Hello!!! I just finished watching Detective Hole. Help me understand the post-credit scene that they had about Tom. Were they setting up something?? (Also, I kinda shipped them, too. Tom's character is very much into older men or dad figures or something like that, no? He goes and lies down where he thinks Harry must lay on the bed next to his gf? But I also thought when he was kidnapping Oleg, that the younger kid could easily play a much younger Joel Kinnaman, and was like, wait a minute ...)
harry hole is honestly a very interesting character but I'm honestly not exactly sure why he went to figure out his past as I've not reached that book yet. to me i feel like it could be harry trying to connect to the younger and more innocent part of tom and to figure out what made him so cruel since harry did feel somewhat inclined to care for him at the end. in tom's final scene, harry does look dejected and even upset at his death, the connection between them being obvious. not only that but harry feels immense guilt for the death of ronny, tom's boyfriend, so that guilt seeps through into his opinion of tom himself which created their fucked up relationship at the first point
when I first watched it, I felt like it could also be from how tom opened up about his dad to harry while harry was in prison. unfortunately there is a lot of their relationship we do not get to see since they don't go through the first few books.
harry and tom's dynamic is very interesting to me throughout the series because they are both connected to each other from equal grief they have given the other person (tom with ronny and harry with ellen). I think there is a spark there that tom uses to his advantage by trying to get harry to join him. unfortunately for us, tom is a psychopathic person and his need for justice overpowers anything else in his head.
tom does most likely lie in rakel's bed to feel something resembling to how harry must've felt as there is something like infatuation between them which is mutual to some degree. harry even gets a dream of tom, showcasing the effect he has over harry's mind. their connection truly is messed up and yet so beautiful, it's a pity we did not get to see more.
