Ending (spoiler)
..concerening the private eye who was hired again in the last episode?
Did he know that Ripley murdered the two victims? Or was it the imagination of Tom that he asks this questions?
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You mean the investigator hired by Dickie’s dad? The investigator, the dad, and Marge are convinced that Dickie killed himself so much so that Tom was gifted Dickie’s estate and of course, the ring, now not disputed. The only ones who are onto Tom at the end were Reeves Minot played by Malkovich (you see what happens to him in the third book Ripley’s Game) and for this series and not the novel, Inspector Ravini.
But the investigator asks Tom if he killed Greenleaf and where he got all the money to rent the appartment with two servants...
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You mean the black detective from the US? Privately, wo Marge and the dad, he asks Tom where he got all the money and that he thinks he killed Dickie and Freddie. And then he asks what do you know about Dickie. And Tom launches into that long explanation that Dickie was untalented and discontented and he didn’t love Marge. He loved Tom. And that Tom responded to Dickie regrettably that he was pathetic. And the detective says I know all I need to know. Meaning Dickie disillusioned and with unrequited love kills himself. In a different scene in the middle of ep 8, Tom walks through palazzo and says to Marge you can rent these places for a song in the off-season and the maid and butler come with it. He did not say this to the detective. There are also scenes from more than one Italian inspector. They conclude that a “depressed” Dickie went to Tunis and that Tom was alive and well in Venice and each inspector had spoken to a version of Tom personally.
Yes, I meant this scene with the black detective. I thought that he still thinks what he says and that he only explained the suicide version to the father of Dickie. but mayme I misread the scene and you are right.
so in the end only the Ravini Inspector knows he was betrailed after seeing the picture of real Dickie - and may be the John Malkovic Character knows....
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You got it - your last paragraph. Ripley manages to evade being caught many times but his paranoia is persistent and real.