My friends (and co-practicumers) and I discussed the implications, possiblities and beneath-the-surface-analysis of the whole thing. All of us agreed it was unlikely suicide, and financial difficulties is definetely not the reason for it. Because, Ken pointed out, Ted himself said, "Kung pera lang 'yan, kikitain ko 'yan." We are all sure, based on haka-haka, of course, since we're not part of any investigating team whatsover and that what we know are based on what is shown on the TV--controlled information, maybe?
It is, for Vic and me, highly-likely that Ted may have tried to kill his wife, and failed. Or tried to shoot her and succeeded. Why? 1) He was the one who found her, after he came from his DZMM radio show; 2) They (Ted and his wife) had a fight that morning when she arrived from somewhere giving him motive; 3) The gun used was his; 4) The maids inadvertently daw cleaned everything up--the mess she made in the bathroom--after Ted rushed his wife to the hospital. Ted may have asked the maids to clean up. Or he may not.
Further, Ken thought that--whoever shot the wife, the maids or Ted--it was for protection. For her, "Hindi lang sarili niya ang pinoprotektahan ni Ted," which led us to the next question: Ano ang pinoprotektahan niya?
We all agreed it was some sort of romantic in nature. Not the good-romantic way but the one that involves lies-deception-lovers. The wife, we all agreed, was the one who had a lover because she was guilty in her suicide letter, if it was truly hers. And that it was her who did not spend the night. Not Ted. And, their daughter arriving from Cebu went straight to Camp Karingal (where Ted was waiting to be allowed to leave after making his statement--along with his maids) and not the hospital where the wife/mother was fighting for her life. Ken said, this was a show of allegiance. And since daughters--or even sons--are expected to be close to the mother (that one would rush to her bedside instead of going to a military camp where the suspect-father was) by natural means--the wonders of biology--this implicates something. That there is a reason why the daughter rushed to Ted, and not the mom. Maybe this has something to do with the wife's supposed adultery. Hmm.
This looks like a plot directly coming out from some freaky and boring detective novel ala Richard North Patterson or some psyched, worked-up narration of the workings of the mind ala Chuck Palahniuk. But it is not. This is real life. A woman with a bullet wound (am not sure if the bullet is still in her head) is, as Pinoys say it fifty-fifty, lying on some hospital fighting for her life--or maybe she isn't, maybe she's getting ready to die--after being shot--either by herself, by her maids, her husband Ted or maybe somebody else--in her daughter's bathroom. Add to that (some may find it) intriguing plot is Ted's famous anchorman status.
In the midst of all the ruckus, doubts, questions and people's-very-own-musings (like what we had), lies the age-old, million dollar question: Was it really suicide? What really happened that morning in the Failon residence in Tiera Pura?
I wish we had E! True Hollywood Stories to answer these questions, which I sincerely hope would not go unanswered.
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