Artur did have a motive for killing Daniel (he slept with Monika) so it would have been quite difficult for him to convince the police of his innocence. Was it definitely an accident? Almost certainly (and it was very dark) but it’s also a very necessary plot point.
He presumably thinks it’s Malczak and jumps out and stabs the person repeatedly. Artur is hiding in the woods and terrified when he hears someone approach. Was he planning to kill the others? Hard to say, but after Kamila screams and Artur confronts Malczak so the others can escape into the woods it’s pretty clear the kids weren’t going to be complicit after all, so it’s reasonable to assume that Malczak might have killed the others too.Īrtur did, but he didn’t mean to. The fight and strangulation probably just presented an opportunity for Malczak to kill Monika and make the others complicit. So it seems likely that the plan was just to get her naked, like the big perv that he is, rather than actually killing the kids. And if the altercation hadn’t happened and Kamila and Artur had just left with Daniel and Monika’s clothes, as planned, then Malczak couldn’t have got away with killing Monika, without being immediately under suspicion. He obviously can’t have known that the girls would fight and Kamila would strangle Monika. The Stranger Review: A Binge-Worthy UK Thriller By Louisa Mellor
