Thomas á Becket Driscoll (Tom) Timeline and Summary

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• Pudd'nhead takes Tom's fingerprints.
• Roxy switches the places of Chambers and Tom.
• Déjà vu: Pudd'nhead takes Tom's fingerprints again.
• Percy Driscoll dies and leaves Tom in the care of Judge Driscoll.
• Tom grows up, drops out of Yale, and returns to Dawson's Landing with a gambling habit.
• Driscoll pays Tom's gambling debts, but Tom soon racks up more debts and begins disguising himself as a woman and robbing houses in town.
• Roxy tells Tom about the switch and begins blackmailing him.
• Tom attends a rum rally where he offends Luigi who kicks him into the audience.
• When Driscoll discovers that Tom brought charges against Luigi in court, he takes him out of his will.
• Tom finds out that he can't pawn a stolen knife to pay his debts.
• Roxy suggests that Tom sell her into slavery for a year to get the funds to pay off his debts and he sells her down the river.
• Roxy escapes from slavery and tells Tom he'd better get the money to buy back her freedom or else she's going to tell Driscoll about the switch.
• While attempting to steal the money from Driscoll to pay for Roxy's freedom, Tom botches the robbery big time and ends up killing him (but he manages to escape).
• Tom buys Roxy back from the planter.
• Tom attends the trial of the twins, confident that he won't be found out.
• Tom pays Pudd'nhead a visit during which Pudd'nhead figures out that Tom is the murderer.
• Pudd'nhead puts on his case to prove that the twins aren't guilty and that Tom is the one who killed Driscoll.
• Tom is arrested and thrown in prison.
• Tom confesses to the crime and is sentenced to imprisonment for life.
• The governor pardons Tom so that he can be sold into slavery (down the river, to be exact) in order to pay off Driscoll's debts.