Oh Stan, what are you doing? We learnt on this week's Killing that Stan Larsen used to be part of a nasty Mafia gang. We also saw him hurling around metal cases like he was competing in a World's Strongest Man contest.
Stan believes Rosie's teacher Bennet killed his daughter. And in the final shot of the episode, we saw him driving Bennet off to a secret location. We don't think he wants to discuss Victorian literature and the good old days with the academic.
So Stan was in the mob. It's taken the police a while to figure this out because "dead men don't press charges". After laying his daughter to rest, the mourning father is now out for revenge. He's gone from breakdowns in service station bathrooms to menacing glares, blind fury and much fist-clenching
Bennet has been telling lies - lots of them - but it looks unlikely that he was actually the murderer. I mean it's only episode six, so it can't be him. In fact, at the moment it's his nervy-looking wife (last seen hiding from Holder and Linden) who looks more suspicious.
But if you are going to tell fibs and forget that you saw Rosie at your house the night she died, well, don't expect the dead girl's father to take kindly if he finds out. Throw in some nosy neighbours who spotted you looking highly suspicious on the night of the murder and sisters-in-law who are only too happy to stab you in the back, and you're going to end up in plenty of bother.
Someone else acting rather suspiciously was Rosie's auntie Terry. A fringe character at best so far, suddenly she seems highly crucial to the mystery. Her oddly flirtatious antics with Michael Ames, the father of Rosie's bratty school friend Jasper, are evidently very important. Quite why and what the significance is remains to be seen.
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The political storyline felt very much like it was on the backburner this week and played second fiddle to the moving scenes of Rosie's funeral. However, if you are rooting for 'Richmond For Mayor' it wasn't a good week. Alan Dale popped up again, as he tends to, offering a warning to the rising political star that his principles-over-success ethics ("I'll not ruin this man's life by effectively declaring him guilty in public") won't cut it at the highest level.
Richmond chose to ignore Dale's threats and came unstuck in a TV debate as his connections to Bennet Ahmed were exposed to the citizens of Seattle. Spin doctor Jamie looked thoroughly unimpressed with his boss ("Who you are is five words, dead-girl-in-a-trunk"), while Gwen was still grumbling about the fact that he was spying on her last week. But it could be worse for Richmond. He could be Bennet.
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