u/BeautifulLie3260

(This is a rant about the defense attorney)

I just finished watching the documentary The Fire That Took Her. It is absolutely heartbreaking and an extremely hard watch but so worthwhile. To sum it up, it is about a woman who was set on fire by her boyfriend and received burns over 80% of her body, and the story of how she became the first person to ever testify at her own murder trial. I think everyone should watch this documentary.

The real thing I want to talk about is the fucking defense attorney. That man is scum of the fucking Earth. The fact he came in and consciously decided to record explanations behind his decisions as the defense attorney of this case knowing damn well what he did is beyond me. This man tried to use every single loophole he could find to silence her and not let her testify, and when they finally find a way to allow her to do so in which she must come off of all pain medication despite severe, severe burns, he tries to make a dying woman’s last pained effort at putting her attacker behind bars admissible on the grounds of unreliability. That is so fucked, given the fact that she already came off of all pain medications for that very reason, to be fully lucid and reliable. I know it’s his job to try and get his defendant the least amount of time behind bars, but frankly i don’t gaf. I am just so disgusted at how a person could so vigorously scour for a way to get a monster out of jail and make sure the victim dies without justice. And he just had no remorse whatsoever. Like talking about it in the documentary, he was so nonchalant about his motives and how he didn’t care about corruption or the pain of the victim at all. I don’t know if anyone is even going to read this but I needed to get it out there because it was pissing me tf off.

So this was really just a brainstorm, but I was thinking about what the reaction would have been like from their families, friends, and entire town after the crash, because that is such a genuinely tragic thing to see—that your child is missing and you have no closure. I was playing it out in my head, and then I was thinking about how that could be a really interesting way to open season four. Like it starts out with a bunch of kids at school before an announcement comes on explaining the plane had gone missing, or the families casually doing whatever at home with the tv on in the background before seeing the story.

I think it’s interesting because the first line ever said in the show comes from Allie in the pilot, who says “I’ll never forget the day I heard their plane had gone missing,” and we know this show loves to go full circle from the s3 finale, so it could be cool.

Either way, I really hope we get to see the families reactions—especially from Travis’s mom, who lost her entire family, and the families of Nat and Van, who we know canonically have frequently incapacitated / distant parents.

Anyways, does anybody have another way they think the show should open? Or things you really want to see? I’m curious.