AWESOME Story telling as always!
Will post more later...But can't help wondering the missing urgency in Maan and Sathya when they are examining the photo angle of the pictures, especially when Sathya points out that 'they didn't forget to close the curtains"
And indeed if its Geet's room, then I presume they know where they have to start looking for.
Highly possible that there could still be more clues there...people who might have seen him lease the place...or rather the apartment was the killer's stakeout for a long time.
Or one step further...His shrine for Geet...where he could watch his 'angel'. Such Obsessive kinds wouldn't want to contaminate and carry out their day to day routine in a revered place. Another reason, he doesn't live near Geet (speculating of course)
Another point in the poem that makes me feel he is close. He sure does hear her...
| I know the voices dying with a dying fall |
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| Beneath the music from a farther room. |
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| So how should I presume? |
So it doesn't seem like the meticulous Maan/Sathiya to settle for the next big thing to be interviewing Geet's parents...Atleast a team would have to be sent there Sooks...what say?
I'm also curious, why they haven't dissected the line, after Emily gives them the Facebook posting by the stalker?
Another thing about Vic's observation, is the petechiae he mentions from asphyxiation. This is common in strangulation, but all reports I have read of so far are for victims who are aware of what was happening to the consciously, in other words, the last image in their eyes as their breath left them was the killer. In this case Anjali was subdued with a drug, so I'm not sure if Anjali's wide eyes is something to be taken for a clue.
The real stalker seems to have faked his own death through a decoy. Very well another man from Geet's college who became a scape goat for no reason at all, or the real stalker found out that the poor guy had a crush on her. He simply used him to cover his tracks or rather there was a higher purpose in doing so...He wanted to reinvent himself.
Reference from the poem:
| To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; |
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| There will be time to murder and create, |
I almost feel the previous three deaths have been shut and go cases, the eve-teaser, the lady and child in phuket (may be this is not the stalker, but the fact that the husband called the girls Angels is very suspicious) and 'presumed' stalker, which would not have settled well with the real stalker's need for recognition of his work (at least he would want Geet to know it, it not the world for his immaculate work). Since the cases were never given the 'due' attention, owing to their own reasons and starting from re-inventing himself ever since Geet's confrontation, beginning with Shaha's murder he is leaving clues...Trying to play God in Geet's life, in deciding whom he wants to linger close to her. In fact, my theory he is slowly beginning to enjoy the killing itself. Going from seconds(to chopping off hands to GSW to the head), he has moved onto asphyxiation and the stabbing. This all tells me his need for control and confirmation he thrives for after the kill.
Couple of things that's to be noted
1) One cannot entirely tell the murderer doesn't possess guilt. However gruesome the killings are, the killer seems to be drugging first to have them unconscious...almost like sleeping, or another notch higher, that they are already dead to him. He probably thinks he is only killing someone who is already dead or 'should' be dead, to reduce his own sense of guilt. Something tells me he can't handle the same actions, with them being alive. Although I can't tell in which way his pathology will progress.
2)So we have one kill for lust and another for wrath (anger), the eve-teaser guy for sloth perhaps? the decoy stalker for greed? I don't have explanations for the mother...But this concept is cliche...you wouldn't go for it. He he
3) Your photo of the killer, with your note saying that you like the guy in the picture...he he. I guess its a decoy for us.
4) Interesting mention of 'the person' and 'artist' in the Interlude chapter. Clever ambiguity. Again from the poem: There will be time to murder and
create,5) Mal is being left out and the reasons are not clear to me yet.
6) Is it possible the stalker is a split personality? The one with the most in-difference towards Geet normally, turns the other way around, when the other personality takes over. (This is a speculation, not an observation)
Last but not the least, the poem by Eliot himself. The poem has so many clues, if I start writing everything that is running in my head, I will beat your updates length. So I will let it be and save it for another day.
Real long one Sooks...Deal with it. After all my eyes only saw what it wanted to see.
GREAT WRITING and STORY NARRATION! Hats off Gurl.
Hasini
Edited by 6thElement - 14 years ago
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