Indian Summers

[Arsenic]

What do we think?

JW overacting as normal....

i know the document forged by kaiser, Jw's aid, to show the would be assassin was a terrorist, but he wasnt, it was personal and something to do with ralph's previous job?

Ah thank you, so that could also account for whatever it was the would be assassin said when he approached them to do the shooting. He was yelling something and the guy who was shot remembered it when he was having his pic taken but then decided against telling saying if he could remember anything.

And I'm gald Ralph and the assassin knew each other from before - I didnt really think he could be his dad but strangers things are possible.

In one of the trailers someone said what the assassin shouted was " you devil" or "you are a devil"

I agree Horace a strong emotional connection, but hatred on the old mans part. Maybe he had a son who had an affair with Ralph at his previous posting & died/was killed as a result being a native?

JW is a scheming old bat who trades on the many connections she has built up over the years & the gossip she hears. Probably the only link Ralph has with his childhood as he grew up there so he clings to her. She is trying to manipulate both him & the yanks as a marriage brought about by her would be very useful if Ralph becomes viceroy.

ralph's sister, is she alice, thought the asssssin said You are the devil, but ralph denied that. agree it could be related to his son and ralph

Does anyone else think that Ralph might be part Indian?

I did, and I'm still not sure that he isn't.

I really did think he was handing his father, the would be assassin, a cup of water when he went to the cell because of the intimacy between them in the scene.

It seems though they just knew each other form the the past and he actually gave him a razor blade or something in the cup.

But as I said earlier - I still think there's a surprise in store re his ethnicity.

Horace you're right it WAS Alice, I remember now, she suspects something or remembers something from their past too I'm sure.

Ralph is too pale skinned to be part Indian, I am sure but there was something between him & the assasin.

He cut his own throat (badly) with the rim of the water bowl, but managed to say something to the nosey newspaperman not sure if he got it though.

So if Ralph knew the would be assassin, was the bullet not intended for him, but for Dalal himself? But it went wrong because Alice went and interfered and insisted on Dalal being taken to hospital?

oh i was just confused because his hair was dark, like an indian's. but that could be the case, very common, although the missionary's school is for part indian's isnt it.

alistair mcgowan has indian genes, as does joanna lumley

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian

no i am sure the bullet was intended for ralph

I thought that the "assassin" called out Ralph's name to get his attention?

ralph whelon

No, he's not too pale skinned to be part Indian. My children are all mixed race and none of them have the same colouring, plus one of my grandchild is a blue eyed blonde whereas my other grandson the same age as him is obviously mixed race - their dads are brothers.

And to add to list of well know people who are of Indian heritage - Billy Connelly.

So, can we safely say there is a connection between Ralph and the would be assassin.

I thought that Anglo Indian could also mean born there but of British descent?

Hadn't somebody found a link to Ralph and the would be assassin in one of Ralph's previous postings?

There was something that made me think that the kid Adam who was found in on the tracks in episode one could be Ralph's kid- something in the teaser anyway? "Terrorist" could be an ex-lover's da out for revenge.

I like it, beautifully shot and although most of the cast are relatively unknown they're doing a solid turn. Can't get past Donovan from the Inbetweeners transformation!

i think on reflection you might be right diddl, joanna lumley is quite fair skinned isnt she

I stand corrected weebirdie

Lavolcan I think the nosey reporter hinted he'd found out something didn't he?

Yes young Adam has to be significant, not srue how yet, could be a love child I guess.

"I think on reflection you might be right diddl, joanna lumley is quite fair skinned isnt she"

Although does it make sense that Brits would call themselves Anglo indian due to having a history with the country?

It does make more sense that it would refer to someone of Indian descent as well.

Just found this-

"a person of English birth or citizenship living in India."

so i would imagine both then.

What are we like

oh yes, i forgot about billy connelly,

anyway

back to the tv programme

Anglo Indian is also those who where born out there.

I loved it, very evocative, beautiful scenery and people.

A lot of people seem disappointed with the show but I'm really enjoying it myself. The cinematography alone is a visual feast. I now plan my Sunday evening activities (shower/hair wash plus dry/style, epic as I have a lot of hair; cooking/eating dinner; clothes wash; cleaning up) around it.

I hope there's more of a reveal of Alice and Ralph's secret(s) this episode, but not too much. I'm quite enjoying all the mystery.

Anglo indian

Didn't Alistair MGowan's 'Who do you think you are?" programme talk about this and it explicitly means people with 'mixed' blood Linky.

I grew up in west London, not far from Southall and knew lots of people from that area. I understood Anglo Indian to be Indians who came to the UK a LONG time before the main immigration in the 50s/60s, maybe early 20th century, not sure. I remember a girl I knew during school time who I then worked with later on telling me this. She was white (Part Irish) and had married what she called an Anglo Indian, described as above.