Post by xiulan on Feb 13, 2015 5:39:40 GMT
Who knows what it means. You have the same questions I had, except at first I focused on how to find out who the prisoner was, thinking that the PI was trying to link the prisoner to the VR. At first I thought that maybe Visalia was actually trying to solve the VR. the whole thing made no sense whatsoever. Then I wondered if the VR returned, hearing maybe that locals were reinterested in solving the old cold case, and the VR was seeing if the elderly couple had been contacted..
I remember having a hard time explaining this when I first posted it on the old AE board because it didnt make sense then any more than it makes sense now.
My brain works this two ways...As you said, one possibility is that VR returned "home" to find that there was renewed interest in the case and that locals, people from his turf, were essentially hunting him...and posing as a PI would be an excellent way to do a bit of direct canvassing to see who'd been spoken to...perhaps just the ones he might have remembered making mistakes at or not pulling off as well as he'd wanted or ones where maybe he felt he'd revealed a little too much of himself...
I also could easily see him going back to certain homes posing as a PI with some weird story like this just to make contact again. For this kind of guy, live "trophies" would be the ultimate high...up close and personal. As he's telling this tale about prisoners and suspicions, he's watching their expressions, feeling the changes in their emotional state...