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*rollonthesummer* 's Broadchurch Series 3 thread, PART 2

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ThaliaLuxurySpa · 30/03/2017 23:15

(Hope ok with you, rollon, to continue thread on your behalf?).

part 1 Broadchurch series 3 here

Let's go onwards with our intriguing or madcap theories, people...

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easterholidays · 04/04/2017 17:18

I think it was Jim. He has a pick-up truck, which puts him in the frame for the first two attacks, and his "why would I rape her when I'd had consensual sex with her that morning" line ties in neatly with the dispelling of other commonly-held misconceptions about rape that the series has already touched upon. Cath has a hold over him (does she know something about the earlier attacks?) and now they've coincidentally decided to leave Broadchurch (his suggestion, I think?).

I don't think there's an underground porn circle or sex gang; I do think we're being shown some of the effects inside a small town of rape culture and all that goes alongside it.

Ed is obsessive and has a violent past: doesn't make him a rapist. Ian wanted to spy on Trish because he suspected she was having fun when he was supposed to be the one doing that after they split and he found himself a younger model, so he got CreepyTwineBoy, whom he used to teach (which is why he knows he's an IT whizz) to install some spyware on her laptop. After the rape happened both of them panicked. but I don't think there's anything more sinister than that going on (although that is quite sinister, obviously).

Taxi man and his wife and the son have an untold story which will come out, but I don't think it's connected to the rape. The son and Tom Miller are friends, so maybe that story will connect up with Hardy's daughter and the photo, and the upshot will be that taxi man is a wrong'un, but again not a (or not this) rapist.

Can't work out, though, why IceCreamGirl lied for CreepyTwineBoy. Does he have any connection to Jim? Or was he doing something else entirely - maybe connected with Ian?

Not as good as S1 but I'm still really enjoying it. Some super acting all round, I think.

everywhichway · 04/04/2017 17:29

Someone please tell me that Ellie's dad (Roy Hudd) isn't mixed up in all of this....

StruggleAvenue · 04/04/2017 17:34

A few of you have touched on this - but on a sideline I think something key is going on with the whole porn thing. So Ellie's son and the taxi drivers stepson are in trouble for porn at school. Alec's daughter (at that school) has had a picture of her circulated. Trish's husband who is a teacher at the school is now being very sneaky and weird about Trish's laptop and desperately wants something gone off it!? And I don't know but thought Beth Latimer telling Chloe to 'how about look up from your phone' might have been a subtle point - what's going on on the phone?! Something's going on just don't know what?!

CarrieBradshawsScrunchie · 04/04/2017 18:45

I've never thought it before, but I'm now thinking maybe Tom Miller DID kill Danny and it will all come out at the end..it would explain why Joe pleaded not guilty, make poignant Ellie's line to Tom, something about 'you will not be your father's son' and provide a parallel - fathers and sons and their protection/love of them. Plus, Tom has his freedom because of his father's sacrifice but is effing up his life by being a creepy little oik!

CarrieBradshawsScrunchie · 04/04/2017 18:46

Maybe!

Graphista · 04/04/2017 18:58

"The blue twine thing is annoying because that stuff is simply all over coastal towns being used for everything" yes thought that from beginning. I think research on what small coastal towns are really like is lacking.

Creeps with dodgy shit on their laptops/phones try all sorts to get rid - it rarely works it's amazing what they can do now.

Torn between being annoyed about the clues not being followed up and thinking that's actually quite realistic as results don't come back in a few days as portrayed in many tv shows.

It's the fact the writer says it's a trilogy makes me really think Tom killed Danny - but I don't think Joe is 'innocent'

thenewaveragebear1983 · 04/04/2017 19:13

Was last night's episode number 5 of 8? So there's 3 left?

So that gives one more episode for more 'whodunnits', episode 7 to draw conclusions and arrest someone, and episode 8 for a bit of aftermath/trial etc (which I suppose they may do as it's the last episode). I do think Ellie will quit the force to spend more time with her family- that's been sort of loosely hinted at that she is struggling and clearly her relationship with her oldest son is suffering.

Dozer · 04/04/2017 19:55

Yes, it's unfortunate that Ellie has to rely on her unsupportive and bigoted dad to supervise her son!

