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Will anyone admit they didn't know?


Ha. There was a thread posted last year when the show was still airing, right before the finale everyone called who they thought the killer was. Almost nobody said Henry. Now everyone is all "Of course it was Henry dumbass, I knew it after episode one! When he told Abby he knew she would come! Duh!"

lol it makes me laugh. So if you are one of the people willing to admit you were clueless right up until the end, who did you think it might be? I recently watched the series again and I'm curious the other names that might come up.

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I seriously had no idea it was Henry. I was thinking maybe Cal or Jimmy at some parts.

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At first I thought it was Henry, then was like "nah, it can't be him." So they got me there. I thought it was Jimmy

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I pretty much thought it was Jimmy most of the way through, but then when they said it could be Jimmy I was like "Oh, well then I guess it can't be Jimmy. It is probably Henry". So I figured it out the episode before we found out it was Henry. I pretty much had Henry as a "possible" suspect in my mind since Trish's almost drowning scene (and even more so after JD's death), but it was really a minor suspicion until the end.

I first suspected Cal hard core for the first few episodes, then Jimmy until the "oh look at Jimmy's mugshot" scene, then it was Henry for the last 3. And there was a moment where I thought it could be Abby, but that lasted for like 10 seconds.

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I knew it was henry because I spoiled myself but at first I thought it was either Trish or Jimmy.

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i kinda had it spoiled as well and then cause i only caught a glimpse of the info i though maybe i was wrong or someone was just messing so i kinda started to doubt it was henry. But i was still really loving it and yes it would have been better if i hadn't known but it was awesome and i wouldn't have guessed at all.

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I started having suspicions around the time Beth was murdered, but my jaw dropped when it was finally shown, yeah.

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My top 3 suspects were Shea, Sully, and Henry. I thought Henry was too obvious (scratches, blood on hands, acts of violence toward Shane, and so on). His always being around Abby I thought was because he really just loved Abby more than Trish, not that they were related or anything like that (in a sick way like was revealed). I thought that either Shea (she is pretty cold you have to admit, in parts of the series) could've offed family members for an inheritance, and then Richard was acting suspicious before he died, and then with her trying to silence everyone questioning Madison made me suspect her more. But, then I thought maybe Sully because he looked more like Wakefield (possibly his son?) and maybe his accomplice. He also would've been far less suspect and made for a more unpredictable ending. Anyway, but I never would've guessed the whole half brother/sister thing.

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Happily; I didn't know. Henry was a good candidate, since he knew all the victims and had organized the Harper's Island trip, but he didn't seem to have a motive. I had some issues with the series, but I thought the identity twist was very well done.

Maybe the biggest problem with Henry as the killer would be when he killed his brother; all J.D. would have had to say before expiring was "It was Henry." Instead, he says, "It's all about you, Abby." That's hard to understand.

As for other thoughts, I was pretty sure it wasn't Jimmy, since the first victim was an obscure relative of Trish's who was murdered before leaving for the Island, but there were doubts about everyone. I guess Sully seemed like a good candidate, a sturdy, capable misanthrope, but he seemed to come around late. The Sheriff was a good candidate early, but became less likely after he was hanged. Shea was an interesting option, since her daughter was such a creepshow, but she didn't seem strong enough. I was so sure it wasn't Chloe that I thought it might be Chloe. But, really, for me Sully and the Sheriff were the best candidates early.

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jxh--initially I agreed with you on the whole 'why didn't JD say something?' thing, but in the end it made sense because Henry was right behind Abby. He didn't know/understand the scope of the situation, so it's understandable that JD wouldn't want to endanger Abby's life by saying something so plaintive. He didn't know the extend of Henry's obsession, so he probably thought that he would kill Abby if she knew so the obscure warning she gave her was reasonable.

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Everyone *beep* new it was henry

too *beep* obvious

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for your infomation.....it's "knew" not "new"

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For your information, it's not "infomation"..also, sentences start with a capital letter and end with a period.

Also, yes, I know it's been a year since you made that post, but that's the joy of message boards; you can insult a person back at any moment in time. ;-)

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Technically you shouldn't start a sentence with "also" though it has become more acceptable in recent years.

Personally I don't care but it's fun to comment years later on a post just to stir things up.

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Indeed you're right - I personally couldn't really be fussed about a bit of bad grammar so long as it generally makes sense. I just don't understand people who would post such a thing on a message board so thought I'd give them a bit of a taste of their own medicine as they're clearly not as intelligent as they try to make out. I know I'm not the next Einstein so wouldn't be the first to point out someone's random, little mistakes that make no difference to my life.

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jxh13 and bulletproofclod:

J.D. was about to tell who the murderer was, and in a way he did. But before he said anything, Henry walked up from behind (before we saw who it was, only his shadow, and Abby didn't notice at once), and J.D. said "it's you..." pause "It's all about you, Abby". Abby, and us as viewers, are supposed to think he was talking about Abby all the time, but when he said "it's you", he really replied to Abbys question to who did this to him, and he meant "it's you, Henry".

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I honestly called Henry when his brother is killed and he was the only one around. I stuck with my prediction from that point and ended up being correct

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I think he didn't say it outright because Henry was right there behind Abby listening. He may have thought that Henry would kill her if he revealed his identity as the killer.

What I want to know is how J.D. knew it was all about Abby. Did Henry launch into a long explanation before he gutted him?

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I thought they went out of their way to make us think it was Jimmy or the Sherriff, even before all the suspicions from the rest of the characters. At first I thought it might've been Chloe, just because they emphasised why someone like her would go out with someone like Cal. Then I changed to Danny for a long while, as he was the one that seemed to have no backstory, or the quiet one in the background so to speak. And then at the end when it had to be Sully or Henry because of Wakefield mentioning his 'son', of course it was going to be Henry!

Nearly any guess is a good one right at the start though. Although anyone who thought it might've been Hunter Jennings probably hasn't seen enough of these whodunnits LOL.

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I agree with the OP. It's so funny how many people suddenly came out of the woodwork insisting that they knew all along that it was Henry. Anyone on the boards during the original run knows that's a load of crock. There was nearly no serious suspicion until it was down to like six people, and even then people were pretty evenly divided on who they thought the perpetrator was. It's mostly amusing, but borderline annoying, especially because they aren't fooling anyone. Sure people had flashes of suspicion towards Henry like they did towards nearly everyone.

The popular schools of thought were The Sheriff, just Wakefield, Chloe/Cal thrill killers, JD of course before his demise, Abby having gone crazy and offing people, Trish, Jimmy, and Sully for the most part. Even Maggie, since she was kind of out of nowhere. But there was no legitimate outcries insisting that it was so obvious, Henry's the killer.

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I was pretty much certain it was Jimmy!
Henry was just like... wow!

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