Your prestigious TV addiction is about to suffer a great loss: there's only one episode left of The Night Of. The crime thriller stars Riz Ahmed as Naz, a shy college student with maybe the worst luck ever: after a chance night on the town with a beautiful stranger, he wakes up from a drug-induced haze to find his new friend murdered. There's blood all over him and he runs out of fear, and before you can say Making a Murderer, Naz is in jail as the very obvious prime suspect. Or is he? We spend "the night of" with him, and it seems pretty clear that this kid is no murderer. But who else could it have been? Ahead of the finale, we have a few theories for the potential killer.
Combine bad luck with even worse decision making, and there's Naz (Riz Ahmed). He's the prime suspect and the main character, and it would seem like the focus on his apprehension and his getting a lawyer (John Turturro) is meant to prove his innocence. But we pretty much still only know what Naz knows, so here's how the evidence stacks up right now.
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Yep, this guy is actually named Duane Reade; he's one of the guys who encounters Naz and Andrea on the street and tosses a racial slur at Naz. One of them, Trevor, is the only one to come forward as a witness, which set off our initial suspicion of him.
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We acknowledge that this is the least likely theory, but that's what makes it so interesting. We don't know a lot about Andrea (Sofia Black-D'Elia), but we do know that she seems very troubled, engages in casual drug use, and seems pretty wealthy. Here's why we think she could be her own killer.
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Another prime witness, Andrea's neighbor, is the one who calls the cops. It could be a classic red herring.
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At first, the hearse driver was merely creepy in the pilot, but after Chandra meets with him, we know our initial suspicions were there for a reason.
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We meet Andrea's stepfather in episode two, and frankly, he seems very unmoved by her death. He's apparently her only living relative, giving us more of a picture of the slain young woman. He also suspects that the police are calling him for something else bad she may have done, showing his opinion of her isn't very high.
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