I was afraid that the crime would be solved at random, by Jess giving up the photo, rather than Mare’s police work and that really irked me. So, I was ultimately really glad that Mare solved the crime. As for Ryan, there were plenty of seeds there and it all fits, but I totally agree that there were lots of false…

Yeah, I didn’t find it a cheap twist at all, they’d been planting the seeds for a while and a lot of the general predictions about it included Ryan as a probable suspect.

I kind of presumed some would push back on the Ross kid being guilty of the murder, but while watching while it was unfolding, so many fragments of scenes earlier in the series started to make more sense, because without the context, they were just odd and curious. I didn’t think it a cheap twist especially given how…

Mmm so I see they’re waiting until Season 2 to drop the bombshell that Guy Pearce orchestrated all this from the shadows. Very bold.

I think Billy is a black-out drunk and John basically talked him into it because while Billy knows he had something to do with it he can’t exactly remember what happened. John has to convince him he did it to make him a scapegoat since their dad saw Billy bloody that night which would lead to questions.

The guy’s name is Billy and it is fairly obvious that John is the actual killer (he is likely in the picture given to the Chief.

also, i got the distinct impression that John put the gun in the tackle box and Billy accidentally saw it? did i read that scene wrong?

I also cringed through the 3-5 minutes where we all worry John Ross is a molester, THEN for those few seconds where we think not only is he one, but that Lori knew it and let it go... thank God he was only a cheater (but no, really!).

I read that scene as her thinking that he must have had a reason for only taking one sip and then leaving.

When he was talking about how he stole the victory in his biggest case, he might as well have said “And I’m only two weeks to retirement.”

Damn, and Evan Peters was having quite a year, wasn’t he? RIP Colin.

When Hague is in the mental hospital he comes across much more modern than I really cottoned to before. People in the show have probably ignored it on the basis that he’s an eccentric American, but he’s my number one candidate for being the other ‘stowaway.’ Especially if he’s building the cyborgs.

An Irish actress doing a North American accent, playing a character who is having a difficult time trying to achieve a convincing British/London accent.

Stripe reminded me of Jane Lynch’s character in Wreck-it-Ralph (only really fleshed out). That’s not a knock or complaint... that’s just how my poor excuse of a brain works. Also I got an “Edge of Tommorow” vibe with what’s going on. 

Mare is going to give all the credit to Colin (because of course she has to ... she was only there in a “consulting capacity” due to her suspension) and he’ll be lauded posthumously as a superhero cop for closing TWO high-profile and locally infamous cases.

Big night for people getting hit in the head with trays or tray-like objects!

Mare’s mom even says that calling it an affair was a stretch, she only slept with him two, maybe three times, and that shows how little it meant to her.

Very solid Silence of the Lambs riff, especially the use of Judas Priest as they enter the house.

How did you manage to miss that Mare’s mom is the one who had the affair with Mr. Carroll? What did you think she was laughing about in the car?

The stench of the undead does tend to... Linger.