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Oh, and if the accomplice is not Sophie: the Hawthornes should just unleash Jack on the accomplice. He'll take care of him/her!

Who told the story of Tessa pushing SBK downstairs anyway? Has to be Maddie, right? If it was Maddie, it could've easily been Maddie killing SBK and then pinning the blame on Tessa. If she's strong enough to strangle Morales, she's strong enough to push SBK downstairs. If we want to go even more Machiavellian: SBK is a hitman hired by Maddie for some reason, something happens that causes the connection between Maddie and SBK to potentially leak (maybe SBK is about to leak the connection himself, either carelessly or on purpose), so Maddie "hires" SBK to come in and off a family member (Mitchell?), with the intention of betraying SBK and killing him in the dark, thinks she succeeded, pins the blame on Tessa, manipulates Mitchell into killing Morales, and Garrett into burying the body. Totally far fetched, but at least it would make SBK more than just some random dude that finally shows up in episode 11 and is immediately offed by a sickly little girl. I think the consensus now is that the accomplice is Sophie and/or Tom? I am on Team Sophie, but Tom is certainly the next most likely possibility for me.

You're right, that is strange. I suppose they could both be in art school when this happened, so the two stories are not necessarily inconsistent, but that's pushing it a little. Plothole...or is there something more to it? Did the dolls have teeth? :-p

In the pilot, it was mentioned that Cam and Sophie met in art school. So Sophie's at least good enough at art to get into art school. This also implies that Cam did not know Sophie in 2002, so the question remains as to how SBK could've gained access into the Hawthorne mansion. It's possible that this question would be resolved when we learn more about the identity of SBK himself - there has to be more reason why they specifically chose to intrude into House Hawthorne when the entire clan is around. If SBK really is just some random dude we haven't learned about in the past 10 episodes, this would be a seriously unsatisfactory payoff to the primary mystery that supposedly drives the show. Replacing it with "who is the accomplice" just isn't good enough.

I loved the dollhouse! It had a consistent and distinctive style, and personally I thought it was incredibly easy to recognize which characters the dolls were supposed to represent given how small they were. Certainly, a layperson would be unlikely to create a such a fine house/dolls. An artist, however...

Also, considering that the accomplice seems to know what is going on inside the Hawthorne mansion, she/he should know that Jack is also in the house (in fact, Mitch specifically mentioned Jack being upstairs in one of his lines in the episode). If it's Sophie, there would be reason why Jack is not included in the dollhouse.

I stick by my theory that Sophie's the accomplice, but it certainly could be Tom...

As it turns out, Tessa was the actual SBK killer! :P (Edit: actually, Garrett was, but Tessa came close!) You were right, of course, that she was too young to be the actual SB killer, hehe....

I'm thinking that Sophie might be the SBK/accomplice somehow (I'm guessing she's the accomplice to Papa Hawthorne's SBK). Of all the actors on the show receiving starring credit, Stephanie Leonidas plays the character most likely to be a killer: Brady and Tessa were watching the live broadcast of the kidnapping of the reporter in the last episode, it's not Garrett or Jack (would've been awesome if it was Jack, by the way, but this is not a sci-fi show), Mama Hawthorne asked Garrett "What did you do?" in the flashback (and just seems to be the "know a lot but isn't the one who did it" character), Alison would've benefited more from using the reporter to her advantage, which leaves Cam and Sophie. Frankly, if Sophie doesn't have a bigger role to play in all of this, I would've expected her to be a recurring guest star... Furthermore, where does Jack's psychopathic tendencies come from anyway? I remember reading somewhere that they wanted Jack's psychopathy to be an interesting "nature or nurture" question, but to make it interesting the "nature" part must come from somewhere...Cam seems to be the red herring here to the true psychopath Sophie. Sophie's behavior throughout the series, her possessiveness of Cam, is also consistent with her being a psychopath... What do people think?