I think sidekick guy beating up the rock was just a plot device so that he’ll have injuries on his knuckles and be able to take the rap for maiming/killing Bennet. If so, it’s just another example of some really poor writing on this show.
I should probably stop watching because even when things do happen, they annoy me.
That’s something else that doesn’t make sense. If that anonymous woman knew that girls were being rescued and where they were being held, why would she tell anyone?
Presumably she and Bennet and Muhammed didn’t talk because they were afraid the girls would be returned to their abusive families. Whether keeping that secret is worth taking a murder rap for is dubious, but the story needed some kind of contrivance to sustain the red herring.
This show is like a cross between Law and Order and Three’s Company. We see a bunch of things that make a character look suspicious, and then ooohh, there’s an innocent explanation for all of it. Next week they’ll probably find a dead, underaged hooker in the politician’s car, and he won’t have ana alibi for the timeline, and then ooohh, it will turn out that she’s his niece, and she had ODed, and he was rushing her to the hospital when he got pulled over.
It seems to me that if you are the chief suspect in a sensational murder case, so much so that your name is being bandied about during a mayoral campaign debate and you are nearly murdered by the victim’s father, if you had the good sense that God gave gravy, you might start trying to clear your name, even at the risk of your illegal quixotic and noble attempt to stop a female circumcision. But I’m just a selfish bastard like that.
This might make for an entire thread, but since it at least applies to The Killing I’ll mention it here.
Is there all that significant a cluster of Somali immigrants in Seattle? I find it hard to fathom that an Eastern African people would choose West Coast USA as a destination to go to as a group. It would make more sense for them to head more or less north to Denmark than to cross two continents and an ocean. So was the original Danish production big on Somalis or what?
I believe there’s a significant group of Vietnamese in Edmonton Alberta so the notion isn’t totally strange, just peculiar to the casual observer. That other potential thread might address other counter-intuitive movements of migration, if the interest were sufficient.
There are clusters of immigrant populations like that all over the US. There is a sizable Somali community here in the Twin Cities, as well as a large Hmong community, a West African community and others.
They become self-perpetuating. The initial influx is often driven by employment opportunities, and then once a community is established, it becomes an on obvious magnet for more extended family and other new immigrants of that same origin.
Just googling, it appears there is a sizable Somali community in Seattle, though not nearly as big as the Somali population in Minnesota.
What ethnicity was the teacher in the Danish version? Wiki says the character name was “Rama” and was played by Iranian-born actor Farshad Kholghi.
Then it makes even less sense. If the woman simply keeps quiet, there’s a better chance that they’ll be able to continue saving the girls. Once the cops find them, the best the girls can hope for is foster care. That’s assuming the government will want to get involved with a religious practice.
Perzackly.
Rama was from Syria.
I’m finding this thread interesting, trying to work out what changes have been made from the original… and why!
I shall say no more for now, for obvious reasons. 
Yep. Back on Page 3 I started thinking that way, and nothing’s changed for me. That chase…ugh. I actually said out loud “she’s going to magically go around and corner him with her gun drawn.”
Yet here I am still watching…since there’s nothing else Sunday night for me. (I don’t get HBO any more).
Huh. So the psycho pal of the dad’s was another red herring.
Is Rosie’s killer going to be completely out of the blue?
I was wondering exact same thing. They are running out of candidates that were around.
My guess is that Gwen did it to protect Darren and I think he had no clue.
I turned it off after Linden went off on her friend and dumped her kid in the motel.
I turned it back on during the repeat, after reading a post at TWOP where somebody said “Oh wow, it’s really getting good!” :dubious:
I almost turned it off again when Linden was jogging and saw the “Adela” sign. For pete’s sake. Couldn’t she have found that ferry by googling “Adela”?
The actor playing Belko did a good job. I missed the part where Linden and Holder visited his mother. She’s 70 and wears sexy negligee around the house? What’s her story?
The mother is a horrible old whore is what’s with that. Drink in one hand, cigarette in the other, giving Holder the once over. She said it was just her and Belko though she ‘entertained’ gentlemen callers. At one point she casually told them how she killed Belko’s cat!.. Belko told the detectives his mother has dressed in sexy lingerie forever, is still doing it, and he would hear the old whore at night, doing her thing with assorted men. Belko began hanging out with Rosie’s family to avoid the old horror, even sleeping in their garage at night sometimes.
Haven’t heard much about Linden’s son until lately, now he’s ‘acting up’ - I predict he’s going to play a part in the ending to this thing. The fiance came across country with plane tickets and she said she wasn’t going with him and he left? It’s only been a week since the murder, he doesn’t want to wait a little longer? THAT is what was really worrying me since the beginning, I knew that wedding was doomed from the start.
She was a prostitute, or at least a woman who had a lot of “men friends”.
That was my theory after the first episode, then I Googled to see whodunnit in the oroginal series, assumed this one was going in that same direction and forgot about it. Now it looks like they’re changing that up for the US series, which leads me back to the Gwen theory. There aren’t a whole lot of candidates left. There’s still Linden’s fiance, I guess, but other than that, they’d have to make it some really peripheral character who’s barely been in it.
The point about Linden’s kid acting is agood one, and might be a clue pointing at the fiance. Though it would be a bit contrived to make the killer coincidentally be the boyfriend of the investigating detective, it would explain why he wants to get her off the case.
And where was he all that time he wasn’t answering her calls (I mean, I know where he was supposed to be, but where was he really)?
I’d probably shoot the TV if Rick’s the killer. He wants her off the case because they had set a date for the wedding. I think in the first episode someone said Linden said the wedding was two weeks away.
I think he wasn’t taking her calls for the reason he stated – he wanted her to come to him. Stupid of him to buy plane tickets, but maybe he’s got money to waste.
I’d shoot the TV if it was Gwen too. She did seem a bit miffed at the video though. Can’t see Gwen chasing Rosie through the woods.
Is the kid not in school? God, she’s a terrible mother. Does she even call and check up on him? Make sure he’s got money for food?
See, this is part of what makes it suspicious. What man is in such a hurry to get married? Most guys would be like, "take all the time you want, take a year, no rush. 
I didn’t like how she got so pissy at her friend and left the boat after being called out on her absentee parenting either.
I thought we saw a more human side of Linden in this episode. I found the interrogation scene pretty riveting - Linden always seems so stoic and determined, it was interesting to see her take a go at the suspect. And the scene where she stormed off the boat - she knows she’s a bad parent but she doesn’t know what to do about it. Or is unwilling to do what is necessary. Either way being called out on it probably just made her feel defensive. I thought it was pretty believable.
Gwen does look like a good candidate now. I’m not sure what would connect Rosie to the campaign though. Did she see something she shouldn’t have?