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Recapped by Jacob Clifton · Aired 06-17-2012

While Linden and Holder are trying to track down Jamie, he's absquatulating with Darren so they can have a nice long talk about... Lots of things, but one of them is that Jamie accidentally killed Rosie Larsen. Kind of. What happened was that he caught her upstairs with a video camera, assumed she was part of the same kind of no-limit games he was himself playing (remember, he was up there conspiring with Ames and Nicole for all kinds of corrupt reasons), and beat her unconscious. Then -- after getting on the elevator for some reason, riding down with a scary face, and then presumably back up again -- he magically got Rosie into his car. She wasn't dead yet, though, and she led him a merry chase through the woods, at which point he killed her a second time and stashed her in the trunk.

Of course, we know she still wasn't dead yet, but at this point that's all he is gonna say. So right around this time our cops show up, and he's waving an empty gun around and feeling sort of hemmed in, and before you know it, Stephen Holder has shot him dead. Gwen and Darren both flip the fuck out, Nicole refuses to give evidence against Ames, and in the end everybody pulls themselves together. Darren's the new Mayor, at peace with his wife's death finally; Jamie is dead and no longer slapping old men around; Mitch has turned over a new leaf and is now ready to move into the gorgeous home Stan secretly bought her, and Linden even gets a metaphorical high-five from Lt. Carlson about, um, what good cops she and Holder are.

...And then they head over to the Larsens' to tell them the news. Remember that broken taillight Jasper mentioned? It wasn't on a taxi after all: It was on Terry's car. So when they show up, she figures the jig is up and they know her part in the murder, which is what clues them in. See, Jamie called Ames for help once he had Rosie in his trunk, but he was in Aunt Terry's car, given that they were thinking about running away together. Jamie and Michael got into a big argument by the waterside and Terry -- some hooker in Jamie's trunk being the last thing she's gonna let get between her and her man -- ended up sinking the car, listening to somebody dying as they slowly drowned.

...Which, ha, is just about the time Mitch and Stan show up. So there's a beautifully horrific scene in which Terry tries to explain the Greek Tragedy coincidence that caused her to accidentally kill their daughter, move in on Mitch's territory, kiss Stan out of guilt, turn Tommy into a serial killer by shaking him for locking Denny in her trunk, and all the rest of it. Even when the writing's been questionable, you have great actors making it work, and I'm happy to say this isn't one of those cases: Every twist and dramatic set piece in this hour felt earned, elegiac and wise. Just dreadfully sad.

So in the final moments (Day Twenty-Seven) we see the final outcomes: Darren, shocking Gwen, has allied with Nicole and Ames -- even Incumbent Adams -- now that he's the new Mayor, and even got them cleared of all charges, so that the only person who actually got in trouble for all this were the actual murderers, Jamie and Terry. It's a sleazy move, but it's probably the right one for Seattle and for Darren.

The camera yields Rosie's final project, a goodbye-letter of a film she made for her family in which she explains her reasons for running away, and it's very touching to watch, along with the Larsens, once Sarah's dropped it off in their mailbox. And the season (hopefully not the series, although that was a masterful way to go out either way) ends with a new murder... But not one that Sarah will apparently be solving. Holder seems relatively unsurprised, although just as affectionate as usual, as Sarah gets out of his car and walks out into the city, perhaps cured of murder solving for good.

PREVIOUSLY

Gwen or Jamie killed Rosie Larsen, meaning neither of them did, but it was probably Jamie, meaning it wasn't Jamie. The inspiring Ted Wright welcomed Darren Richmond into his home just as Linden and Holder were figuring out that it was Ted's grandson Jamie, which means at least four people are now wrong in thinking it was Jamie. Meanwhile, the internet decided en masse that it was Terry, all at once, just like those monkeys on that island that decided it was Terry Marek at the same time the other monkeys on an island three million miles away also decided it was Terry Marek. Or, by the simple logic that nobody can figure out another reason for her crazy ass to exist, except to replace Belko as the Cousin Marilyn in the shadowy freak show that is Rosie's surviving family, unless she did it. I find this unconvincing, but then I haven't really been paying attention at any point, because I don't care who killed Rosie Larsen.

And tonight we finally learn who killed Rosie Larsen!

FLASHBACK

Rosie screamed! Like she was getting murdered!

