"The Road to Hamelin" | |
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The Killing episode | |
Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 12 |
Directed by | Dan Attias |
Written by |
Dawn Prestwich Nicole Yorkin |
Production code | BDH312/S312 |
Original air date | August 4, 2013 |
"The Road to Hamelin" is the thirty-eighth episode of the American television drama series The Killing, which aired on August 4, 2013, as the second of a two-part season finale. The episode is co-written by series executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin and directed by Dan Attias. In the episode, frantic to find Adrian (Rowan Longworth), Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) voice their suspicions about Carl Reddick (Gregg Henry) to James Skinner (Elias Koteas). Linden later sees a ring from the missing Kallie on Skinner's daughter's finger. She knows Skinner is the killer and must ride with him to find Adrian. Holder must race to save Linden when Adrian is found safe.
Holder and Linden ask Adrian's adoptive mother, Tess Clarke (Ingrid Torrance), if she has seen him. She grows worried when his backpack is found in the house and the back door is open. Adrian is missing.
Skinner picks his daughter Bethany (Katherine Evans) up from ballet class. She asks if he loves the "woman from work," meaning Linden. Her mother had told her about the situation. He explains that he can't be someone that he's not, but that he still loves Bethany. She wonders if things will change and he receives a call.
He arrives at the Clarke house, where Holder and Linden tell him about Adrian possibly being abducted. Then, they suggest that they have the wrong man in jail for the murders. Reddick is their suspect. Skinner tells them to continue to search for Adrian, and he will handle the Reddick investigation. Holder and Linden then talk to Cammy Ezer (Jennifer Copping), a neighbor of the Clarkes'. Adrian had come to her house, scared, saying he was being followed. She was too busy to care for him and drove him home.
At the station, Linden mentions security camera footage is being collected from the school to Adrian's house. She and Holder are met at the door by internal affairs agents. They wish to speak to Holder and take him inside. Linden tries to contact Skinner for his help with Holder. She is then given photos of a car following Adrian in several successions.