elias exquisite character because he spent 79 episodes being a non-entity i couldn’t even tell apart his voice from jon’s then the second pipe murder happens he arrives with his story presence off the charts and immediately starts calling cops stupid to their face and makes an insanely funny john doe joke about leitner and also coyly lets the audience know that he was aware about martin lying on his cv and then proceeds to trap melanie in a faustian bargain the second she anxiously confesses to being at the end of her rope and then calls the cops on himself AGAIN (he’s already done this two times. gertrude’s disappearance / gertrude’s body in 40) and gets away with it toooo all while clearly having the time of his life. truly nobody was doing it like him.