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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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SoggySummer · 19/03/2013 08:56

I am wondering who mum is pregnant by. Maybe it was not just Dad playing away. Perhaps his plumber mate??? or even female detectives partner (far fetched phaps) Not sure.

Also think there is more to come about the female detectives son. He is involved somehow and the squeaky clean image of the Dad/detectives DH/DP makes me wonder if he may even be involved somehow.

JakeBullet · 19/03/2013 09:08

Ooh soggy, I have been wondering that too....is it the vicar do you think.....or is he a relative. Can't quite get my head round the various relationships yet.

bigbadbarry · 19/03/2013 09:44

I'm wondering if there was a body in the boat (have watched too many Agatha Christie's, too - there is never just one murder). Definitely not Mark's noat, apart from the plasticky fiibreglassy thing, wasn't his yellow? And the plumber's van is blue.
Love Olivia Colman. Loved her asking DT to dinner :)

bottleofbeer · 19/03/2013 11:02

I suppose a couple of slow episodes in the middle is to be expected but something major has to happen to keep my interest for eight weeks. This all feels like padding now to draw it out. If last night's episode is anything to go by then I think this story could have been wrapped up in a lot less than eight hours of TV tbh.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 19/03/2013 11:04

Thanks cornsilk couldn't make it out.

Don't think the vicar is the father of the mum's baby.

Pauline Q's character looked almost chirpy at the newsagent's. Being hostile to the police only gets their backs up, if she had something to hide wouldn't she be more approachable?

MortifiedAdams · 19/03/2013 11:49

I think it needs to be slow. These things take time. I like the complexoty of it, constantly having to remember little clues or hints.

The mums acting is superb, along with Coleman.

Blu · 19/03/2013 12:15

Pauline Quirk does have something to hide: she has Danny's skateboard in her closet.

Things we know;
Ellie's son deleted messages from his phone as soon as he knew Danny was dead
Drugs and money found in Danny's house
Danny's sister says the drugs came from the woman in the hotel
The woman in the hotel was shagging Mark
Danny's sister knew that - she texted her and told her to go and confirm the real alibi
Danny's skateboard is in the cleaner's caravan
Mark's prints are in the hut but not explained satisfactorily - cleaner denied his explanation
Blood in Mark's boat, but not yet tested, or Mark's explanation confirmed
Newsagent man saw Danny arguing with postman - allegedly
Cleaner saw Alec at the hut and diverted her route.

what else?

Manictigger · 19/03/2013 12:29

Wasn't the burning boat the one next to Mark's in the marina (can't be arsed watching it again on ITV player) I vaguely remember them both being wooden and knackered?

And the forensic tents were still on the beach so how come no-one noticed a huge bonfire out at sea?

bigbadbarry · 19/03/2013 12:53

What the hell are they still doing in those tents? Especially given how uninterested anybody was in the body itself "some cleaning fluid"!?

RooneyMara · 19/03/2013 13:00

was it another boat - it looked different.?

They would know if D had a cut on his foot from the autopsy

Why was Mark comforting Danny at the start of this episode? Or did I get that wrong? You know, in the middle of the night.

RooneyMara · 19/03/2013 13:01

Oh yes I LOVE the bit where she says 'say yes!' and he sort of grunts, and she says THANKYOU bloody hell. then 'Knob' Grin

gilly86 · 19/03/2013 13:02

Loving broadchurch and so is DH which is a surprise because thought he wouldn't be interested!
Love love LOVE David tenant.. So much...

bigbadbarry · 19/03/2013 13:04

Mark comforting Danny was a dream, wasnt it, we saw him wake up in his bed afterwards?

RooneyMara · 19/03/2013 13:05

I can't stand will mellor. blurhg

RooneyMara · 19/03/2013 13:05

Oh thankyou Barry. That would make sense yes.

Madamecastafiore · 19/03/2013 13:05

Sorry to sound stupid but my main beef is that the forensic tent things would have been washed away by the tide by now along with any evidence but it seems they are still there??

Also not sure the female detective would be allowed to be on the case considering how close she is to family.

And I want to slap the daughter, she has a heather McCartney face, how did she know where her dad was???

Oh I will be pissed of if the conclusion is crap, I spend hours watching things like this only to be disappointed in the final episode!

Madamecastafiore · 19/03/2013 13:11

Garrow looks sort of like droopy the dog when his face gets all twisty too, very odd!

TomArchersSausage · 19/03/2013 13:20

Danny might not have been arguing with the postman. The newsagent chap only saw it from a distance and assumed it was the postie. It could have been the creepy psychic phone engineer. They wear hi vis clothing too and he could have been there in the lane mending a phone line.

TomArchersSausage · 19/03/2013 13:24

Also what's wrong with DT's character? He met that doctor on the quiet and it sounds like he's ill with something.

greenhill · 19/03/2013 13:28

Why haven't they checked Pauline Quirk's key signing out book to confirm that Mark was at the cabin? Is DT's brain tumour (?) causing memory loss (or just a "funny turn" in the previous episode).

DreamsTurnToGoldDust · 19/03/2013 13:47

Can someone just confirm this, Danny went missing either in the night or very early morning, or was it on the way to his paper round? Or does no one know?

JakeBullet · 19/03/2013 13:50

Nobody knows...Mum checked in on him at 9pm and he was reading. Dad got back at 3-4 am but didn't check on him...he never turned up for his paper round.

lilibet · 19/03/2013 14:02

%Blu% - we know that there was theft of agricultural diesel, I think that is going to be connected in some way.

lilibet · 19/03/2013 14:15

Blu - I have no idea where that % came from!

Manictigger · 19/03/2013 15:00

Madame, yes the tents are starting to piss me off too. How many days are supposed to have passed since the murder?