Silent Witness (2019)

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Who else is watching?

I missed first 15 mins and desperately trying to catch up (don't have iPlayer). Either I missed a season or there a several new faces!

If anyone could give a brief recap I'd appreciate it.

I don't mind it, I just don't get how the pair of them run every case going rather than just haunting the labs

It was such utter nonsense tonight. On what planet would a young, unmarried English couple with a baby on the way decide to go on holiday in Belfast at the height of the troubles?

Also, if I yelled at my kids not to open the door when they were literally turning the key there is not a chance in hell that they’d stop. Particularly if they’d been desperate to get home for several days. If I was trying to open the door then sure, they’d stand blocking the keyhole all day and night, but if they had the keys? We’d all be toast.

How did they open the door enough to set the bomb off but then not get caught in the blast? Was there a time delay? I actually enjoyed the first half of last night's episode and then lo and behold it went bonkers unbelievable again!

I'm just finishing it now. Utter crap.

Yes it's morphing from autopsy driven to general forensics.

Isn't there a back story with Jack's brother (have a feeling he's in prison)?

Well I was instantly eye rolling last night at the “first thing in the morning” scenes being filmed and it was quite obviously late evening - the shadows were so long!

Felt sorry for Nicky though obvz she’ll be proven right. I’m calling the previous unseen lab assistant young woman as having done some sort of tampering with the heart.

Haven't Amanda and the old bloke jut switched them?

Amanda and the old bloke?

Amanda the other path person in the trial and the old bloke who manages Nicky and Jack?

Is there a market for this ?

How stupid to allow the girl to access her password

Nicky is a fuckwit

Theres a reason we've never seen any assistant in the lab before!

What a weird mash up of stories. I couldn't quite figure out what the drug one was about. What where they trying to do? Testing what drugs on themselves?

What drivel it all was.

Why do I bother watching it when I could be watching something much better on Netflix or prime?

You can do much better BBC, this is getting silly.

Completely agree! Complete drivel. The writers are taking us for fools now! Obviously all of a sudden theres an assistant.....and evidence being tampered with. Hmmm....

Nearly fell asleep during that, would not have bothered but MIL is staying and she's obsessed

How is the body still available for a third autopsy when they're already at trial?

It’s weird because I know it’s tripe and get annoyed all the way through but I still love it

Thomas was a total dick to Amanda and no chemistry between them whatsoever. Odd thing to shoehorn in and totally unnecessary to the plot.

How hard would it have been to have included the lab assistant in previous episodes? And leaving her with all those notes and her laptop?

Still I love all the characters (except maybe Thomas) and I think that’s why I watch it. That and the Emilia Fox hair and blouse admiration.

DH asked me if I am Turing into my monther who watched The Bill for another 5 years after firmly establishing she didn't enjoy it any more.

I keep hoping it will be lass hammy...

Also, they are not Police officer, yet seem to investigate and do a post mortem ffs. And corrupt police officers, people being set up, Clarissa fathoming our that guy was selling hose drugs to prisons in America and the guy who murdered Jacob not getting interviewed or seemingly properly found out before the show ended.

Arrrrrrrrrgh.

Sorry, Mother not Monther (Freudian slip there).

Also clearly not selling 'hose', plus lots of other typos. Too early for me to be coherent.

There was way too much going on in the last 'story' and yes agree, the main plot was sidelined and not concluded properly. I'm not convinced that 'Alice' didn't feature in earlier episodes this series but just in a very fleeting way. Didn't think there was any need to shoehorn Thomas' on-off affair into it either.

The implication of that episode is that, having discovered what Alice was up to, the Lyell is out of trouble. But surely there would be major issues about their procedures and how the hell she was able to get away with everything?

Also, and there may well be an obvious answer to this as science definitely isn't my subject, but: why would the Southern states of America have to come to the UK to get a new drug developed whose only purpose is to tranquillise death row prisoners before being executed? Aren't there already drugs in existence that can achieve that?

Exactly . I'm looking forward to the episode where Nikki is on a disciplinary for allowing access to her lap top and not checking paperwork for court.

Just catching up with this and while most of the gaping plotholes have been pointed out, I was struck by the supposed reason for the drug trial...Art Malik wanted to sell his new drug to the US to be used in lethal injection executions? How lucrative a contract could that be exactly, considering the number of executions by lethal injection works out at an average of about 30 per year?