AMC's The Killing

I thought the kid was really good too.

 

Also: The key evidence in a murder investigation that would have the entire city riveted. A murder investigation that saw a popular mayoral candidate paralyzed behind a false accusation. A murder investigation that skews and yaws from city to county without a peep from the state's attorney, or anyone in a cartoon-paparazzi-whipping boy media noticing. A murder investigation that failed to connect dots that Boy Scouts would have connected by Day 2. A murder investigation requiring willful ignorance and malfeasance at numerous levels of the departmental and prosecutorial hierarchy.

Also, a cop who, at random (for "glory"?) threw up his hands and decided to frame a suspect by fabricating evidence and...and...and...played directly into the diabolically, omnipotently rigged cover-up by said hierarchy.

Like I said pages and pages back, the way this universe operates is so fantastical, viewers must suspend disbelief grandly enough to permit the sudden appearance of Godzilla dry-humping the Space Needle.

Yet I keep watching. Who fucking killer her?!??!?!?!?!?

 

I figured it out: It's the current mayor. Otherwise, what would be the point of Gwen or whatever her name is, bringing up the little incident from when she was 14? He's a perv.

 

The same point, unfortunately, of the terrorists and the teacher and the tattooed kid and the Polish (?) gangster who knew Rosie was a hooker and the rich kid ex boyfriend and whatever else I can't be bothered to remember.

No point, that is.

 

Now, it would seem the Native Americans are going to beat up the OTHER detective, which they are allowed to do of course, since it is "their land." If any real Native Americans are watching this, I'm sure they're rolling on the floor with laughter. I'm sure that's how it works. They can just beat the shit out of any police officer who strays onto their territory without permission, and all of the consequences fall on the officer.

There is this weird consistency to the show, where no one ever does the most logical thing ... so Mitch goes to see Rosie's father and visits with him, reliving old times, hearing about how Rosie tracked him down, and never tells him Rosie is dead. I knew sbe wouldn't, because that would make too much sense.
Instead of smiling and batting your eylelashes, you would show up on his doorstep saying "I'm so sorry but I know my daughter came to see you and now she's dead. I need to know anything she said that might help us figure this out."
But you just know that isn't going to happen in this show, just like Linden and Holder aren't going to go to the feds or the DA, just like Richmond isn't going to spell out for the public that he was a victim of a conspiracy, just like ... aw, screw it, I can't write any more.

 

We sure have come a long way since way back when the janitor was questioned for watching Rosie's friends bang in the basement of the school. Now humor me, and consider my twisted theory.

I think the hotel/casino invites big shots to play a game where they hunt and kill prostitutes. They gamble on it. Since you need a ferry to leave the place, the girls have nowhere to run. They push them out of the casino's back door, have everyone wait 30 minutes and then send them all out into the wild to hunt. The mayor, police chief and other big shots are in on it. Rosie was either the target from the start or became a target after she overheard the individuals discussing the game.

Now, how did she end up in that trunk? I have no idea.

 

Casino Hunger Games?

 

Rosie probably stumbled upon some child sex ring. That's what those sealed off rooms were for. The chief was probably introducing young Indian flesh to the mayor in exchange for whatever land deals they were hungry for.

 

I actually haven't read that nor watched that movie. But my wife has read it about five times, watched it three times and took about 100 students to see te film for a field trip.

I agree. Maybe it was a child sex thing. If so, that's deeply disturbing.

I am envisioning a grand finale where several of the suspects are brought back into the case and where several of them are guilty of playing a role. For example, the teacher introduced the girl to the mayor, and the aunt introduced her to the casino escort thing. Then the mayor had some dealings with the casino and met her through that connection, etc.

 

The mayor's affinity for young girls is probably the reason, but his gofer did it. It'll be his key card on the 10th floor. I don't remember if he was even SHOWN in the first season, but he definitely wasn't a major player, so that will suck.

 

Funny thinking that the entire "frame Richmond" conspiracy wouldn't have worked if he didn't disappear to think about jumping off a bridge in the middle of that one night.
I don't know who is more inept at this point, the police or the plotters. Because, well, I guess we'll have to convince ourselves that a) Rosie stumbled upon something she wasn't supposed to see and was killed because of it. b) those that killed her knew of her association with the Richmond campaign (or maybe it was just happenstance) and called for someone to steal a campaign car to come out to the island (they knew the bridge cameras were out) to set up the frame. (Of course counting on the car being discovered in a remote pond in time to put the frame job in action before the election). Wouldn't it have been easier to just have the girl disappear?

 

All very well said.