But it was just a ruse; the boys were chasing her around. (It was her brothers that did it!) They were all super excited because they were going camping, but Rosie refused to go with them, because she was about to have the busiest day a teen ever did have.

Mitch: "So you'll go straight to Sterling's house after the dance? There's not a working phone at the campsite, so essentially you are in the middle of a horror movie right now."
Rosie: "Yeah, MOM! I'm not an idiot, MOM!"
Terry: "This relationship gives me pause. Or maybe it's just that nobody has ever smiled in this house, or ever will again."
Rosie: "Staring off into space, I get that from my mom. But the smiling part, that must be from my mysterious birth father. I can't wait to run away later. After I make a movie and take the ferry to the Casino and spot Michael Ames at the ferry and then sneak up to the 10th Floor to stare at Seattle and then bleed everywhere and then get chased through the woods and then get murdered a little bit and then be put in a car trunk so the murderer doesn't look me in the eye. But first, I gotta drop some last-minute eaves."

Rosie: "Daddy, I just wanted to say goodbye, and also you're the only person on this show I don't have a problem wi..."
Stan: "-- Sweetie, I'm yelling at vendors right now. But I do love you."

There's a really neat shot of beautiful Rosie Larsen leaving the house, one last look before she flies, and then closing the frosted security-window door behind her. Until all that's left is a shadow.

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ELECTION NIGHT

Gwen: "It sure is fun being the only person on this show that's actually at this party..."
Linden & Holder: "Here we come to ruin everything!"
Gwen: "Great."
Linden: "Where is Jamie and what car is he driving and where is your boss?"
Gwen: "It honestly hadn't occurred to me to wonder."

WRIGHT SHACK

Ted Wright continues to be a drama queen, talking with that weird Canadian accent they sometimes have where they sound like a leprechaun when they get upset. I always think of it as the Colonel Tigh. Seems he didn't lose his leg like in the story Jamie told Darren, so every time Darren tells that story it's insulting to his leg. Whenever his leg goes down to the pub all the other legs just laugh at it, and call Ted's grandson Jamie a liar. Obviously this is a very important thing he needs to clear up just as the polls are closing. The leg is an important constituent. Oh, and also:

Ted: "Not to mention that I was your alibi on the night you killed Rosie Larsen!"

Jamie keeps pointing his finger at his grandfather, which not only shuts him up but also apparently makes that sentence less interesting to Darren.

Jamie: "Forget Driver Jerry, I'll take you back to the Election Night party. Or else lock you in the trunk and sink another campaign car in the cold water of a Killing."
Darren: "Belko couldn't manage to kill me. I couldn't manage to kill me. I want to see what happens if you try to kill me, so by all means let's continue on this path."

PARKING GARAGE

Holder: "Everybody get on your phones as we head into this parking garage. It's the one parking garage on earth where you can make cell phone calls."
Gwen: "So now all of a sudden you're saying Jamie is going to kill Darren? That's a funny thing for this show to have decided between episodes. Besides, they are in gay love. And -- this is the part with which I really identify -- Jamie would be out of a job."
Jerry: "Gwen, I was just calling to talk about all that! How weird. Anyway, Darren made me take him to this weird shack and now he's just gone."
Gwen: "Cool, thanks. I am working with Linden and Holder now. We've always been the best of friends. Guys! Listen, they're at some weird shack."
Holder: "That's the address of Ted Wright! Probably they were having a discussion in their wheelchairs and now Jamie is going to kill them both."
Linden: "I'll call some cars to meet us there!"
Holder: "No, I will. Since you're not a police detective and have no business being involved in one single part of what's going on."

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RICHMOND HQ

Darren: "Jamie, why are you wheeling me all over town right now?"
Jamie: "This used to be a small logging town. I have a weird story to say right now."

He tells a weird story that is basically about gay love and how he has given Darren a city all his own: Adams will concede within the hour, which means it was all over it. He ignores a call and then stares at Darren, vibrating happily.

Darren: "Why did you lie, Jamie?"
Jamie: "About the leg? Don't even worr..."
Darren: "No, I get that. I meant why did you lie to the police? About that night?"
Jamie: "My grandfather is too drunk to know whether or not he's really my alibi! And a jerk!"
Darren: "I feel like whatever question I ask, you answer an unrelated thing that is weird and not very helpful. Let's try it. Jamie, where were you the night you killed Rosie Larsen?"
Jamie: "Indian Bones!"

