I have to say this is the first episode in which I think the show kinda jumped the shark on the law stuff. Which doesn't mean I don't still enjoy it, but:

I know, and in a US show, there would be an obligatory pastor character.

How we know this isn't an American show: we are more than halfway through the season and still haven't got any of the obligatory "troubled town tries to find comfort in faith" stuff.

Here is a neat detail that puts the show into Twin Peaks territory: both victims got butchered while emphasizing with and trying to help their attacker.

Actually, I thought Elena was a psychopath, based on the way she answered Morton's questions. Remember, psychopaths aren't cartoonish villains. They aren't obvious. But here is what jumped out at me, and I wonder whether the show's creators did it deliberately: even if you give Elena every benefit of the doubt, she…

I am wondering if the show is building up to Pete Campbell shooting someone.  The thought occurred to me in the first season when he bought that gun and sat there, fantasizing about being a hunter.  There is also a scene in either the first or the second season (I don't remember) when Peggy has told him about their…