My personal issue with the first season was that it opened up with a lot of interesting ideas, pointing to things that I didn't know about (Yellow King, Ligotti) and found interesting and exciting, then did nothing with them. They ended up as window dressing for something totally unrelated. A friend called it "a…

Well… Velcro did get shot at a range that would have at the very least incapacitated him for a few weeks only to walk away with wet jeans, so I'm not going to get hung up on reality.

Elaborate ruse. And as the only character who had a chance of solving this case, the case is now dead as well. Next episode will spend way too long establishing that fact, and the rest of the season will just be a black screen with a moody soundtrack.

Fits with the whole Oedipus angle they've been hammering on so far.

Would you be even just a little bit surprised if they did?

So you figure rock salt at close range wouldn't kill him because why?

It's the end of the second episode. That's basically like the start of the third.