Darren: "Sure, gotcha. But what about Rosie?"
Jamie: "I just do terrible things, okay? So you don't have to!"
Darren: "But did you kill that girl?"
Jamie: "Politics is like this! Sometimes like that! A Casino!"
Darren: "Jamie but did you kill a person?"
Jamie: "I dress like a Winter because we live in Seattle! Even though technically I'm more of a Spring! Color Me Beautiful!"
Darren: "Jamie, you are losing me."
Jamie: "Okay I killed her! On accident!"
Darren: "Oh, dang."

FLASHBACK

Ames & Nicole: "We are gross snake people! That person got caught with Bones!"
Jamie: "It's fine, you guys. Ames, just don't press charges. Whatever. Now, let's all leave the 10th Floor separately. As we always do, when we have these meetings."

Ames leaves, Jamie is creepy. That's one. I think Nicole leaves, that's two. Jamie shuts off that generator... And hears Rosie's phone ringing. He doesn't even know who she is.

Jamie: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
Rosie: "I am a little girl who doesn't even really get what you guys were talking about."
Jamie: "Then why did you have a camera?"
Rosie: "Because I am pretentious and it's my only belonging of value."
Jamie: "If you don't stop being afraid of my total menace, I may have to..."

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He knocks her ass out, and this whole time he's telling the story to Darren like he was explaining to her in very measured tones and she was being obstinate and screaming, which doesn't really seem to be true. He just kind of karate-chopped her and she dropped.

Darren: "Also, if you're so reasonable then how come the Killing took three different murders? And why did you just pull out my gun, that you found a couple episodes ago?"
Jamie: "Okay, that's a good question. The first time I killed her, it was just the karate chop at the Casino. And then the time, she woke up in my car so I chased her through the woods. That part sucked for both of us!"
Darren: "I bet. It gets cold here because of the shitty weather."
Jamie: "So then the third time I killed her, it was for gay love."
Darren: "Really?"
Jamie: "Yeah, for real."
Darren: "I have to go."
Jamie: "Not if I shoot you first! You are very ungrateful about all this."

Darren: "I kind of ended up in a wheelchair because of this, though."
Jamie: "I think it was more that you are a jerk! You cheated on Gwen with choking whores! That is very rude! And I think you also let your wife die, to become famous!"
Darren: "Now you just sound crazy."
Jamie: "THIS IS THE GAME OF THRONES! WE WILL TAKE OVER AMERICA!"

Linden: "Mr. Wright, please put down that gun. Shooting Darren at this point would be obnoxious."
Jamie: "I am in a kind of mental Viet Nam right now. I have no exit strategy."
Darren: "Jamie, shooting me is literally the only way you could make this worse."
Jamie: "Mr. Mayor! We can still do this!"
Darren: "Oh girl."

He goes to shoot Linden, but Holder shoots him instead, and then it's just Holder shaking and Gwen crying and Sarah -- admittedly, it's her first response which is lovely -- awkwardly patting her.

Linden: "Human. We are alive, Human. Your emotions are realistic."
Gwen: "I know but that was just really effed up! Also, what the hell is going to happen for the rest of this episode?"

Holder: "I just killed the cutest little guy. I need hugs too."
Darren: "I do not believe that anybody will ever love me more than Jamie Wright. It is a complicated issue. And also, how is this going to affect my mayoral campaign? It would be very ironic if Jamie accidentally caused the deaths of like ten people and two seasons of a TV show and then I lost because of him. In fact, it would kind of prove his point. And, too, is what he said true? Do I unconsciously let other people do my dirty work? I just thought I was selfish because that's how grieving works. But if poor Jamie was right, I might need therapy."

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DAY TWENTY-SIX

Cops: "Oh, and Jamie's gun was empty, too. In case you were thinking one single part of this sad goat rodeo was unavoidable."

It's kind of great because the several scenes are like the ending scenes of every other episode. Which is, presumably, because we're about to get a whole new case and that's the real deal with this episode. Boy I hope the show gets renewed, or else it's going to be one more black mark: How the finale was actually the penultimate episode plus twenty minutes of this one.

I still can't believe it was Jamie. Although it does make me feel better that the gay element was only in my imagination. I mean, any murder with a political campaign it's always the Jamie, the kinda weird, ambitious, crazy-loyal kid who wants to be a vizier behind the throne, so I'm glad that suffices. I just really liked Jamie. The things he was judgmental about are the things I am challenged by as well. Plus, he was wee.

