( continues...) And it seems like Web's tactic, of playing the crew against each other, works - they test each theory any of them makes, finds the flaws in it, trys to patch them or are willing to change their point of view. So it works. And obviously I can't tell if it were better to work as a team, to hash those ideas together instead of this way. At least I can tell it's easily more interesting this way for the character - and, again, it makes it more their stories than in any other "who did it" sort of show I can think of.
Oh, there are other knives, and they didn't find them at Bunch's place! So Madison still has them, right? But she's too clever to use them now that Bunch is locked up and she wants to keep her story? But if they manage to find them somewhere between her possessions, somewhere only she could put them, that would be what they're looking for, right?
Well, no, two missing. Maybe Madison will only use it to scare Nora?
Oh, twist! I was wondering what's going to be turned over (we can't know everything when we're still 10 pages behind the end, right?). And now I'm wondering what the broken-hearted mother may do. Oh, and there's another mention of a mother, with Bunch's mother. Hmm.
I love the game of blame and innocence - Rebecca told Ellen that she was innocent, that it wasn't her fault that her son was murdered. But in doing that, she started a chain of events that may make Ellen guilty of something else entirely. But then again, maybe not. I love it that I have no idea what Ellen may do.
Oh, it's a hearbreaking exchange - the not-false-anymore "I want my mommy", and the real "I want my son".
And I love it that Ellen can tell that Madison is lying. That she completely sees through her. Like Rebecca was able to. And I like it that Paul not only had the hardest time buying it, but admits it openly. The two different parents.
I loved it that Paul smashed through the security arm in order to get inside with Rebecca. It brought to mind the lines in front of the security at the very beginning of the episode, at the FBI building, with all of them entering with their cards while talking, while everybody else had to wait in a longer line, only in reverse. I loved it that Paul wanted Rebecca there with him.
I loved it that before we could see what happened at the pool (obviously, the pool, with the splashing sound, just like at the beginning), I had no idea who had done what, who was hurt and by whom and how much. It could be either of the three, both as an attacker and as a victim. And Tessa wasn't an illogical choice - she was a mother just like Ellen, right?
And I loved the description of the knife falling - it wasn't the murder weapon, it was innocent in this scenario, despite everything.
"She exhales a breath she s probably been holding for a very long time." - that's a beautiful description.
And I loved the "children' conversation at the end - the old mother who got her grown-up kid back, the worry that never ends, even when the child is no longer a child, the constant wish to protect your loved ones, even when they're taller and stronger than you. And I loved Carla's line about protecting the parents from the kids, not just in the horrible sense of this episode, but in general - the aches of raising a child, of changing, of realizing you can't defend them, no matter how hard you try, how you're bound to be hurt by them, no matter how hard they try.
And I loved it that ultimately, it was Paul's story, at the end, like it was his revelation at the beginning (even though I really like the character of Web, even though Rebecca was the one who understood about who was a monster and who wasn't, even though I like the banter between Carla and Danny). The wish to protect, but also the wander about the possibilities of that baby that is growing inside his wife right now. Can you protect somebody from himself? Can somebody be born bad?
I love it that a seemingly-"let's solve the crime" show made my think about that. So, once again, Kristen? You totally rock.