This pilot of the AMC crime drama series, The Killing, focuses on a missing teenager named Rosie Larsen, as Homicide detective, Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos), planning to leave for California with her 13-year old son to marry a businessman she is in love with, breaks in a new partner from Narc, Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) during the case. Without a body, it is assumed that she could be off with a douchebag entitled brat named Jasper (Richard Harmon) after Rosie's best friend, Sterling (Kacey Rohl) cops to her not hanging out with her during the weekend. The mystery of Rosie's disappearance concludes when Sarah realizes where her body might just be
in a lake near Puget Sound. As a car is pulled from the water, the body of Rosie is found in the trunk
the car belongs to the campaign of city councilman, Darren Richmond (Bill Campbell). The show has these alternating threads that eventually converge. For a little while, how Richmond could possibly link to Rosie was questionable. Then the car is linked to him (or somebody on his staff) so perhaps one of his political entourage is involved. The third thread involved the Larsen family, moving company father, Stan (Brent Sexton) and his wife Mitch (Michelle Forbes) wondering where their daughter is. One of the questions that is obviously answered towards the end is whether or not Sarah will leave on the plane out of Seattle. There could be no show if she does so that isn't much of a surprise. However, the show is pushing the eventual tumult that Richmond will face during his campaign. It seems that by the end of the show, someone among his staff could be disloyal to him and loyal to his rival, the current Seattle mayor. The shocking discovery of Rosie's corpse, and the way the car was disposed leaves an emotional gulp in the throat. Stan's arrival to the scene adds to the dramatics of the body's finding. So sets off the series.
Review of Pilot
