Gwen Eaton, Richmond campaign aide. Senator Eaton, Gwen's dad and Adams supporter. And on. There was an equally compelling argument to make that Terry didn't commit the dastardly deed.
It never seemed possible that she could be jealous enough, determined enough or hateful enough to track her beloved niece with military precision through the woods of Discovery Park, beat her, stuff her into the trunk of a car and send her screaming and pleading to meet her maker in the murky depths of a lake. Not without a scratch.
And not alone. How would Terry come by the high-beam searchlight used in the chase we gals don't carry that equipment in our purses or the Richmond campaign car used as the death ferry? The denouement maintained enough artistic integrity to mostly satisfy. Though salted with countless red herrings and unparalleled ineptitude by the investigators, the series had also been well peppered with clues to make sense of the outcome.
The writers allowed the characters of the two culprits to develop naturally yet ominously. Terry didn't beat Rosie and stuff her in the trunk. Jamie did. He wanted to protect a deal with Indian Chief Nicole Jackson and Ames to derail the incumbent's re-election bid.
Terry throttled the car into the lake, but she didn't know her niece was trussed up in the trunk, an agonizing, wrenching twist.
OK, Terry's still a murdering bitch. Desperate, she hoped to clean up the mess Ames was embroiled in and run off with him to start her own family. Compare that with the writers' uneven treatment of World's Worst Mother Mitch, who unbelievably disappeared to "find herself" by hooking up with a traveling salesman and doing laundry for a Rosie-clone runaway; and the absurd plot lines for candidate Richmond, who hewed to high-minded, lofty ideals vis a vis the all-stars program for inner-city youths while leading a secret life as Beau Soleil client Orpheus, hurled himself off a Tacoma bridge in a suicide attempt, then reclaimed the moral high ground upon discovering all of Jamie's lies.
Mitch, at least, returned to her family by the end of the series, albeit improbably prepared to forgive her sister. Amazing what a few weeks in seedy motels away from the kids will do for the soul. Richmond we see turning more and more corrupt as he seals a deal for a lakefront casino with the despicable Nicole and Michael.
Jamie met his end at the hand, or shall we say handgun, of Holder. This could get uglier than the actual campaign. He said he dropped Rosie off at the ferry, but never knew what she was doing. He told them he waited there for her all night to return and she never did, nor did she pick up her phone. Who exactly is this Mr. Big Shot? On stakeout, Holder convinced Linden to go home to Jack.
When she arrived at her motel room, she found her ex waiting there pissed. Back in the car, Holder was still looking out for Alexi, who turned up in the backseat and with a weapon, telling Slim Shady to drive. Holder dropped in on Linden and told her Alexi wanted to talk. Was that Holder who did all of the hallway light theatrics though? I need an explanation. Is the guy from behind the camera stalking Linden getting closer to her?
Seems like it. Revealing more than he could at the station, Alexi told Linden and Holder that he did plan to kill Rosie, but fell for her. When asked who the guy was that Rosie was afraid of, he said it was someone in a black town car at the ferry.
Kind of like the one her body was found in, perhaps?! Holder then proceeded to put in a request for information regarding all of the car services working with the ferry. Back to dropping more bombs, Alexi mentioned to Linden that Rosie had a lot of secrets and pretty much kept him in the dark, including how she found out about her father.
In the closing montage, Aunty Terry was all dressed up like a basketball wife, and hopped out onto a street corner where a town car picked her up. She greeted her suitor with a smile and hello. This is revealed in such a painfully inefficient way. This is like way advanced for her.
They drive to the last place Gil went, which is a gyro place that I thought meant a mob-connection thing. I need something to hold onto. Linden goes inside while Holder recuperates with his broken ribs in the car. Linden sticks that key into the elevator and makes it up to the tenth floor, where the construction site is. She finds the generator that Ray identified. Whew, one mystery solved there. Then she finds the sliding door that he isolated, too.
All the pieces are just falling into place. Because, like they say, the journey getting there is the most important part and forget the shark, this show just jumped off the ledge.
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