Well yeah, i was just commenting on why she seemed to trust Holder again. As far as the bag of cash goes i thought they went out of their way to point out that the sponsor kept all of Holder’s money and gave him an allowance to get by while Linden was listening in.
I totally missed the part about the sponsor and the cash. My husband was watching for the first time and he kept asking questions. Don’t you hate when that happens?
Yeah, I doubt there’s a washer/dryer hook up on the boat. I bet she smells like wet dog. If those two showed up on my doorstep claiming to be police detectives, I’d laugh in their faces.
No, you were right the first time–that was a straight-up leer. And creepy, too. Although, I guess you could argue he’s attracted to the woman who is keeping his other two kids alive. That scene in the second episode where the kid goes out in his pajamas to buy milk was heartbreaking.
I pretty much gave up on this show a couple of weeks ago when nothing happened yet again, but there’s nothing else on, and it does have its moments. I just wish they’d give the audience a bit more credit with respect to red herrings. I don’t mind a slowly paced show, but this is verging on laborious.
The red herrings wouldn’t be so bad if they still played fair and threw in some real clues once in a while.
Anyone watch the new one yet?
On the positive side, things actually happened in this episode. I liked Linden using the phones to locate her suspect in the market. Also, Bennet’s real reason for lying about the night Rosie died was interesting, however…
On the negative side, I’ve been afraid they were going to go the “Mystic River” route with that storyline, and indeed they have. (By the way, when Rosie’s dad was pounding away on Bennet, was the other guy actually beating up a rock?) Also, the politician storyline is still boring.
How many episodes are left?
Yeah, that guy really beat the shit out of that rock, and was screaming “No, no, no!” when the dad pulled him off Bennett. Like Erdosain said, I don’t mind the red herrings so much - I mean, why would someone watch a multiple episode murder mystery unless she knew she was in for them? But I would like to have multiple red herrings going at once instead of “Ok the next few episodes you will hate Muslim guy. Next week you will hate blondie. And then you will suspect the mayor. Make it so.”
I really like this show. I wish I had more self control and hadn’t read the spoiler, but of course everything points to it now.
Are we supposed to not like Mitch? Because she is really irritating me. I still don’t care at all about the senator storyline. This was episode what? Nine? So there are how many left? Seems like the only two people who haven’t been suspects yet are the blonde senator’s aide & the sister, so I’m gonna say it’s one of them. In any other show I’d think it was meant to be suspicious when the sister brought home Rosie’s books, but there is so much extraneous information in this show that it’ll probably just have no meaning.
At least things actually happened in this episode.
What did she say about the books – that Rosie left them in her car? Or were the books in the house? I didn’t read anything into that except as an excuse for Mitch to go to the school and see Bennet.
I’ve decided it’s best not to view the show as a mystery, but as an example of an investigation, the things that can go wrong, jumping to conclusions, misinterpreting people’s actions, and how a family can be destroyed when a family member is murdered.
Because it makes NO sense to me that Bennet didn’t reveal what he was up to. The police are after him, Rosie’s dad is after him, he’s a pariah at school, his program lost its funding, the mosque is being defaced, etc. and he’s walking around like if he keeps quiet, it will all just go away.
It also made little sense that Mitch is all broken down again, yet a little while later she’s doing laundry. But then it made no sense to me that they’d assume the pink shirt belonged to Rosie. A good cop would have had Mitch search for Rosie’s shirt, to make sure it was the same one.
I’m also disappointed with Linden going along with an illegal wiretap. Maybe she would, but we don’t know enough about her character to know if she’d do that.
Should we assume Bennet is dead?
I think the show is getting really tedious. It’s just turning into Law and Order at this point. That chase through the mall was ridiculously contrived.
That too! Why was the guy at the market for three hours? I guess he had to be in one place long enough for his location to be tracked and for the cops to arrive. Very contrived.
How did Linden get a photo of him?
What, you’ve never spent three hours at the market trying to decide which package of blueberries is the absolute freshest?
It was an old photo from the DMV - they noted it was the only one they could find and it was out of date.
Yeah, the chase through the produce was a little much for me, but I feel like I’ve invested this much into it, I’m going to see it through. I do have moments of hating Mitch, but I try to keep in mind that maybe I’d be bitchy and rough around the edges if my daughter died nine days ago. It must be better than I give it credit for, because when she pulled the pink shirt out my heart sank. It seems like the teacher is dead, but maybe he will pull through, look awful, become the physical manifestation of all that is wrong with the world and assumptions, and everyone will vote for Councilman Richards when they find out just how strong his character is by staying loyal to Ahmed when all others doubted him and showing the rest of characters their true colors. Oh wait, that was all the other crime dramas I’ve seen. Maybe he’s dead and Mitch and her husband secretly learn to distrust and resent each other as they carry the secret to the grave of the murder of the teacher. Or maybe they become the largest crime family in Washington and carry out revenge hits on murderers of children. 
ShelliBean, I like the way you think and put things. I’m determined to watch this show until its bitter end, and no longer have the remotest hope that it will be fulfilling by the time it’s over, and I surely hope the AMC execs will bail out on this concept and the Rubicon concept in their quest for another Breaking Bad or Mad Men.
The parallels to Twin Peaks continue to become manifest with the “write yourself into a corner” approach to plot development and character justifications. Red herrings simply do not a mystery make. And there are only x-number of changes of heart on whether Character A is guilty or not.
I honestly do not care who killed the girl, who gets elected and whether Linden ever gets out of Seattle. But I’m masochist enough to watch another episode, on the off chance that I may be too jaded.
I usually iron or something to justify watching TV during the day so sometimes I miss the details. Can someone explain the red shirt? This is what Mitch was holding at the end when she couldn’t get hold of her husband?
It is the same shirt Linden ask her to identify, they found it at the crime scene. Basically it was just coincidence instead of evidence. I hope that rock was ok because it is the only likeable thing on this show.
Wasn’t the shirt that Linden asked her to identify found in that room in the mosque?
Yes, that’s the point. They found that shirt, they thought it was Rosie’s, turned out to belong to the other girl.
I just wanted to clarify at which crime scene they found that shirt.
Well the room wasn’t in the mosque then, it was in some random building.
Why was that dude beating up a boulder in the background? Was that just to show us he has a batshit insane side?
It’s funny, as things seemed to point to Bennet not being the suspect, I said, “What about that pink shirt?” and voila, pink shirt in laundry appears.
The room wasn’t in a mosque, it was in some warehouse. Linden got an anonymous tip in her show about the location when she was visiting the mosque. Come to think of it, who tipped her off?