The Killing :: First Thoughts :: Night 18

Didn't You Expect ...

When Sterling returned Rosie's locker contents to Stan, didn't you expect them both to look up to find Mitch standing in the doorway, tears in her eyes?

And when Gwen and Jamie offer a reduction of Stan's impending prison sentence in return for his reading a statement exonerating Richmond, didn't you expect all three of them to look up to find Mitch standing in the doorway, her face flashing with anger?

And then when Stan learns of Terry's involvement in Beau Soleil and throws her out of the house, didn't you expect to find that Mitch had heard the whole confession, magnifying the horror of Terry's behavior?

Or even when Richmond himself visits Stan, didn't you expect to see Mitch's fingers curl around the handlebars of the wheelchair as she leaned down to offer a push inside? [Well, no, even I didn't expect that, but it would have been nice if Mitch had made the appearance.]

But really, when Stan goes off script at the press conference, didn't you expect to transition to a television which, as the camera pulled back, revealed Mitch listening to her husband getting all passionate about justice for his dead daughter? That time, I really did expect to see her.

Special Message to Jack

Look, if you're going to engineer the escape from child protective services, then you should be high-fiving its success with your mother, not curling up in a fetal position and pouting in the passenger seat as the two of you speed away.

I Got a Bad Feeling

I am worried about Holder surviving the beating at the casino. You see, despite my promise to myself, I am watching Forbrydelsen before The Killing has officially ended. It's like getting the test questions in advance of an exam. All I can say is that I was so worried about Mitch that I just had to see if a similar meltdown had happened to her Danish counterpart, Pernille. [If you're worried too, I'll let you know that like Mitch, Pernille beds a businessman that she picks up at a hotel, and Theis, the Stan character, gets robbed by some young thugs as he wanders Copenhagen in a drunken stupor. So Mitch's troubling behavior is not straying too far from the original story.]

Jan Meyer, Stephen Holder's original incarnation, is still alive [and finally likable] by episode 15 [where I currently am], but having visited the Forbrydelsen IMDB page, I notice that Meyer appears in only 19 of the 20 episodes and is not part of the second season. Yikes. I hope they're both okay. I love Holder, and I'm starting to develop some fondness for Meyer. Having to deal with the deaths of both this coming week would be hard.

Word Count

The number of words Mitch has spoken this season:

"Reflections" = 0 words
"My Lucky Day" = 0 words
"Numb" = 22 words
"Ogi Jun" = 0 words
"Ghosts of the Past" = 108 words
"Opening" = 137 words
"Keylela" = 0 words

Grand total = 267 words—If words were dollars, we'd be stalled worse than Max and Caroline trying to save enough money to launch their cupcake business!