The Killing – Did the teacher do it?

The Killing has continued in its slow moving pace. In “Super 8,” we found out more about our victim Rosie, but will it lead Lyndon and Holder to the murderer? I’m not sure. The title of the episode, I believe refers to the film Rosie made, probably on Super 8 film.

Last week, I mentioned that I didn’t buy Bennet as the killer. At the end of Day Five, he is still the prime suspect. He has no alibi, married a former student, wrote letters to his wife when she was a student similar to those he sent Rosie, and perhaps most damning — they found the same chemical in his home that was on Rosie’s body. I still don’t think he did it.

Instead, I’m leaning towards the theory that he is being set-up. It would be easy to do, especially if that person knew about his special relationship with Rosie. More important than Bennet, I believe he was targeted specifically to bring down the Richmond campaign. I doubt that she was specifically killed for that reason. Instead, it just happened to be a way to take care of two things at one time: get rid of Rosie and Richmond with one murder. It’s no coincidence that a Richmond campaign car was used in the murder, Bennet is a suspect and then he shows up in the television ad that’s supposed to save the Richmond campaign.

The motive for her murder is still unknown. Though, before Lyndon said it, I wrote in my notes, “Maybe she saw something she shouldn’t have,” regarding the film she made. And, then later wondered what role the director that slept with Gwen had in the story, if any? Could he have been involved with Rosie?

I have a like-dislike relationship with this show. I’m enjoying the story, but the slow progression gets frustrating at times. As I consider it, I’m fine with the way the murder investigation is progressing, what bothers me is the snail’s paced reveal of the characters. Why are all the main characters being kept such a secret? There must be a reason, right? If it was a few characters, that would be easier to accept, but all of them is a bit overwhelming to process.

Other thoughts:

• Both Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes have sold their roles as grieving parents with their incredible and heartfelt performances.
• When Stan finds out about Bennet, what will he do with the information?
• The Larsen sons are suffering the loss of their sister, demonstrated by their lack of food and bed-wetting.
• Holder is creepy. Still not sure what’s going on with him, but I don’t trust him. The money he put in the mailbox — was that from him or was he just the delivery guy for the man in the car?
• Lyndon got messed up over a previous case and Rick is concerned for her. It looks like it might be warranted given the picture wall she had at the end.
• The mole in the Richmond campaign turned out to be Nathan. I’m not convinced this is the end of the story.
• I still think the investigation will return to Kris at some point. He seemed worried, until he found out all they had was the sex video with Sterling. What else concerned him?
• It rains … non-stop!

Now that we are a few days into Rosie’s murder investigation, I thought it would be fun to have a poll to see who you think did it. So, each week, I will post a poll and you can vote for your prime suspect. I’m using the suspect list provided by AMC, so for example neither Lyndon or Mitch are on the list. I will provide the results each week.

Clacked by Carla Day
on Apr 25, 2011 @ 10:29 EST5EDT