Yeah, she maybe didn’t know it was Rosie, but she knew it was an innocent human being she was slowly drowning! Yikes. And that it was shown against the backdrop of Terry confessing her crime while sitting on Rosie’s bed, Stan and Mitch listening aghast in the doorway, was like a punch in the gut with a two-by-four. * That last bit, with Rosie’s screams audible under the plinking, almost peaceful piano music, was like a punch in the gut. Still, those flashbacks to the actual murder were bloody awful: Jamie discovering Rosie at the casino construction site and realizing she’d overheard the illicit pow wow Jamie “accidentally” knocking videocam-wielding Rosie to the floor as she tried to flee the scene, and thinking he’d killed her in the process Rosie waking up and fleeing Jamie’s vehicle, only to get chased down in the woods and put back in the trunk (but did he have help getting her body out of the casino undetected?) Terry, overhearing Ames and Jamie trying to concoct a plan of what to do with the bound and battered girl whose existence threatened the futures they’d planned and Terry, putting the car in drive, knowing that Ames’ unscrupulous waterfront idea had to become a reality, or he’d never have the money to leave his wife. * I’m kinda glad Jamie was killed off (by Holder’s gun) in the opening 15 minutes, since his whole descent into “I did it all for you, Darren!” madness made him seem more pathetic than scary. * Anyone else find it chilling how the raucous laughter of the Larsen kids in the opening scene - flashing back to Rosie’s final day on Earth - sounded very much like the screaming of a murder victim? I’m going to hold out hope these cats come back for a third season - just so long as the Larsen case is put to bed, and a new murder becomes their dual obsession.
Aside from her drab brown sweater, the usually vividly painted Linden didn’t seem much different in Season 2’s final hour than most obsessive TV detectives, while Holder had few opportunities to flex his winning brand of Zen street sarcasm. * If I had one complaint about the finale, it was the lack of the Linden-Holder dynamic that’s kept The Killing deeply compelling even in those moments where I wondered if the writers had a real plan for an ending. And certainly wrong action.Ī few other thoughts/observations on “What I Know”: And to be honest, while I’m glad Jamie turned out to have blood on his hands - really, last week’s penultimate episode took him too far down the path of guilt for some final, last-act twist to absolve him - Terry’s awful, awful involvement was, as Holder put it, yet another example of wrong place, wrong time.