waking the dead - i'm confused

[yorkshirepud]

What was all that about the broken necklace? what happened to the other pathologist? Whose baby remains were found at the shrine? Am I stoopid?

In order, dunno, dunno, and dunno. Presumably the broken necklace will crop up in a future story. No idea what happened to the other pathologist. The baby remains were said to be 40 years old, but no other explanation for them, I don't think. Very confusing, you're right.

THE NECKLACE belonged to whatssnames dead wife

he carries it around

the dead baby ws buried there 40 yrs ago, stillborn, so we didnt find out whose it was as irrelevant to the story

what pathologist do you mean?

No, they sent the necklace to Mel's parents but they sent it back saying it wasn't hers. It might be something to do with Trevor Eve's son, at a wild guess.

omg

As for the last pathologist, she's obviously far too busy doing BT commercials to be miserable in their lab.

Look here - it's obviously going to run through several episodes.

I'm sure it was mentioned early on that Boyds son was murdered.

What happened to mel though? Think I must have missed the last series.

Maybe the last pathologist ran away with mel!

According to BBC website:
"DS Mel Silver died tragically, while carrying out an investigation, during the story Shadowplay at the end of Series 4. "
Also
"This story marked the departure of Claire Goose from the show, when her character Mel Silver was killed off. It was also the last appearance for Holly Aird as Frankie Wharton, but her exit is not shown on-screen.
"
Frankie was the other pathologist yes?

BBC site also says
"Boyd has one dark spot in his past - his son went missing aged 17 whilst living on the streets in the 1990s. There were reports that he'd been murdered by a fellow down-and-out but the alleged killer died before Boyd could question him."

Doesn't say anything at all about why the pathologist Felix left.

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Mel Silver was thrown off a building and landed on the car wich boyd and grace were in at the end of teh last series. It was a bit confusing as the episodes where shown out of order, the episodes in which mel died was not the last one shown in the series, so you had her dying then the next week she was fine.

I think other pathologist left because she was a close friend of mel's and couldn't cope with working in that dept anymore.

Hmmm. Slightly clearer. At least I don't feel alone in being slightly bewildered. Thanks.

Ok so WTF was this weeks about? Considered myself semi intelligent until I watched it

anyone? & alone in my thickness

no, it went straight over my head as well

The 'fakirs' were really a secret organisation recruiting and training people to be torturers.

Scott Grey, the arms company, was the modern cover for the group so that Western governments could employ torturers without being seen to do so.

The skull that was handed over wasn't that of the heroic Mahdi, but was proven to be an ancestor of the Sudanese bloke.

Having looked forward to watching it, i fell asleep about 20 mins into sunday's episode so i didn't bother with Monday.

I gave up completely and watched the very rubbishy trial and retribution instead. at least that was comprehensible.

they were both rubbishy weren't they

after they mentioned fakirs and fuzzywuzzies I started to lose interest in Waking the Dead

then turned over to Trial and Retribution and can't say that was much better (that blonde actress, the policewoman, annoys me)

Did you notice Glynis Barber (ex Dempsey and Makepeace) as Doris in Trial and Retribution - she was the father's (of the dead girl) bit on the side