Unbelievable
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Unbelievablehas settled in now.
Maries slow David-versus-Goliath skirmish with the justice system thuds on.
And the victims pile up.
Now, including Marie, there are four women with incredibly similar attack stories.
This might be the moment where a series hits a lull, turns procedural.
Either way, I cant stop watching (and not just because Im writing these recaps).
So Taggert can only do so much.
And again, Duvall brings up the fact that for some reason rapes arent processed as dutifully as murders.
Of course, the problem here is that at any moment this rapist might turn into a murderer.
The time gaps between his victims are growing smaller and smaller.
First he waited months, then weeks, now he could strike again at any time.
There are two ways this could go.
Duvall, ever the optimist, offers a third option: They could catch him before he strikes again.
So its back to the databases and the scant info they have on this.
But a quick scan of former military who also have a record comes up with nada.
Next up is officers withdomestic abuse history, a pretty big tell when it comes to other deviant behaviors.
One of those flyers that Rasmussen derides as useless has encouraged Arturo to visit the Golden P.D.
he knows somebody who may be of interest.
His conversation with Duvall is artfully constructed.
This is kinda what he does, Arturo explains.
It turns out that Scott was arrested a couple of years prior for sexual assault.
(The photo is also captioned and I cringed for his sake while writing this Sup ladies?
College-age people, the dating scene does get better with age.
Amber cant positively ID him, but this is the first real suspect with promise.
Duvalls interrogation strategy to give him just enough rope to hang himself with seems at first to be working.
He can explain away his prior arrest, saying that he got with the wrong girl.
It happens all the time now, he says.
Girls making all these claims, its a thing.
Scott is looking more and more like a possible suspect.
He cant quite come up with solid alibis and his personality isnt exactly tipping the scales in his favor.
Scotts a rapist, but he most likely isnt Ambers rapist.
(Still hopingMerritt Wevernails him to the wall!)
But other leads are coming together.
Mias gang of pool-playing, beer-swigging, all-female cops (How do I join this group?
yo send me an app.
My personal essay is prepared.)
have a host of other reports to share with the Golden and Westminster police departments.
Most intriguingly, one offers the story of a B&E and attempted assault.
Lillys mother, who is cat-sitting while her daughter is on a spiritual retreat, is rightfully infuriated.
Police ineptitude, it turns out, is mostly due to indifference.
But Duvall especially is able to impress upon Lillys mom that they are truly following up with good intentions.
The last thing Id want to do is come between her and her worship, she offers.
When the Spirit releases her, ask her to give us a call.
For both detectives, this episode ends with an obliteration of boundaries.
When he (rightfully) declines, she blows a gasket and yes that is a car pun.
Instead of staring down a rapist, however, she just terrifies a grandfather.
How could Marie possibly know how to find an attorney?
Its a dizzying set of circumstances.
She sees a way out of this godforsaken tunnel, and will stick to that path no matter what.
