Michael posits that each always writes with the perspective of “looking in from the outside”, which basically means that he cannot quite get to the root of the subject he is writing about. But the work he submits now has turned the tables and it has coincided with Vincent’s disappearance.
Avi is concerned that the Millers may have information about Vincent’s disappearance. He plans to call them separately and ask them about their relationship with Vincent. Zach, who is Avi’s English tutor, is already very nervous and defensive about his presumed involvement. Avi’s accusatory tone makes Zach feel even more attacked. ..
“Avi, do you believe that the letters were written by Vincent?” “I’m not sure, but it seems like he might be telling the truth.”
Janine questions Dania in another corner of the station. She reveals something startling that prompts Janine to call up Avi to listen for himself. She tells them that she slipped the letters under the Conte’s door out of compassion. The detectives have a rendezvous to discuss the implications of the parents’ inaction and Avi is convinced they know that Vincent is already dead. That is why they did not jump the instant they received the letters to give them to the police. They knew not giving the letters will not change the outcome of their investigation.
In this episode, Avi sets up a trap through Dania. He instructs her to call Nora and her reaction confirms Avi’s theory, even though he is reluctant to implicate Nora as he feels she does not have anything to do with the murder. Earl investigates a call from a daycare that received a bomb threat. The proprietor, Anna Harvey, dismisses them as an attempt to sabotage her business and there is no further development on it in this episode until the end.
Avi confronts Nora in the station about not calling him. But her tone and body language seem to betray that she knows something about Vincent’s death. Avi accuses her of knowing that Vincent is dead, and she doesn’t deny it. He says he never saw any hope in Nora’s eyes but only pain and resignation about the fact that he is not coming back. Others behind the glass feel he is overstepping his lines when he declares to Nora that they have found Vincent’s body. ..
In episode one, when they found Vincent’s backpack in the scene, Avi matched the content with that of his schedule. The books he had were completely different, indicating that he did not pack his backpack if he had intentions of going to school and was somehow taken away en-route. He implores Nora to give them their version before Leonard does to give her an advantage. And Avi is right. Nora begins talking about an argument between Vincent and Leonard. He caught Vincent being inappropriate with Olivia and could not contain his anger.
Leonard pushed his son against the wall and Vincent banged his head fatally. Leonard then packed his body in a suitcase and threw it into the river. That is where the large suitcase is. They retrieve the body from the river and Leonard is arrested. Janine tries to comfort Avi over drinks about his work on the case. Avi realizes he misread everything but Janine says all that matters is that he broke the case. He meets with the Millers the next day and tells them what he realized- that he left his laptop at home, which would have contained all of his notes for this case, which would have helped him solve it. ..
When Dania suggests that Vincent was not capable of doing that to his sister, Avi replays the events of the first night he interviewed Olivia. Leonard says that he “needed to be present” while Avi asked the questions and Janine reported that the psychologist said, “either Olivia is protecting Vincent or blocking something out”. It was Leonard who was abusing Olivia and Vincent walked in on him, not the other way around. Olivia confirms it and Leonard, who is out on bail, holds a gun to Avi. The detective capably handles the situation and neutralizes Leonard, who is then arrested.
Avi pays tribute to the boy by going into his room and chanting a prayer. In the last scene, we see someone actually planting a bomb at the daycare, indicating that the threat was indeed real. ..
The Episode Review
Episode 4 of “The Walking Dead” was a bit of an anticlimactic finish to what had been building up to it. It had been teased for months and was finally released just as the show’s fifth season was set to air. The episode itself wasn’t all that great, with some poor acting and a lack of excitement.
The mystery was not well-rounded and the lead-up to the parents being the real culprit was weak. For the first three episodes, I felt the makers chose to focus a lot more on the detective work when the real work should have been to build up the Conte household. Their not choosing to do so and coming up with this ending is disappointing.
In most cases, when watching crime shows or movies, viewers are more likely to think about how the detectives reach the end rather than the crime itself.
The episode ended with a resolution to the Vincent Conte case, but some viewers may have wished it had continued. The showrunners made a mistake by resolving the case too quickly and without properly setting up the next case.
