It's TV so it's not going to be just about detective work and then an uneventful arrest and bringing a bad guy to justice. The detectives have to get in on action, put their lives on the line.
That's what they do with these series, have to build towards some climax -- True Detective, Sharp Objects, The Undoing.
OK they got 7 possible hits on that van. The two they interviewed before Potts were women. Couldn't they tell that from registration that cars owned and primarily driven by women are not picking up young female prostitutes? BTW, what are the odds of 7 blue vans in a town like that, with similar license plate numbers?
Isn't it convenient that Mare is unarmed when they go into confronting a kidnapper and killer? Soon as they saw the Winstons, Zabel should have drawn his gun on him. It shouldn't have taken the girls beating on that pipe.
So Mare survives an intense battle for her life and makes 3 shots, probably more meaningful to her than the state-championship winning shot.
Obviously the other scenes point to a different killer for Erin than this sex slave guy. Briana's plan to go to college go caput and now it's beauty college, while she hopes her assault charges get pled down to misdemeanor -- all the drama with her dad too, talk about local color, even the ones who aren't murderers in this town are assholes.
Jesse and Dylan have secrets to hide, as did Deacon Mark, who says he drove her to the park because she got a text or something? Why wouldn't that show up when Mare had her phone records subpoenaed?
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