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.)