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FanciedAChangeToday · 30/09/2018 21:08

Cant see another thread - anyone watching?

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Sidge · 15/10/2018 08:30

Bestseller I don’t think she said to her friend she had killed Noah, it was very carefully worded “my baby is dead and it’s my fault”. He friend probably interpreted that as “someone took him and he couldn’t be found so he must be dead and it’s my fault for leaving the car”.

I remember Joanna had a black eye when arrested so I think her and Alistair had a fight, she killed him, and the truth about Noah has never actually come out. The public wouldn’t be calling for Justice for Noah if they knew that she had been complicit in his death being covered up.

I think they fought because Jo found out Al had overdosed him, and had kept her drugged and sedated so he could manipulate her and twist the story his way.

She “woke up” because it clicked in her that Alistair was a lying, manipulative, devious and controlling bastard, helped by Alex talking to her. And she was no longer sleep deprived from the baby, and had stopped taking the tablets Al was feeding her.

Alastair’s true side came out in his interaction with Alex, you got to see just how aggressive and vicious he could be.

Snugglepiggy · 15/10/2018 08:34

Did I miss something regarding the conversation with Jo's friend in Scotland ?I thought Jo said that Noah was dead, she knew it but I don't recall her saying she killed him.The friend looked confused and but then I read it as concern for her friend who is obviously so distraught she has convinced herself her baby must be dead.I was tired and may have got that but wrong.

AnonaMouse1 · 15/10/2018 08:37

RE staring at the house, looking serene

I interpreted that as he hadn't cried for a while, so she felt a bit better, more normal and less stressed..... and the house, symbolised how her life would also come tumbling down in a few more seconds

Clawdy · 15/10/2018 09:04

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thecatsthecats · 15/10/2018 09:06

Snugglepiggy

I think the main point of that scene was that Joanna was desperate to tell somebody, to talk about what happened. She had just complained to Alastair that she'd never be able to talk about it, and she wanted to tell someone - even if she wasn't believed.

thecatsthecats · 15/10/2018 09:07

Clawdy - that's a bit spoilery, given we haven't got to the last episode yet, and it might come out that it happened that way.

Leave out the differences from the book until next Sunday!

SoupDragon · 15/10/2018 09:08

I think she said that Noah was dead and that it was her fault...? Or have I imagined that?

drspouse · 15/10/2018 09:21

I think it was "and it's MY FAULT?" in other words are you seriously blaming me?

Ladygaladriel · 15/10/2018 09:35

I don’t think Noah is buried on the beach. I think Al left him in the path of the bush fire and Jo finds out. We have seen flash forwards of Jo with fire all around her haven’t we?

LuggsaysNotaWomen · 15/10/2018 10:49

Noah is definitely not on the beach and is either buried under foundations on the building site or in the path of the fire (although that would have been a long drive there and back, I’m not sure that that stacks up).

It’s slowly dawning on Jo how much of a manipulative liar Al is and I think it will be an accumulation of realizing he lied about where Noah was buried and that it was in fact Al who administered the wrong medicine that sends her into a rage and she kills him.

I also think Al knew Noah was dead before they pulled over and set it up for Jo to find him.

HopeGarden · 15/10/2018 11:32

I think she said that Noah was dead and that it was her fault...?

IIRC Jo said that on the phone to her Scottish friend.

That’s a statement that could easily be interpreted as “I think whoever took him must have killed him, and it’s my fault because I left him alone in the car.”

SoupDragon · 15/10/2018 11:35

Oh, it absolutely can be interpreted that way. Unless you know that she really did kill him (or thinks she did).

youngestisapsycho · 15/10/2018 11:40

If she kills Alistair in Australia, wouldn't the trial be there?

Romcomjunkie · 15/10/2018 11:52

Just a little point, but if you’d been driving for a long while and stopped to stretch your legs, wouldn’t you check on your baby as soon as you stopped, and before you got out of the car? Not gaze wistfully at a delapidated house for ten minutes, THEN go and check on him?

Girliefriendlikesflowers · 15/10/2018 11:52

I think jo has been quite restrained in not killing him already 😂 he is such a bustard, I'd have murdered him when he said he didn't blame her for noahs death!!

drspouse · 15/10/2018 11:54

Just a little point, but if you’d been driving for a long while and stopped to stretch your legs, wouldn’t you check on your baby as soon as you stopped, and before you got out of the car?

It is easier to walk round to the baby's door than check from the front... and if he was FINALLY quiet you might want to give him a few more minutes sleep.

PrincessScarlett · 15/10/2018 12:06

I'd have killed him on the plane Girlie when he conveniently slept through all the crying!

QueenoftheNights · 15/10/2018 12:14

what drugs was she taking for herself? I've missed that bit.

Also, are we to understand he swapped the bottles and gave noah the wrong one either deliberately or by mistake? There was one tiny shot of something last night where we saw him putting the dropper into a medicine bottle.

Hogtini · 15/10/2018 12:34

I think it's pain medication? I was trying to read the bottle. She'd mentioned her bad back and he also asked how her back was to which she replied 'worse'.

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 15/10/2018 12:40

I think it's oramorph that she's been taking for her back pain. Sure it's mentioned at some point in the first episode.

felicityy · 15/10/2018 13:11

So confused about the medicine, would security not prefer to have her medication (if a strong, probably prescribed one), in its original packaging with the label? And most of these strong pain killers wouldn't be safe with breastfeeding surely?

PrincessScarlett · 15/10/2018 13:28

Not 100% but believe Ali has been giving her sleeping pills and/or sedatives. In episode 2 Jo refers to taking sleeping pills and last night Ali was trying to get her to take some pills to relax her before the interview which she refused because I think she's wised up to the amount of control Ali has over her.

ellenanora5 · 15/10/2018 13:31

I watched it last night but it was late and I think I've missed a bit, why do posters think that she killed Alistair, I mean I hope she did, he's a complete and utter bastard, but I still don't remember getting that from last nights episode.

I also think his mother knows how awful he is.

drspouse · 15/10/2018 13:31

would security not prefer to have her medication (if a strong, probably prescribed one), in its original packaging with the label?
Yes, they would - but some travellers don't understand this and decant into 100ml bottles.

Ladygaladriel · 15/10/2018 13:59

Ellenanora5. - right at the very end she is charged with his murder

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