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BROADCHURCH mon 9pm itv thread 2

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DuelingFanjo · 16/04/2013 12:03

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?

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DuelingFanjo · 17/04/2013 16:35

Also - if PQ is so determined that her son has evil in him and that he was the one that she saw then why did she tell Ellie at first that she had seen the body from the top of the cliff? She changed her story after more questioning and when Ellie told her that there was no way she could have seen from the top of the cliff.

So why protect him if she knew it was him?

Or is she just lying again?

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NoelHeadbands · 17/04/2013 16:38

AAARRHGGHHHHHHH

I haven't a clue about the whole thing. You're all so good, I wish I had a theory.

My money's on Tom. But I don't know why

AvonCallingBarksdale · 17/04/2013 17:45

Gahhh, it's still only Wednesday! I actually dreamed about Broadchurch last night Hmm My money is still on Joe/Tom.

montage · 17/04/2013 18:08

I think the reason the journalist woman has been reluctant to run stories before is that she knew people or felt they were part of her community.

She was very interested to start asking Pauline Quirke for info and Alec also isn't part of their community.

FeistyLassie · 17/04/2013 18:26

I'm not sure if I missed this - did they ask PQ why she took the skateboard? And then why she gave it to Tom?

montage · 17/04/2013 18:40

www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-04-17/broadchurch-finale-itv-releases-incredibly-unhelpful-video-teasers

ITV have released some new teasers for the finale which are described as "no help at all"

Grin
montage · 17/04/2013 18:47

Actually, having watched them they are all 10 seconds of teaser that even the most devoted conspiracy theorist could get nothing from. They're not even from the finale. But I shall enjoy having them popping up between ads until monday.

Juniperdewdropofbrandy · 17/04/2013 18:50

FeistyL I wondered that too?

Blondeshavemorefun · 17/04/2013 19:19

took a while to find and read this thread

cant believe the last one made 1000 posts-blondes puffs out chest Grin

right, you look cant half chat and as usual im still semi lost - so we know think its possibly hubby who killed him?

still dont get the clocks stopping - that was obv important,or another red herring, prob like the red diesel

roll on monday

FeistyLassie · 17/04/2013 19:26

My new theory is that Rev Rory knows who did it but can't tell either because they confessed to him and he can't betray their confidence or because he was drunk at the time and can't be sure/doesn't want to admit he's started drinking again.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 17/04/2013 19:50

I LIKE that, Feisty! It fits in with why I think he looks so shifty every time the police talk to him but can't quite believe that he's the killer.

blindworm · 17/04/2013 20:12

I think the guy who Jack thought was a postman was actually Paul. He has the same colour hair as the postman Alec and Ellie spoke to. Also could it be relevant that 'Kevin the postman' knew where Olly's boat was?
I might be paying too much attention to the postman.

Chippychop · 17/04/2013 20:22

Oh great thinking feisty! He's been at the communion wine and can't admit it. Lovin it!

teejwood · 17/04/2013 20:24

blindworm y'see I had an early inkling it might have been the postie due to him jumping on his mobile to secure his alibi. But we have seen nothing of him since, so for him to be the killer would be really unsatisfying and I hope Chris Chibnall wouldn't go there.

teejwood · 17/04/2013 20:25

Feisty I like your theory about the Rev!

teejwood · 17/04/2013 20:26

Yes, those trailers really weren't much help!

teejwood · 17/04/2013 20:26

Sorry, that was directed to montage...

MrsSalvoMontalbano · 17/04/2013 20:27

Feisty Rev Rory Grin luv it!

MadBusLady · 17/04/2013 20:44

Yes, the Vicar has relapsed! Love it.

DP has come up with this: if someone, one of the blokes say, was afraid they had accidentally killed/hurt a child in the course of doing something dodgy (like siphoning diesel or poaching), the person they'd call would be Joe - the ex-paramedic. Ellie would be used to Joe getting up in the night to see to the toddler, so might not notice that he went out. But Tom could have been awake (texting Danny at the time?) and might have seen Joe leave, hence his questions to Joe about prison sentences - he's afraid his father did it.

MadBusLady · 17/04/2013 20:51

...But then we came up with an alternative.

Suppose the boat thing is actually complete rubbish from start to finish. If you had a boat, you'd use it to dump a body at sea, not bring it to a different part of the land. It would take longer for discovery and mess up the post mortem more.

Psychic Steve was the first person to mention a boat, and lo and behold a boat is burnt a few days later. If he is happy to tap phones and break into cars, either or both of which might be true, he's probably also happy to burn boats to make himself look plausible.

The next person to mention the boat is PQ. She would have read about the burnt boat in the papers and just described it to the police. Suppose she IS a psycho, and she DID collude in her daughters' abuse. She made a pretty horrible threat to newspaper lady. She doesn't really care about Nige and is happy to frame him. Her boat story is just opportunistic and to misdirect attention from the hut.

...Because IF the hut is the murder scene (where the cleaning products are, where Danny's DNA is etc), the boat makes even less sense. You'd carry the body from the hut down to the beach and you wouldn't need a boat. The only thing you'd use a boat for would be carrying a body from the harbour to the beach.

WreckfestAtTiffanys · 17/04/2013 21:08

Yes- why did they need the boat? I hadn't looked at it like that before, why not put the body in the boat and set light to it? Surely they must have known that the cause of death would be found?

Actually, perhaps it is dopey Nige then Grin

He must have been killed somewhere else entirely for the boat to be necessary?

I'm wondering more and more about Ollie now, not much has been made of him apart from his journalistic ambition, so it would be a shock? Not sure of a satisfying reason though.

FeistyLassie · 17/04/2013 21:55

I can't work out why the beach hut was the murder scene if he was strangled. Surely finding blood in the beach hut just means he was injured there but not necessarily murdered there Hmm I might need to go back and watch that episode again.

charyar · 17/04/2013 22:13

Its the police womans husband!!!!! ??????

WreckfestAtTiffanys · 17/04/2013 22:19

So maybe he wasn't strangled until he was on the boat?

montage · 17/04/2013 22:22

Maybe Ollie is involved in the poaching with Nige and Danny? He did go paintballing with them. Have no idea why he would be except to get more cash quickly for his mum.