- While the crime scene unit collects evidence in the school basement, Richmond's campaign faces a crisis when news of Rosie's death leaks to the press. He's also found the leaker. He's also scrambling to save his campaign. Linden and holder want to question the school janitor, Lyndon Rosales, who would prefer to jump out a third story window than meet them. He has a pretty good alibi as far as Rosie's death is concerned but he does give hem a new lead, a student named Kris Echols. Mitch Larsen finds herself unable to cope with their loss.—garykmcd
- City Councilman Richmond suspects a leak within his own team, causing a shakeup in his campaign. Sarah and Holder track down a potential witness to the murder and are led to a new suspect. Mitch shuts down completely, forcing Stan to take on both parenting roles as his family grapples with the reality of losing Rosie.—AMC Publicity
- The Killing - "El Diablo" - April 10, 2011
Councilman Richmond is confronted by the press about his car's connection to the Rosie Larsen murder. He talks about cooperating with the police about this senseless and brutal crime and he offers condolences to the Larsen family.
Holder and Sarah investigate the weird crime scene in the cage. There is drug paraphernalia. Sarah wonders if it's an OD that went wrong, then notices a peephole in the wall and looks through it. Her boss tells her it's still her problem at least until the end of the week even though she's already resigned. The principal comes down to the basement and surveys the scene with horror.
Richmond is pissed when he arrives at his event. Then Yitanes marches in, also pissed that he didn't tell her. He says the police told him not to. She pulls her endorsement saying "We are over!"
The principal brings Sarah and Holder further into "the cage" in the basement. The peephole goes into a storage area that looks out onto the bed where Rosie was presumably killed. The custodian had keys to the area.
At the Larsen house Stan is struggling to take care of the boys in the wake of the murder. They want chocolate chip pancakes for dinner. Stan is game and says not to wake Mitch. One of the boys asks how Rosie died. The other assures Stan it's okay, that he doesn't have to talk about it.
Holder asks how long Sarah is staying. She says a week and tells him to chill out. They go to look for the custodian, Linden Johnson Rosales, from the school at a rundown apartment. They talk to a woman who speaks Spanish and says he is not there and doesn't live there. Sarah looks around.and finds copies of "Nasty Cheerleaders" magazine. The suspect is there, however, and attacks Sarah with an edged weapon, then leaps out the three story window and fractures his skull.
At the hospital Sarah sees Richmond on the evening news. She gets stitched up from the attack. Holder discovers Linden's got warrants but he's not their guy because he spent the weekend in the drunk tank. Sarah says to keep an eye on him and call her when he wakes up.
She calls Rick and tells him she's staying through the weekend and has been asked to see it through. He's annoyed. She says they'll be there Sunday for the party and that she still wants to get married. He hangs up without responding to her "I love you." She goes to pick up Jack from Reggie's. He's out cold. Reggie is a female friend of Sarah's who owns a boat. She talks about hoping for a fresh start for Jack in California. Sarah thanks her for letting her and Jack stay. Reggie calls them her two favorite people in the world and is happy to do it. Sarah gets in bed with Jack and falls asleep, even though she said she had to get back to work. Reggie lets her sleep.
Day Three
Mitch wakes to the sound of Rosie's voice on the outgoing answering machine message. Meanwhile Stan is staring at the rain and despairing. He picks up the morning paper and Rosie's murder is the lead story. He sees that Councilman Richmond has been questioned. Mitch plays the message again. Stan finds her kneeling over the machine and listening. He kneels down with her hugs her.
Richmond goes to see the mayor, his opponent, who tells him the race is clearly over now and so he should bow out and in four years get his endorsement. Richmond declines saying Adams will just get on his knees for the developers for four more years. Adams taunts Richmond, musing if his opponent really thought the police would keep it secret for him.
Richmond goes to Sarah, livid. She says the leak didn't come from them. She asks what she can do. He says "make an arrest."
Back at the high school the teacher gets the class under control -- by confiscating a 'phone from a student -- and starts talking about Rosie and grief counselors. Sterling runs from the class. So does Jasper.
Sarah meets up with Holder at the hospital. Rosales is out of surgery but hazy from drugs. Holder distracts the guard and Sarah goes to talk to Rosales. She apologizes and tells him the real reason she needs to talk to him. She shows him a picture of Rosie and asks if he saw her in the basement Friday night. He nods. Sarah shows him a page from Rosie's yearbook and asks which boy she was with. He points to Jasper and another boy, Kris Echols. The nurse comes in and freaks that Rosales is in critical condition and they're bothering him and demanding that leave. As Sarah departs, Rosales whispers to her "El Diablo."
Richmond tells his staff that they're doing everything to cooperate with the police and they need to take a deep breath and stay the course. He tells them to commit to winning this campaign. Gwen and Jamie have got stuff worked up for Richmond to address the press. First he goes to talk to his guy Nathan investigating the leaked E-mails. There's nothing on Rosie Larsen but there is a leak on the Yitanes endorsement.
