This post contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episode 5.
Denial is the first stage of grief—and that’s where we’re at today, following last night’s episode of
Mare of Easttown.
It all happened so fast. One moment Mare and Detective Colin Zabel were tracking down blue vans that matched a description given to them, and the next it was clear they were inside the home of the perpetrator responsible for kidnapping the town’s young women. The revolting home, the Winston cigarettes, the suspicious banging on the pipe. The man knew that the detectives were onto him. Then, all of a sudden, bullets were flying. Evan Peters’ Detective Colin Zabel was on the ground before he could even pull out his gun. It was so fast that it wasn’t immediately clear if the shot whizzed over his head or right through it. How could they kill off our sweet Zabel so soon? And right after his first kiss (??) with Kate Winslet’s Mare?