LARSEN

Stan wakes up alone, growling like a big old bear, and heads out into the house. Mitch has gone wild in the night! Digging through all of Rosie's very pink shit and packing it up in the family business's moving boxes.

Stan: "Welcome back to sanity, lady. I'll just help you without saying anything."
Mitch: "Much appreciated."

POLICE STATION

Holder: "Okay, here's some bonus evidence about the whole case that we just solved. Including film from Rosie's camera."
Linden: "Film from Rosie's camera, you say. Send it to the lab."
Holder: "Uh, we already solved this Killing though. No more Killing to solve. Now you're just ghost-whispering for fun."
Linden: "Valid. Chief Nicole will be charged with obstruction of justice, and being a complete dickhole, but won't make a deal with us to charge Ames as well. Not really sure why that would be true."

Carlson: "Holder, I don't think you have to worry about IA nailing you on the shooting. You're going to end up in the clear. Also, great job you guys! Somehow, apparently I mean that."
Linden, going through the evidence: "Hey, wait..."
Holder, Carlson, The World: "Don't say it don't say it don't say it"
Linden: "No, I'm just saying we have a conversation at like 3:30 between Ames and Jamie, so we could still get him. Plus the broken taillight on the cab he took home, that Jasper told me about..."
Holder: "Hey, that is true actually."
Carlson: "While you were fired and homeless and in a mental institution, we actually looked into that. It's a no-go."

Linden: "Valid. Chief Nicole will be charged with obstruction of justice, and being a complete dickhole, but won't make a deal with us to charge Ames as well. Not really sure why that would be true."

Holder and Linden are so upset! But at least Sarah gets to tell the Larsens before they go public. That's important, I think, to her whole Linden thing she's got going on.

SECRET LARSEN HOUSE

The little boys are astounded and overjoyed about their new house! Tommy smiles and the demons just run out of him into the sidewalk, and they run off to go play. Mitch is beautiful, smiling.

Stan: "This is the house she was going to come back to, from college in the summers... Eventually boomerang back because our emotional issues made her unfit for society..."
Mitch: "Stan, get over it. Our daughter died, it's not the freakin' end of the world."
Stan: "That's my girl."

RICHMOND

Gwen: "You need a little R&R, my friend. You have been through a lot."
Darren: "True enough."
Gwen: "I know this little B&B up in Tacoma... Ha! Just kidding. I just wanted to make a joke about that time you tried to commit suicide while your boyfriend was killing a little girl, and then we had Ambien zombie sex."
Darren: "That was a good one, Gwen. Good joke. But if you'll excuse me, I have to manically drafting this press release, and also the cleaners are coming to get rid of all the broken glass and Jamie parts."

Gwen: "Oh, I guess you're still in shock from being kidnapped and told a weird story."
Darren: "We need to spin this. Jamie can't define my legacy. I want my legacy to be defined by the mentally ill guy that paralyzed me and then went on a killing spree. And the wisdom of that imaginary leg."

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Gwen, verbatim: "You've got some blood on your face."

And then it seems like she ... licks it? Did Gwen Eaton just lick Jamie's blood of his face? I wish it seemed less likely than it does. I don't know what to do with you, Gwen Eaton.

CITY COUNCIL

Adams: "How is it being the Mayor and sitting in my chair?"
Darren: "Awesome, Lesley. Feels great."
Adams: "I'ma be real for a second. I am terribly sorry about Jamie. And also, I think you're going to be a fantastic mayor. You earned this."
Darren: "That was really sweet, but it somehow still feels like you just licked blood off my face."

LARSEN

Stan is packing up his office downstairs while Mitch does the mud room, and it's so fucking suspenseful because you keep thinking they're going to find a clue and there will be a revolt in America. But no, Mitch is just staring at the height lines on the pantry door, as anybody who ever moved out of a house on TV is wont to do.

Terry: "I came to help you pack up. I have nothing better to do."
Mitch: "Remember that day she was so snotty but also smiling like the Cheshire Cat? I guess there was an undertone of love and remorse there. I can see it now that I'm standing here, remembering it like it was only two or three weeks ago."
Terry: "It was two or three weeks ago, Sis."
Mitch: "This show is so fuckin' weird."

