YMMV / The Fall (2013)

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Anything Spector does that seems to be nice or caring. Does he actually care about anyone, or is he solely doing it to maintain a cover?
  • The reason he killed Bailey in the clinic. Most people would point out that he didn't want children to get hurt, which is the motive he needed to kill him since he raped and killed his sister. Others mention that those who abuse/kill children are singled out for the worst treatment while incarcerated. Most would entirely agree that Spector needed to kill Bailey so that he can't call on the guards to stop him from killing himself.
• Crossover Ship: There's a relatively large fanbase for shipping Dana Scully (The X-Files) and Stella Gibson, especially on sites like AO3, mainly due to both being played by Gillian Anderson.
• Les Yay: DSU Gibson and Professor Reed Smith, oh so very much. And as they are Agent Scully and Kalinda there is a very specific demographic that they would appeal to. [1].
• Refuge in Audacity:
  • When Paul Spector is being reprimanded by his boss for not following protocol, the former starts mirroring the latter's gestures and words for a good two minutes.
  • In the first episode of the second series, when Spector is returning to Belfast, he sees himself on the front of a woman's newspaper as a police facial composite (as he appeared 9 years ago), and then flat out asks the woman if she thinks he looks like the man in the composite sketch. When she answers with a "maybe," he takes out a pencil and starts filling in a beard over the composite, and asks again if it looks like him. She answers with "a little bit, yeah."
• The Un-Twist: After Spector wrestles a lock of hair from Katie that she had nicked, the latter asks whose hair it is. You'd think that it was Sarah Kay's, as Spector had clipped hair from each of his victims. Spector claims that it is a lock of his mother's hair, which he washes regularly to keep fresh. By the end of the second series, it turns out... it is his mother's hair.
  • While Spector apparently did have a lock of his mother's hair, that wasn't it. He puts the lock of hair Katie in an envelope, which we later see Katie burn because it's evidence from one of the murders.
• The Scrappy: Katie, for being an unendingly smug Fille Fatale who is willingly helping out a serial killer because she has a crush on him. Granted she doesn't know exactly what he's doing, but the fact she's helping him hide evidence from the police is bad enough.

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