BROADCHURCH mon 9pm itv thread 2

[DuelingFanjo]

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?

[TheAllNewMe]

strangled by big hands..I missed that.. hmmm.

well PQ and Nigel didn't do it together - or else they would have said so in that last meeting. She clearly did see him move the body but I don't thnk he is the killer. So someone else killed him and Nigel helped out by moving the body.

Why would Nigel do that and who would he do it for?

Tom knows something that is very significnt and he knows it is.

I have always thought the Mark is a bit dodgy but I don't think he did it either.

So Nigel and Tom are involved somehow. And maybe Mark on the very periphery.

[TheAllNewMe]

"Has the australian woman actually said to anyone that she was having an affair with mark? Maybe he has said that just to give himself an alibi because pretending he had an affair is just that bit less awful than admitting to murdering his own son?"

Yes, Mark and she discussed it so we know it is true.

[motherinferior]

My money's on SOCO. For no particular reason, to be honest.

[blindworm]

Becca tells Alec and Ellie that she met Mark that night in the car park and they had sex.
I think the key lies in what Tom deleted from his phone and laptop.

[DuelingFanjo]

Ah bugger.

[blindworm]

Do we believe that Steve is psychic? Some of the things he say make me think he's implicated in the murder and just pretending to be psychic to put people off the scent. Though he was right about the boat. But in episode 3 he tells Beth not to look for the killer, which seems really suspicious.

[DinoSnores]

"What did her husband say he was before he became a SAHD by the way? A builder/electrician? "

He was a paramedic.

[MandragoraWurzelstock]

nope, he isn't psychic. DT is telling the press this story about a pendant. We don't know if it's true.

But he wants someone to read it. There's no way he would open up like that for no purpose.

[DuelingFanjo]

maybe Joe isn't really Tom's dad, came into Ellie's life 13 years ago when Ellie was pregnant. Tom just found out? Danny told him and knows who his dad really is?

[DinoSnores]

Trying to get the iplayer to work so I can check this but I thought when Ellie said about, "if you go into the bookshop in town all his books are in there", that she said, "all THOSE books are in there," so not about him specifically, just the genre.

[MadBusLady]

Yes he does blindworm well remembered. And the reason he gives her is the same thing he repeatedly tells DT, that the killer is someone close to home who knew Danny very well.

I dunno, it's a bit of a cop-out though isn't it, random psycho who isn't really connected to anyone else turns out to have dunnit. Unless he has some more involved and compelling motive that has been hinted at.

[DuelingFanjo]

Tom also lied under questioning saying that he hadn't argued with Danny. Then said that Danny said his dad hit him. Another lie?

[MadBusLady]

Mandragora But when Psychic Steve first tells DT about the pendant DT does the whole spooky, haunted look as if to suggest it has hit home. I agree he is suddenly opening up to the press for a reason tho. He wants to set something up, maybe for after he dies

[MandragoraWurzelstock]

Yes I remember how he looked at steve. I think he was thinking, how the feck do you know this. And he knows steve is involved. He's just not saying owt, not yet.

[MadBusLady]

Oh I agree Psychic Steve is not actually Psychic, I'm just saying the pendant thing is known to be true (within narrative convention of DT's reaction).

Someone ages ago suggested Psychic Steve goes round tapping police stations in the course of his job and getting info/involvement that way, which sounds very feasible.

[maybemyrtle]

Jumping in - what about the argument with the postman? How does that fit in?

[yellowhousewithareddoor]

Ooh I so want to know. Now!!

[coreny]

it may have been ollie he saw with the postman or it may not have been the postman at all

[coreny]

where can i watch episode 1 again - it's not on the itvplayer anymore and I can't find it on you tube

[RedPencils]

Will Mellor said to DT 'she forgives you for the pendant'. But there's nothing forgive because It wasn't DT who lost it. Thereby proving that WM is talking shit about the psychic stuff.
He's involved somehow
Although I think Ellie saying 'how can you not know' was also a big clue.

In conclusion, I dunno who did it.

[MadBusLady]

Oh good one RedPencils! Of course, if WM had tapped the police phones or got some gossip another way, he WOULD think the pendant thing was DT's fault because that was always the official line. It's only DT (and now the newspaper people) who knows that it wasn't.

[poozlepants]

I've come looking for this thread to ask all you Broadchurch afficionados a couple of questions the answer to which |I may have missed when I was off using the facilities.
Have they established why Danny had loads of money in his room?
Who was the man in the hi-vis vest who was/wasn't a postman?

[MadBusLady]

I was wondering at first whether bloke in hi-vis jacket could have been Mark and the witness (Jack, I think) just assumed it was the postman because it was a man in a hi-vis vest out in the early morning. There must be other hi-vis vests around.

But then when the police talked to the postman (Kevin?) his response was "Why would I have an argument with a paper boy?" which is a bit defensive/evasive and made me think it was him and there was a very good reason why they had an argument.

[Juniperdewdropofbrandy]

Good point about the 'psychic' and the pendant not being lost by DT.

[EspressoMonkey]

Just a thought; the vicar handed the laptop to DT quite late in the day, having taken it from Tom the night before. He is IT savvy, any chance he could have tampered with what was on the hard drive before handing it in? Thus implicating someone else?