What just happened?

[krickets]

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→ What just happened?!?!?!? I was just saying last week that neither Gwen, nor Jamie have alibis for the night Rosie was killed. The third man on the 10th floor has got to be Jamie. I love that little scrappy fucker, but there's no way it's Gwen. The whole thing with her coming to the cops about Richmond's alibi not panning out just wouldn't make sense if it's her. (Unless she was just jealous of all of Richmond's exploits and thought she'd pin a murder on him?) Dammit. Jamie Wright, I sincerely hope that if you were there in that casino that my whole "trying to save Rosie and ended up driving the car into the water and couldn't save her" theory is true. Either that or Ames did it and Jamie's some kind of bystander. Ugh. Why do I feel so strongly for him? This isn't fair. I actually have come to love the dynamic between him, Gwen, and Richmond. They're like this little, fucked up, political family. Ugh.

→ Not enough Linden and Holder in this ep. I rarely complain about this show. But this is unforgivable. Basically, haha. This is one of the only eps where their presence has been super low-key. But I do have to say I absolutely loved the shot of them marching into the casino. (And serving that warrant! SNAP!) And loved all the shots of their legs walking together through city hall, Holder at Linden's heels. My people, you guys. I love them so much that they literally just have to walk near each other and I'm happy.

→ Proud of Stan for not being able to go through with it, although I don't know what his game plan was for dealing with Janek after letting that guy get away. Alexi is kind of my hero right now though. As soon as he overheard Janek admitting that he ordered the hit on Michaelski and that it wasn't Stan acting on his own accord, as Alexi was previously led to believe, I knew that Janek's number was up. That whole scene was great. Especially Alexi's final line. Boom. Good riddance.

→ Linden and Holder fighting? Again? Breaks my heart every time. Can't you see that he just cares about you, Linden? Can't you?

→ Linden and her smart ass flashing the key card to the casino's security camera. I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

→ JAMIE MOTHERFUCKING WRIGHT, YOU GUYS. I just can't. I don't want him to be the killer. This turn of events with the damn key card is so unexpected. I just... how am I going to wait until next week?

ETA: Spoilers for the promo below:




...after seeing the promo I'm feeling differently about my "the third man must be Jamie" assessment. But still. Worried!

PS! I wrote post-ep fic earlier today for last week's ep:
how we ended up here; holder/linden; pg13

Comments

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Back for theorizing.

No, you're totally right about Jamie. It doesn't really jive with what we've seen so far. I feel like I'd have to re-watch to know for sure. Jamie has had this carefree attitude especially at the beginning, and then when stuff happens he's been pretty convincingly "You're shitting me!" about it. Everything seems to come as a shock to him in a pretty convincing way. IT CANNOT BE HIM.

If Gwen is involved, I sincerely hope she's not the "doer" because it just wouldn't make sense. Maybe she gets a call AFTER Richmond leaves the room, goes to meet someone at the casino and somehow makes it back BEFORE him? I just don't know.

I do think that someone else from city hall could be the third man. But at this point, I have NO IDEA what is going to happen next. (I love that just when we think we've got it mostly figured out, they pull the rug out from under us to make us question everything. After last season, the clues in S2, with the exception of Alexi, have been leading us pretty steadily in one direction. I am kind of happy to be completely fucking confused again.)