user9613861119662 :
I’ve completely changed my mind about Reddington’s strategy. I honestly thought he was deliberately planting seeds throughout the trial to eventually challenge whether Lindsay actually killed the children and possibly point the finger elsewhere. But after watching how he’s examined the defence witnesses, I don’t think that’s his plan at all.
He must be aware of the inconsistencies and unanswered questions in Patrick’s account and the problems with the timeline. Yet when he’s had opportunities to really pursue them, he hasn’t. He didn’t use Laposata to properly explore how long Lindsay may have been outside, whether the physical sequence could fit the available time, or how long three separate strangulations could realistically take. He hasn’t used the digital evidence to comprehensively reconstruct Patrick’s movements, calls or location either.
Instead, everything he’s doing points in one direction: Lindsay’s severe mental deterioration, psychosis, medication changes, suicidality, hallucinations and the fact she was repeatedly asking for help.
I now think Reddington has deliberately taken what he considers the safest legal route to an acquittal. Rather than gamble everything on trying to convince a jury that Lindsay didn’t physically kill the children, he is effectively saying: even if you accept that Lindsay did this, the evidence shows she was so profoundly mentally ill that she was not criminally responsible for her actions.
That also explains why he isn’t attacking Patrick as aggressively as I expected. Trying to introduce Patrick as an alternative perpetrator could distract from the insanity defence and potentially leave the jury thinking the defence itself doesn’t know what happened. Reddington only needs one route to reasonable doubt on criminal responsibility, and he clearly believes the psychiatric evidence is the strongest and least risky route.
And when you consider the stakes, I can understand it more now. If that defence fails, Lindsay is facing the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison.
2026-08-19 07:57:49