“I’ve said before, and I think it still holds up, that on the most macro of levels, the story is an individual’s existential journey through his life, and all the other characters’ own existential journeys,” series creator Ray McKinnon told Yahoo TV somewhat philosophically about “Rectify” as the show heads into its fourth and final season. “We could have left the show after Season 1, or Season 2, or Season 3, or Season 16 if some of the characters were still alive. Their lives would go on, and there would be interesting things, too, about their lives that would happen in that period.”
But alas, things will wrap up after the next batch of episodes, that will focus on Daniel Holden, freed after spending 19 years behind bars for murder, trying to put his life on the outside in order. Did he do it, though? Did Daniel actually commit the crime? McKinnon and co. are staying mum, though they hope to leave fans sufficiently fulfilled once the series ends.
“We’re going to reveal in the first episode that he killed her,” McKinnon quipped at the Television Critics Association (via Deadline). “So yeah, there’s that issue. And hopefully, by the end of the season, how we deal with that will leave you, in a ‘Rectify’ way, satisfied, maybe. Some people it will, some it won’t, but something is going to be revealed, for sure.”
“Rectify” returns on October 26th.