tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114808246459538090.post4068177976168225290..comments2010-07-04T02:54:37.076-04:00Vardulonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17821844774999740966noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114808246459538090.post-22218308714181393162010-07-04T02:54:37.070-04:002010-07-04T02:54:37.070-04:00I watched the episode to check, and there&#39;s actually no textual support for either my theory or yours. Mandy suggests that the kid wrapped the spinach, but we never get any confirmation on it - and Mandy&#39;s wrong a lot.<br /><br />More importantly, though, I was led to my conclusion about the father providing the meals because of a basic fact about the way food delivery to shut-ins works - you&#39;d never just leave food lying around. This isn&#39;t a question of theft or spoilage, either, one of the more depressing aspects of being a &#39;meals on wheels&#39; worker is that, as the only point of contact with the outside world, they&#39;re often the ones who discover that elderly shut-ins have died. If someone doesn&#39;t answer the door to receive the food, then the assumption is made that there&#39;s been a medical emergency, and they have to to call for help.Vardulonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17821844774999740966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114808246459538090.post-87349336535861332552010-07-03T00:55:23.181-04:002010-07-03T00:55:23.181-04:00Not to totally pour on your hate parade, but you either didn&#39;t watch the episode closely or made a lot of silly assumptions up out of thin air.<br /><br />The guidance counsellor/father didn&#39;t know his son was up there and didn&#39;t know the old man was dead. The boy-killer was the one wrapping the spinach up in duct tape (something his father taught him to do but didn&#39;t do for him, in this case).<br /><br />As far as the agent characters in the episode can tell, actually, the boy simply stumbled on the old man&#39;s corpse, but he seems to have been at loose ends since the departure of his mother and therefore just spent his days up in the house without his father knowing or noticing. Presumably, he&#39;d use the delivery of the meal as his signal to start heading home or something like that.<br /><br />As for the fact that his mother only leaving a few months before not being enough time to build up a homicidal rage: you&#39;re likely correct, but the kids seemed to be a psychopath and therefore anything could have been a trigger and then it would just be the time until he realized that killing was worthwhile, rather than actually being a matter of getting &quot;mad&quot; enough to kill, like with &quot;normal&quot; people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com