Even though there’s a million contrived things in this plot, the one that pushed me a bit over the line was the mother just happens to visit the school and see Bennet and he’s only there for a minute.
So Bennet as suspect is complete red herring, and we are practically back to square one now – Rosy left the house and… very TV like discarding of suspects. Still has some great potential depending on what happens now though – are they going to investigate Bennet’s death too?
During the beating, I was confused at the co-worker punching boulders. Was he supposed to be nuts and in some kind of battle rage? Is he prepping to take the fall for the murder?
Edit: Preview on the website has Bennet in ‘critical condition’, so yeah, he’s not dead.
Bennet not being dead sounds about right. Dead Bennet doesn’t help the political campaign as much as shit-beaten-out-of Bennet, and now that they’ve basically cleared him and Mayor Meadowlark Lemon made the basket it lines up the political comeback.
I don’t really recognize the coworker (must be from a show/movie that I haven’t seen), but if we’re invoking the Amy Acker rule on him I’m certainly willing to entertain the theory. He’s as good a mark as anybody at this point, particularly since he’s clearly not quite right in a lot of ways. At this point, I figure it has to be either him or the sister because nobody else that we have ever met had the access and opportunity to even do the crime in the first place.
I think the title refers to the murder of Julius Caesar. In episode 2 the candidate quoted the play when he said ‘are we ready?’ and then later in episode 4 a brief shot can be seen of someone with a haircut that has a short, horizonal straight cut fringe. In 5 the main character eats a salad of Romaine lettuce with croutons, olive oil, egg, worcestershire sauce and black pepper. We learned two episodes back that Rosie was delivered in a Caesarian section and last night the main character referred to her partner as a joker. The Joker, of course, was played by Cesar Romero.
I really think the clues are coming together.
(My other guess is that ‘the killing’ refers to Rosie Larsen, who is murdered in the first few minutes of the first episode. This seems like a stretch, though.)
What would be the connection to the campaign car? The sister stands out to me as more likely than the coworker, since the coworker seems always to do the bidding of Stan. He is nuts, though. Also, who gave Rosie the expensive shoes? I’m tempted to think the mayor has something to do with it; he’s buying off the other girl, after all, and he had motive to frame Richmond.
The mayor is definitely looking worse. When you think about those shoes the question becomes, why does she need them? It’s hard to imagine there won’t be a twist with Rosie.
Linden finds a slip of paper in the Koran Rosie returned to Bennett that says, “Adela Friday 11:45”. They assume she’s meeting someone by that name but could that be Rosie’s identity for the evening?
The last episode truly sucked out of a series that is becoming a giant disappointment. I guess they saved the “will kill all interest in our series” total filler episode for near the end so that most people see it through just on pure TV watching inertia.