The Killing
That You Fear The Most

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Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+
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A Better Man Than That
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PREVIOUSLY

Separated for a year, Holder and Linden now hold the two keys to the long-ago murder of Trisha Ann Seward, whose husband Ray is due for execution in about a month: What Linden found questionable at the time, and Holder is starting to suspect in the present day, is that we have a serial killer on our hands. And if he's still killing -- and we'll find out tonight that he is, and has been for a while now -- that means Ray Seward, who is by any measure a terrifying bastard anyway, is on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit.

The latest victims, Ashley Kwon and (presumably) Kallie Leeds, are part of a circle of homeless teens in the orbit of Pastor Mike's Beacon House. They are survived by Kallie's trailer-trash mother Danette; her best friend Bullet, a truly amazing television character; Bullet's lady-love Lyric and Lyric's shitty boyfriend Twitch; and a limping bastard of a child-pimp we'll meet tonight, named Goldie.

TONIGHT

Holder catches Linden sneaking around in his office, feet still gross from how she just checked out the Kwon crime scene despite claiming disinterest and a total lack of connection between the two murders. While Linden is, of course, embarrassed to be found out -- and even moreso, anxious to be in her former place of employment -- she needn't be: Holder, who gave such a good impression in the last hour of having been domesticated, was already sleeping there.

They perform for each other an overdetermined round of excuses and alibis and reasons for running into each other in his office in the middle of the night, because neither of them can begin to admit that they're falling back down the rabbit hole, and as usual you get the feeling they both find this almost as dubious as we do.

Linden: "Me, creeping around the police station in the middle of the night with guts on my shoes? Oh, I was just returning this file you 'accidentally' left at my house."
Holder: "Yeah, I was just here working on some other case that is not this case or the Seward case. Apropos of 'nothing,' though, I can't find that case file you 'didn't' steal from the station a year ago."
Linden: "Good luck [never] finding that! Peace!"
Holder: "How did you enjoy 'not' looking at the Kwon file?"
Linden: "It was very uninteresting to me!"
Holder: "And so those guts on your shoes are what? Because that bouillabaisse at the factory nearly ruined my Hushpuppies too."

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