9/10
I went back and forth on giving this an 8 or a 9 because it does still have some AAI pacing issues but I'll go ahead and make this my lowest 9/10 because I feel like throwing AAI2 a bone here - it still doesn't stack up to the best traditional AA cases for me but it's exciting, memorable, and makes me fully give a shit! The whole past/future dynamic works pretty well here and even though the murder is like, completely insane and involves a completely ludicrous scenario, I can somehow buy it. The cast is really good in this one. This is definitely peak AAI.