These Things I Know
I still have my $50 as my friends have agreed that Councilman Richmond might be innocent. I know that next season I will consult the suspect tracker to confirm that my candidate is on it before I make a new bet. [Damn you, Nathan!]
I enjoyed the season finale because it mirrored in an accurate way how professionals behave. My experience has shown that in real life, professionals seldom finish any undertaking to perfection. We move, get promoted, or receive orders to drop one thing to start another. In real life, a fabricated piece of documentation stuck in a notebook to conclude a project is commonplace. Good enough suffices. In real life, we would thank Det. Holder for wrapping up the case so that the rest of us could begin our new assignments. In real life, Det. Linden might disagree with Holder's method, but she would have shrugged her shoulders, sighed, and stayed on the plane. In real life, we reach a point where advancing our lives takes precedence over getting mired in old responsibilities.
I also know, however, that good enough will not satisfy Linden. If, in the excitement of arresting a mayoral candidate, her lieutenant forgot to take her badge, I assume that she is about to flash her credentials to a stewardess, delay the departure for everyone else on board that plane, and return to headquarters. Poor Jack. And poor Holder, who has some explaining to do!
These Things I Hope Aren't True
I cannot believe that Councilman Richmond killed Rosie. I haven't always liked the character, but as I run through everything I know about him, I cannot find a single good clue that would explain his drowning that girl. He does not have the win-at-any-cost mentality that justifies murder. He doesn't seem upset when Linden discovers his Orpheus screen name and goes about his day as if everything is okay. But we have Gwen saying that he disappeared that fateful Friday night and then returned to the bed & breakfast soaking wet. I'm more inclined to think Darren was suicidal and tried unsuccessfully to drown himself than homicidal and Rosie's murderer. But then we would have the unlikely coincidence that he tried to end it all the same night—and in the same way—that Rosie died.
I still don't believe Rosie was a prostitute, either. Did I miss something? Why didn't anyone search those Beau Soleil records for Rosie's profile? We saw all of Celine/Aleena's information on the computer screen. Why didn't Linden and Holder find Rosie's if she was a girl for hire? Yes, Ms. Sud, I know teenagers have secret lives. In fact, I bet without exception we can all tell you how we misled our parents and behaved in ways that Mom and Dad would have found completely out of character. But still. Good-girl student by day, hooker by night? It won't work for me! And why was she banking her earnings under her aunt's name? Why not hide the cash in the globe with Bennet's notes?
These Things I Wish I Knew
Who is Holder helping to protect? When I think over the season, he has always enthusiastically jumped on a new suspect, without caring who it is. What we thought was Holder's inexperience might have been his intention to divert his partner [and us] from the truth—anyone, just so it's not the person who actually committed the murder. Now who could that person be?
And who is in that car? I'm betting it's Gil, his Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. That man is the only character Holder owes enough to falsify evidence for. I believe Gil really is an NA sponsor, but does he also have connections to the mob? Mayor Adams? The casino? The Democratic National Committee?
As Linden is rushing through the airport on her return back to the Seattle Police Department, will she bump into Mitch, ready to depart to places unknown, who says, "You know, I found something funny in Rosie's room," providing the clue to the real murderer?
I guess I'll have to wait a year for answers!
I found this whole experience quite fun [but exhausting]. I will continue to watch
The Killing even when Mitch Larsen is no longer a character.
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