BROADCHURCH mon 9pm itv thread 2

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Is it ok for me to start a new thread.

Can anyone tell me why Ellie says about Will Mellor's character:

"if you go into the bookshop in town all his books are in there"?
he is KNOWN to the police for this, plus the petty convictions, vehicle theft and conspiracy to defraud, they say in EP 4. So why is he allowed to write and sell these books?

Ah of course. Is it Monday yet....

If it turns out it is Joe and Tom and Ellie has to say something feeble like "oh I sleep really soundly/took a sleeping pill so I didn't realise I was alone in the house while they were committing murder" then I will shake my fist most vigorously at the telly/Chris Chibnall

One thing I am not sure about... Did they get anything from Danny's computer (if he had one) and if not could it be that someone broke in and tampered with it and that's connected o he electricity gong off? Clutching at more straws. Only 3 sleeps to go!

DF I LIKE that idea about the computer/power cut!

I do wonder if someone broke in, but not for that reason (not sure a computer can cause a power cut, it's very low wattage, and how would that affect the alarm clock?) DT asks in Ep 1 if there are any signs of a break-in and Mark says no and Beth looks at him in a v puzzled way.

I might just be scanning the characters' faces too closely now.

I think the vicar did it. Or did he?

Hurry up Monday!!

SOCO would be a real curve ball. Can't be him.

But that's why it could be: it has to be a curve ball. I just think we're being pushed far too hard to think 'has to be the husband'.

I went out for lunch with another journalist who had interviewed OC - and no, she didn't know who did it - and we then spent a very animated 15 minutes speculating madly.

i assumed it was danny in the tent - tho why would he be standing - surely would be lying down - unless meant to be the murderer?

so... am now preparing for Monday never thought I'd say that!
Wine, snacks, sofa booked (told DH & DC that I shall be available only for life-threatening situations between 9 and 10.10, and they can do what they like, wherever they like on Monday, but the living room is mine, ALL MINE!)
And looking forward to this thread deconstruct on Tues... NEVER done that before a tv prog.

I thought the scene in the bedroom with Danny and Mark was a dream.

There was also the bloke that DT was talking to one night - was that a dream/all in his mind too?

Oh, maybe it was then. I thought Mark could have been flashing back? But yes, equally likely he just feels guilty.

What bloke was DT talking to? Must rewatch more.

Maybe we were supposed to think it was a dream

Maybe Danny did come home that night, after catching Mark with Becca. But then went out again.

Also, I'm pretty sure the Danny in that scene was wet (maybe imagining things). Why would he be wet, even with the boat & the body on the beach?

It has to be a major character, one that has featured prominently.

Whatever Tom is involved in also has to be something heavy that throws Ellie into turmoil to fulfil all that "in your own house" foreshadowing last week.

Joe was remarkably sanguine laughing away with Alec when he came to dinner if he actually did it - I know the actor wouldn't know if he was the guilty one but he would have been directed to act shifty/tortured, like the vicar constantly does, for that scene if he had done anything surely?

The Latimer's were probably right when they gave Ellie a list of suspects that turned out to be all their friends as every single person in the village seems to be connected to them.

Just rewatching episode 2. The postman is lying. He says he was with the lads that night, they got hammered...and they finished at about 4.

Then he phones someone.
we haven't heard any more from him though. And it's almost definitely him in the flashback with Danny.

Gah - saw tis thread in active convos and have been sucked in.
I am meant ot be WORKING here....
I haven't read Jude the Obscure - too much Tess put me off Hardy - what is the link with this pls?

I'm not convinced there is one tbh - if you read the plot on Wiki it doesn't sound very similar.

The connections are Hardy's books being set in Wessex, something about a 'broad church' in his writing and also that the newsagent was reading it.

oh and when Joe and Ellie talk to Tom in his bedroom, about talking to the police and can she be there, Joe puts his hand on Tom's in a very emphatic manner. Like he's trying to stop him saying anything.

sorry that bit isn't to do with hardy!

Well it has been put much better up thread, but Alec HARDY, is a character in BROADCHURCH, a theory that Thomas Hardy wrote of, it is set in DORSET it involves a child's death by asphyxiation (child perpetrator and victims in Jude, the motive was to save the family though). The newsagent was reading Jude as his alibi on the night Danny died. I agree with mooneyrara the links are tenuous and circumstantial...

Shall we have a whodunnit bunfight now Olivia for you to moderate, to justify your just staying on this thread?

I do get quite snarky when anyone suggests that David Tennant had anything to do with it, or that lovely Ellie is anything other than she seems.

I have given out trying to work it out as it makes my head hurt.
I'll plonk my money on Danny coming out of the shower telling Beth it was all a dream (a la Bobby Ewing in Dallas)

Yes qazxc, when Alec clutched his head on monday, at yet another complication in the case, (and said to Ellie "as if working with you wasn't annoying enough!"), I really felt his pain.

DT was talking to his doctor at one point, about his illness, in what looked like a bus shelter.

I think it's less about the who and more about the why.

I think Alec Hardy did it