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Blondeshavemorefun · 02/03/2013 12:31

sexy david tennant 'blonde drools' plays a police officer who investigate a childs body found on the beach :(

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Jux · 14/03/2013 09:34

I thought the local reporter was the son/some sort of relative of the newspaper owner/editor, and they are relatives of Danny's family. I assumed he got the job by nepotism, and quite possibly neither he nor the editor were formally trained in journalism.

The out of town journo is tracking DT because she had messed up her career on Sandbrook too. Well, that's what I think anyway!

diddl · 14/03/2013 09:42

The reporter is Ellie's nephew, I think.

MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill · 14/03/2013 10:24

The reporter is most definitely ( the local one) Ellie's nephew.

tiredemma · 14/03/2013 10:28

Love him in Garrows Law. I have all the DvD's and quite often salivate over him over in his robes and wig. lovely. not so alluring as a plumber though. sadly.

he is married to the redheaded one that used to be in Emmerdale.

qazxc · 14/03/2013 10:56

I was a bit Shock at the hotel woman. as if it perfectly normal to ask a fifteen year old to source class a drugs and then bitch she didn't come back with them fast enough. (i would also hope that most 15yr olds wouldn't know where to get them).

Why did the dad say "your god left my son for dead"? not something like "your god let my son die" or "your god allowed my son to be killed". I thought it was strange and that maybe the dad found son dying or knows someone who did before the body was moved?

NorthernLurker · 14/03/2013 11:11

That's not a postman. definately a man in a high vis - perhaps the dad, perhaps his colleague? Who we saw picking dad up late the morning the body was found and then later saw again watching the press conference...........

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RooneyMara · 14/03/2013 11:18

Bugger, I missed it on Monday assuming it'd be on ITV player but it isn't. Do you have to pay or something?

I can't stay up till 10.

KurriKurri · 14/03/2013 11:24

Rooney - it is on ITV player now, - for some reason you have to put your postcode in, but it is free.

RooneyMara · 14/03/2013 11:40

Thankyou so much Kurri. I found episode one and watched that last week but it didn't seem to let me watch episode two when I tried. Will have another look Smile

LIZS · 14/03/2013 15:42

I watched it on itv player yesterday

MrsSalvoMontalbano · 14/03/2013 17:31

qazxc very forensic of you re words - impressed!
I agree that the mum's acting is perfect - totally believable Sad

montage · 15/03/2013 19:54

I think that Danny and Ellie's son having virtually identical mobiles is going to figure at some point, especially as Danny's phone is missing.

If the vicar was a priest I would think that he knew a lot about what was going on but was "bound by the seal of the confessional" but that doesn't apply to vicars does it?

I agree about the dad's strange smirk - it's confusing and misleading but perhaps just how his face is in repose.

Fiderer · 16/03/2013 08:58

Wonder if Pauline Quirk has the mobile. Hadn't noticed they were identical.

Who owns the hut?

Nancy66 · 16/03/2013 10:09

I think Danny's dad is a drug dealer - with the daughter's boyfriend helping him.

Danny, and perhaps the female detective's son, are doing drops for them.

Fiderer · 16/03/2013 11:12

That might explain why the bf always mentions the dad not knowing the sister is meeting him. I thought because of his age/reputation but if they're both dealing, that explains it better.

cornypony · 16/03/2013 12:49

Yes I think Danny's Dad is suspect, but I don't know about Danny helping him - the messages on his social networking site suggested that they had a poor relationship.
Perhaps Danny 'got in' with another male father figure who had groomed him to deliver drugs to replace his Dad. Perhaps the BF.

LittlePushka · 17/03/2013 07:58

cornypony what were the social networking messages about? i missed that bit

Nancy66 · 17/03/2013 09:31

I've watched the next 3 episodes and the drugs haven't been mentioned since!

gazzalw · 17/03/2013 09:35

How have you managed that Nancy66 - are you in the Business????

Nancy66 · 17/03/2013 09:59

Yes, I work in the media.

I won't post spoilers, don't worry.

cornypony · 17/03/2013 10:08

littlepushka - maybe I'm confused but I thought that Danny had sent messages to his dad along the lines of, 'Remember me - I'm the one you used to play with.'

difficultpickle · 17/03/2013 11:26

Hope it isn't going to be one of those murder mysteries where everything is revealed in the last 15 minutes of the series and a very peripheral character is revealed as the murderer? I'd be quite cross after watching for 8 weeks if that happens.

gazzalw · 17/03/2013 12:17

I reckon that Danny's Dad is having sleezy sex on the beach (and possibly in the super cleaned hut on the clifftop) with unknown people, hence him not being able to name whoever he was with on the beach on the night of Danny's murder. Less of a case of refusing to name them than that he couldn't name them... Might also explain his fingerprints inside the beach hut?

Like Mayday there are a lot of characters up to dodgy dealings - sure it's going to turn out that the newsagent has stuff to hide too. And again like Mayday it seems as if the actors were left in the dark about 'whodunnit' until the last possible minute too...

Would a detective, just as Olivia Colman, whose family are so closely involved with the murder victim and family, really be allowed to investigate? Particularly as it could be her son and husband involved.....

qazxc · 18/03/2013 10:55

how did they know it was the postman he was arguing with. just seemed like a bloke in a high vis to me. Do i need to go to specsavers?