This was quite an intriguing end to the first season, color me pleasantly surprised.
I have some suspicions that story 12 was a dream, but most likely not.
1. Why a dream?
- It feels like it went way too quick.
- The cake topic was overused as fuck and everyone was just curiously into it. There was also no plate where the cake came from. It felt almost as if the cake was just there.
- Isabel's cutlery was next to Luna. Although, it could also be that she argued with Antonio and didn't want to sit next to him. Though it would be weird to bring a plate and not the fork and a knife at least. She is a lady who most likely does not eat with her hands, after all. Also all of them were acting way too chipper for there to be a fight too.
- It was also strange that Isabel was eating whatever she was eating with her fingers, unless it was some weird ass bread or a cookie.
Now, would I like it to be a dream? Absolutely not and it's simply because it would be shit. If the MC wakes up and descends further into the mafia world because of a dream it wouldn't simply be as powerful as the feeling he gets from the real event.
2. About Gracie.
- First off all, if Hopes decides to kill off Gracie I would totally support that decision, one of and the biggest reason being it would piss off all the entitled bitches here who would stoop so low the threaten the man. Fucking hate assholes like that.
- Gracie, at least from the main cast, is the lest interesting character of all and her being shot was funny enough the most interesting thing that happened with her.
- As a person she at least has ASPD and is on a really thin line of being a psychopath and most likely is. Luna on the other hand, even though a sociopath and an extremely talented combatant she is much less dangerous than her for everyone really.
- Will Hopes kill her? Most likely won't, simply because her being hurt already achieved the effect he wanted which is MC descending into the mafia world faster. If she died, the feeling would still be there albeit more intense.
3. If not a dream.
- Enjoyable and unexpected is the first thing I am going to say.
- If the culprit is not one of DeLuca's personnel then the attack was either planned for a long time or it was done by an extremely stealthy person.
- The DeLucas are easily bribed as seen with Trino and possibly the one who poisoned MC's meal.
- If it's a rando then a long preparation was necessary to bring in the gun without being suspicious. Possibly part by part.
- An extremely stealthy person needs no explanation.
Everything else below is debatable because we have 0 clues about anything (Mainly the MC) even after season 1. Sadly it's a really bad mystery if it is like that. If there are the clues we are not seeing yet, that is a different thing. But if the culprit nor any clues were shown by now it is a bad mystery.
- The main target wasn't really set (Maybe the MC) and Gracie was shot simply because Luna tilted the chair which Isabelle was supposed to sit on, making Gracie an easy target.
- The reason they were attacked was because the ones who want to kill MC wanted to show that even though the Ombra Family terminated the contract they could still kill the MC easily if they so wished. They wanted to set an example and nothing more.
- Cordia would be the best target here as her death would cripple DeLucas beyond repair. These people do not care about the rules and shooting Gracie is basically the same as shooting Cordia, the other being much more beneficial. Again not the goal here.
- Gracie was most likely shoot with tournament bullets, possibly slightly modified to 100% pierce the skin. Don't know too much about guns, but the injury should have been wider if it was a real bullet. I do not think that the bullet pierced through, since in a split second you can see her back and there was no blood.
- As for where she was hit, in the initial picture looks like manubrium (The part where the collarbone and the breastbone join), the thickest part of the breastbone which is most likely not pierced by tournament bullets. Yet, when she fell the injury was not there, or at least the blood didn't come from there. Checked it a few times and unless I am blind, it is not there at all and there's not enough blood on her clothes. (Part of the dream theory too, or maybe just Hopes's mistake if not a dream, or again I am blind.)
- If the bullet was not a tournament one and in fact pierced through the breast bone then Graice is dead 100%. Probably not though, because there wasn't enough blood. Again in the initial picture she was hit quite above her chest area so the heart is most likely out, as such she would have been shot in the aorta. And bro let me tell you if she was shot there not only would she most definitely die, but the whole room would be painted red. And again the second picture fucks all that up with the lack of blood and no injury unless it is covered by clothes, so who knows?
- So again, Gracie is most definitely alive and hurt, but alive nonetheless.
4. The Culprit.
- If we assume that Hopes is following one of the main rules of a good detective story/mystery that being that the culprit has to have either a big role or somewhat of an important role, was introduced relatively early, clues are right there for us to be seen, or tricked with some sort of unreliable narration then with the all the clues there the most likely culprit is Wilfred.
- If the ones who wanted to kill the MC really bad, they would have killed him already. He wasn't hidden and as demonstarted a few times not exactly safe with DeLucas.
- I highly doubt that the car he was driving was not checked in any sort of way. He didn't crash because he was known not to drive fast, as such it would not be weird that for some reason he didn't drive fast on that particular day. Though this is not strong of an argument, but could be good to elevate suspicion from him.
- The poison is highly hinted to be the one MC's mother gave him, or she simply gave him a lot of different poisons. Again possibly not a good argument, but it is curious that the poison used was one MC gained resistance against. The MC was monitored as a child so Wilfred would know which poisons were used if more than one.
- The knowledge of the beach house. I think he can send a letter without Cordia knowing if he really wants.
- The fact that Eiza managed to sneak in with Wilfred awake is suspicious to say the least. I believe he was most likely awake at the time.
- Why didn't he immediately run into the room the moment shots were fired?
- As commented by Rutio he was still a good shot as before and it would make him confident he wouldn't kill Gracie.
- The last clue is extremely shaky, but if you think about it is an extremely risky and a high reward way to speed up MC's corruption and once Gracie wakes up she would be not angry, but angry angry not even Cordia would be able to stop her from finding who was the one who shot her. And if all goes according to plan they will find who it was, but by that time they would have already lost.
I am most likely way off on the culprit one, but with the current clues that is be best I can do.
