The Killing SPECULATION!

[krickets]

This is my "killer speculation" post. My proper reaction post will be posted directly after this. And here it is.


After this episode I am a mix of "more confused than ever" and "okay maybe I might be getting close to my pick for most-likely-to-be-the-killer." I just can't tie all the threads together.

Going by this episode alone, my gut says that Joe Mills is a patsy. He's been framed. I mean, he's a creepy pedophile, but he's not the killer.

So if I'm following that thread, then who did the framing? Maybe the guy with the box of rings: Carl Reddick? I have suspected him more than once throughout, but if he's the one that planted the rings, then maybe it could work. The actor did have a huge bandage on his hand during the Holder/Reddick fight attack scene at the end, and it was pointed out that Bullet fought back hard during her attack, but it was flesh colored so it could be unimportant and production may have been trying to hide it as much as possible. They obviously weren't trying to make it stand out. The other thing is that Reddick took calls from Bullet, if Bullet spoke to him, not knowing who he was, and told him she knew who the killer was? He may have gone after her. That's why she doesn't fit the MO and that's why she specifically was targeted.

I just can't see Reddick being that... pro-active. This all seems like way too much energy for him. But there's a chance I could still be right and he's not acting alone.

But then there's Becker, and Henderson (unlikely), and Skinner (who I still have my suspicions about), and the P.O. and Joe Mills who wasn't in town for Trisha's death but still could be involved with the others, and Goldie (are we still counting him?) and possibly Dale (somehow) and it's all so confusing. I can't remember if any of those suspects have been ruled out completely as suspects. Skinner did show up just before Reddick came out with the box of rings. Maybe he's the one who planted it? I JUST DON'T KNOW!

Comments

[aeliasnymph.livejournal.com]

I've been happy to just go along with the ride and haven't really done much of my own speculation, but any time I read someone talking about Becker it seems to make sense, especially with all the recent episodes. The thing with his son shooting some guy seems pretty heavy to deal with with only two episodes left, and I feel like that isn't just some random event. And I know promos are supposed to be misleading, but when Adrian talks about the guy he saw in the apartment, it looks like he's in the prison (visiting Seward?), so he could see Becker walking around and maybe decided to speak up about it to Linden then. I don't know how Reddick or anybody else could be brought up that easily without it seeming random or awkward.

After tonight, though, I've been starting to think that maybe it's two people. Joe Mills IS the guy that killed all the girls, including Bullet, and it's somebody else (Becker or Reddick or whoever) that killed Seward's wife. But there still has to be some sort of connection between the two, because that's what started it all.

Basically I'm just talking out of my ass because I really have no idea what's going on and Linden/Holder moments from tonight's episode are still clouding my brain of any rational thought. :p

[crickets.livejournal.com]

See I am fully willing to believe that Becker did it, but I fail to understand how Angie (that was her name right?) the girl who got away would have been able to ID him to Bullet. I feel like a cop has GOT to be involved somehow. She could have IDed Joe of course, but after this ep I definitely think he's been framed. He's a known suspect, and he took Danette's car, so he wasn't driving the Taxi just before the incident at the storage facility. Plus, in 3.01 it is established that in addition to his taxi he drives a truck, not a car. If Angie were picked up by a truck, her description of the ride would have been somewhat different, or if she were picked up by a taxi, despite her not IDing her attacker even though she obviously did get a good look at him, I feel like that's also something she would have said to Holder and Linden. I don't know. I feel like Joe was just an easy mark.

YOU COULD STILL BE RIGHT. I am still completely confused, so at this point, I'd believe that Caroline could have done it, LOL. (Well, maybe not.)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Becker not being home a lot has been mentioned enough times to make it something. He's a suspicious mofo.

Yes, what was the deal with Reddick's hand?

How did Twitch know about Bullet so quickly and have so much money? He's cute, but not cute enough to save up that much money from blowjobs.

Joe Mills seems like he was involved to do the "heavy lifting" and there's someone else.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I don't know where Twitch could have gotten the money. Maybe he stole it? I imagine that Bullet's death was reported. They did get an ID on her pretty quick and the killings are headline news. I think I always ruled out Twitch or any of the street kids because the string of murders and Trisha Seward's killing at least 3 years ago (or over? since it's supposed to be February, Trisha was murdered at Christmas, and the other girls were murdered before that) I imagine Twitch is supposed to be around 18? So he'd have been what? 15? I just don't know how involved he is. Maybe he sold out Bullet? I don't know. It seems to me that he wouldn't want to stay in town after that, so turning around and getting an apartment with Lyric doesn't seem like a logical next step, especially since its established he was leaving so no one would question it.