Mitch: "I was so busy packing for the camping trip. I barely looked at her, Terry. I didn't see her."
Terry: "You did. You always did."

That was good, a good scene. And also plays into the runaway theme of this second season: How Mitch glommed onto that awful girl because of the mystery of her disappearance, at first, but then David Rainer explained that there wasn't a difference: That Rosie was both the Dead Girl and the Runaway. And at the time it seemed to break her down even more, but on reflection I think it's how she kicked out of it.

Because once you start thinking about why Rosie was leaving and the dedication she showed in getting there -- the hope that was lifting her up, and out; the strength at her back -- the arbitrary circumstances of her death aren't scary or life-defining anymore: Just sad. It's just a sad thing that happened. A girl was about to start her own life, joyously, and didn't get to make the appointment. Still sad, but a different story, and once you see the story for what it is, you can start moving. You can walk through grief, a state, and into mourning. A process. A ritual as old as time.

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And any old Orpheus can tell you that the first rule is, you don't look back. For the bit, you just look forward. Welcoming her home, making a place for her memory. She isn't holding you back there with her, among the shades, because she doesn't have to anymore: Now, you're carrying her with you. Forward into light. And she isn't heavy at all.

GRAVEYARD

Just ask Darren, who's sitting at Lily's grave when Gwen calls. If there's one part of Jamie's speech that moved you forward instead of back it was this: You got so tied up in the story of grieving her that you left her out of it. So tied up in your own pain that you forgot the world keeps turning, and desperately needs you in it.

Gwen: "Press everywhere, inundated with calls, where are you?"
Darren: "Visiting my wife."
Gwen: "Gotcha. Okay, I'll cover for you. Couple hours, I can give you."
Darren: "Moving on might be a possibility."

Gwen smiles, after she hangs up. It seems like a sweet smile. I think Ruth Yitanes might be lying after all.

WILDERNESS

Sarah and Stephen stand on the site, looking out across the empty wild.

Sarah: "Jamie never said... What happened. What she went through, here."

Wouldn't help. She thinks it would help, it's what makes her good at her job, this addict's idea that solving a mystery will make you feel better. It won't. You're left with the story, no matter how many facts you have. The facts are just the parts you'll leave behind.

Who Killed Rosie Larsen is a question, in the end, with a very simple answer. A one-word answer, in fact. If I told you that word twenty-six days ago, how would that help?

Sarah: "I wanted to get him. Get him."
Stephen: "We did get him. And we still haven't told the Larsens, so how about we table the part where it's all about you for like one more minute."

Why Was Rosie Larsen Killed is the logical question; it's a question another show would ask. And though it's a slightly longer answer, that wouldn't matter either, I don't think. More words, more facts to leave behind.

Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People isn't a useful question. Why Do Bad Things Happen To People is slightly better, but still not a question with an answer: Why Do Things Happen. They just do. It's a racket, but it's one that will continue.

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What Happened Because Rosie Larsen Died, though. What happens when Death shows up at your door, unasked for and undeserved? Where do you go, when you can't get out? Who do you have to hurt, to get payback from the world? How far does the line of blood go, once you start in on revenge? What possible action is appropriate in response to the stillness of death, what could possibly make you feel better? How many children does Sarah Linden have to save before she's whole? What's to be done in the face of profound loneliness? How much of grief is just distracting yourself from loss, weaving a cocoon of pain around the unanswerable, until the black box of your body knits itself together again?

Those aren't questions, they're stories. They don't have answers. That's what makes them mysteries.

LARSEN

Terry: "Oh, you guys. Fabulous. How about you leave them alone for like one second?"
Holder: "We got him."
Terry: "You did? Who is it?"
Linden: "Good news and bad news, Relative. We come bearing both. Produce them."
Terry: "They moved. I have to go upstairs for a quick staring into space session."
Linden: "Okay?"

Linden: "Holder, don't light that cigarette in this garage."
Holder: "It is a garage."
Linden: "Hold on, the music is saying I might discover another clue."
Holder: "Don't say it don't say it don't say it"

Broken taillight on the car in the garage. Aw, fuck.

Well, no. These are just the final threads of it: Terry upstairs on Rosie's bed, eyes hollow, in an almost empty bedroom. Got it. Got it all. Man.

