Turn 13: Rolo may be innocent. (With proof!)

[inulovinkit.livejournal.com]

When I first watched the episode, I thought something was fishy about Shirley's death scene.

At first, I thought they cut it off for the shock, but there was something else fishy about it. Wouldn't it have been MORE shocking if we actually saw Rolo knife her? We saw Euphie getting shot, after all.

And then, while watching, something hit me.

Rolo carries a knife. He uses his knife to usually kill people when he geasses them.

BUT:



That looks like a bullet hole to me.


Well, she did have a gun on her, so it IS possible Rolo used that, but also--




The gun was found IN HER HAND.



And WE SAW NOTHING. We didn't even see Rolo cast his Geass, but here are some interesting facts we DO know:

It appears Shirley was killed by a gun, not a knife.
Her gun was found in her hand.
We did not see what happened to Suzaku after he 'went in'. (Suspicious... >.>)


Now, I suppose it is possible that Rolo did have a gun on him and shot her. I actually don't care either way, I love Rolo and always will. BUT--after years of watching murder mysteries on TV, these little facts seem all too suspicious to me. And I kinda hope this is geass pulling another twist on us, because it would be awesome.

...Thoughts on my theory?



EDIT: Just to clarify:

I DON'T THINK IT WAS SUICIDE. I think that, if it wasn't Rolo, her death was an accident. An accident by the name of--

SUZAKU! *accusing finger here*

Well, we didn't see what happened after he went in, after all. He could have seen Rolo about to knife Shirley up, shot, and accidentally hit Shirley or something.

Meh--I just want it to be that way because it would be twisty and awesome and it would be like twisted revenge for Euphie--which is also awesome.

(Yeah, really, if Rolo did actually kill her, fine, but these little things make it fun to speculate >.>).



EDIT 2: Okay, I know highly unlikely that Suzaku did it. I just thought it was a fun crack theory. >.>

But I still think it's pretty possible Rolo didn't kill her.

Comments

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt Suzaku shot Shirley, he has no motive and was the biggest LuluShirley shipper in all of Geass. ^_^;;; Suzaku repeatedly even as the new "White Reaper" repeatedly gives his opponents a chance to surrender. The only way I can see Suzaku doing it is if someone geass'ed him to do so.

I suspect 14 is going to have Suzaku find Lelouch holding dead Shirley and he's going to lose it as well though not in the same way as Lelouch.

While it does seem circumstantial, we did see in those flashbacks/files that Rolo specifically used his geass in the past to freeze people, take their own gun, shoot them and then return the gun to them and leave. ^_^;;

I always expected Rolo to go crazy and try to kill Nunnally, I just didn't expect Shirley to be his first victim.

[inulovinkit.livejournal.com]

True, but if that is so...why didn't he finish the job? He could have shot her and made it look more like a suicide, if that was so. Or, if he must make it obvious it was murder, take the damn gun?

It just seems really weird that he left her alive. Sure, it was great for the ANGST factor, but still...Seems odd.

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

Drama > sense-making. This is Sunrise we're talking about here.

Or maybe he just never expected Lelouch to find her while still alive? Or maybe it's that he's actually a sadistic kid who wanted to see her suffer? A gut shot is an awful, bloody, slow, and painful way to die. D=

[rkold.livejournal.com]

He probably didn't expect Lelouch to come back downstairs so fast. ^_^;; I mean considering Orange was getting pretty damn violent back at Ashford, I doubt Rolo expected him to start crying and talking about his love for Marianne to Lelouch.

And well, not to be awful, but yeah, I think it's a plot hole done for the angst factor. ^_^;; It certainly wouldn't be the first relatively giant or huge plothole in Geass.

There is just really no reason for Suzaku to have done it unless someone geass'ed him and if he did it by accident, he wouldn't have just left her! It would be completely OOC. Suzaku obviously was very fond of Shirley (in a non-romantic way).