‘Blinded: Those Who Kill’ Recap – ‘Episode 7’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Seven of ‘Blinded: Those Who Kill’.
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Mistakes tend to get a bad rap and it makes sense as to why. Because when we make one, we feel awful for certain, since we are beings that believe in the power of perfection and not being able to be perfect in that moment, brings a sense of shame and failure. Plus, sometimes, mistakes bring about unfortunate consequences. The kind that can hurt someone’s feelings if we make a silly mistake in a situation that means the world to the person in question, or it can cost us employment and respect if we make a big enough one at work. But while we could go on and on about how mistakes are awful… that’s really not the right way to look at them or discuss them.
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Because in reality, mistakes are actually quite the healthy thing for us. Since they teach us incredible lessons once we’ve made them, and they also sometimes tend to bless us with a revelation or a new path in which to solve our problem. Which makes them invaluable and important in reality and really, the positive power of the mistake is important to our discussion today, simply because this concept was on full display in the next episode of Blinded: Those Who Kill. Because this particular tale saw a mistake that Louise made in the last episode and one that she made here, provide her with some benefits in regard to solving the case, thanks to the fact that she let it slip to Peter, that she was working with the police to solve the murders and that put the fear of God into Peter’s heart.

For he simply had to know if the police had any real dirt on him and Louise’s admission, motivated him to swing by her house and take a good long look at the case evidence she had in her rental. Which in turn helped him to realize that the police were making solid progress on finding him and that he left evidence behind at the marina, a discovery that Louise made as well. Which in turn led to a brief but intense showdown between Peter and Karina at the marina in the middle of the night. One where Peter got the only evidence that could provide the police with his DNA, and that close of a call… also motivated Peter to make a run for it and that’s where the benefits of making mistakes can come into play. Because his mad dash and outright panic to get out of there, led him to finally make the error that the police had been hoping he would make.

Because he left something important out shortly after coming to discover his wife was back in town to talk about the future and while he dealt with that, Louise was working the case and trying to narrow down suspects by way of the professor that got away and well… that conversation brought everything home. For Peter revealed earlier in this tale to Louise that he once shifted gears career wise and abandoned a field in molecular biology and well… when she realized that Martin taught this subject she quickly put two and two together and was able to get Martin to admit that Peter was a student of his and well, had it not been for her impulsive mistake to spend the night with him and admit her role in the case… she might never have learned the details that narrowed down the fact, that he was the man they’d been looking for. Nor would the police have discovered his collection of trophies from the victims. 

Which is a super simple way of expressing the benefits of mistakes, but sometimes the simplest path is the best way to go and have no fear, there will be complexities to be found with what happened here. Since Louise will have to reconcile the emotional blow back of becoming intimate with a man that has killed so many. But while we wait to see what kind of fallout comes from that, we can bask in a supremely satisfying tale. Because at long last, the police know who their killer is, and they have all the evidence they need to bring him in and put him away for a long time, and his desire to run off and see his wife for either positive or negative reasons, has set the stage for a powerful season finale. One that will see the police work hard to capture and bring down a monster that has terrorized the good people of Funen, for far too long. Until next time.

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