Who dunnit?: My prediction, after 4 episodes of The Killing

Very much enjoying Season 1 of "The Killing" 4 (of 13) episodes in; it's adapted from a Danish series, and I kept waiting and hoping that the original would show up on netflix, but I guess it never will - we'll have to settle for the U.S. remake, which is pretty good in its own right, though I wonder about the Seattle setting - can we really accept Seattle as a hotbed of corrupt municipal politics? In any case, the mayoral race is one of many strands in this inriguing plot, about the murder of a high-school girl and the attempt of a detective who's about to leave the force and move to California, remarry, and start a new life (day after day, she's never quite able to leave) and her partner, in waiting to take over her post, who looks like a slacker but shows surprising interrogation skills, especially in his forte, undercover drug work (to say he looks the part puts it mildly). The many strands include the dead girl's working-class parents, of whom the mom, M. thinks, has a back story to tell; the wealthy and gentrified reform candidate for mayor in whose car trunk the dead girl was found, various slacker friends from high school, a teacher who may be getting a little too close to his students, any number of people who'd want to put the mayoral challenger in a bad light, including possibly double-dealing campaign workers and the mayor himself, and other less likely suspects. The plot is very tight, mostly credible (though as in almost every detective movie or book, clues fall just a little too easily into their hands, in order the move the story along), and I really like the austere structure - the Danish influence maybe? - of having each episode cover a single day in a sequence of 13. Just for the record, I'll predict right now the murderer (though from what I've read there may not be a clear answer at end of Season 1): I think it's the bullying dad of Ames, the rich kid who'd had a brief fling with the dead girl: we know he's cruel and physical (the girl was brutalized before death), he could have known the girl through his son, and there are a number of unanswered questions around him: why wasn't he present at his son's interrogation? why no reference to a wife or partner? I don't, however, know how he could have come into possession of the candidate's car.