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shadowy guy was...

posted 11 years ago by siktbo
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it was Rasmus. I thought he was just really really stupid, but he was actually sabotaging the investigation. first he went that girl's house to kill her, coz they were too close to her, but got pepper sprayed by the other chick. he did some other retarded stuff too, like just being really crap at looking for clues, and then at the end when he said he knew who it was, he was just trying to distract them from oliver/gerty. then he gave gerty a trip to the airport so they could finalise plans. then of course he shot her at the end when it all went tits-up. dude had a killer tashe too, maybe his tashe was the mastermind??? no, but seriously it was him.

[–] AureliaBuendia 11 years ago

Seriously.... it wasn't! The writer said on the BBC live blog last night, they dodn't know who it was. They haven't made up their minds yet, could be someone we know already or a completely new character. Could actually turn out to be Rasmus, but even the writers don't know that yet!

[–] !!!deleted!!! (41638798) 11 years ago

Yes, I was trying to guess, as well, until the writer revealed that even the creators don't know who he/she is.

It would be really fun if it were Rasmus though. I always like a story where the village idiot turns out to be an act, and he's a criminal mastermind in reality.

What I did like about that shadowy character shooting Gert was that it showed that even the great Saga was not infallible in her investigating talents.

Saga of course figured out that there was another player in the game when she reactivated the investigation by figuring out the ID card was used when that toe rag was shooting the girl.

But now....Gert is dead.

We can sort of surmise that when Saga gets back to the office after seeing off Martin, she's going to have another epiphany that the job is not over yet....and we can see her coming to the realization that now, it's just her to sort it.

Martin's gone. She's alone in trying to figure out who this shadowy figure is. She doesn't have her Martin anymore to help her. Not many dramas these days have the guts to trust the viewers like that--to just lay it out there and let us take the next several steps in the story off screen after the end and hope we connect the dots for ourselves even though it's not shown.

I really liked the way it ended, leaving us to fill in those blanks of "what came next for Saga."

We know her. Gert's dead. She's going to know immediately that there is a THIRD player now. And she's going to have to go after him/her.

Brilliant writing.

[–] AureliaBuendia 11 years ago

Why did Gertrude expose herself like that on video? Was she going to give herself up or was she planning to flee after she transmitted the video. She could have achieved the same effect wearing an animal mask, surely the evidence was all circumstancial at that point. And she could always argue that she'd saved Viktoria's life in the house?

[–] Demarates 11 years ago

Not really, she was the only one with access to the syringes and one of very few with the means and training to develop a designer killer virus like that.

The case against Martin is much more circumstancial (unless he decides to confess).

What have they got : one missing vial in evidence (sure, he had access, but nobody saw him take it). He visited Jens and had motive, but nobody saw him administer the poison. And Saga saw him throw a way a coffe cup, big deal. Unless they find that cup with traces of poison on it, it seems like their case is pretty thin.

When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.

[–] Clemencedane 10 years ago

I'm sure the coffee cup will have traces of poison, as well as his prints on it. Not to mention, he was likely the last visitor Jens ever had and he probably died right after Martin left.

[–] amazonlucy 9 years ago

Yeah but if the shadowy guy is a police officer then he could have someone at the prison kill Jens and make it look like it was done by Martin. He would know when Martin was there and that he had brought coffee with him.

[–] Clemencedane 9 years ago

Yes that makes sense.

[–] Demarates 11 years ago

It would make sense for mystery guy to be a cop.

A cop who informed Oliver that Laura had waken up (so he could go to the hospital and try to whack her).

And a cop who informed Gertrude that the cops had identified Oliver. Which is when she decided to kill him. If it was just about saving Victoria, one bump on the head would have been enough, there was no need to kill her own husband.

When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.