Seldom do I play with the online extras for my favorite TV shows. A series should stand on its own, and I should get everything I need from the actual episodes. If in The Killing, for example, a real clue about Rosie's murder existed exclusively in the interactive version of her bedroom, I'd feel cheated as a viewer of the show.
But that box that Mitch has in "Numb" is so enticing that I finally visited the bedroom to see if I could spot it among Rosie's possessions. This interactive feature appears to capture the bedroom that existed before the family realized Rosie was dead. Bennet's letter is still hidden in the globe; a worried message from Sterling is still on the phone.
I can't find the box anywhere—although Rosie wasn't the neatest teenager, and it could lie beneath the heap of clothes on the floor, under the bed, or in one of the drawers that, despite my insistent clicking, won't open.
The contents must be important and not necessarily Rosie's. All we can do is wait and wait until "Christmas" arrives and pray that, once the lid comes off, the box doesn't contain yet another bulky sweater so many of the female cast seem to favor.
Taking Inventory
How many situations have rocked Stan and the boys' world since Mitch left? Well, if Mitch is avoiding TV news, she doesn't know that her husband's best friend tried to assassinate Councilman Richmond and then was himself gunned down. She missed the delivery of Rosie's bloody book bag. She's unaware that her surviving children are freaking out and, despite his impressive size and baseball bat, Stan himself is fearful enough to arrange mob protection with its considerable debt to Kovarsky. And can't you imagine the earful that Detectives Linden and Holder would get if Mitch knew that they suspected her daughter of prostitution!
With all of this additional stress in Stan's life, you would think that he would need his helpmate, but Stan seems unconcerned with Mitch's absence and sympathetic to her need to vanish. Obviously, he knows something about his wife that we don't. Now what could that be?
Special Message to Gwen
Okay, you surprised me and made your flight to DC. Now get back to Seattle, girlfriend! As your phone call to Jamie revealed, you are so obviously not over Darren.
If last season we wallowed in the Larsens' grief, then this season we're immersed in your boyfriend's paralysis. People, in general, avert their eyes when they spot folks in wheelchairs because that complete loss of mobility and sensation is so horrifying. We think to ourselves, "No, please, not that for me. Please."
It's hard wanting to avert my eyes through one third of an episode every Sunday evening, so we need that boy back on the campaign trail. We need a feel-good moment! Mayor Adams needs to pay for making Darren look guilty for Rosie's death and inspiring Belko's meltdown. You can help. Book a seat back to Seattle now!
Special Message to Det. Linden
You have now spent enough time on this case to realize that the murderer won't be a typical suspect. As you and Holder go chasing after Alexi Giffords, please realize that he is just a boy who got his heart stomped by a pretty young thing, not someone who has the brains or power to pull together the three threads of The Killing. The pencil slashes on Rosie's portrait are not Alexi anticipating revenge against Stan for his father's death; no, those slashes are just a young man trying to erase his feelings for the woman who wouldn't reciprocate.
I've avoided calling you incompetent because I understand that the audience has more information than you do since we get insight into the other characters' lives when you're not present. But lately I'm beginning to worry that all the wrong trees you've barked up, all the blind alleys you've gone down will so destroy the Larsen family that Stan will end up jailed [scenes keep foreshadowing him caged], Terry dead, Mitch who-knows-where, and the Tommy and Denny in foster care getting initiated into your experiences as a child!
Rosie was depositing money into her aunt's account. Maybe Terry didn't know that Rosie was the person making those deposits, but she certainly benefitted from the money appearing. Please go question Terry more carefully!
Special Message to Jasper Ames
Skulk all you want in the background, your face pinched and your brow knitted. We're not biting that the detectives overlooked you as Rosie's real murderer. Your father, on the other hand, has had our attention for quite a while. Do you have something to share that the police should know? You don't strike me as the kind of morally upright young man who would risk losing the perks of his father's wealth to help get justice for Rosie. Surprise us! Spill what you know!
Michelle Forbes on Mitch Larsen
Need more Mitch than AMC is providing on The Killing this season? Try this very short interview at YouTube:
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