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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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Marne · 05/03/2013 10:43

I enjoyed it but more for the location ( as we live near by) rather than the story line, I will be watching again next week.

Marne · 05/03/2013 10:43

And the accents seemed to be more from Bristol than dorset.

bottleofbeer · 05/03/2013 10:46

I think he's obviouly met someone who killed him and his friend knew about it, in his childish 11 year old way he's thought he'll get into trouble so deleted without thinking the messages will still be on Danny's phone. I think it was just made to look more sinister than it was and perhaps a bit of a red herring.

DowntonTrout · 05/03/2013 10:50

What was dripping off the boys fingers when he was stood at the top of the cliff at the beginning?

Do you know it was a different cliff than the one he was found at the bottom of because you are local? I mean, no one else would know that it was different so is it supposed to be the same one but you know it wasn't or is it indeed meant to be different?

I missed the red diesel.

Why did DT not notice the flashing alarm clock in the boys room? Surely the police would pick up on that and ask had there been a power cut?

I love David Tennant!!

youfhearted · 05/03/2013 10:56

i thought it was blood from the barbed wire, but that particular cliff had no barbed wire, but another cliff, near the tractor/diesal had barbed wire.

bigbadbarry · 05/03/2013 10:56

Trout it looked like blood, didn't it - but he was strangled.If he had cut the barbed wire to steal the farmer's diesel, wouldn't the pathologist have said look his fingers are all cut up? Oh no hang on, was it red diesel and not blood at all? And who was it who said OC's husband was involved in the diesel thing (or did I misunderstand that?) - how did you know?
I missed it being a different cliff too. Actually I thought it was just a dramatic opening sequence and hadn't really twigged it was part of the plot!
Agree that the police should have spotted the clocks all flashing!

bottleofbeer · 05/03/2013 11:04

I thought it was blood at first, I think we were meant to. But yup, the pathologist would have mentioned it. Mind you, wouldn't have have mentioned it if he had diesel on his hands? hmmm.

I wondered what the barbed wire was all about! gawd I'm slow sometimes.

bigbadbarry · 05/03/2013 11:06

Did he say he had cleaning products on his skin?

DowntonTrout · 05/03/2013 11:06

Yes it looked like blood. But maybe was red diesel?

Think the different cliff may well be local knowledge over continuity. A bit like the mother running from the car.byou wer supposed to think she was just down the road from the beach but the locals on here know different.

Must admit I was concerned about what happened to her car though. And she didn't have her bag or anything in her hands, I sort of thought that's a bit silly!

whiteandyellowiris · 05/03/2013 11:07

is that bridport beach and is it sandy?
is it a nice place to visit, look very quant on tv

i think a clue must be something about he was found with cleaner fluid on him?
where could that have come from.

bottleofbeer · 05/03/2013 11:08

Ah yes, he did mention cleaning products. But those would be tested to find out exactly what they were wouldn't they? it wouldn't just be left as 'cleaning products'. Plus, diesel has a very distinctive smell surely? something like that wouldn't be overlooked in a murder investigation.

AnyFucker · 05/03/2013 11:10

is "red diesel" actually red ?

I remember thinking when there was something red dripping from the boys fingers, it looks a bit too watery for blood

MortifiedAdams · 05/03/2013 11:11

Yes, cleaning products found on the skin. I didnt like it at the end where tye parents were discussing it and the mum asks where the dad was - he replies 'on a job', yet the police said parents both in watching tv. Obviously not.on a 'through the books' job or doing something else?

It annoyed me the amount of leering onlookers strategically placed to make us think its them - pauline quirke, the shop keeper,

bigbadbarry · 05/03/2013 11:12

No, the police said mum and sister were watching TV, dad was called out to an emergency job and came home at 3.

AnyFucker · 05/03/2013 11:14

that shop keeper looked like a bad'un Grin < naive>

bottleofbeer · 05/03/2013 11:14

My son got diesel on his jacket once, he reeked of it and it took a good four or five washes to get the smell out of the jacket. So for that reason I don't think it was diesel. If he had it dripping from his hands the smell would have been overpowering and not gone unmentioned or referred to as just a cleaning product. It's the kind of smell you don't confuse with anything else.

DowntonTrout · 05/03/2013 11:15

I presume the first thing the police would do would be to check everyone was where they said they were. And if the father was the only one out of the house they would be on that like a shot.

Flibbertyjibbet · 05/03/2013 11:16

I need to watch the first 10 mins again as I was distracted a few times and realise from reading this thread that I've missed a lot of info/clues.

Regarding everyone mentioning the accents - I feel your pain as at the other end of the country, Coronation St is really bad for it. DP is from Manchester and there's only 3 members of the Coronation st cast with accents from round there - the rest are a right mishmash of everything else vaguely 'Northern'.

It really annoys me as the Manchester accent is quite distinctive and you'd think actors would try to learn the correct accent for the area their character is meant to be from!

Back to the programme being discussed though. I hardly ever watch this kind of series but the trailers made it look interesting. By the time the mother got to the beach there were tears rolling down my face and again when the dad was at the mortuary.

Oh and did they say the mother and father were 15 and 17 at the time they had their daughter? I did think the mother looked very young to have a 15 year old.

MortifiedAdams · 05/03/2013 11:18

Yes mother 15 when she had her.now 15yo. Sorry misunderstood the dad being out. Totally checkable though!

whiteandyellowiris · 05/03/2013 11:18

i wonder if the father was having an affair?

wasnt the father late for work the next day?

MortifiedAdams · 05/03/2013 11:19

The fathers lift was late.

I had a premonition in the hospital scene that Dannys dad and Coleman will start an affair at some.point in the next few episodes.

bigbadbarry · 05/03/2013 11:20

I thought the father's lift was late but I missed what they said to each other - something bantery about, um, something. DH was i/c remote control and wouldn't rewind for me to listen again :)

InLoveWithDavidTennant · 05/03/2013 11:21

Shock how did i miss this thread last night? guess i found the really slow invisible one instead Confused

i was hooked by the first add break. am very happy to see dt in this kind of role... have always wanted to see him as a detective.

i found it quite hard to watch and i dont even have children yet. i think the dad is a red herring and he just doesnt know how to react. and when is someone going to notice the electric? im assuming it was only their house was affected? im guessing its because whoever it was didnt want the family to wake up so early? and notice their son was missing? ooh so many questions! cant believe we have to wait a week for the next episode

bigbadbarry · 05/03/2013 11:22

didn't want the family to wake up...or the burglar alarm to go off, perhaps?

DowntonTrout · 05/03/2013 11:22

Re accents.

The mother, Jodie Whittaker, is from Huddersfield. She was on tv talking about the show and about how she'd had to learn the accent/ have coaching.

I think this is one of those dramas where they are trying to be very clever but end up overdoing it and not everything is believable. You have to suspend your disbelief.

I am very bad at that and so I hope it all comes together a bit better as I really want to like it.

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