Graphista · 04/04/2017 20:03

Last nights was episode 6 of 8 only 2 episodes left

APlaceOnTheCouch · 04/04/2017 20:19

I wondered if the blue twine was a subtle class comment tbh. Ellie doesn't know how common it is because she's a policewoman and her husband was a paramedic. Hardy is a city detective.
Trish and Cath are 'girls on tills'. They're not moving in the same circles as Miller and Hardy.
Plus it is evidence regardless of how commonplace it is.
I wonder if Mark's suicide will push the vicar to leave the area or the priesthood. He's going to feel guilty.

Stillnoidea · 04/04/2017 20:56

I read some blurb on Wikipedia from the creator about how the programme is about loss, not crime. So I don't think the three series are so some twist can come at the end about joe/Tom- it's so we can see the longer term effect of loss, eg mark's suicide.

Cagliostro · 04/04/2017 22:29

In tears after watching the latest episode :(

Cagliostro · 04/04/2017 22:55

I'd be really surprised now if it turns out it was Tom not Joe, as he confessed again.

I think the laptop/phone smashing will come back to bite Ellie as it'll be important evidence - echoing the smashing up of Joe in series 1

Still not got a scooby who it is though!

TizzyDongue · 04/04/2017 22:58

Ooh found you all!!!

I'm liking the idea that Ed suit is dirty because he was following Trish at party, witnessed therefore knows who raped Trish. But why, if he 'loves' her is he not saying - the man who raped her must have something very bad he can blackmail Ed with. So whoever is the rapist knows Ed well enough.

Weirdo ex husband is a possibility - ed might not have seen it as rape at the time of witnessing as he's was Trish's husband but only knew afterwards. Though its got to be bad whatever he's been blackmailed over.

Hmm OK. Maybe not.

Yep. I've no clue.

Graphista · 04/04/2017 22:59

Yea I'm thinking whatever ed saw was not what happened but maybe the rapist waiting for Trish and him not thinking that was necessarily suspicious, which makes it likely to be Ian or Jim

APlaceOnTheCouch · 04/04/2017 23:05

Do we know if Ed's fight with Jim was inside or outside? Maybe that's how Ed got mud on his suit.

Graphista · 04/04/2017 23:42

I don't think we know yet but I don't think it was 'knock down drag out' more a bit of shoving and posturing.

Missanneshirley · 04/04/2017 23:44

If Ed is an obsessed stalker there's no way he'd stand and watch someone else rape Trish. So he either didn't see, or he did it. But I don't think he did it!
Has it been established who rents the property near the crime scene? I'm sure that must be important?

raspberrysuicide · 05/04/2017 01:33

I've always thought it was Tom who killed Danny and his dad covered for him.
I also think that the light Trish saw was Tom or Lucus or someone filming the rape on their phone and it's probably still on Toms phone and laptop that she smashed up.

diddl · 05/04/2017 04:18

In the American version Ellie's son killed Danny, not her husband, didn't he?

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ThaliaLuxurySpa · 05/04/2017 04:32

How much time lapsed between ArrogantTwineBoy refusing to remove Ian's incriminating material/ spyware from Trish's laptop (scene outside, ArrogantTwineBoy packing up football kit), and Miller & Hardy rocking up to his classroom and taking it away?

Because Ian appeared to be remarkably calm when they did so.
Which would imply he'd somehow already managed to get rid of said material/ spyware before their arrival. Or naively thinks he's done so.
Frantic watching of IT tutorials on YouTube, Ian? Grin Grin

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ThaliaLuxurySpa · 05/04/2017 04:35

elapsed, even ^^

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TizzyDongue · 05/04/2017 07:47

I took it as the same day, but that ArrogantTwineBoy followed CreepyHusband off the pitch and removed whatever it was there and then. But things are never truely deleted are they?

ElspethFlashman · 05/04/2017 09:12

Yeah, Ed has such a quick temper surely even if he had thought it was consensual (doubtful though considering how sudden it was) he'd have gone over and gotten fighty.

Not sure he'd still be silent if he'd seen something.

I think the grass stains might point to a different secret. God knows what. Taxi Boy's doings?

sucue · 05/04/2017 09:38

Fingers in ears, humming to myself, trying to blot out diddl's post.

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