She must have gotten awfully bloody, though. I am (as usual) retrospectively curious about the logistics -- how does a 10-year-old in a fairly closely-settled neighborhood manage to stick around to watch the mother find the body, then manage (after the screaming has started, mind) to get away and washed and dressed without being seen or leaving any trace?

It's mostly rhetorical. I know that killers get the crazy luck, what with no one ever sticking their heads out the window at the wrong time.

I've never guggle-to-zatched anyone,

Ooh, ita's read James Thurber. Yay!

Did she cut through bone or ligament?

She cut through muscle. There's no way she was strong enough to plunge the knife into his abdomen and move the knife. The muscles grip the blade, and it takes more strength than she got. She would have had to stab him in an artery, and once he bled out, then slice him open to see what was inside.

Did she cut through bone or ligament?

I don't see how she's cutting through the abdominal muscles. That's not like gutting a fish. He was cut from his genitals to his throat, I think they said.

So let me get this straight, we have back to back episodes of The Inside next week. Hour one goes against the finale of Beauty and the Geek and hour two goes up against the finale of Dancing with the Stars. If you were going to have a grand reopening and give away turkeys wouldn't you do it after those two finales?

For someone who wasn't sure he'd like the show I've been pimpin'. That was me at the Watch with Kristin chat and on the X-Files board. I kind of think the July 13th episode will be most important as far as ratings but then again what do I know?

So let me get this straight, we have back to back episodes of The Inside next week. Hour one goes against the finale of Beauty and the Geek and hour two goes up against the finale of Dancing with the Stars. If you were going to have a grand reopening and give away turkeys wouldn't you do it after those two finales?

The much bigger issue for me is that the 8pm showing of The Inside is giong to make me miss an episode of The Tick I haven't seen in umpteen years. So great is my commitment, I am bypassing The Tick on my TiVo!

There are no good arteries on that path, though. A stab to the stomach is going to take forever to kill the kid. Unless she lucked out with his relative smallness and got through the guts.

Small knife, though.

he was sliced from his genitals to his throat. maybe she stabbed him in the throat, he bled out, and then she sliced him.

In the pool.

Destroying all blood evidence with the chlorine.

Um.

I guess I'm assuming the centre line with no actual evidence.

Phew. As always, a bit behind on the watching of the episode.

This episode was bloody brilliant, and I'm glad to see that people not us seem to have liked it more than earlier eps: TWOP was mentioned, and the Something Awful thread, I'm happy to report, is much nicer about this episode than they've been about past ones (the Something Awful TV discussion is actually quite nice - huge Veronica Mars fans, for example, a lot of them - but when they don't like something they can be amazingly crudely mean. Reading the Inside thread has been hard for me, but it was better for this one).

Me, there were definitely bits I adored. Finally seeing Danny and Mel in some seriousness made me very happy - I loved the "who'dve thought I'd get to be good cop?" and the facial expression that went with it, and everything Mel was gold. I want Rebecca and Mel to really become more friendly (though not friends - Rebecca isn't anywhere near the point of friends yet) in the future, they have a good banter. The "in a tree, yes" scene was brilliant.

I also loved Rebecca in this episode. I've never been in the camp that thought Rachel's character was hard to get a feel for due to bad acting, but this episode really proved that. For the first time, it was obvious even to casual observation that Rebecca's not a robot: she's just really, really bad at being human. She hasn't figured it out yet. The first scene, the tactlessness of her discussion about the baby and whatnot, really made that clear. And the treehouse thing made it clear that she's, well, not quite right in a lot of ways. Madison was a monster, yes, but confronting a 10-year-old monster like that, with such surety, requires someone who's a bit of a monster herself. It's like Allyson said in her article: just a little twist of the Rebecca dial and she's collecting heads.

I love killer kids. They're so terrifying and strange. So that aspect I liked, though I wish the Madison-did-it thing had taken a bit longer to be obvious. Honestly, when I first heard her mention her one-year-older best friend Nora, I thought Nora was going to be the killer; at least until the conversation at the pool and the freaky, freaky red flag. That was scary. I do wonder how on earth Madison saw that conversation, with the big ol' fence in the way?

I like that Madison was going to stab Nora, or at least seriously scare her with the knife. I know, I'm sick, but it shows that the little freaky kid wasn't always a perfect genius manipulator, despite out-thinking Rebecca in the tree. Her frame of pool guy was very well done, but if she had hurt Nora with the knife it would have all gone away. The mother thing was a complete surprise, and I liked it, though I wish she didn't have to die. And I wish the ending had been a little less anvilly in some ways. No reason to show the ultrasound - anybody who had been paying attention would know what Paul was thinking.

Also, was Rebecca intentionally trying to piss him off? Is she trying to seperate herself from him? That would be interesting.

All in all, good show. I didn't like it any more than the previous episodes, but I didn't like it less either, which is good, since lots of other people seemed to like it more. Keep bringing the good writing and freaky stories!