Sarah: "You were at the lake. You picked up Ames from the ferry, for your flight to Vegas. He got a call, about a girl in the woods. You are the woman."
Terry: "Rosie was nine when I told her about the Monarch butterflies. She took that story very seriously. It gave her belief."
Sarah: "You believed it too, I think. You were going to be a butterfly, just like her. Michael Ames was the love of your life."
Terry: "Go arrest him, dude. He did it."
Sarah: "You loved him so much. And this would have made him yours, forever, if you kept the secret. But he didn't do it, Terry..."

Mitch: "-- Oh, now what. What are you guys doing here this time?"
Holder: "You need to go downstairs, guys."
Mitch: "Terry?"
Terry: "I mean, I'm really sorry? It's a complicated..."
Sarah: "Don't say it don't say it. Don't do this here. Not in her room."

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Terry loses it, so ashamed and afraid. She's still so pretty, even ugly-crying. You know what, I feel like they did it. It's tracking. I wonder what the world will say tomorrow. But I think there's a satisfaction here, to be had, that's very unexpected.

She watched them, Jamie and Ames, screaming at each other -- he could be free of Sally, he could run away forever, if he just finished this; if he just solved this problem -- and she walked away from all that. Went to the campaign car, shifted into drive. Heard the girl's last cries, before she was gone. The water rippled, and then it was still. And all of Michael's problems went away, in that moment. Under the water.

Terry: "I didn't know it was Rosie."

It was a senseless death; just some hooker about to wreck her dream. She joined a conspiracy, she did what Jamie and Michael couldn't do. It looked like saving herself. Like taking on a death to save her dream. Like a heroic act, for love.

Stan attacks her, shrieking; Holder chokes him out while she cries. Sends him to his sons. And Sarah watches, as Terry throws herself on her sister. And Mitch holds her, embraces her sister back. It was a senseless death.

All death is senseless. It removes sense; it bursts into the everyday and colors it with shadows. All death shatters worlds.

That's why Sarah Linden is like this; it's the only reason she needs, to justify being the way she is: She has to put the pieces back together. She doesn't whisper for the dead, they're past saving. She does it to put the world back together.

PDHQ

Sarah: "Got a smoke?"
Holder: "No. We should quit."

Terry Marek didn't want a lawyer. She bears the senselessness like a scar, now. She was so angry at Tommy that morning. So terrified for Denny, locked in that trunk. She kissed Stan, once. She's been so lonely. "What if they never catch the guy?" she asked him. "What would change then?" When Sarah and Stephen showed up to tell the family, and accidentally got her confession, all she could say was, "Don't be mad at me." This desperate woman. This tragic thing.

RICHMOND

Nicole: "Mayor! Congratulations. And thanks for helping with those ridiculous charges!"

She's accompanied by Ames, and Adams. Gwen watches from the outside, through the glass, as the Mayor sets about making the compromises he'll need to make. She's surprised, but this is how the day begins. This is the part of the story. Hands shaken, corruption forgotten. A new conspiracy for a new Seattle.

RICHMOND

Nicole: "Mayor! Congratulations. And thanks for helping with those ridiculous charges!"

WHAT I KNOW

When they bring the last film from Rosie's camera, Sarah Linden will take it from Stephen's hands, and take it down the hall. She'll watch the movies, frame by frame, and say goodbye.

She'll leave it in the Larsen's mailbox, and they'll watch it together. A Film By Rosie Larsen. Bob Dylaning a letter goodbye, one card at a time, as she documents her farewells. Butterflies and seagulls, the shore and the forest. All the things she loved the most.

I know the world is vast.
I know I want to see it all.
Just like you wanted to, Mom.
I don't know where I'm going
but I'll let you know when I get there.

It'll end with her beautiful face, watching the butterflies. In love with the world, with every single part of it. Ready to see it all. Neither subterranean nor homesick; carrying them with her:

I don't know where I'm going, she'll say, but I'll let you know when I get there.

She won't look back.

Sarah and Stephen will sit in the car outside, as they watch, saying goodbye to the Larsens. And when his phone rings, they'll have found a body on the water. She'll look at him, for a moment, and then she'll get out of the car, and smile when he says goodbye.

Holder: "We got the bad guy."
Linden: "Oh yeah? Who's that?"

She'll put the world back together. And then she'll start walking.

JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps The Killing, Bunheads, Pretty Little Liars and True Blood for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, and novelette "The Commonplace Book" will appear on Tor.com in October 2012.

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