THIS IS A DETAILED THEORY, IF YOU HAVENT FINISHED EP 5 DONT READ.
Finished it sooner then I thought I would so here you guys go, I believe this 100% and unless more info is dropped. This is the number one suspect to me.
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If we are to buy into what the game is telling us and proving over and over again. I am starting to highly suspect that Richy is the kidnapper especially from this newest episode. So let’s break it down to what we learned,
Dan tells us that he believes someone tampered with his breaks the night of his accident, and claims that it has to have been related to the kidnapper. If this is true, there is only one person in the whole group who has the mechanical understanding to mess up a car's brakes and that’s Richy. Also it’s said that Dan is good at predicting events, for example he correctly guessed that Jake had “talked” to Lilly to take the video down instead of hacking the YouTube system.
Further on we receive Hannah phone log, and the first person she calls is Rogers Garage aka Richy to get her car back. Richy is happy to tell the player all the details of the interaction, even the exact amount of change Hannah gave him for his work. The player also has the option to tell Jake that the way Richy was talking to them sounded very rehearsed like he knew exactly what to say.
Hannah’s car might be missing right now, and the person who knows the most about her car is Richy.
And you know one of the best ways to tell if a person is lying? It is when their story is so detailed in every aspect, to the most mundane parts. Furthermore, Jessy was off work that day so Richys story can’t even be supported.
He even mentions that he might be the “last” person to have seen her, now that sounds a bit like foreshadowing don’t you think?
Third, the day Jessy gets assaulted by the kidnapper, only two people knew she was going to be out that night and that’s Phil and Richy. And Richy had the longest to prepare for this interaction with Jessy then Phil did who just learned that Jessy was out on a “walk” with the player.
We still haven’t seen Richys face, the only one out of the group besides Jake who the game developers don’t want us to find the identity of yet, the closest we have come is hearing his voice on a premium recording and a hand during the dare house video. Otherwise we know nothing about his appearance.
Also the Kidnapper did not hurt Jessy to an extreme scale or take her away, possibly because he has a “connection” with her. Why hurt the girl who you apparently have a “crush” on?
And for the suspicious things he has done in the past, he didn’t vote at all for us to stay or go. He was “marked” by the man without a face and pushed the blame onto Phil, claiming it was proof that it wasn’t him. He stayed in the Duskwood Legends chat even though he expressed his disbelief, saying he wanted to “make sure you guys don’t get out of hand with this.” That sounds like watching and monitoring, to me.
He also seems to know a lot about Jake and the players' connection to each other, before anyone else did. And on the day of Hannah’s kidnapping when Jake warned them Hannah was in danger, Thomas immediately drove to her apartment to find Richy already standing outside, that can lead to the possibility that he was there cleaning up evidence.
And if it turns out that all I said is true, realize that Richy is “working” on Dan's car right now. If he messed with those brakes and came back to the chat saying nothing was wrong with them…
Well then Richy is going to have to put in some major effort to make me not suspect him.
It's a sound and the one I see more frequently since the fifth episode came out. TBH, I don't think that Richy will be a bad guy.
First of all, let's not treat all of our possible responses to Jake as a universal truth. There were some points in the game where our suggestions were lately debunked. For example, we could suggest that Thomas went into Hannah's apartment to retrieve anti-depressants (or was it the receipt? I don't remember exactly). Later it is revealed that he went there for a bracelet.
We don't know much about Richy right now to judge him.
We know that Richy doesn't like to bother others with his personal problems. There was his chat with Cleo where he explained that he was arguing with his father. His father got distracted and "she got lost again". One of my friends has a theory that they were talking about Richy's mother who possibly has dementia. That would explain why Jessy doesn't know what he does in his spare time. He doesn't want to complain and bother her with his problems.
Regarding his exceptional memory when he talks about the last time he sees Hannah... I guess he replayed the interaction in his brain since she went missing. Remember how Thomas memorized our phone number? Could just be the same.
Anyways, sorry to butt in. 😶 I just like all the characters and it is disheartening that any of them could be the bad guy.
