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]

I enjoyed Stan's plot but mostly in relation to how it involved Alexi. I said to someone in the comments below just how much I love Alexi's story, and particularly Alexi and Rosie's story. It's very poetic and Romeo+Juliet-esque. So to have him learn the truth in such a careless easy way and to have him exact his revenge against Janek (a man who no doubt deserves it) that very same day was awesome, awesome television. At least for me.

I think Stan is the Larsen family member that we've been most connected to in an emotional way. I just felt like his story is still his story without the whole 2nd hit plot. So it was that particular plot that I was less invested in than usual. Same with the mayor threatening Richmond. There was groundwork for those plots to happen, of course. I just felt like 3 episodes before the end of the season (and potentially the series) my thoughts are more concerned with the overall picture and the characters themselves than these side-plots. But like I said it was still well-done. It was scary to see him make that choice, and okay, the boys and the dog in a pirate costume? Adorable! And then when he realizes he can't do it. You just want to cheer for him.

And when I think about it, Richmond's speech does sort of round off his campaign in a nice way. Which obviously would have to happen since we've been leading up to it.

So maybe I'm just being picky because, like Linden, I JUST DON'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL THE SMALL STUFF! WE'VE GOT A MURDER TO SOLVE, PEOPLE!

[timidwildone.livejournal.com]

"my thoughts are more concerned with the overall picture and the characters themselves than these side-plots"

I could not agree more. My hope is that tying all these loose ends up now leaves room for some serious drama and getting-down-to-business in the final two eps. I was really frustrated with the pace of this ep and the lack of Holder/Linden, but I guess with last week being so H/L heavy, this was bound to happen.

I enjoyed how they showed Linden waking up inside the car, slightly disoriented. How they panned to the back, showing all her boxes haphazardly stacked. She must've been out pretty hard to not wake up through a stop at the hotel and packing her stuff in the car. I found myself chuckling when Holder said "take a shower". I felt so tense seeing her in the same sweater she wore to the casino before her committal. She needs a day off to be human again.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah I thought so too. It was kind of obvious that they were stalling on the whole key-card business. I am hoping that next week is breakneck.

Yeah I really loved the SOUND in that scene of her waking up. I can't imagine she didn't shower when she was at the hospital, but maybe she didn't. We at least know she got some sleep!

She definitely needs to be human again but I have serious doubts we're going to see that before the end of the season. Maybe in the finale after the case is wrapped up?