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The husband - 'Spoiler alert.'


Does anyone else think the husband might have been the killer? The murders started around the same time as the child died and he is shown in the area where the prostitutes are killed.

Just a thought.

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I don't think so. He wasn't smart enough. I think he was up to no good in another way though--he became really upset with the other security guard when he found out the police had been looking for him--"what did you tell them?"

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This part really bothers me. What exactly was he up to? He was going somewhere and doing something, and it never was shown what. Why did he get upset at the other guard and want to know what he told the cops? Gambling? Ho's? Affair? There is one scene where he tells the prostitutes to "bug" off, but no other ideas other than he's going to the gym.

I hate weird loose ends like that. I understand they used his behavior to arouse suspicion to him as a suspect, but they never explained it. It would have made the character more complete as he just seemed to be a body thrown in there as a filler character. Which is a real shame, because Donal Logue is a great actor.

In a sense, they explained Molina's obsession with the case and why he was thought of as a suspect - guilt, his own nagging questions that hadn't been answered.

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The husband and his suspicious actions were nothing more than a Red Herring!



Ben, I said Google, not Sizzler.

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