This episode was far less about whodunit--or, as ruralstar points out above, about the gore--than about the gradual, terrible, and inexorable unfolding of a tragedy; that Strange Fruit crop has roots deep in American culture, and its corrosive genes continue to taint our soil.
(And note the UNSUB's checking off successive Shit-White-People-Say-To-Black-People bingo squares: Black best friend? Check. Black love interest/spouse? Check. Abject confession of racism from one's ignorant youth (but one's a better person than that now, honest!)? Check.)
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Date: Nov. 23rd, 2013 12:44 am (UTC)(And note the UNSUB's checking off successive Shit-White-People-Say-To-Black-People bingo squares: Black best friend? Check. Black love interest/spouse? Check. Abject confession of racism from one's ignorant youth (but one's a better person than that now, honest!)? Check.)