Unlike the other victims in his unsolved case from a few years back, Mary was the one who actually got away, and in a fit of panic in the darkness, Deke shot her, thinking she was the killer emerging from a tree line. Women like Ronda Rathbun, who disappeared while jogging one night wearing her red barrette.Īs the movie unspools its multiple mysteries, we learn why Deke is so specifically haunted by Mary Roberts’ ghost. The old cop is convinced the serial killer who got away years ago when he was in the LAPD is the same man who’s begun piling up the bodies of tortured young women across SoCal. She was the young woman who truly brought him back to Los Angeles. This is visualized by each of the homicide victims Deke imagines visiting his bedroom nightly, with one above all others occupying his mental space: Mary Roberts. Wherever they are out in the ether (if anywhere), you’ve become their avenger, carrying their burdens, and their ghosts, with you. But that’s because Deke has chosen to become Jimmy’s watchful guardian.Įarlier in the movie, Deke mentioned that when you agree to solve a murder, which in his mind means obsess over it, you make a pact with the victim. Indeed, in the same package with the hair barrette, Deke sends a clear message: We’re not angels. And peace cannot exist for those who get into what Deke calls the “angel” business. Of course life and the questions which keep you up at night don’t have answers as easy as a typical Hollywood movie. But when Joe “Deke” Deacon ( Denzel Washington) mails the younger man a red barrette, Jimmy knows he can at least have peace of mind: He killed a killer. At the time of the murder, there was no clear cut evidence Sparma was the serial killer that law enforcement was hunting-or that Sparma even committed a crime beyond being a full-on creep. The young-and now entirely ruined-LAPD police detective can stop wondering about the night before-the night his shovel cracked the skull of Albert Sparma ( Jared Leto). It’s the piece of the puzzle Rami Malek’s Jim Baxter has been waiting for. You can find our spoiler-free review here. This article contains The Little Things spoilers.
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