Three Up, Three Down: The Killing

Three Up


3. Steven Holder. He's back to the Holder we recognize, giving Linden crap while taking it in return. He also manages to do some police work, as he helps make connections leading to Alexei Giffords, the anime-tatted bicycling partner of Rosie Larsen.


2. Sarah Linden. She makes the greater connections, using her personal experience of the foster system and relationship with her own case worker, Regi, to get the background on Alexei that connects him to the Larsens by his dad, Piotr, who may have been killed by Stan so he could get out of the mob. On the down side, Linden is getting sued by her ex-husband for joint custody of Jack, contending that she's a negligent parent. And by what we've seen, that may not be that far from the truth.


1. Janek Kovarsky. He gets Belko's body from the morgue and arranges for the funeral, scooping Stan and giving him a chance to mock Stan for his life choices. Later, when Stan figures out that Janek used his trucks to move Beau Soleil, he goes after Janek, only to get further humiliated. Janek continues to get his pound of flesh out of Stan.


Three Down


3. Stan Larsen. He's less stupid in this episode, but he's still getting humiliated by Janek. Home life isn't any better, as he's having issues with Tommy and Mitch is still gone. His business appears to be infiltrated by Janek, as the widow of the man he allegedly whacked stops by to tell him he got what he deserved.


2. Tommy Larsen. He's been reluctant to go to school, and when forced to do so he locks his brother in the trunk of the car and loses it with aunt Terri, screaming at her that she's not his mother and to go home. We then learn that he's getting picked on at school and teased about Rosie. This leads Stan to give Tommy his version of the It Gets Better speech by telling Tommy the kids teasing him about Rosie are stupid, and that the next time he's getting pushed around he needs to punch the biggest kid on the bridge of the nose. For Stan, this is a positive parenting step.


1. The Darren Richmond Campaign. Darren plans to end his campaign, losing the will to continue when the mayor comes in and gets to act all supercilious. Jamie is trying to help Darren, both politically and personally, but fails at both when Darren tells him to get a life outside of the campaign and, when Darren says he needs to get out of the hospital, Jamie tries to haul him out of bed but gets crushed by him instead. Finally, Gwen has to go over Darren's morning routine with Jamie, which makes her realize what she's lost by quitting the campaign and moving to DC. It looks like they're going back on the attack next episode, but for now they're about as low as they can be.