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THE LETTER- written by Rupert Friend himself

“Carrie - I guess I’m done and we never happened. I’m not one for words but they are coming now.

I don’t believe in fate, or destiny or horoscopes but I can’t say I’m not surprised things turned out this way. I always felt there was something kinda pulling me back to darkness, does that make sense? But I wasn’t allowed a real life or a real love - that was for normal people.

With you I thought, ah maybe, just maybe but I know now that was a false glimmer. I’m used to those, they happen all the time in the desert but this one got to me and here’s the thing, this death, this end of me is exactly what should’ve happened. I wanted the darkness, I fuckin’ asked for it.

It has me now so don’t put a star on the wall for me, don’t say some dumb speech just think of me as a light on the headlands, a beacon steering you clear of the rocks.

I loved you.

Such a  great character and actor.Quinn was so awesome.

In my head it all makes sense with this theorie and I’m gonna keep thinking that: Hop is in another place, she said nothing at the memorial because he’s not dead, the floor creaking was her hoping he had come back after all this time, but sadly he hasn’t. She sees of photo of her and realizes how them together will never happen. (So heartbreaking 😢)

If this is the case, they’ll maybe mention that in the beginning of s7 but nothing further. If they want to bring him back, they can easily do that by having Carrie discover his location at the end of the season and have her look for him in s8.

I (Cynthia) accidentally deleted an ask that was requesting the official letter to compare to Rupert’s unedited version. 

Here’s the aired version:

“Carrie. I guess I’m done. And we never happened. I’m not one for words, but they’re coming now. I don’t believe in fate, or destiny, or horoscopes. But I can’t say I’m surprised things turned out this way. I always felt there was something kind of pulling me back to darkness. Does that make sense? But I wasn’t allowed a real life, or a real love. That was for normal people. With you I thought, ahh. Maybe, just maybe. But I know now that was a false glimmer. I’m used to those. They happen all the time in the desert. But this one got to me. And here’s the thing: this death, this end of me, is exactly what should have happened. I wanted the darkness. I fucking asked for it. It has me now. So don’t put a star on the wall for me. Don’t say some dumb speech. Just think of me as a light on the headlands, a beacon, steering you clear of the rocks. I loved you. Yours, for always now, Quinn.”

Here’s the unaired version:

THE LETTER- written by Rupert Friend himself

“Carrie - I guess I’m done and we never happened. I’m not one for words but they are coming now.

I don’t believe in fate, or destiny or horoscopes but I can’t say I’m not surprised things turned out this way. I always felt there was something kinda pulling me back to darkness, does that make sense? But I wasn’t allowed a real life or a real love - that was for normal people.

With you I thought, ah maybe, just maybe but I know now that was a false glimmer. I’m used to those, they happen all the time in the desert but this one got to me and here’s the thing, this death, this end of me is exactly what should’ve happened. I wanted the darkness, I fuckin’ asked for it.

It has me now so don’t put a star on the wall for me, don’t say some dumb speech just think of me as a light on the headlands, a beacon steering you clear of the rocks.

I loved you.

I think they were trying to show us how Carrie can only deal with her grief by putting her emotions in her emotional freezer.

She told the shrink during her psych evaluation that she couldn’t lose another one.

And she did.

The only way for her to keep it together is literally not to go there - not to visit the basement, not to explore her feelings, not allow herself to grieve. It takes Max’s visit to enable her to go into the basement and open herself to the brutal reality of all what she and Quinn never had.

But it’s very sad that we weren’t allowed to witness Quinn’s memorial and only learnt about it through Saul - of all people. The time jump just sucked - as HL time jumps usually do.

As Rupert said:

I respectfully disagree with Rupert Friend and with you… even if I totally understand (and share) your pain and frustration.

The episode was badly done. Time was wasted on unimportant scenes and the finale felt cold and unworthy of five years of Quinn’s storyline development.

But Carrie is not a psychopath. She’s a deeply screwed up person but I felt they did a good job with her grieving. She was ravaged by Quinn’s death and simply couldn’t deal with it - it felt genuine to me.

To me it felt as though Carrie was crying over unexpressed love, lost opportunities. Because of what will never happen.

I found the pacing of the episode to be very weird and cobbled together. The action was so rushed and yet the CPS visit was so long.

LOL true. If Quinn was smiling people would be like, “OMG if Quinn is happy it means he is free from suffering which can only mean he is in heaven!!” 😱

I don’t get the folded flag thing either. That is the proper way to fold and hold a flag. The kids in my son’s cub scouts troop handle folded flags all the time and nobody is dead 💁.