Rellik - BBC1 9pm

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Another Williams brothers' collaboration - which is competing with Liar tonight!

"A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer."

The lead character is played by Beric from Game of Thrones (Richard Dormer). Sounds very good. Anyone watching this? Leave your reviews below.

I also thought it was Elaine. I didn't think it was obvious though, just thought I'd suddenly become clever!

That hair he had tested that was supposedly his daughter's. Was it actually his wife's? She also laid her head on him. It's going to turn out Hannah is his daughter after all.

Agree with the Williams's Dad thing. Very weird obsession they have going on there. Is there a weird backstory with their own Dad?!

Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, last Monday's episode was written by someone else, not the Williams brothers. And last week's and Monday comings episodes had a different director to the other four. Which seems a bit odd to me,

Far too many over-done sex scenes tonight! But the mother revelation was a clever twist.

hmmmmmmmmm

So was Elaine's mother actually her flatmate?

I always feel a bit grubby after watching it but feel I have to see it through now!

I missed the scene about Elaine's mother? What happened?

Elaine doesn't have a flat mate, she was talking to her dead mother and imagining her. Towards the end there was a shot of a photograph of her and her mum.

I am kind of enjoying it but it is hard to keep up and I feel I have been missing lots of details.

It's very confusing.

who were the other victims apart from the psychiatrist one and the red herring one that was the guy covering for his daughter? Psychiatrist was obviously killed due to the incident 20y ago in the hospital, childhood trauma of the perpetrator. The dwtcetiv, for obvious reasons. Who were the rest? they refer to it as a serial.killer case so must have been more.

I think the psychiatrist was the first victim; then the red haired guy with the beard is next and that's when they talk about a serial killer?
There was a scene at the end of last week's episode- recapped last night- when Isaac is looking at photos of 3 people - that's crucial in some way but who were the 3 people? The red head, the woman who survived an acid attack in the past, and Gabriel? That scene must be key in some way

What was the incident 20 years ago? In the hospital?

Struggling to make sense of it all but did suspect it would be Elaine from when she said to her dad "be good to know from another murderer"

i dont think we know yet, both psychiatrists referred to it. Im guessing Elaine was tretaed there by then when her father killed her mother?

Elaine killed her mother and her father is taking the blame?

Gabriel is utterly repulsive.

It's interesting the way Gabriel's character has been shown to be so nasty, as we've gone further and further back in time. At the start he was a sort of likeable hero with weaknesses, now he is deeply unpleasant.

Yes I had thought similar Clawdy.

Im really enjoying this series and am so glad I persevered past the first two episodes.

@Flomper I’ve just rewatched the beginning of ep1 and the news report says the killer has left a total of 7 bodies across the city.

Clawdy, yes totally agree.

It's drawn me in more and more each week, and, grisly scenes aside, I think the experiments with time reversal plot has been interesting. Still confusing to me on occasion, but it's got clearer now I'm used to it.
Williams brothers on 10 x better form here than with their Liar, that's for sure.

• Are we sure Elaine is the serial killer? Yes, she's offed Jonas, but he could be her only victim.

• She said to her mother's ghost(!) she wished she could turn back the clock to being blissfully ignorant of certain memories again (indicating that she'd just found out about something?), her eyes were now open, "You're proof that memories aren't something you want to protect" and "You just let it happen"...

My (no doubt way off!) theory is that she perceives her mother to have, wilfully or otherwise, turned a blind eye to her father abusing her (He 'apologised' to her at the prison visit, causing her to storm out. And she obviously hates him, from what we've seen).

In last week's prison visit (so chronologically the 2nd one), he very pointedly looked at her when asking her if she'd even burn his car along with anything else he left her in his will, again causing her to storm out whilst telling him to hurry up and die. Could abuse have always taken place in it?

The hospital scandal 20 yrs ago: maybe, after the trauma of her father murdering her mother (perhaps because she finally discovered, or already knew but finally confronted, his abuse of their daughter?), Elaine was treated as a hospital inpatient by Jonas.
Who, like Isaac, has some weird perversion and films his patients reliving their distress for his own twisted kicks (to share with each other? With a wider group? Online?).

That is what Elaine has stumbled upon, hence why she decided to mete out her own payback.

Probably completely wrong, and I hope so, because CSA (and skewed portrayal of mental illness, for that matter) seems to be tacked on to most shows at the drop of a hat.

• Am really embarrassed that it's taken me 5 episodes to realise why it's called "Rellik" ("Killer", backwards).

Anyone else feeling slightly nervous ahead of tonight's final episode?

oh bollox i misswd the beginning what hapenned?

I know someone who's in this episode! Apparently he's going to be a horrible bearded character. (He's horrible not the beard - you know what I mean)

Well nobody would drive into crash like that with no airbags exploding

They wouldn't just walk away afterwards

No reason for fire engines to be at clinic cos didn't know about fire beforehand

But this episode wrapped it up quite well considering

Liked the beginning in the park

Also the history about her being a patient and him saving her

Liked the reversed time thingy and it all going back to history 21 years ago and earlier

With her father killing mum on playground

What did others think?

It was Elaine (well her other name) as a child at park with her mum

Her dad appeared drunk then killed mum with bottle

Left her dead on merry go round thingy in park

@couchparsnip was it guy who played young dad or bloke in bed with her in clinic?

I'm still confused as to why she burned Gabriel. Was it because she saw him with the sex worker and assumed they'd been having sex? Was she trying to make him unattractive to anyone else, either through jealousy and revenge, or through the belief that she was helping him put an end to his philandering ways......?

I thought she was enraged because he said he didn't love her, it was just sex. He was the one person in her life she felt was there for her, and he let her down.

Really enjoyed that, I'd have liked to see creepy step dad get his comeuppance though...