I’m getting straight to it because this is cool as hell. Read the above Spoiler Warning thrice before proceeding just in case. Good. Done. Wayne Williams, the man believed to have committed the horrific Atlanta Child killings, doesn’t officially introduce himself to the Mindhunter audience until the penultimate episode in season 2. Despite being the elusive focus of much of the season, we only spend an episode watching Wayne, played by Christopher Livingston, effortlessly spin his web of bullshit. Turns out, he actually popped up earlier on in the season.
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Wayne is serving life in prison over the killings of two adult men in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. In the series, FBI agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is confident Wayne is the killer.
Full credit goes to the team at Insider for spotting this because I completely missed it. But it makes sense and is a real “Christ, Mindhunter is so bloody good” moment. As we learn throughout season 1 and 2, serial killers like to return to the locations of their killings to… well, relive it. And in the season finale, we learn Wayne had gotten his hands on a press pass and had been taking pictures of the places where he had killed.
I had a bit of a nerd out when I first saw this so I fired up Netflix to immediately re-watch the scene a good five times. If that sounds like something you’d absolutely do, head on over to episode 6 and skip to the 31 minute mark. Wayne is one of the photographers rushing at the Atlanta PD and Holden for information about the murders. The police had been conducting a search for human remains in Rockdale County, Georgia.
The scene lasts just a couple of seconds and at the time of viewing, I just didn’t notice it. But watching it back, GODDAMN. He was right there.
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Unreal.
Netflix hasn’t announced a season 3 yet… but mastermind David Fincher already has plans for a third, fourth, and fifth season. Bill Tench actor Holt McCallany recently told The Hollywood Reporter: “He [Fincher] said ‘Listen, are you ready to do this for five seasons? Because even if I fuck it up, it’s gonna go five seasons, and I don’t intend to fuck it up.’ So I’d like to think that we will continue, for as long as David is intrigued by telling this particular story.”
Hell yes.
Mindhunter season 2 is streaming on Netflix now.
