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Lena knows Pope killed her mom


and she is certainly old enough to say so, but keeps quiet. Wouldn't a kid that age tell everyone who did it, the way she loved her mother? Doesn't make much sense. Of course, if she tells Baz, then their is the climax between him and Pope and the show is over...oh well.

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Unless she became Nancy Drew overnight, I doubt that the same girl who unintentionally ratted out her mother (and who ultimately caused her to get killed) would be able to put two and two together.

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Plus she doesn't know Cat is dead, she keeps asking for her.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

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She's a little kid...she doesn't know what happened. She was sleeping, and anything she might have been aware of is in her head as a dream.

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Agree! she is only four, or six...depending on the episode!

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And not just sleeping he mom gave her cough medicine so it was extra drowsy sleep. If it were regular sleep that child would have woke up on the ride. Give her a few months her memory will prob come back to her as seeing Pope digging and then falling back to sleep.
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Nah, she thinks she was dreaming if I recall correctly. Isn't that what her and Baz were talking about? What she saw in her dream? From what it showed during the murder/burial, she was way too out of it and sleepy to know what was actually happening.

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Well, i recall the scene where she is standing near Pope as he was digging and looked at her as she was calling "Mommy??"

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Well, i recall the scene where she is standing near Pope as he was digging and looked at her as she was calling "Mommy??",,,and the scene fades...conveniently.

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Again, she's just a little girl.
At her young age, she can't yet differentiate between what's real, and what was a dream. She may remember something later, but right now, it's all just a dream.

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She was not standing near Pope as he was digging. She was still half asleep in the car doped up on the cold medicine Catherine gave her.

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Standing?!?!! What show are these people watching!! She was in her car seat in the car in and out of sleep.

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Nah, you're making it up.

[Seriously]

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LOL...do you even pay attention to the show? The only time they showed her in the scene when he was burying her...she was asleep in the car.

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korvette, I just went back and watched that scene again on my DVR...it's not Lena standing outside the car, it's a shot from inside the car of Pope digging in the distance while Lena is dreaming and calling for her mom. He stops and stands up and looks at the car.

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Op:
Seriously try to stay sober when watching the show.

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Surely she's just a bomb waiting to drop, just like her comments about her mothers friend in the car that had a siren...

The little one might not understand what is going on at the moment. But, sooner or later, she'll make an innocent comment that'll bring the crap pouring down...

I'm so glad this show got a second series because there's so much to develop...

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When Baz was questioning her -Lena said "mommy wasn't in the car-just a man" The he asked if she knew who the man was and she said no. Remember, Cath was bundled up in sheets in the back of the car so Lena wouldn't have seen her. And she was also drugged up on Nyquil so she probably felt like it was all a dream.

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