Time Machine backup deletion problem

I'm stuck on something dumb but really frustrating, and couldn't figure out where to ask this. The forum search dropped me in here, so I guess I'll post it here. Any advice would be appreciated.
I have Sophos on my computer, and during the last scan it found a couple suspect files in one of my Time Machine backups. I was trying to figure out how to delete those files when I ran into trouble. I just went with instinct, opened the drive in the Finder and tried to drag those problem files to the trash, but it wouldn't let me do it that way, so I thought, "Okay, can I drag the entire FOLDER to the Trash? I don't really need that backup anyway." The annoying thing here is that it does let you move the folders to the Trash, but it doesn't let you either empty the Trash or move the folders back where they were at that point, so now they're just kinda stuck there and it's driving me nuts.
By now I've figured out the way I should have deleted the files, but since right now I can't, since the folders are stuck in the Trash where I can't seem to do anything with them, is there a way to fix this?

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