The Killing, Day 10 Review

The tenth episode of the Killing gave us a lot of information about the night Rosie died. It starts out with the aftereffects of Stan's actions. While Stan did a very bad thing of course, it remains clear why Mitch loves him, and why he's a good father. He apparently called 911 to alert the police of Ahmed's condition. He then turns himself in, and is willing to not just plead guilty, but he openly admits guilt in court. This is a strength of the AMC shows. The lengths to which someone is willing to go doesn't give the whole portrait of who that person truly is. It was good to see it in The Killing since I feel the show has lacked in any kind of character development. In its defense that lack is due to the story telling method. Advancing day-by-day makes it very hard to give us moments of true character building.

During all this, Linden continues to have issues with her personal life. Her son is acting up, and her fiancée is still pissed. Nothing new there, but it's nice to know the show hasn't forgotten about those stories. Linden and Holder discover that Rosie took a cab when she left Ahmed's house, and surprisingly it took her home! This leads our detective duo to suspect the lowly and pathetic helper, Belko Royce. It was clear from early on that Royce was not a bright man, and knew more than he was letting on. Him being the killer seemed way to obvious, and uninteresting. I felt the same when we were led to believe it was Ahmed.

Royce it turns out was there, and heard Rosie on the phone. She mentions someone named Adela, and that she would meet them there. Linden finds out at the end of the episode that Adela refers to a ship. Meaning she took this ship, and where? Seems like to a casino called "Wapi Eagle Casino". That sounds like a Native American casino so you know there will be all kinds of restrictions and such preventing them from investigating more. I hope that doesn't last long, cause with the elimination of both Ahmed and Royce as suspects, the show's minor characters are far less interesting.

Councilman Richmond had a much smaller role to play this week. With the news about Ahmed seeming to help him a ton, he wastes no time jumping on this issue. As he should. His opponent basically threw an innocent man under the bus, and destroyed that man's life. Then however, he has a strange plan to introduce a bill that lowers the pay of councilors. At first I thought it was one of those "I wanted to lower my salary" stunts, but I'm not sure. He didn't seem to care when his aide said it would cost jobs. If you ask people what they care about more "Salaries of City Councilors" or "Jobs" they would basically all say JOBS JOBS JOBS. I think it's as simple as he said it was. He just wants to screw those that didn't stand by him.

The important bit about Richmond though is that he had in fact met Rosie. I love that it was a very Monica Lewinski moment. How funny would it be if the reason Richmond was so adamant about Ahmed being innocent was because he did it!

My guess of the killer remains the Councilman's Male Aide; Jaime. Like Dwight K. Schrute says "It's never the person you most expect, or the person you least expect". I think Jaime falls right into that middle area. I'm almost sure that the killer, whoever it is, will not be some psycho killer. It's going to be like that Nolan movie Insomnia. She was with someone, they had a disagreement and the person just lost it. Started beating on her, then knew there was no going back. Boring? maybe. But The Killing is showing that it's willing to do realistic, over sensational.

I do hope we get more character development so we at least care a little about these people. I do have a feeling though that next season will not only be a totally new case, but a totally knew cast. I think that would be a VERY bold and exciting choice for AMC.

I'm new to these reviews, so any comments positive or negative would be welcomed.