MIND YOUR LANGUAGE FINAL EPISODE SERIES
Suddenly, the character and the series starts to feel like a much more personal project for David Fincher than slapping his name on someone else’s show and lending it his signature gray-black, ominous visual template. When Holden later brags about his gambit to Debbie at the grocery store, she has an insight that put this superb episode in context: Holden is directing.
And he wants the murder weapon, a giant rock, to serve as “the shoe,” eliciting a response from the suspect much as the high heels did from Jerry Brudos. He grabs the victim’s majorette boots and hat out of evidence and orders a cop to buy a baton and weather the price tag. He wants the file’s pages on him to look as thick as a phone book, even if it’s filled with blank paper. He wants the suspect to marinate alone for at least an hour before they show up. I’ll discuss that more later, but it’s the stagecraft of the scene that makes it particularly compelling: Holden wants the interview done after-hours. “Episode 10” kicks off with Bill and Holden traveling down to Georgia to question a tree-trimmer for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, which involves Holden abandoning protocol once again and speaking to the suspect at a base level about his possible attraction to the victim and how things might have gotten out of hand. Related StoriesĪll the Signs Holden Ford on Mindhunter Is a Developing Psychopath He’s arrogant enough to believe he’s in the right under any circumstances, but falling apart on the inside. That contrast between lyrics that reassure - “Just believe, and you can’t go wrong” - and music that suggests inner turbulence gets at Holden’s precarious state of the end of Mindhunter’s first season. Between the aural assault of Jimmy Page’s “bowed guitar” (an electric guitar played with a violin bow) and John Paul Jones’s synthesizers, “In the Light” is a profoundly muscular, nerve-jangling song before the lyrics are even under consideration. The soundtrack for Mindhunter has been candid all season - a serial-killer show that uses the song “Psycho Killer” isn’t afraid to talk directly to the audience - and the Led Zeppelin track that’s threaded through this tenth and final episode underlines Holden’s mind-set in permanent marker. You will find the road -Led Zeppelin, “In the Light”
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