[Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers for the Sunday, June 12 episode of AMC’s “The Killing.”]

This season’s penultimate episode left us with a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get started!

Things continued to look up for the Richmond campaign when the mayor’s waterfront project – and cornerstone of his re-election bid – screeched to a halt when the land was discovered to be an Indian burial ground. I’m torn between making a Poltergeist joke and a Nelsonesque guffaw, but bottom line: Adams appeared to be all but finished.

The humbled mayor later met with a gleeful Gwen and handed over what all television politicians dread: an ominous Envelope O’ Secrets™ that could spell trouble for Richmond. More on that in a bit.

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[Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers for the Sunday, June 5 episode of AMC’s “The Killing.”]

This week’s Linden-centric episode was light on Rosie and the antics of the Richmond campaign and focused primarily on the detective’s past and her relationships with her son Jack and partner Holder. I’d like to think of this episode as the (still compelling!) lull before the final two episodes of the season.

Before we explored the Strange and Troubled Past of Sarah Linden, we joined the detective as she pursued last week’s lead. She took the same ferry Rosie did on the night she died and arrived at a casino with a logo identical to the one on Rosie’s keychain.

The casino’s manager refused to cooperate with Linden’s request for assistance, so she skirted the casino altogether and instead secured a warrant for the property’s ATM machines in hopes those would yield a clue.

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With Bennet in intensive care and officially out of the mix as a suspect, the detectives were left with no choice but to start from scratch in their investigation into the murder of Rosie Larsen. They began by looking into Stan Larsen’s past.

Stan wasn’t hard to find as he’d confessed to attacking Bennet, and spent the duration of the episode in jail. Under questioning he told Linden that he was no longer involved with the Kovarsky mob, but didn’t answer when she asked about his gambling problem.

Later in the episode, Mitch received a call from the bank and was told that the family’s checking and savings accounts had been emptied, all but confirming that Stan’s gambling was still very much a problem.

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Another one bites the dust, y’all! In one of the most suspenseful episodes of the season thus far, an exciting series of events led us to cross another suspect off our list of potential killers.

At first it looked like the plan to take Bennet into custody was a go – Linden even went so far as to assure Mitch that an arrest was imminent – but a judge refused to sign the warrant and the arrest was called off.

Confident in his innocence but the damage to his reputation done, Bennet returned to Fort Washington against the wishes of Principal Meyers and his students, who staged an impromptu walkout upon his arrival to class.

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This was a tense episode, no? Judging by the friction between Detective Linden and just about everybody this week, the alternate title for the episode could very well have been “Linden and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”

The episode resumed during the FBI raid of the meat locker, and we learned that the mosque Bennet attended was under investigation for possible ties to terrorism.

The storage facility was curiously set up to accommodate young girls, and Linden spotted a girl’s t-shirt that piqued her interest. In true Feds v. Local Police fashion, the FBI took over and was reluctant to share much about the investigation with the detectives, including evidence taken from the scene. Linden later managed to snap a picture of the shirt to show to Mitch, who confirmed that it belonged to Rosie.

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