Holder learns that Kris Echols is a meth-dealing skater boy, kicked out of school, reported as a runaway by his mom. He and Sarah and the lieutenant talk about the case. Holder goes to talk to Echols' family while Sarah plans to talk to the Larsens' about the cause of death. Going over the party video one more time they realize how Echols got into the party, he wore a devil's mask: "El Diablo."
Echols skates up to a dumpster and pulls out a newspaper with the news about Rosie's body being found.
On a TV, the mayor crows about his new 44.6 million dollar waterfront renewal project.
Gwen switches it off saying she can't believe he didn't throw in a jab about Rosie's murder. Richmond says he didn't have to, the damage is done. Gwen says Yitanes hasn't endorsed him yet and they need to stay on message. He says to spare him the soundbite, he's found their leak, the person who went to the press about Yitanes. It was Jamie. Gwen can't understand. They wonder if he's playing both sides, if Richmond doesn't win than maybe Adams will give him an appointment. At the moment Jamie enters and asks about the rest of the day's agenda. He suggests sending flowers to the Larsen's. Richmond says no, since flowers die.
Sarah goes to speak to the Larsens. She explains that Rosie drowned. That she was alive in the trunk of the car when it went in the water. Sarah says she thought they should know. They are understandably upset, about that and finding out about Richmond in the paper. She says they are working on an arrest. She asks about Kris Echols. They had been friends. She asks if Rosie drank or used drugs. They say no and are wondering why she's asking. She says they're casting a wide net. Stan says Kris seemed like a good kid. Mitch asks if she suffered. Sarah says they think she was unconscious when the car went in, not disclosing the information about her shredded findertips from trying to claw her way out of the truck.
Richmond has a photo op playing basketball against a young black kid. He loses. It's part of an "all-stars" program that is supposed to be part of Richmond's anti-gang campaign. The press asks again about Rosie. They offer little. Jamie tells him to stop giving them anything. Richmond mentions the leak. Jamie says it was the cops, that everyone is playing both sides. Richmond doesn't tip his hand.
Holder interviews Kris' heart-broken mom who says he started using drugs at 13. She hasn't seen him in awhile, most recently at a horrible area near a bridge where the lost boys hang out.
Holder goes down there and smokes some "pot," mingling with the kids. He asks around about Kris as if he's looking for drugs. A girl asks if he's a cop. He asks if he looks like a cop, countering by asking if she's a cop. She says Kris isn't around but will be later.
He heads back to Sarah in the car, who smells the pot. He tells her it's "narc scent," smells and tastes like weed but isn't. They note the skate park is walking distance from the campaign parking lot and Kris could've stolen the car. They decide to wait it out.
Jamie suggests a way to get Yitanes' endorsement back, hire her husband, a plumber, for a job that she can't hire him for. Bribery, essentially. Gwen shows him the incriminating E-mail. He sputters his account must have been hacked. They aren't having it. Jamie says Richmond is letting sex -- i.e. his relationship with Gwen -- cloud his judgement. Richmond isn't having that either. Jamie says "screw both of you" and angrily leaves.
Sarah calls Jack with the news she won't be home for dinner, as she and Holder still wait in the car. Echols arrives at the skate park. Holder and Sarah go to talk to him. He tries to take off, they try to question him. Holder puts the grab on him and Sarah says to let him go. As Kris takes off, Holder tells him that his mom is worried about him.
Yitanes goes to Richmond mad that he said in the papers she's still considering endorsing him. She says she thought she made herself clear. He offers his proposition, for her and her husband. She is shocked by his flagrant attempt at bribery. He says he needs her sway with the union and her husband needs a job. She says he must think she's easy. He says nothing's easy with her.
The 'phone that the teacher confiscated earlier rings in his desk. He looks at it, concerned.
Kris goes and finds Jasper at the school and punches him out, thinking he ratted him out to the police about being at the dance. Jasper says he didn't tell them anything. Kris says "they know" and takes off. Sarah and Holder watch this. Sarah notes that Rosie wouldn't have gone in the basement alone with Kris, but she would've gone with someone she trusted like Jasper. Holder wants to grab him but Sarah says they have nothing. Her 'phone rings -- it's news from the teacher.
Stan is working on the chocolate chip pancakes, when Mitch comes out and offers to help. He says he's got it and tells her to take a bath and relax before they eat. Stan keeps making the pancakes. The older boy Tommy sets a place for Rosie and then apologizes, saying he forgot. Stan says it's okay and tells him to leave it. Mitch runs her bath and looks in the mirror. Stan and the boys sit down to eat. Mitch gets in the bath and lets herself sink under, she comes up gasping for air and begins to cry.
At the police station the cops watch video from the confiscated phone. It is Jasper and Kris having rough sex with Rosie on the bed in "the cage," it does not appear to be consensual. At the very least it is very rough and cruel. The Lieutenant tells them to pick the boys up. That's called RAPE.
At a photo op, Yitanes gives her endorsement to Richmond, just as Jamie's walking out in the background, his personal effects in a cardboard box.
Stan and the boys eat pancakes. Mitch cries in the bathroom.
Sarah re-watches the video of the boys with Rosie in the basement.
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