OK, I'm definitely not going through this entire thread to see if anyone has actually answered these properly, but I think it's worth doing, so in case no one has, here goes:
1. Al. This should be obvious from the final showdown where Tui wakes up (after being drugged) on the couch upstairs (in private) at Al's place. The other hints are when Tui says "I don't even know how it got in there" (cause she was drugged), and when Jamie says "you know who it is, wake up".
2. The strongest implication is that Matt is indeed Robin's father. Nothing crops up later to challenge the claim, but the fact that Jonno is "exonerated" implies that it was important that one of either Robin or Jonno not be Matt's child. The other clue is how strongly Robin's mother reacts to Robin and Jonno's relationship. It always seemed a little too strong for the intelligent woman to be chalked up to a "sins of the father" type reaction. She is knows the truth and is a little aghast at the implication.
3. Steve. He is not an important character. The ending of their relationship is another sign of Robin's world is falling apart, partially due to her increasing and not-involuntary detachment from the binds (and safety) of her other life. The show is partially about her journey of healing, which began with her fleeing to Australia pregnant and ends with saving Tui and her baby.
4. Matt didn't mean to kill Bob. He was trying to punish him not kill him. As to why he didn't kick the women off his land, well legally he couldn't and personally he probably had more important things to do anyway.
5. That's one of the central questions of the show and, thankfully, we never get an explicit answer. Tui is obviously headstrong and wilful like her father. Also she is terrified and confused. She clearly has the skills to survive in the woods as Matt so often explains and so she must have felt that somehow being alone and in the wild was safer than being in town with her violent, unpredictable father and her rapist (even though she does not know who it is, she knows someone did it).
6. I can't remember what exactly happened here but suffice it to say Tui's mother is not a very important character. She clearly has had little contact with Tui in the last few years and is therefore not a big part of her life.
7. We never find out, not even a suggestions, really, but given the temperamental and moral differences between them we can assume that at some point Jonno simply got out of there, unlike his brothers or just about anybody else (except Tui's mother, which explains why they might spend time together).
8. Robin's mother never pressed charges, and as we know the Laketop police force isn't into doing more work than they have to. Robin confronts her mother about that in episode 4 or 5.
9. 15 years later is probably a bit late to go digging up old rape cases where there can be no remaining evidence, especially ones in which you are the victim. Plus she had other things to do.
10. "Glassing" someone is hardly a petty brawl. Robin could easily have been tried and convicted for assault. But the real reason is that Al wanted her off the case and out of New Zealand. He never wanted her (or anyone) investigating that case in the first place, remember.
11. GJ is not a problem solver. She simply runs a place for women to go to when they feel they have nowhere else to go. She gives advice only reluctantly and it generally consists of telling people that only they can solve their own problems, and they can all solve their own problem by adjusting their ideas of status, love, pain, family, etc., which is true if you think about it. Moreover GJ knows that advice rarely helps anybody, and so she says what she has to say and doesn't belabour any points. That's my take but GJ is probably the least transparent character in the show so it's hard to say for sure.
12. She was walking up the road, presumably in order to catch transport out of New Zealand. (To Iceland?)
13. Possibly a bit of both, although I would bet mainly on the latter. It would be easier to control if you only dealt with people you know personally. This, along with his kickbacks from Matt, explains his unusual wealth.
14. I'm going with yes. Again, it's not made explicit but the absence of his arrest or some other such scene is telling.
15. I didn't think so at the time but it is possible. My argument against it would be that I didn't feel that particular degree of creepiness from Al before or after. Also, Robin might know if she had been raped, Rohypnol or not, and it wouldn't be worth it for Al to compromise himself in such a way. Al was nothing if not calculating, even more so than Matt. That said, the biggest clue that Al did drug her is when Robin says "what's the alcohol content of that wine?" My personal guess is that Al intended to drug her but didn't go through with it for whatever reason but that could be wishful thinking. I will add that I don't think it's necessarily wrong or emotionally manipulative to have us sympathise with Al here, despite what we know about him in hindsight.
16. So she couldn't drive herself home. It's a well-known thing in Australia/NZ at least to take a drunk person's keys so they can't drive.
17. Actually all of those cases were essentially "solved." We know what happened to Bob Platt, we can safely assume that the girl who was killed by the car was another of Al's victims, and Wolfgang Zanic was likely killed by Matt, although that is again not made clear.
18. The implication is Matt and his sons, but I must admit that doesn't feel entirely right to me, but maybe only because I liked Matt a little too much.
19. We don't know if he so much manipulated them as simply lie about them, but yes, he was lying.
20. Yes! And the crazy thing is all of that scenery is genuinely only in a limited area around Lake Wakatipu.
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