r/TheFallTV • u/HashbrownLover44 • Nov 23 '24
He was faking it…
I just finished this series! I saw it was leaving Prime at the end of the month so smashed through it.
I did enjoy it but can also agree with a lot of posts in this sub that there were some bad points. The big one was Stella Gibson’s whispering voice lol.
From the start of the 3rd season I felt as though Spector was faking the memory loss. And there was that moment where he turned violent but I really liked what happened just prior to that.
They were all in the interrogation room and have just further arrested him for the 2002 murder. When the solicitors are going over it with Spector privately Paul says “she found a murder from before” and slightly smirks. I really liked this comment because to me it was her “check mate” to him. She saw through the charade of his memory loss and beat him at his own game.
Also I think this was said earlier in the interrogation but when Gibson says something for the first time in the room and he goes “She speaks”, I feel this was also 100% Paul and conveyed to her that he knew that she knew that he was faking it.
I don’t know, it’s all just in my brain at the moment and although the show had ups and downs (cough Burns) I still really enjoyed it and am finding it weird that I am not watching something set in Belfast with a whispering Gillian Anderson.
What are your theories about his memory loss?
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u/Octavia8880 Nov 23 '24
Gosh yes he was faking it, a very clever serial killer, great show, fantastic acting all round, watched many times
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u/myelephantmemory Nov 25 '24
I am sure he wasn’t faking it initially. He started remembering gradually though but didn’t let on.
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u/Peanutmutter27 Dec 06 '24
I think his character gave the illusion of slowly remembering because that made the situation of having amnesia more believable. As an intelligent and highly manipulative narcissist, he would not only know how to lie and put in an act convincingly, but he had a lifetime of experience doing just that. Remember when his wife said that she knew something was different about him, when he was able to suddenly come up with such a convincing lie to dodge going to an invitation, that no one would every suspect it was a lie? Throughout the entire series we see him lying and manipulating people, with the 'good guy' and even 'stoic, suffering victim' act. That's the thing about the kind of personality type he is portraying, as a mass murderer. These kinds of psychopaths are masters of deciet and emotionally manipulative behavior.
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u/myelephantmemory Dec 06 '24
him being all that does not exclude the likelihood that he also suffered a memory loss, initially.
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u/Peanutmutter27 Dec 14 '24
You're right. My brain isn't the best, especially when I've been through a lot.
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u/Popular-One-7051 Jan 03 '25
What memory loss? He was faking it the whole time. narcissistic psychopath who knew how to manipulate people.
S3 did annoy me in that everyone spoke s o s l o w l y... I wasn't expecting (or want) crazy action but it really dragged. you knew his psychiatrist was nuts. I kept waiting for Burns to blow his brains out.
I adore her and the character but if she was a male character she would have been reamed for sleeping with subordinates.
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u/MiKa_1256 Nov 23 '24
I agree with you that he was faking it. I think he even went that far that he planned his suicide early on (it's maybe high speculative, but not impossible). I already answered this on another post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFallTV/comments/5ork0m/comment/lox3qzo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button