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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Big Sky 1.13: Ronald Back in Action


Well, it took lucky episode #1.13 of Big Sky tonight to see Ronald -- whom I now think of as demented John Denver -- back to his old tricks.  In plain English, killing someone, with all the trimmings.

The victim was Mary, sister of Ronald's girlfriend Scarlett.  So it's close to Ronald killing his sister-in-law to be, which is what might happen if Ronald were really the good boy he's always telling the mother he murdered and keeps inside his head he really is.  (How's that for a tortured sentence).  But speaking of which, he certainly verbally tortures Mary before he kills her with his patented insane commentary.

The killing is also notable because Cassie and Lindor pull up right after Ronald has done the deed.  Somehow, he manages to escape.  How does he do that?   If Ronald is nothing else, he's one resourceful psycho.  And he apparently has not only escaped, but took Mary's body, or hid it somewhere. If that's in the house, Cassie and Lindor don't find it.

What they do find, though, is another body.  Whose?  It's been there a while, so it's very likely Ronald didn't do that killing.  (I say "very likely" because we still don't know exactly when Ronald and Scarlett first met.)  But if not Ronald, who?   At this point, likely either Mary or Scarlett.

So this was a very good episode.  A new killing from Ronald, and a dead body Ronald apparently wasn't responsible for.  Which means, a killer revived, and a likely new killer's work revealed.  And just for good measure, things are getting even more abrasive in that abrasively dysfunctional Kleinsasser family.

And I'll be back here with a report next week in how at least a little of that turns out.

See also Big Sky 1.1: A Pretty Big Deal ... Big Sky 1.2: The "Goods" and the Ruined Plan ... Big Sky 1.3: "You Kidnapped the Wrong Girl" ... Big Sky 1.4: Controls on Psychos ... Big Sky 1.5: Winter Finale Indeed! ... Big Sky 1.6: "Sweet Psycho" ... Big Sky 1.7: The Montana State Trooper ... Big Sky 1.9: Crafty Ronald ... Big Sky 1.10-11: Rocky Mountain High, Somewhat Twisted ... Big Sky 1.12: Sheriff Before Butterscotch




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