Dan Fogelman’s hit Hulu series, Paradise, wrapped its first season on the streaming platform on March 4 and its Season 1 ABC ...

As it turns out (spoiler alert!), the killer was hiding in plain sight all season as the bunker’s librarian (played by Ian Merrigan), a disgruntled former employee of city founder Sinatra ...

The killer? Paradise's librarian, "Trent" (Ian Merrigan). His name isn't actually Trent, as we learn through the extensive flashback sequence from 12 years earlier that opens the finale.

The seemingly harmless librarian Eli Davis (Ian Merrigan) briefly appeared in episode 5, but it wasn’t until the finale that his backstory and motive for murdering the president were revealed.

why — “Trent the librarian” (Ian Merrigan) killed Cal. Said explanation began 12 years in the past, when construction on the city soon to be known as Paradise was just beginning, and the man ...

The episode opened with a typical Fogelman flashback scene, as we meet one of the construction workers (Ian Merrigan) who built the Paradise bunker into the side of a Colorado mountain.

So that brings us to the finale. In flashback, we meet the guy in charge of the construction team (played by Ian Merrigan) who helped build Paradise, thus far only glimpsed in the background of ...

But when the project manager Trent (Ian Merrigan) discovers that the work site contains lethal levels of a toxic chemical that will eventually kill the workers, he is promptly fired and becomes a ...

Turns out, Cal didn’t actually know who was going to kill him — because Trent (Ian Merrigan) came out of nowhere. Then comes some rewinding back to Cal’s last day. One of the highs of the ...

left to right: Ramiz Monsef, Jon Beavers, Ian Merrigan, Casey Lee Hurt. Radio Wolinsky 11: A conversation with the creators of The Unfortunates, playing at ACT’s Strand Theater through April 10, 2016.