Matt Passmore ‘Solves’ The Glades’ Dangling Murder (!) Mystery

I totally agree to your idea.

That was along the lines I had thought.

I mean, Ray wants to spend as much time with Jeff as he can – after all, he’s missed a HUGE chunk of Jeff’s childhood. Ray’s mom, as a half-way decent suspect, is not the likely candidate for a would-be killer because she still loves Callie like family and has admitted that her son has made many mistakes with Callie (I forget if it was in sn 2 or 3). Another, ‘unknown’ suspect would be ANY of dozens of personal vendettas, over Jim’s investigation techniques, in the past, that perhaps ruined an ‘innocent’. Now, to round out the suspect list, since the show never used long lists of suspects, Tony.

There’s a great deal of unanswered questions about Tony’s involvement. For instance, feeding Jim information on the whereabouts of Ray – before Ray was even, supposedly, ‘on the run’. “On the run” and his son, Jeff, hasn’t heard word one from his dad? Oh, c’mon.

Seriously, Ray makes for a great decoy. The viewers would *have* to be split between Ray or his Mom, as the shooter. They’re both, in an odd way, jilted or swept aside by a self-serving Jim. Except… they’re not. Not in the ‘real’ sense of family and relationships. With the addition of the witness protection program, that Ray went into, it becomes even more unlikely that Ray, and by extension his mom, would want Jim out of the picture. Though grandma does hate Jim, she is in as much danger as Jeff, from the criminal element that is hunting for Ray, and she knows it. Like, she knows that Jim is good at what he does – he won’t let something bad happen to Callie or Jeff. Or Ray’s mom. Doesn’t mean she has to like him. No, that suspect pool, even up to and including the d-bags seeking vengeance against Ray, is dry. Empty. But it makes for good drama, in the search for a shooter.

Tony is the odd one out. Something’s not right about him. Being his conversation with Jeff, that he had hidden, or his willingness to share details about Ray that shouldn’t be shared, with anyone, his ability to apparently call Jim at precisely the wrong time, every time. It stands to reason, he’s been following Jim and caught him where nobody would suspect Jim to be – his new house that nobody else knew about, outside of Jim’s immediate co-workers.

My money’s on Tony.