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posted 19 years ago by MovieMadMissy
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So, did Kate have Multiple Personality Disorder, and the other her kill them? Or was there an actual ghost, because how did he get in the photo... Or was that Aiden..? Oh god..

[–] dreamkatcha 19 years ago

I think the writer couldn't decide how to conclude this 'who dunnit' so thought he'd throw all the mud he had at the wall hoping some of it would stick (and make sense).

[–] furryforest 19 years ago

I think she definately killed them-but i didn't work out who the extra kid in the photo was either. The thing that bugged me was did the murder of Amy by Aiden trigger her to go on many years later and kill the rest?

Oh yeah baby, it's Stifler time woo-hoo!!

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[–] partygirlemma 19 years ago

But that doesn't explain the little boy with the blonde hair, I'm assuming it was the boy from the photo, who was watching the children when they went into the woods. It was at the beginning of the first epidsode when it was showing the children in 1976. They were playing in the woods and the little boy is watching them. You can only see the back of his head but I'm pretty sure it was the same boy from the photo. And how did he get on the graduation photo too?

[–] furryforest 19 years ago

It must have been Aiden who killed Amy. Sure Frank talked about how he went back to cover the body up???

Oh yeah baby, it's Stifler time woo-hoo!!

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[–] nickysewell 19 years ago

Blimey ... Its confusing!

Ok .. my take on it was that Kate has killed all the people since returning from Bangladesh .. But judging by what she said about Amy after Amy pushed her onto the rails ("she had to be the first"), I assumed that she also killed Amy originally ..

But .. I cant believe the whole Aidan saga was a red herring - too much time was devoted to it .. And Frank admitted to covering it up .. Why would he do that if Kate really did it?

Then .. I thought maybe Aidan did do it as he was good friends with Kate and wanted to help her out, and then Frank did admit to helping conceal Amy and cover up for Aidan ..

As for the photo .. that puzzled me all along .. digital enhancement is possible .. the face did look 'skewed' on that photo .. Kate could have enhanced it now by superimposing Anthony's face over that of another child (through scannng in the original photo), but then who would that other child have been and where are they now? It would have been easy to stick him into the background of the graduation photo ..

Or maybe .. he is still around 'in spirit' .. but i concur that Kate probably has MPD ..

Did we ever find out how Anthony died originally?

More questions than answers I'm afraid!

[–] Marc_C_C 19 years ago

Couldn't have been imposed on another child; after all, as Fisher insisted "There were 32 in that class. 32" He's trying to convince himself of it. Kate may be taunting him with the 'childs voice'. But it doesn't explain the photos; or the glimpse that Monroe catches. At first, the supernatural signs seemed to be there; but in the end they cop out for MPD. Could it be she's possessed? Or did the electrocution simply drive her mad.

She talked about talking to Aidan for hours; perhaps she told him what happened; and he killed Amy out of revenge? it seems too coincidental that the people he told that he murdered Amy were the ones who tried to kill Kate...

[–] Nriks 19 years ago

Aidan had to have killed Amy because Kate says that he came to visit her in hospital the day before Amy died. So, we're to assume that Kate was in hospital when Amy was killed. My take on it is that she told Aidan when he came to visit her about what happened at the railway line, he tried to rough Amy up a bit to scare her or make her feel bad but it went to far and she died. He goes home, tells his mum and his brother, the mother sends Frank down to check that his story is true - it is - and so he moves the body to give them a little more time to think of an alibi.

My theory is that Kate, unstable from the death of her twin and years of bullying, is pushed over the edge after what the others kids did to her and, as a result, begins to believe that her brother has come back to look after her and take care of the other kids who initially tormented her. I thought that the little boy on the class portrait might have been Kate as a child and no one could remember her because she wasn't part of the main crowd (an outsider, etc). It did look a little like her if you think about it, and maybe she was covering her tracks when she points out the other little girl to Tom during their first conversation.

I'm not entirely sure of every little detail because there are a lot of loose ends, and the aborted sub-plot about the ghostly little boy seemed more like a red herring brought on by Pat and Colin's escalating paranoia. On the whole I could do with seeing it again from the beginning with the ending already in mind... anyone else have any other interpretations?

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[–] gerard-69 18 years ago

This drama was so badly done, it is ridiculous! It started off so well and the premise is really good but then it all just slid into mush... Here is my take on the madness -

- Aiden Thompson / Patterson was Kate's half brother and, like her, was deemed a bit of a weirdo by the other kids.

- Kate was bullied by the kids in her class because she was 'different' - she talked about her dead twin brother a lot and obviously wasn't part of the in crowd... I think the little blond boy in the class photo was Anthony, Kate's twin and his reappearance at the graduation, still seemingly the same age, was just a really crappy rouse to lead us into this ghostly element of the story...

- When Kate was pushed onto the tracks by Amy, Colin etc..., Aiden killed Amy in a frantic rage. This is one of the things that really annoyed me because it is never explained why Aiden killed Amy - did he know that Kate was his half sister and do it to protect her? Did Kate know that her and Aiden were related?? Did she tell Aiden about what happened to her??? Anyway, Aiden then told his brother Frank in a panic and Frank went to find Amy's body. He then moved and camouflaged the body to save his brother from getting caught.

- Kate, now permanently in schizo mode, thinks that her dead twin (Anthony) killed Amy for her as some sort of redemtive justice. Basically, at this point, the trauma of the incident at the tracks combined with the insistent bullying has left Kate with multiple personality disorder - the only way she can function is knowing that her brother is there with her...

- So, Kate is killing all the classmates that bullied her, but she has absolutely no idea that SHE is doing it - she truly believes that Anthony is doing it for her and that he won't stop until they are all dead.

I was so disappointed because I knew the ending about 30 minutes in - it was told in a really sloppy way towards the end and going for the good ol' multiple personality disorder was just the biggest cop out! Plus all the bloody loose ends. Godammit, it's enough to drive you mad.

[–] Moonlighting1979 11 years ago

"it's enough to drive you mad." I agree! I know I'm quite a few years late adding to this conversation. It's 2013 and I'm just seeing this for the first time. I came here to add possible theories but it seems they've all been covered. It would have been better if it stuck with the ghost idea because of the way it was directed. I thought it was directed very well. It gave me the creeps! The whole MPD of Kate just didn't fit. I think it would have been better received without that.... but at the same time leaving the audience with an unsolved supernatural mystery. I always love Robert Carlyle though. He's wonderful in everything he does.

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