Wow - great ep last night.
Am sticking with the theory that Simon may have killed himself but it is now obvious it wasn't a suicide pact - but was perhaps tied into Adele telling him she was pg.
Am also sticking with Victor not being the son of anyone we now see; but my theory about why he sought out Julie has changed. I had thought he found the most caring female figure he could (nurse) to look after him - but now wonder if he sought her out because she is a link between the living and the dead - having been attacked by Serge and barely survived. Maybe she was effectively dead but was resuscitated? So she is not one of the returned, but similarly was dead and now is alive. Maybe she is the blueprint they want to copy re: how you get your life back?! Agree that Victor jumped out of the window to show Julie that he was not a normal living child.
Still think Lucy was a medium and she hesitated in running because she realised what Serge was and was shocked by that. If she did fully die, then that seems to indicate that the returnees come back with a pulse etc - not just a raging thirst and massive hunger. Which takes this into new territory in Zombie stories and leaves everything up for grabs. How do we know who is human and who is a returnee?
Still think Pierre is a creep. Also - the recurring theme of pictures/photography. Lots of photos on the walls of the bar and also the pictures pinned with tacs all around the twins' home (eg upstairs landing) is somewhat at odds with the neat layout of the rest of the house.
The two graves we see in the opening credits are Toni the barman's mum and brother. Agree that he found out his brother was the serial killer and killed him to stop the murders - assuming that the brother turning out to be a murderer would have virtually killed the mother, as the family would have been shunned if not turned on by the rest of the community.
I also noticed Mrs Costa in the cafe - how did she get cash to buy food - maybe from Mr Costa before the fire?
Also noticed the sound of water in the church even before Adele's daughter went into the loo - which would make you think that the water level is falling in the dam as it is rising in the village? So we have water running uphill, somewhat against the laws of nature/physics. Maybe the new village was built after a waterway was diverted into the dam and it is trying to reassert itself? Maybe the dead are being forced out of their graves in the graveyard, woken up and being given new life by the rising waters? Which ties in very neatly with the homeopathic dam theory! 