Just finished season 3 and 4 and I have some questions and remarks

[u/Ok_Cockroach_5559]

Okay so I’m gonna start by saying that it’s def a good show, loved it, love it’s colder more chill tone yk like it’s not too colorful and out there in your face and I like that, I think season 3 was very good, loved the whole Pied Piper arc and Ray’s time leading up to his execution it’s very heart wrenching and suspenseful to watch, the final reveal is also crazy. I felt bad for the teen working girls especially the ones we got to know like Bullet, Kallie, Angie… I did not really care for Lyric, esp after she was kinda cruel to Bullet, like sure Bullet got ahead of herself, thought they had a thing going on after like one kiss and the fact that Lyric never explicitly said she might be interested in her but Bullet protected her, treated her better than that prick Twitch could ever, he was constantly abusive, just using her and taking her money, whereas Bullet actually felt something genuine for her and wanted to treat her right and it kinda saddened me how they showed Lyric moving on, looking at the appartement all happy, totally forgetting abt Bullet who just got killed, like yeah sure she stops for a sec and has this solemn expression on her face and she’s there at her funeral but yk it’s unfortunate :( also there is this thing I been wondering about regarding bodies of girls that were found. So in season 3, Linden finds the bodies through Adrian’s drawing and there is a total of 17 bodies and then the count is 21 bodies after Angie and Bullet and two more girls are found I think. Then in season 4, when they find Skinner’s body they find more girls’ bodies along with his, so were those also killed by him? Ik that Kallie was among the victims, it’s just a bit scattered you know? How he got rid of some in one lake and then others in the lake near his cabin but yeah. I also wonder about Trisha Seward like did Skinner kill her too? Probably, but he never explicitly confirms it when Linden says « you wanted to kill Adrian, Trisha was just in the way » he just responds that he never wanted to kill Adrian cuz he didn’t even remember him. So that’s all the things I had to say about what I watched so far.

[u/Katish7]

Skinner explicitly says in episode 12 when they ride in the car, that he has bodies in this lake and there so many other hiding places that they will never find. Theres also a moment in episode 4.1. when Holder says that Skinners body was in that lake now and now they will have to keep quiet about girls bodies too. They were both really bummed about that.

As for Adrian, he wanted “to talk” to him first to find out how much he knew. But Trish was there while child was hidden so she got in a way, he got killed. As I understood he mentioned that later as the Picasso case progressed he figured he didn’t need to kill the kid because he didn’t remember him. As we remember from the previous episode Adrian might have not even see him, he saw his dad for sure though. I just wonder how did the 6 years old connect the trees and pond he observed from his tree house to his mothers murder.

[u/Pennyroyalty27]

Skinner definitely killed Trisha Seward, he was a killer of women, not children so idk why Sarah said that so I think Skinner was truthful when he said he didn’t see him. Adrian was hiding in the closet. How would Skinner know that boy slept in the closet? I think it only became a problem for Skinner after Sarah went back to Adrian and wouldn’t let it go basically.

[u/Ok_Cockroach_5559 → u/Pennyroyalty27]

Yeah that’s what he said, he believed he was getting away with it if not for Sarah’s persistence to solve the crime. I think he would’ve eliminated Adrian as a witness not cuz he’s a child killer but to protect his identity as the killer which didn’t last long. Also, how dumb of him to keep momentos and give them to his daughter as a present?? 😭

[u/Ashamed-Lake4685 → u/Ok_Cockroach_5559]

Mementos.

[u/lash091080]

I honestly don’t get why they didn’t just stage it at the scene and pin it all on skinner…he went for his gun, Linden shot him…bye bye…he’s a serial murderer/rapist of young girls, who’s gonna care he got shot? all the consternation after the fact about hiding him and making up another story was just dumb imo…not necessary other than to drag the fallout into season 4, which i didn’t really care for either.

[u/KittyGrewAMoustache → u/lash091080]

I think the reason they tried to cover it up was because he was on his knees so it was obvious he was not attacking and also he was the lieutenant so that complicated things.

[u/caitlin609 → u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

Exactly; this was addressed briefly in S4 when Linden suggests that they tell the truth about Skinner being the "Pied Piper" (mainly because she feels guilty thinking that the victims' bodies would never be recovered from the lake). Holder tells her that Skinner was on his knees when she shot him, twice, and nobody is going to believe it was self-defense.

[u/Ashamed-Lake4685 → u/lash091080]

He was on his knees, and the police would have known that from the trajectory of the bullets.