Carol looks more like the bad guy with each passing moment.
If she didn’t sucker Clark into setting the stage for Floyd’s death so that he’d look guilty and she wouldn’t, then DTF St. Louis is going to have to write itself out of a very convincing story so far.
At this point, if I were the detectives, I’d be pulling her into a cell right beside Clark’s because while he’s giving them invaluable information, he looks less guilty all the time.
As I surmised in my DTF St. Louis Season 1 Episode 2 review, Carol didn’t just happen upon Clark in the Jamba Juice, nor did she drink the healthy Go Getter like he did.
She’s a watermelon gal and sat in the Jamba Juice for hours drinking Go Getters to the point of bankruptcy just to further lure him into her sexy snare.
On the outside, Clark looks like he has it all. He’s got a great job, a lovely wife and children… but he’s hiding a secret, too. Clark likes to be controlled. Well, when Carol walked into his world, he got his wish and then some.
Before I start laying out why I think Carol killed Floyd, there is something to remember here. We are getting this story through Clark’s perspective, and like any story, there are many sides.
I do not doubt that he had genuine feelings for Floyd. We’re not even sure what they entail at this point, but he clearly loved the man.
However, he’s also slowly dealing with Floyd’s death by way of interrogation, and that could be slanting his story in ways we don’t even imagine.
So far, though, he has answers for everything and has wanted to clear his conscience, to make the detectives understand.
But the point does come on DTF St. Louis Season 1 Episode 3 when Clark stops talking and asks for his lawyer. The key is the key. And I think that key ties him to Carol’s plot to kill Floyd, but until he began processing everything, Clark missed it entirely.
Carol is a sneaky one. She made Clark feel seen. She made him feel special. She promised he could tell her anything. He could trust her. And for some reason, he did.
It’s interesting that Clark admits to loving Floyd and Carol, but that while Floyd was like the sun and the water, Carol… wasn’t. She wasn’t even close.
I doubt Carol could have known how hard Clark would fall for Floyd. After all, she is unimpressed with him enough to have an affair and possibly even murder him.
Yet when she was at the concert, she seemed genuinely happy to see Floyd so happy. A part of her had to love him. Just look at the way he loved Richard. Well, the way Floyd loved pretty much anyone other than Carol.
We knew early on that Floyd had enormous feelings. He had been speaking about Richard with nothing but love since DTF St. Louis Season 1 Episode 1.
But nothing prepared me for just how good he was with Richard. Richard clearly struggles in life. But the way Floyd talked to Modern Love about Richard was gentle and kind, and that kindness even stretched to Modern Love.
Floyd was the kind of guy who would go with the flow to ensure he didn’t make anybody feel awkward. Without his readers, which we have yet to see, Floyd thought David Bowie was a beautiful woman. Hey, it could happen to anyone, right?
But when he showed up, Floyd didn’t let it ruin their breakfast. And when breakfast was over, he actually did engage in French kissing and a little ass play, even if it happened purely as a result of that unending kindness of his.
And Carol may think that Floyd wasn’t a great husband because his crooked penis got him down, or he was sorely in debt, but he showed love for her that she doesn’t even know about.
Caring for Richard the way he did was as much about Carol as it was about Richard.
Yes, he wanted to be important in that way and felt Richard was a blessing, but he also wanted Richard to be a good son. Part of the spreadsheet idea was to make sure Richard told Carol he loved her and helped her around the house.
Dad things, you know? My dad used to call me and ask about my car. It was how he loved me. He wanted me to be safe. Floyd wanted everyone in his world to feel loved.
Yet he got annoyed at Carol for her umpire uniform. He wanted to have sex outside of marriage. He was surely not perfect, and we may never know why he was so amazing in some ways and less than in others. He’s dead, after all, and all we have now is how people related to him.
But Clark felt that love, and Richard felt that love. And I think it threw Carol to see how Floyd’s death affected her son. But she also reminded him that she would do anything to ensure they were alright.
And I think part of doing that was for Clark to pay off Floyd’s debt and get him life insurance so when she killed him, they wouldn’t be left paying the bills. She needed a fall guy, and she needed to be unaware.
How did she do it? By making Clark feel safe with her, to start. He could play powerhouse and sex robot with her, and she didn’t judge. Well, at least she didn’t let Clark know if she was judging because that might spoil her plan.
Carol even pretended that paying Floyd’s bills would help her get closer to Clark, that she couldn’t fully submit to his fantasies while she had this heavy burden weighing on her. By paying Floyd’s bills and getting him life insurance, he would be paving the way for more sexy play.
And why wouldn’t he want to be close to Floyd? Floyd was a great guy. He probably had no idea how much he’d grow to love Floyd. I do wonder if he and Carol were still hot and heavy by the time Floyd was killed.
How do you carry on an affair with someone when you love their husband even more? Why would you want to hurt him? Part of it could be that Clark wanted to be as close to Floyd as possible, and if they weren’t going to have sex, he could have it with Carol instead.
Clearly, I’m spitballing here. Even though I have had an affair and been in more awkward scenarios than I care to admit, you never know what drives another person to do something.
Another part of Carol’s plan was to keep herself in the dark. That “for serious” nonsense wasn’t about her fears that she would reveal what she knew about Clark paying Floyd’s bills to Floyd. She was having an affair and had no problem not revealing that secret.
I think she didn’t want to know what Clark did — from the details of his friendship with Floyd to any debt paying he’d be doing — because she would be in the dark when someone came to ask about it.
This way, everything lands on Clark, and he looks like the bad guy. Carol is literally in the dark, but also knows enough to know that the bill collectors aren’t calling. And if an insurance agent knocks on her door, she’ll also know that mission was accomplished, too.
How wonderful for her.
Except the world, including herself, her son, and the man she’s roped into her dangerous game, all lost Floyd, and it’s a worse place because of it.
Or… maybe not. Maybe I’m completely wrong because these storytellers are whipping up something so unexpected that I can’t even imagine it.
I did consider that Floyd could have offed himself, especially since he knew Carol and Clark were having an affair. We have no idea, outside of the original reveal, how he reacted to that.
Maybe he chose to take himself out of the equation.
Or maybe Clark did kill Floyd, and we just haven’t seen his motive yet.
It’s still so bizarre to me that this whole story is taking place without hardly a mention of his family. When does he spend time with them? Maybe his wife killed Floyd, thinking Floyd was stealing her husband.
I want to know because it matters. It’s not just the mystery of it. The human side of DTF St. Louis is complex and messy, hilarious, awkward, and beautiful. There is something deep here about relationships and our sense of self.
Floyd with his penis. Clark with his desire to be controlled. Carol with her need to protect Richard, without even fully understanding him. We all struggle with our sense of self, and that bleeds into all of our relationships.
Even if the mystery was never solved, hanging out with these characters and seeing how their struggles are written makes DTF St. Louis worth my time. We’re all just trying to find a little connection in this world, and it ain’t easy.
Opening our hearts to others can be as painful as it is beautiful, and you never know which side of the equation is coming your way.
But what about you? Do you think Floyd could have really been that magnanimous? Was Clark truly and utterly suckered into being Carol’s fall guy?
Or do you think this will all swing around and something out of left field will throw it all up into the air again?
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