I'm wondering if Allison and Donnie are going to go on a murder kick now. I mean it has worked so well so far. Other people annoy Allison, most people.. why not just get Donnie to do man stuff to them?
God, I hope not. That's not a direction I want the show to take.
I can see it being very tempting for her.
Got rid of one problem, granted it turned out not to actually be a problem though still annoying, but it's gone now, YES!
Got rid of another problem, granted didn't know it was a problem at the time but MY GOD what a huge problem it could have become and it's gone now, YES!
That's not where I want the show to go, and I think it would be mishandling Alison as a character. The thing about Alison is, she makes
terrible decisions. She's really not very smart or sensible, and whenever she's forced to cope with something outside her very narrow comfort zone of suburban housewifery, she panics and does absolutely the wrong thing and makes everything worse. So no, killing people would not solve Alison's problems. Everything she does that she
thinks is a solution to her problems only compounds and worsens them.
I mean, seriously, burying Leekie on
their own property? How stupid is that? The moment the police have any reason to link them to Leekie and get a search warrant, that newly poured concrete in the shape of a grave -- with a heart etched in it -- is going to be a dead giveaway, pardon the expression. And Vic has now seen Donnie handling the murder weapon. Since he's a drug dealer, I assume Vic is familiar enough with firearms to be able to testify as to its make and model.
And yes, the obvious next step for them is to bump off Vic, but there's no way these idiots would do it in a way that wouldn't lead back to them.
Anyway, at this point, neither of them has killed on purpose. Alison made a panicked decision not to save the life of someone who was dying from accidental causes -- which is certainly immoral but not technically a crime, since the victim was not someone she was legally responsible for and the accident did not happen on her property or as a direct result of a hazard she created. And while Donnie is technically guilty of felony murder, since he killed Leekie while committing the felony of kidnapping, it was an accident with no intent to kill. So morally speaking, neither of them has crossed the line into intentional or premeditated murder. And I would very much like it to stay that way. Because if they crossed that line, for any reason other than clear self-defense or defense of their children, they would become irredeemable.
