I sent this ask to Sonny, but apparently he has had enough of my bullshit and didn't answer. I'm seriously hurt here, Sonny. LOL. Ok question: on the Vermont part of Interludes, what was up with that serial killer or whatever? Because I sort of was expecting something to happen but it never did and there was no explanation...Just curious! *mwah*
lol I told Sonny not to answer the question because I would be doing it and he told me to tell you he's old and didn't remember seeing the question.
But his loss because now I get to answer! ohoho~!
You might want to join the serial killer in his escapades when I tell you this, but that was never meant to have an answer. We wanted there to be a mystery that just kind of existed, and the characters never knew the answer to it. No one did.
It was meant to show how, in life, sometimes there just aren't answers. And even though Boyd and Hsin came from this powerful organization and were secret agents who were capable of almost anything, it didn't mean they could walk in on a decades-old mystery and solve it in one day. We didn't want it to seem like the locals were a bunch of idiots who needed these young outsider MCs to come along and show them the error of their ways.
The main point of the scene was to also show another step in Boyd and Hsin's relationship. Even if they are removed from their normal setting, there are things about their personalities that remain. Boyd likes mysteries and Hsin doesn't like dealing with extraneous things, but when Boyd wanted to dig deeper to uncover clues, Hsin got pulled in on the idea of protecting innocents. It also was a point where you first saw how confident Boyd was becoming in his skills, and one of the few times in the series to that point where Hsin outright said he cared about Boyd. And when Boyd realized Hsin wasn't dismissing his abilities but simply worried about his safety, he ultimately let the mystery go.
They hadn't always been very good at compromise prior to that in the series (like, had they ever been at all? lol) so that small interaction was one of the many steps toward them becoming even more balanced as a couple.