I guess I'll buy that Joe Mills is involved, but I still feel like he was completely set up in this episode. I'll probably be proven wrong, but who knows.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I think Twitch did something shady that he feels bad about, like telling someone something or otherwise helping out. It could make sense with Joe Mills having been out of commission, but I don't think Twitch is involvedinvolved with it or the previous ones.

Ugh, Joe Mills is so freaking creepy, but I'm not sure how much of the killings are attributed to him. Perhaps he was more of a screening process for who is taken.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Ugh maybe you're right about Twitch. I just don't know how to connect it all and that drives me bonkers. BONKERS I SAY. Maybe somebody came to Twitch and asked him where Bullet might hang out and offered him a lot of money? But why? How would they know? It almost just fuels my Reddick speculation, because he talked to her that night at the station and possibly knew that she was onto the killer. Why would anybody else be looking for her? But, wouldn't that make Twitch a witness? It's kinda messy.

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

I could get behind your Reddick theory! But tbh I literally have no idea who basically ANY of those other characters are that you listed in the last paragraph lmao
BUT I AGREE WITH YOUR THEORY CUZ YOUR THEORIES ARE USUALLY RIGHT

[crickets.livejournal.com]

LOL WHAT? What are you doing when you're watching this show? Even my mom knows who a couple of those people are! (That's pretty bad Dayln!)

[oviedo.livejournal.com]

I'm more and more clueless as who it could be as more episodes air lol. Nobody fits entirely and if it's more than one person then I can't see how this is all connected.

Mills is was my first suspect because he's just soooo creepy plus if we assume Kallie is still alive (please let her still be alive!), that would make sense if it was him (she's different because she's his stepdaughter).

I can't imagine Reddick is competent enough to be the elusive killer (lol) but he did have opportunity to plant the evidence (the rings - although what about Bullet's body? He couldn't just drive a car into an active crime scene.) + they did zero in on that bandage, I mean if they wanted to hide it he could put his other hand to his face. Even more suspicious to me was the fact that he tried to get Holder to beat up Mills - I know it was meant as payback and to get Holder to feel better (lol again) but could it be also so it was hard to tell if he has defensive wounds? Or that he doesn't have them? Although he was already messed up from the fight with Linden and surely he would have been processed when brought to the station. IDK just thinking out loud here...

Becker is the baldy prison guard right? They did drop so many lines how he's never home and now this thing with his son (which was so out of the left field) but surely if he was the killer he would be a bit more nervous when driving home and seeing all that police outside?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Me too but I'm grasping at straws here! Haha. KALLIE HAS TO BE ALIVE. That's basically the ONLY thing I am sure of, haha.

Yeah I know Reddick is probably a red herring. It's probably Skinner. I don't know. I didn't read much into Reddick trying to get Holder to have his way with Mills other than, that's the kind of guy Reddick is. But it may mean something. I have a feeling we MIGHT have a better idea of who did it at the end of the next episode. And the two episode finale will be the final takedown and wrap-up and ONE LAST PLOT TWIST, JUST CUZ.

But they may make us wait until the end to know.

Yes, Becker is the bald prison guard. Played by Hugh Dillon. Francis Becker. You're right, there's got to be something to his absences both from work and from home. But who knows what that is. Maybe it's connected to the crimes. But maybe... maybe not? Maybe he's The Killing's "Snape" and it turns out he's really a good guy running a side-investigation of his own, trying to get Seward off because him or one of his many relatives who are also prison guards, have heard rumors from other prisoners. WOW look at that. I just created this whole sub-plot for Becker that is probably SO FAR OFF that it's not funny. How crazy would it be if I were right though?

[twilightthief.livejournal.com]

Very good theories!

Dude, Im confused too. 0_o

[crickets.livejournal.com]

LOL I actually re-thought my theory and this is my new theory:
http://crickets.livejournal.com/547860.html

I like it a lot better.