The Little Things Theory: Deacon Is The Real Killer

A theory on the identity of the killer in The Little Things puts forward that it’s the corrupt police officer, Deacon, who is responsible. In The Little Things ending, Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) and Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) have no answers to the murder mystery with which they are unhealthily obsessed, leading to rather sinister events. Instead of solving his case, Baxter ends up murdering the prime suspect Albert Sparma (Jared Leto). Instead of turning Baxter in, Deacon is there conveniently to help him cover it up, just as Deacon’s colleagues helped him cover up an accidental murder of his own years earlier.