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

[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?