with another young man,  The son killed himself jumping off the an overpass down onto the rainy interstate, causing mayhem and death below in the slipping and sliding traffice. 

Pete stands among all the clothes and fine furniture, and asks Mike if he has ever considered suicide.  Confident and well and strong in his convictions, Mike replies that he never even thought of it.  It just wasn't on his list of options.  But Pete admits that back when he was about eleven years old in an abusive foster hom situation, feeling no love from his real family or his acquired family, he tried hanging himself.  But the rope broke and "I thought even God didn't want me." 

Pete tries to help Eileen deal with drug and alcohol addiction, and has little success when she shares her stash of cocaine with him as he waits to go in to an AA meeting.  But Pete pulls himself together somehow, only to be shot in a strip bar brawl by a low-ranking Mafioso, and his mangled body dumped across the street from Mike's mother's house, as if to taunt Mike.

The funeral is pathetic, with only Mike and Eileen attending.  Mike says "He had a crush on you,' to which Eileen replies, "a girl could have done worse."