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

[sanada.livejournal.com]

That really does look like a bullet wound. Single stabs to the abdomen are life-threatening, but bleed comparatively much less than a bullet wound in the same location because the flesh closes around the hole and the damaged blood vessels are able to constrict and limit bleeding to some exent. Unless Shirley was stabbed upwards through her sternum (which takes a lot of strength) to nick her heart, her biggest danger would be shock, not blood loss. A trained assassin armed with a knife would be more likely to go for a neck blow against a victim who couldn't fight back. Unlike the chest and abdomen, the blood vessels in the neck are much closer to the surface.

Bullet wounds, on the other hand, tend to spurt blood because the bullet creates a larger cavity and ruptures more blood vessels over a larger area. A stab wound to the gut might cause deadly organ damage and infection, but there's much less immediate danger from blood loss and shock.

I think the scene is deliberately set up to be ambiguous, but it doesn't fit Rolo's style... he could easily have Geassed and stabbed her (Rollo wouldn't go off to save Lelouch without being armed), but instead he would have had to Geass her, take her gun, shoot her, and then replace her gun. Rolo didn't see Shirley's earlier near-suicide attempt, so why would he try to make it look like a suicide? He's never done that before when he's killed people. Besides, just leaving her dead without replacing the gun would make it much more convincing that Jeremiah or a Britannian soldier had killed her. The attempt to make it look like suicide and the lack of a finishing blow seem to point away from a professional assassin being the killer.

Which leaves Suzaku, possibly Sayoko, or someone we didn't see. I doubt it would be Sayoko. Less emotional impact. Besides, she could just knock Shirley out. Suzaku, though, would add tons of emotional impact for the storyline... I don't think Suzaku would have intentionally killed her, but what if Shirley died during some kind of botched attempt to capture Rolo? Then Suzaku might understand what it was like when Lelouch accidentally killed Euphie.

[inulovinkit.livejournal.com]

I think it could be Suzaku because of the Live! geass. I mean...Shirley's shot at other people before to protect Lelouch... >.>

While somewhat unlikely, it would be so amazingly awesome and angsty if this happened.

[sanada.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the "live" geass too, but then he could blame yet another death on Lelouch. I think he'd feel even more awesomely angsty if he screwed up all on his own and killed the girl that Lelouch was trying to protect~ We've seen Lulu make terrible, terrible mistakes - now it's Suzaku's turn! Muhahaha!

[karice67.livejournal.com]

I was also looking at the, well...physics of it. I think that this particular wound could have been caused by either a gunshot or a knife wound. With the blood pretty much oozing out, I would assume an artery's been ruptured - looking at the position of the wound (directly under her chest), I think it's the artery leading to the lower half of her body. I have never seen a stab or gunshot wound in real life (only on the news), but it would be impossible for there to be this much pooled blood unless a major blood vessel has been ruptured, and either a gunshot or a knife could have done that.