Unforgotten is back!

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Starts on Sunday on ITV1.

I thought that AveA! 😁

I took the 'pay day' to mean blackmail too.

And yes loved the nod to Columbo too

Yep ‘and another thing’ 😂

She's done it to quite a few interviewees so far, I noticed that!

I still think the doc did it

Must be something about the twins or why else say they are identical

Maybe they did swap places even in holiday so wrong twin got named?

I thought sonny was being helpful inviting new copper to drinks so that his boss could see him in the evening without asking for a date

Hence why he said you are welcome - being sarky as she didn’t appreciate it

In flashbacks it looked like a Chinese girl was there as well - so could the blogger be her?

Renting a cottage and having a night in isn’t weird. All friends spending nye together with drinks and kids so couldn’t go to a pub easily so saying they didn’t go out did seem
Plausible to me

DNA as found blood at the break in so guess checking none of the men

Plus sonny’s backpack has swabs /dns testing stuff in it

Nice of Sunny to invite the Monarch of the Glen out for drinks - it was pretty obvious that he and Cassie were intrigued by each other!

Yes I liked Sunny for that, he could see the signs and was helping them along.

How can the twins have swapped places with the broken arm/plate thing?
And are people saying the parents are in on it or have something to do with it?
Why would they swap their daughters?

I don't have identical twins so I dont have experience but surely the parents would recognise their own twins if they swapped wouldn't they?
Unless they're Molly Weasley.

A night in not unusual no - but a QUIET night in - giving the impression all they did was watch a movie and not really celebrate the millennium - nah load of nonsense.

Let's say surviving twin is actually Hayley. Her twin (possibly seen as the good or golden child) died on NYE and Hayley knew that immediately. She then decided to reinvent herself as good twin and pretend it was Hayley who went missing. At the time the parents in their distress and grief would have not noticed, or would put any changes down to surviving twin being affected by her sisters disappearance.
Good (dead) twin had a plate in her arm age 7. The police called Hayley about it and she told them it was dead Hayley who had the plate, when really it was good twin. She then convinced parents it was Hayley who had the plate not good twin. The parents have been depicted as pretty out of it so I think they'd accept that story.
This theory is of course based on the police NOT having independent medical evidence about the plate - Do they?

Plausible saffkatt

Yes I wonder if they swapped nye

One cleaned. Other in pub

Hates the 80’s but was Madonna

Is no-one else disproportionately irritated by the random pauses, stuttered delivery of the female detective (sorry, shocking with names!)?

I don't think the surviving twin is Hayley - after all would you willingly give your teenaged diary to the police? However they could have swapped at the time so surviving twin did the cleaning/witnessed burglar/was in the pub/whatever and Hayley was killed as a result of that swap.

The pauses are..... noticeable. Is it to make her seem more sincere?

I like the pauses and the stutter - she is thinking. Mind you in my eyes she can do no wrong.

Or possibly Hayley did the cleaning but surviving twin pretended to be her and did the bar work, which completely throws out any alibis arising from Hayley being in the pub that night?

There is no way the parents would think one twin was the other. There are always differences in skin, hair, bodies, even with identical twins.

It could be that the parents do know about the twins pretending to be each other and therefore there's an element of blaming themselves for whatever befell Hayley/other twin.

I think the pauses when added to the realistic dialogue are what makes her character so believable.

DH reckons the old 'twin swap' plotline is happening but I really hope he's wrong - it's just so implausible. I have known several sets of identical twins and whilst I have sometimes got names mixed up they are never so alike that their own parents couldn't tell them apart. It would only be believable if it was from the angle of the parents being in on it, letting Hayley take her sister's place or something like that.

The cleaning wasn't on NYE was it? I'm sure they said it was a couple of days beforehand

The twin swap might mean though that the dead twin was murdered instead of her sister - a case of mistaken identity in the events leading up to the death.

Are you sure the 'credit card' wasn't to do with drugs?

I agree that Elliot could have been severely traumatised by something that he witnessed from that holiday.

I really hope the twin swap thing doesn't happen. It's just daft. It makes no sense.

She sounded really sincere to me when she talked about her sister and gave the diary. I thought that was a really good scene with someone just missing her sister and saying she wasn't perfect but she loved her. I like her character, I hope she's not dodgy.