Top of the Lake. Mmmm....

[partystress]

Weird but has me hooked. Anyone else watching?

I think the graduation ceremony clicked, with Al, and the students. imo

Oh, I believed the DNA results gullible

Thanks Partystress, I may have been a little distracted on Mumsnet for some of the series

Oh Al was horrible...

Oh good we can let rip. Al definitely the baby's father, and would he have fixed the DNA test for Johnno too? Not sure why though, but he obviously was a sicko and may have liked keeping the half siblings together unbeknownst to them, and a way of getting back at Robin because she spurned him?

I also think nothing really came of Matt because he didn't really have involvement in the teen trafficking ring, it was Al stealthily at the helm of all of it.

Bloody hell, my heart was in my mouth watching that final episode. I'm glad we didn't have Tui suffering too much having the baby too, that would have have floored me I think.

I agree - he was a total sleazeball (and his mumbling meant I had to watch with subtitles...). BUT, what about him telling Johnno that Matt wasn't his father? That seemed like a good thing to do and made me doubt my previous certainty that he was behind it all. Did he have a moment of conscience or was he lying?

Why did Matt take the baby? Was he planning to kill him and if so why?

Al. It was a slow drip. How did he afford his Lakeside (or 'top of the lake'?) mansion? Why was he giving cash to Matt? Clearly Robin was drugged, and probably raped, at his house. He said 'you want that one' or something similar to dodgy German bloke when one of the young kids was serving them in cafe. Makes my skin crawl.

x-post womma - yuck, yes could be that was why he lied.

Off to sleep, look fwd to hearing more theories at 1am feed!

Maybe Matt knew who the baby's father was and taking the baby to him (Al) for some kind of show down? I don't know... I hated him shouting at that little bun and was bloody happy when growling Tui shot him!

Night beaches!

Party, Al couldn't just have been telling the truth could he?! Unless something had to come good for Robin and Johnno...we'll never know!

Just had to remind myself they're not real...

You know back in episode 1 or 2, Matt gave Al a package on the boat? Do you think he supplied him with his Roofies and party drugs (so out of touch I have no idea what these might be called ) - rather than it being a payoff to keep him off his back?

Why was Matt so in denial that there WAS a baby? Was he actually feeling protective of Tui or was he the father after all and Al's Baristas-for-hire scheme was totally separate?

oops. thanks womma - getting too involved! [off to bed muttering to self 'they are just characters, they are just characters']. Will wake up with withdrawal symptoms though... When is Borgen back??

yes, and the sons said they saw Matt with Tui walking on top of him?

Last week Tui said she didn't know how the baby got in there so it must have happened when she was drugged.

Still up. Will pay for this tomorrow. I thought the walking was kind of a massage thing, rather than sexual? Didn't think the sons were the types to go in for euphemisms or not know if they'd seen them dtd. But yes, agree she was drugged and raped.

I think they cast the girl who played Tui well, she looked like the youngest in that group of girls and it made her being pregnant tremendously disturbing.

Can't quite figure out the significance of Matt's denial of the baby and his weird attitude to it

Crap phone, sorry...

...once it was born though. Could he just not really handle the fact that he'd failed her as a parent? Also, he was impotent wasn't he? And I don't get the sighting of Tui walk

So sorry for my weird posts!

...sighting of Tui walking on Matt when he was passed
out. Maybe it's just a red herring, but it was certainly a bizarre environment for an adolescent girl to live in wasn't it?

Right, need to switch brain off now! Night all x

Bloody sky plus cut out again right at the end! Robin was washing something in the lake WHAT HAPPENED PLEASE?

Not sure what was being washed in lake, sorry!

I suspect Matt knew about child abuse ring (from suppling Al with the drugs, his status of being the king pin of the town) but was not directly involved. Then Tui's pregnancy makes him realise Tui had been abused, hence his weirdness about removing and possibly getting rid of her baby. Also could explain him drowning Bob Pratt without remorse as he knew he was involved in abuse ring, always seemed to be an extreme reaction to a property deal that he didn't like.

His mother was buried on that land. That's why he wanted it and didn't want anyone else to have it. Although quite why he couldn't have it, but the crazy, meditating ladies could is not clear.