#where would martin dump his children wilkins?

[lyledebeast]

I'm doing my bi-yearly rewatch and reflecting on all the subtle and unsubtle ways everyone in The Patriot is so incredibly generous to Martin. See Tavington's questions to Wilkins once The Ghost's true identity has been exposed.

"Does he have family? Where would he hide his children?"

"Hide" is such an interesting word choice here. "Hide" indicates that there has been some effort at concealment, that the precious object has been placed in a location the ill-intentioned would not expect. But here Tavington is asking one of his own Loyalist officers where the kids are, and the man's first guess is spot on.

Martin "hides" his children with their nearest and most prominent relative like I "hide" my ice cubes in the freezer.