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southeastdweller · 11/06/2017 11:47

On tonight at 9 on ITV, this is a six part murder mystery set set against the backdrop of Loch Ness. It looks promising and I love watching Siobhan Finneran:

www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-06-11/meet-the-cast-of-the-loch

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gazzalw · 12/07/2017 07:33

Keiran's mum is a nurse so potentially could have the skills to be that clinical in the killings?

notheroldie · 16/07/2017 21:32

Who else is,watching??.... Come on we need theories.. My money is on keiron now

wellthatsjustgreat · 16/07/2017 21:48

I'm watching.....,mainly because I've invested so much time on it but I've lost interest tbh.
It's soooooo slow going and that's saying something for me as I'm known at work as "the queen of old lady tv" Grin

wellthatsjustgreat · 16/07/2017 21:49

That being said...I'm already wondering what I'll watch next Sunday

silveryTay · 16/07/2017 22:02

I really wanted the Loch Ness monster to appear at the end.

notheroldie · 16/07/2017 22:03

Well that was a bit of a let down. I'm hoping to regain my Sunday evenings now tho Smile

Optimist1 · 16/07/2017 22:05

Well, the ends were pretty much all tied up weren't they? And Bea's son-in-a-coma looks as though he's a chip off the old block, too, doesn't he? Not bad; scenery was stunning and subtitles helped me keep up.

AgentProvocateur · 16/07/2017 22:12

I loved that (I only do "slow dramas"Wink) and I didn't see that twist coming at all!

Clawdy · 16/07/2017 22:16

Still don't understand the Jonjo bit. Was there a mention that Jordan's dad was driving the van?

wheresmyphone · 17/07/2017 07:14

Ok. Can someone please explain the last episode. Why did they swop identities. What had coma guy got to do with it. Sorry for being thick. Blush

Optimist1 · 17/07/2017 07:37

I think it went like this, wheres - the older son was the main target of his father's abuse and suffered bullying at school. When he went in the army he didn't do well and was discharged for killing a fellow soldier (I've no idea why he wasn't imprisoned for that). He went home, his younger brother suffered an aneurysm and went into a coma (don't think he had anything to do with that). His mother thought he deserved a second chance at life, so they moved to Loch Ness and she switched their identities so that the older boy could go back to school and forge a new life. It didn't work out as well as she planned...

BeyondDrinksAndKnowsThings · 17/07/2017 08:39

Well I did not see that twist coming. Though I had decided it was "Kieran" early on in the episode

One thing I was wondering. At what point did Kmum know the body was his dad? She must have known he did it pretty much straight away, to forge the DNA test? Cause at that point, the body hadn't been found either.

BeyondDrinksAndKnowsThings · 17/07/2017 08:40

PS - did she do the test herself? I missed that bit. I can't see how the DNA test didnt notice the lack of a Y chromosome?!

AgentProvocateur · 17/07/2017 10:00

You know when the police psychologist was watching the interview tapes, and he stopped and replayed the one of Kieran saying "He was just messing with him" (or similar). That was when he realised the murderer was Kieran. But what was the significance of what he said in the interview?

silveryTay · 17/07/2017 10:26

I took it to mean that Allbrighton (?) had assumed that the teacher was manipulating his pupils, but had suddenly realised that the reverse was true.

drudgewithagrudge · 17/07/2017 13:28

So did the boy who was in a coma die when he fell off that ledge?

Optimist1 · 17/07/2017 15:36

Didn't they say he was still breathing?

brogan1972 · 17/07/2017 17:53

Did I miss what actually happened to the piano tutor. Did "Kieron" kill him? why? Or did he fall/ jump? He was the main storyline for so long and I completely lost track of him at the end.

Clawdy · 17/07/2017 20:27

The piano tutor and Jonjo killings were never fully explained. And yes, the coma boy was still alive when they got to him, but there was no follow up to his story. All a bit annoying.

corythatwas · 17/07/2017 21:48

That was sillier than I could have imagined. And as other said, lots of things still unexplained. Where did the mother get male-but-not-related-to-her-sons'-father DNA? What happened to Bethan and her pre-eclampsia? Why Jonjo? Does Leighton ever get out of jail? What did Leighton mean when he said this community is based on lies? If the younger brother was the one who suffered the aneurysm, what about his medical records?

And how, how, how do you get a troubled young adult to accept going back to school posing as his baby brother???? What young man would actually agree to do that????

Cocolepew · 17/07/2017 21:55

God it was shite Grin
Very pretty though.

OnwardsNewLifeAhead · 17/07/2017 22:19

It's a shame it ended like that. It had promise, but ultimately tried to be too clever.

The flaws were numerous, and obvious, as others have pointed out. The DNA in particular was a shocking oversight.

And really, the policewomans husband ends up making a living out of ghoulish claims re: sighting of the body?!

The explanation of how/why the brothers identities were switched was far too rushed, and there was not even a hint of any conflict for the mother once her younger son started his miraculous recovery - from being 'paralysed with no suggestion of recovery' to fully up and walking about with no physio or rehab Confused.

And yy to where we're the younger son's medical notes? The whole village knew that apparently the older son had been discharged to his mother' scare because she had the nursing skills, but surely even so there would have been local medical professionals involved? Where was the mother getting all the drugs from - supposedly for her older son, with his fabricated locked in syndrome, but in reality for the younger one who was paralysed (according to one policeman, but think he meant in a coma) following an aneurysm... surely all prescriptions would have the wrong name on them?

NotCitrus · 17/07/2017 22:46

I thought Bea was done quite well - can believe moving from one place to another could enable swapping the brothers for most purposes - the drugs might have said K not J...
Did wonder if DNA samples might only be checked for characteritic regions - wouldn't have to use Y chromosome as a control.

Thought it showed gradual dissociation quite well and the landscspe and characters were fab. Did feel a bit guilty envying Mhairi's kitchen then seeing her gutted over Dessie's death.

OnwardsNewLifeAhead · 18/07/2017 00:10

It's not as simple as 'the drugs might have said K not J' though - if the local hospital/dodgy gp was prescribing drugs for K, then how on earth could J pretend to be him and register at school?

Where was Bea getting the prescriptions from/filled?

All the way through we were told over and over what a tiny, close-knit community it is - where everyone knows everything about each other (or so they think) yet Bea manages to either get shitloads of drugs in the wrong name, or in the right name but no one notices the supposedly comatose teenager is wandering about at school?

hollyisalovelyname · 18/07/2017 12:45

Why did coma boy try to kill Allbrighton ?
Did the father live with the family for a while or was he killed when he visited the once?