The Escape Artist - BBC1

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Seems quite creepy but in a good way.

I think I'm a bit lost - why did Foyle have that attack - did DT do something?

Oblique27 he's dead.

How is DT being done for this? He scratched Foyle's arm and then save his life.

Waaaa - don't get it!

is that lady in the prison out of balamory?

Phew, thank you GypsyFloss, didn't twig it was only half way through (dim)

Yes i wondered what it was that made sophie say "how did he know?"

Yes i wondered what it was that made sophie say "how did he know?"

Ha, like that twist :)

But liam foyle did recover after burton administered the epi pen .... ?

I understand how he did it, but am completely baffled about how Sophie knew all about it ..... any theories?

preposterous but loved it.

Glad DT went free but too many loose ends! Still don't know what was in the box sophie received? Who was she on the phone with? The guy DT got to help came out of a hospital in hospital clothes when sophie was spying on him, so did he get the epi pen for DT? .... Theories!!!

The epi pen was his mothers, you saw her necklace at the end...

I think DT got the epi-pen from his mum - in the final scene on the beach you saw her tuck a medical pendant thing inside her coat.

But still don't get the present bit. Was Sophie having an affair with one of the other barristers? Or a judge? She was asking to come round and he said no.

I thought Sophie was given a box of perfume which the killer couldn't have known was her favourite. She said 'how could he know?'

Who did she ring though?

What predictable, unrealistic, badly written drivel. Am watching second series of Borgen, which makes this drivel appear very poor indeed. What is happening to British TV if this is meant to be the finest drama?

Oh dear it was daft!

Ok I think the box was tea - remember she drank some in the prison but that was just in the bag. Never mind how did he know, how did he get in would be what I wanted to know! She was talking to Foyle's rather sinister solicitor I believe. If Burton had just shaken the git's hand he'd have got tea instead of a murdered wife.

So I get the murder thing and I get that Sophie only knew because we (the audience) are too thick to have worked it out and needed it explaining and anyway she's a legal genius so only needs to look at an ipad and know what's up. I don't get the cloned card thing. What was the point of that? Was that how Burton paid his Eastern European mate for getting the files? . Or was that how he found him in Scotland? Very

I get that Sophie knowing was a plot device to spell it out for the viewer, but why did she look so pissed off when Burton mentioned cremation?

Think the card thing was how he found out Foyle had gone to Scotland because the name Ben was mentioned and the lodge/cabin was Ben something

Ahhh yes!

Well the cremation thing - all along she wanted to be cleverer than him. If he had a second post mortem hanging over him she would have 'won', because she'd worked out what happened and he couldn't wriggle out of it - even though she had no intention of using her deductions. She just wanted to be cleverer. Him mentioning cremation spoilt that though it was plainly absurd. How could he have known that would happen, let alone influence it.

Thanks, everyone - that's a few of my questions answered!

Yes, thought it was one-upmanshio as I wrote it

I loved it. Yes it was far fetched but who cares? Brilliantly made and cast.
The thing his dodgy mate left in the bin was Foyle's medical records nicked from the hospital. That child must be traumatised!

The whole epi pen thing was ridiculous,I wish they'd research these things properly! Epi pens are given to the OUTSIDE of the thigh and that's how he'd have been instructed to administer it not to the inside thigh

And if you think the medical inaccuracies are bad, you should see the legal ones! I won't bore you with the details.

I wonder if the script was better but it lost a lot of meaning during editing?

I find such blatant inaccuracies really insulting; it's as if we are assumed to be too stupid and ill-informed to notice/know, or too apathetic or unimportant to care about.

My DH always tells me, 'It's a drama not a documentary', but accuracy makes plausibility, and surely to suspend disbelief and to really become involved in a story we have to find it plausible as well as entertaining?