Because his wife and child burned in the car in their car accident. So he couldn't do it and possibly wanted his Father Karl to see his son's dead body.
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary"
He was very explicit about that when he injected Adam and killed him, saying Carl would search for Adam for the rest of his life and never be able to find him, he would be "a ghost," "in the clouds." Had he burned the body there would be too much chance for forensic evidence surviving, such as teeth, which survive cremation and have too be crushed after burning. Even DNA inside of teeth has survived severe burning and temperatures.
shareI think he couldn't bring himself to do it. Even a psychotic killer started out as a human.
lloydbowman said:
He was very explicit about that when he injected Adam and killed him, saying Carl would search for Adam for the rest of his life and never be able to find him, he would be "a ghost," "in the clouds." Had he burned the body there would be too much chance for forensic evidence surviving, such as teeth, which survive cremation and have too be crushed after burning. Even DNA inside of teeth has survived severe burning and temperatures.
But Adam isn't dead is he? Didn't Elise tell Karl in the last scene that he was mute and could only see shadows? I interpreted TT's injecting Adam with a massive dose of morphine and telling Karl that Adam was a ghost in the clouds as meaning he left Adam in a permanent vegetative coma.
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Adam is dead; as TT says there was enough morphine in the dose to collapse his respiratory system several times over. And Elise tells Karl "He won't have suffered at all" -- in other words, he's dead but his death did entail suffering -- something she also told that reporter when the car-bomb was about to go off in Ep. 1.
TT is mute and can only see shadows. The bullet bounced up into his head and blinded him and apparently also damaged the speech part of his brain.
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Yes, it's TT Karl and Elise are talking about at the end. He has shot himself and blinded himself, and isn't talking, so that's why Karl says he's mute as well as blind.
Karl wouldn't be acting like he is at the end unless he had seen his son's dead body. And at the end of that long, painful, exquisitely acted scene where Karl repeatedly asks Elise "Is my son alive?" and Elise for once lies and keeps saying yes, it's clear to Karl that Adam is dead. [This whole season is about truth telling, in one form or another.]
What puzzles me is Elise's word choice during the search for Adam, when she shines her flashlight, sees something, and says, "It's here." Not "He's here." Unless this is just another instance of her usual, clinical way of talking or she means "it's here that Adam is." It seems like they would have shown Adam's body at this point, though. You got any thoughts on that, angelofvic?
Meryl Streep is a shape-shifter.
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Here's the dialogue. There's no reason Elise would have said "he" when they were talking about an "it" (corpse):
That way! Get the dogs in here! Has he burned it? I can't see any corpse.
We've got something.
There's something in the main house.
Downstairs! I think the dogs have got something.
The corner! It's here.
Thanks! Really helps to have the dialog because I didn't catch some of that.
Meryl Streep is a shape-shifter.