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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 11, 2023 9:00:44 GMT
They do play fast and loose with timing when filming. There was a comment in an early series from Tosh that she couldn't sleep because she couldn't get used to the Simmer Dim – which means it doesn't get properly dark, just no sunlight. It's rather curious, light enough to read a book but no sun, like a grey winter afternoon. I think they probably do film in spring and autumn and have to choose their times as it's very windy most of the time.
I was wondering where the boat came from that was going to rescue the assassins but sped off when they saw the police chasing Don Gilet along the short. If Cassidy is based in London he must have a very wide network!
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Post by monic on Nov 11, 2023 9:09:44 GMT
Small ribs like that boat would be attached to a yacht so the Implication being the boss is on his yacht. There are hundreds of bigger ships in the waters near Shetland
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 11, 2023 9:14:10 GMT
OK, but why is the boss on his yacht up there? The only reason the assassins were there was to track down Ellen, there isn't any other connection with Shetland as far as we know. I realise this is a rhetorical question! But we may never know, I think this element of the story is probably done as Ellen and one assassin are dead and the other assassin is in custody. Cassidy hasn't got the money though so there may be more.
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Nov 11, 2023 13:04:39 GMT
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Post by beverley61 on Nov 11, 2023 13:04:39 GMT
The money, drug bosses would want that amount of money back pronto
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Nov 11, 2023 15:41:17 GMT
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Post by vicky on Nov 11, 2023 15:41:17 GMT
I think the cigarettes were in the scene where the informant was shot, right at the start of episode 1 but would need to rewatch it Just rewatched ep.1. The cigarette butt's were in an ashtray in the holiday cottage that Ellen was staying in courtesy of her friend Rosemary who works for the letting agency. The mother of the lad who is involved with Cal's (apparent) drug dealing operation was the woman who greeted Tosh and Ruth when they first went looking for Ellen at the Bain's farm. She and her son were both present at the family summit that took place afterwards but neither contributed and were very much in the background. Doesn't the mother, Heather, clean for the holiday cottage company?
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Nov 11, 2023 16:13:44 GMT
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Post by beverley61 on Nov 11, 2023 16:13:44 GMT
If she does she wouldn't be smoking in it. I've never known a holiday let that allowed smoking. The ashtray, if at all, should have been outside.
Still it is fiction.
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Nov 11, 2023 16:32:40 GMT
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Post by vicky on Nov 11, 2023 16:32:40 GMT
If she does she wouldn't be smoking in it. I've never known a holiday let that allowed smoking. The ashtray, if at all, should have been outside. Still it is fiction. She doesn't seem the sort to be smoking exotic foreign cigarettes anyway.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 11, 2023 16:49:23 GMT
OK, but why is the boss on his yacht up there? The only reason the assassins were there was to track down Ellen, there isn't any other connection with Shetland as far as we know. I realise this is a rhetorical question! But we may never know, I think this element of the story is probably done as Ellen and one assassin are dead and the other assassin is in custody. Cassidy hasn't got the money though so there may be more. I was thinking about this. If Cassidy also smuggles drugs, he may well have a network of small boats around the islands. Isn't there a route into Europe through Norway?
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Post by marion on Nov 13, 2023 10:08:05 GMT
There's a woman at work who says her husband doesn't know she still smokes. She comes into work and changes her top, she keeps a coat at work. Changes back at the end of the day and spritzer herself with perfume. If he ever mentions anything she says people were smoking at the bus stop. She says he hasn't queried anything for years. I just think why bother, if you can go all night without one. Or why not just tell him you have a couple of smokes at work. A) Why bother, and B) how extremely controlling. I don’t think Cassidy needs to be in or nearScotland. If he is a Mr Big he could just ring up another criminal associate and give him the job.
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Post by vicky on Nov 13, 2023 13:22:53 GMT
"don’t think Cassidy needs to be in or nearScotland. If he is a Mr Big he could just ring up another criminal associate and give him the job"
I had assumed the boat was driven (is that the right word?) by another minion who had been summoned to rescue the hapless pair of hit men.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 16, 2023 22:28:58 GMT
Blimey. That all went very odd.
Bev, you were right about Peter! But I don't think he killed her. Why would he leave her body to be found if he needed it for a sacrifice? He could have just stashed her somewhere cold until the right night. Stealing her body from the hospital morgue was a huge risk. And where did he get the key card?
That was a big twist at the end. Ruth and Stella are about the same age, aren't they? Ick. I wonder if Alan knows.
I really feel for Farida. No wonder she's cracking up. I thought that the blackmail had something to do with Ellen as only Heather knew she was at Langdale. I wonder if Farida, in her grief, told Heather something she shouldn't have and Heather is using it against them.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Nov 16, 2023 22:35:35 GMT
I'm finding Ellen's whole family rather horrible.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 17, 2023 10:46:16 GMT
I agree. In his twisted way he may have thought he was doing a noble thing by disposing of her body to free her soul. Why, though, was he killing sheep, which is how this all started, and leaving their carcases to be found? Some kind of eco protest against farming animals for slaughter?
Took me a while to spot Jennifer Black (Jean) who many moons ago was Stella in Local Hero, and later Gill Templar to Ken Stott's Rebus, but I don't recall seeing her in anything more recent. We're clearly meant to think that Ellen may be Ruth's half-sister as according to Jean, Ruth's father had an affair with the Ellen's mother Stella Quinn. As if Ruth's family life wasn't complicated enough!
They are drip-feeding the Farida/Azir story - still not clear what hold Heather Bain has over Azir, but she seemed to be implying that Farida is implicated in the death of their son and that therefore their daughter is at risk, and what it is that Heather is demanding more of. Money? Drugs (the ones Cal has now stopped supplying)?
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Post by Miranda on Nov 17, 2023 11:41:14 GMT
I think it's money. Didn't Azir say 'there is no more money' in Heather's living room?
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Post by goodhelenstar on Nov 17, 2023 13:34:33 GMT
Just checked – yes, he did say that.
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