Who is Billy?


The acquaintance Amantha doesn't immediately recognize by voice, but definitely recognizes when he pulls his truck up closer to her on the dark road. I don't recall seeing Billy in the series before last night (S4 Ep2), but by the familiar banter Amantha and Billy shared, it seemed to imply some kind of past. Was Billy a character in the show I simply forgot about, or was this episode the first introduction to Billy?

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I think it's the first introduction of him, or I also missed it. 

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Sign in you plague this message board with agonizing stupidity haha

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Haha I'll take Ted Jr.

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I don't think his actions were creepy in any way. This is a small city or town and someone on the side of the road could easily have been someone he knew. He slowed down to see what was going on...was the car disabled or just sitting there? Could someone have been hurt? He saw it was someone he know and stopped to help. Of course, slowing down would be scary to the person on the side of the road, but he identified himself when he saw who it was.

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Why was he cat calling a stranger who very quickly indicated they were not interested.


There's a difference between "cat calling" and asking a lone person, walking in the night in the middle of nowhere: "Is everything okay? Didn't mean to scare you, just seeing if you needed help".

Why did he keep stalking this person for a long time until he realized it was Amantha?


Again: There's a difference between "stalking" and simply driving at walking speed so he can ask something. Sure it's weird that he drove behind her until she turned around and he recognized her, but that was most likely a choice by the director to make the scene feel more "dangerous" than it actually was, obviously you fell for that little trick.


Why did he keep stalking this person for a long time until he realized it was Amantha?


That "long time" wasn't even 20 seconds and during those 20 seconds they kept talking with each other. Can't ask people if they need help if you just race past them at 60 mph, can you? Billy even apologizes for scaring her, saying "Sorry, kinda hard not to scare somebody in that kind of situation" and he certainly has a point there.

In fact, they tell you not to even pickup strangers off the road for the safety of both parties.


You reap what you sow, if you sow distrust then you will receive distrust in return. It says a lot about our current "culture" how you make this, rather friendly and what should be normal, gesture out as "creepy cat calling and stalking".

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i think Ray Mckinnon did this intentionally, to create some suspense, this is a small town everybody know everybody...
but now that you mention creepy, and the way he says he stays out of the talk about Daniel makes me think he knows something more then he is letting on, or he is just trying to be polite,
i sure would be pissed if they introduced the killer at the 11th hour,
but judging by the fact he seems to be in amanthas graduating class, that would make him too young to be the killer,

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that would be a *beep* way to end the story, but how old was amantha when daniel was killed, i know it was before grade 9, because bobby dean was part of her class aswell, "he burried his sister. i watched my brother go to jail, and then we had algebra class together"(or something along those lines) if it was junior high that would make billy 11-13 at the time of hannah's murder, unless he developed fast i don't think he would have the strength to strangle her,

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because he was 19, so did george, trey and chris,

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When Amantha was telling her "life story" at the Thrifty Town training, she said that she was 12 when her older brother went to jail.

Even though I became a teenager back in the dark ages, I remember it was a time when there were vast differences in body development of kids entering puberty. I was one of the taller kids and I thought that I was going to face a life of being taller than any boys I'd like to date, but by the next year, about half the boys were taller than me. A fair number of boys looked like they were going to have to start shaving any day and others still had the "baby face" look. There was just as much variety in the development of the girls.

Shauna & Ms. Phoebe, my God-given Happy Pill

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