Saturday, May 19, 2012

Three Up, Three Down: The Killing

Three Up


3. Jack Linden. Finally gets a chance to break out of the homeless nightmare he's been in this season when his mom sends him to Chicago to stay with his dad. He's not happy about this - I know she's his mother, but I swear Jack has some sort of Stockholm Syndrome attachment to Sarah - but it's better than hiding out in various apartments and motels, thinking that every cop who shows up is going to put him in foster care.


2. Stephen Holder. Not the best start for Holder - he's found by a search party after having the crap beaten out of him - but he gets the matchbook to Sarah so she can meet up with the housekeeper from the Wapi Eagle. He later has a nice heart-to-heart with his nephew, most of which is overheard by his mom (Holder's sister) and will hopefully help get the family back together. He also gets to the airport to catch up with Linden, but too late to see Jack.


1. Mary. A housekeeper at the Wapi Eagle, she worked with Rosie, and found her backpack in a dumpster and returned it to the Larsens in case it would help solve the case. She also mentions the chief's purchase of cheap cleaners, which explains why Rosie had chemicals on her hands. We also learn that Rosie worked as a waitress as well, and not as a prostitute. Mary also makes another reference to the tenth floor, and that all of the keys the staff had to that floor were confiscated the day after Rosie died. This sets Linden on the trail of Rosie's key, which is in evidence.


Three Down


3. Darren Richmond. He's out of the hospital and seven points down to Mayor Adams. He's still not talking about where he was on the night of Rosie's murder, which doesn't help the public see him as innocent. He does confront Adams about the source of the tollbooth picture which led to Richmond's arrest, but hasn't figured out a way to use it yet.  Looking to get back in the race, he tasks the staff to come up with a grand gesture, and they do - a meeting with Chief Jackson with hopes of ending her work with Adams to develop the waterfront, which is his main campaign promise. But Richmond wants nothing to do with Jackson, and lets Gwen have it about the meeting. They also try to work out some of their personal issues - mainly how Richmond lied to Gwen about his whereabouts the night Rosie died.


2. Stan Larsen. Stan's public offer of a reward has driven all of the crazies to call him, and he's dim enough to think that some of the tips have merit. He tries to get Linden to check some of them out, and she has to break it to him that they're not going to help. He still goes through and meets with some of the callers, and has a good heart to heart with a woman who lost a daughter. And she knows Rosie loved her dad, and for a price she can get in touch with Rosie so they can talk again. Poor, dumb Stan.


1. Sarah Linden. She calls in for a search team to find Holder, but the team is cancelled by Lt. Carlson. She finally gets him to relent by asking how Internal Affairs will look upon his actions if Holder turns up dead. She faces off with Chief Jackson about the search, and Jackson calls what she things is a bluff, but isn't. Holder is found, and Linden gets to meet Mary and get more info on Rosie. Where things start to go south is when she returns to the station and finds the case files being taken away. Carlson asks Linden for her badge and gun, based on her actions at the Wapi Eagle. She then goes back to Holder's and finds the cops checking out his apartment, with Jack nowhere to be found. Jack ran to Reggie's boat slip, but she's gone. So this is how Sarah winds up sending Jack to Chicago and having no case to solve - except she wants to get Rosie Wapi Eagle key from evidence. That will turn out well.

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