[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by O.city

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The way Wayne has acted, I just don't see him being involved. Amelia maybe, but I don't think she actually killed him. Why would her having any knowledge of it be suspicions?

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From how the other series' have gone, neither the detectives nor their secondary personal interests have been involved in any of the crimes that drive the plot of the season.. save for Frank Semyon's shady dealings in getting Velcoro comped and formulating the land deal that gets jacked by the Vinci / Russian interests anyway. Rust and Marty weren't committing the crimes we see are associated with the Carcosa cultists / Tuttle interests / Yellow King and neither were their (really Marty's) families victims nor perpetrators in season 1 and Bezzerides, Semyon, Velcoro and Woodrugh failed to stop Chessani Jr. and Burris from keeping the status quo in Vinci for the Catalyst Group and Ossip but their families were neither victims nor perpetrators (though Velcoro's son with Bezzerides being on the run with his momma along with Jordan and Nails is a consequence of the criminal conspiracy).

SO that leaves a problem in season three, where the first two seasons suggest that Amelia will ultimately have nothing to do with the kidnapping and murder of the Purcell kids but we're asking this question because of how she's acted so far AND because she indirectly mentioned the way Will's body was found. SO AGAIN, does she know this because Wayne told her in an off-screen scene or because she was involved with the crime?

If Wayne told her off screen then at best it's sloppy writing for writing the dialogue to suggest she knows stuff she probably shouldn't know as it's part of an active investigation and intentionally deceptive to the audience at worst to leave it ambiguous and begging the audience to question this very point.