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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 16:30:06 GMT
I'll have to check back on my recording, but I thought the conviction was how they found Sara under her maiden name, as she'd been arrested with Samira, the woman they visited who had remained friendly with her for a couple of years after she quit? I'll be a bit put out if the child abuser turns out to be someone who hasn't been introduced two episodes in to a six-episode show. But we don't know for sure yet that there actually was any child abuse, do we? We're being led to think David was abused and was on the point of confronting his abuser when he was murdered, but as far as I recall the evidence for this is the phone call from his friend, who hasn't appeared yet. I thought they traced her through the landlord, not a conviction. Could be I am muddling up their lines of enquiry though. I agree the child abuse bit may be a red herring. (Is it the sort of thing blokes talk to their friends about?) If this friend was so close, he should be being investigated surely? |
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Post by Miranda on Jan 13, 2017 18:47:49 GMT
No, I think they found out she was a prostitute from the landlord and that's why they looked for any convictions. Those lead them to her friend that she worked with as they got arrested together and the friend gave them her married name.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2017 10:20:47 GMT
Another excellent episode.
Fab acting all round, though, plot-wise, I'm not sure you can hide anything in your medical history from adoption agencies because you have to have a medical report done, with past and present conditions and any likely future health problems (eg if close family members have had heart disease in later life) revealed. Being sectioned would surely loom largish on anyone's medical records, unless, I suppose, it was done outside the NHS. Can you be sectioned privately?
Anyway, putting that to one side, what have we learned? Well, the 3 being investigated clearly knew each other, but we still don't know how/why. A high-flying banker, a prostitute, and an IRA sympathiser seem odd bed-fellows somehow. I was disappointed Sara's husband reacted so badly to her revelations about her past. I know it is more dramatic if it precipitates a rift, but if you love someone, even though you might be shocked, would you not be supportive?
Do we assume Wendy Craig's husband was a teacher? He went on a lecture tour in the States. He could have moved from Primary education up to training teachers or other Uni post maybe. In which case, could he have been the abuser?
Why are the police not looking into the background of David's best friend? They seem to just be believing him and taking it at face.
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Post by sootycat on Jan 20, 2017 13:06:30 GMT
Another great ending.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 20, 2017 13:37:54 GMT
Another excellent episode. Fab acting all round, though, plot-wise, I'm not sure you can hide anything in your medical history from adoption agencies because you have to have a medical report done, with past and present conditions and any likely future health problems (eg if close family members have had heart disease in later life) revealed. Being sectioned would surely loom largish on anyone's medical records, unless, I suppose, it was done outside the NHS. Can you be sectioned privately? Anyway, putting that to one side, what have we learned? Well, the 3 being investigated clearly knew each other, but we still don't know how/why. A high-flying banker, a prostitute, and an IRA sympathiser seem odd bed-fellows somehow. I was disappointed Sara's husband reacted so badly to her revelations about her past. I know it is more dramatic if it precipitates a rift, but if you love someone, even though you might be shocked, would you not be supportive? Do we assume Wendy Craig's husband was a teacher? He went on a lecture tour in the States. He could have moved from Primary education up to training teachers or other Uni post maybe. In which case, could he have been the abuser?
Why are the police not looking into the background of David's best friend? They seem to just be believing him and taking it at face. Yes, I was wondering this. |
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 20, 2017 13:50:40 GMT
I'm wondering if Colin was telling the truth about being sectioned. We know from his husband Simon that he has had issues with his temper in the past and I wonder if that included violence – I'm assuming that when he threatened his blackmailer it wasn't bluster. He can't have been in prison or he wouldn't be able to have a legal career, but wonder if he was somewhere else off the radar, perhaps connected with Marion's IRA contact? Then again, it would be foolish to invent being sectioned if he hadn't been, knowing that the police would check. More to come there, clearly. Will Tessa join the three of them next week?
I was disappointed in Sara's husband too, but then all he did was go for a walk, shocked by what he'd heard. Presumably he will walk back once he's digested it ...
I imagine the police will investigate David's friend. At least we saw him this week, not just a reported telephone call as last week.
And what is going on with Cassie's father? Part of me thinks she's got a cheek treating him like a suspect and going through his mail, but I suppose it's her copper's instinct telling her that something isn't right.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 10:16:11 GMT
Another good episode, with David moving from victim to perpetrator. So sad to see Sara's world unravel in such a painful manner.
I suspect Marion will turn out to have been one of David's victims, possibly in the short period she spent in a reform school in her teens, but I doubt she will be the murderer in the end. Colin's world is looking precariously balanced.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 27, 2017 11:26:49 GMT
Sara hasn't yet come clean about why she was in such a dark place in her life that she turned to prostitution. Not too impressed with her husband, telling her it must never get out while shouting so loudly that their impressionable youngest son heard him. I realise it was a short cut to bad news getting out but it was rather clumsy!
We're clearly meant to think Sara, Colin and Marion were all victims of David's abuse. It's a pity the meeting in the pub wasn't followed up (yet) and that so far Tessa doesn't seem to be connected with those three. We know the three are connected somehow, perhaps by abuse, perhaps by something else as yet undisclosed.
Is Martin's story connected in any way, I wonder, or is this just to show us that Cassie can't stop being a copper?
I thought the actor playing Jason was really very good. He is a big bloke with a deep voice, yet he manages to be vulnerable and unstable at the same time. And – trivial point, I know – I was amazed at the difference in Sara's appearance when she didn't have kohl round her eyes! With that and not wearing a scarf she almost looked like someone else. I assume her headship application has gone down the Swanee, possibly along with Colin's adoption and career. That's partly the point of the series, of course – cans of worms that may be unconnected to the central case but which are opened during the investigation and with devastating results.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 27, 2017 12:19:12 GMT
I agree, a good episode. I also agree that the actor playing Jason is really very good.
I was frustrated that Sara's son only stayed around to hear his dad shouting out that bit, why didn't he hang around to hear more or, better still, go in and ask if he'd heard correctly and ask for more information. I'm pretty sure that my own sons would have come straight in and questioned the statement, they wouldn't have simply heard that bit, 100% believed it was true (they wouldn't have believed it at all - I ain't never been no prostitute!) and then gone off and told a friend. This happens so often in dramas and soaps and it drives me bonkers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 13:06:00 GMT
I agree the actor playing Jason is excellent. Heartbreaking when he was talking to Cassie in the car, aware he is different but unable to bridge the gap.
It's a given with this sort of storyline that a lot of lives get shattered.
I don't think Martin's story is connected to the case; rather it is a link between series.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 23:20:50 GMT
I thought exactly the same about Jason, brilliant acting but then they're all brilliant actors. It's both fascinating but heartbreaking to see all their lives unravel, I'm wondering if they all played some part in his death, or maybe I'm over thinking it. Credit goes to the writer as I haven't really got a clue who done it.
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Post by diziet sma on Jan 29, 2017 12:03:19 GMT
I like the theme music. Can't remember if it was the same last series.
It's called All We Do by Oh Wonder.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 12:50:15 GMT
Yes, it is the same.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 11:01:48 GMT
Another great episode ... though I still have no idea whodunit! Hope there is a 3rd series.  |
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Post by vicky on Feb 3, 2017 13:37:32 GMT
We left Cassie saying she thinks she has worked out how all the pieces fit together.....blowed if I can! It doesn't matter though because I am completely rivetted by the story and the acting is amazing. I don't want it to end.
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Anymore to come?
