So, having Clive Owen in the cast and on the poster would never take him away from leading the list of suspects in a series that investigates A Murder at the End of the World. Our Sherlock in Skirts, Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) took a thousand turns, and almost died at least twice but still didn’t come close to elucidating the death of her ex-boyfriend, Bill (Harris Dickinson) or Rohan (Zaved Khan). Sian (Alice Braga) should have been on the list, but her death appears to have been accidental. We don’t know who or why, but in this penultimate episode, they tried REALLY hard to give us hints. Unfortunately, either the series will really be ‘surprising’ or it will be a poor conclusion, but we want to know!

Darby, saved by Lee (Brit Marling), who is always suspicious of me, she once again trusts her idol to try to decipher the strange events that caused Bill’s death. “I made the basic investigative error,” she reasons, “I tried to find the killer and forgot to understand the victim.” This is after Lee gives a long and detailed explanation that she is trying to escape Andy (Clive Owen) who is obsessed with Zoomer (Kellan Tetlow). Nothing that supports his reason for the murder spree as he already knew that Bill was the biological father. Honestly, I think the show has elevated the mystery to the point of very serious risk of ridiculousness, but we’re in it.

From the beginning the characters shout that Lu Mei (Joan Chen) is a strong candidate to be the killer, we who watched knew that Andy was the most obvious, so it seems to me that both are ruled out. I still think that Lee is very committed to helping and is always there when things go wrong. But the theory that has gained strength is that Zoomer is the killer, being a mix of Artificial Intelligence and humans, having access to Bill’s room – who had already identified that he was the child’s father – and small enough to not be seen by security cameras. The reason will certainly be given in a long monologue by Clive Owen.

The best part of the episode, of course, is the flashback with the love story between Bill and Darby, which we see in glimpses from their unexplained breakup to their reunion hours before his death. The chemistry between Emma and Harris is undeniable, as is his charisma. Bill is extremely interesting from afar, a young man who seeks connection and feelings, but stumbles upon a crime-obsessed and distant Darby. The two manage to identify a serial killer who killed at least 17 women and who was free but killed himself when confronted by the pair of amateur detectives.

The conclusion of this part of the story is the opening of the series, shown without context and now, that we have come so far, it gains another perspective when retold in full. Bill left Darby because “it was too much and not enough.” Which didn’t change even with his death. But it is from this painful past for our character that he gives the most important tips in the story: questioning the motives of murderous minds does not change what they are: “the result of faulty programming”, which has “the concentration of a system that needs receiving corpses to survive” he tells Darby, still enchanted by the investigation process. “You want the killer to have meaning, but he doesn’t,” insists Bill. As she recognizes years later, “the same code that keeps repeating itself in different bodies”.

And in this sad conclusion, the last intimate conversation they had in 6 years which led to the breakup of a tortuous love story, lies the key to the series as well. Who or why doesn’t matter, but rather how we feel about it. A great trip!

But now the criticisms: Darby doesn’t let Lee finish a story, he always tells her what’s happening. This is not a characteristic of a good investigator. And besides everyone insisting on Lu Mei (the veiled threat from China?), Darby suspecting that Eva (Brittian Seibert), despite being married to Todd (Louis Cancelmi), is “very close to Andy” makes me wonder why she didn’t think the same of Sian, who was obviously even more so. The fact is that we return to the most likely of theories: the murders are caused by AI, whether by an Artificial Zoomer or the currently quiet AI Ray. The alternative will be to reveal someone we barely notice or who has made a difference in history.

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