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CassandrasCastle · 06/01/2020 10:56

Has anyone watched this?

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NancyDrewCrew · 26/01/2020 03:57

The ending I would prefer:

Coercive control - Wife planned to leave, husband found out. Had it confirmed following seeing her chat with headteacher at the BBQ. Did annihilation for two children then chased after wife and child who had run to the woods. Maybe the No Mummy! because that child ran after hearing her say she wanted a divorce. Afterwards padlocked/set fire to be doubly sure they would all die. Got wife to buy padlocks previously so she would be blamed not him when they all died as one last control freak nail in the coffin. She tried to alert his Mum for help but he slammed the phone down.
Premeditated as he had seen messages/emails from headteacher to the wife telling her to leave him.

This will be slowly leaked next week with him seeing the email as a final scene but in the meantime he will have got away with it all because the CPS can no longer prosecute due to Steve's coercion.
Jess will be pregnant but her and Steve won't be together. He'll make a fresh start elsewhere. David Tennant will start to stalk her because the debt he was in was paying for her IVF so he will consider it his replacement child.

NancyDrewCrew · 26/01/2020 04:02

The ending that will annoy me:

The Mum did in fact do it because she had no other way of leaving the relationship and thought she was doing the best for her kids in the long run. Hence tucking them in with teddies etc
Has already injected herself by the time David Tennant finds out what she has done. He is beside himself with grief/thwarting of his control so does allow himself to be injected, even tells her he loves and forgives her and he sets fire to the kitchen then lays down to die.

This ending will boil my piss entirely

NancyDrewCrew · 26/01/2020 04:07

Twist ending:
If Jess was involved somehow to try and put her friend out of her misery as she loved her and owed her for the one night stand she had had with bad doctor husband. She was meant to make it look as if it was him and get custody of the three girls but it went horribly wrong due to incorrect dosing/ Steve prioritising wrong window/fire breaking out accidentally by Dylan.

NancyDrewCrew · 26/01/2020 04:10

Steve forgives Jess and they live happily ever after but Jess knew in advance what her friend's intentions had been yet did nothing.

NancyDrewCrew · 26/01/2020 04:20

Oh and if it's based on The Staircase: an owl did it Grin An. Owl.
Mr.Wise, now that would be a hoot Wink
niche comment for lovers of True Crime and Phone Shop

Piggywaspushed · 26/01/2020 08:34

I think the headteacher will focus more next episode. cheeky will be spot on : Kate was planning to leave with his help and taking the kids. Is he married, though? I can't remember?

The sound is to do with HD (honestly too technical to explain!) and is all a ploy by the electronics industry to get us all to buy fancy sound bars!

I know what you mean about the word slurring *eliza8 but I actually think that may be that English actress's attempt at sounding anxious and drained in a Scottish accent... I do think it is fairly clear that DT was 'medicating Kate, though.

Piggywaspushed · 26/01/2020 08:35

I have seen The Staircase! It does have a few parallels!

Werking · 26/01/2020 08:51

I think Kate was possibly planning to leave but with Carol’s help (Tom’s mother).

The conversation we saw Kate having with Simon at the barn dance was a jolly one, with her looking animated and happy. They weren’t having a secret, plotting-type conversation. Doesn’t mean they didn’t at another point in the evening though, just that we didn’t see it. Seeing her laugh with another man would be enough to make Tom jealous.

Yes Simon (HT) is married or at least in a committed relationship with a child.

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 09:33

I like your ending@NancyDrewCrew

I have been thinking about Dillon. He said to Steve that he did not want to 'get anyone in the shit'. I don't think he was worried about getting Kate in the shit as she was already blamed, dead and buried.

Are we sure it was Kate we saw? I think so. There are other blonde women though, but Emily did say 'no Mummy'. Was someone else with them? Someone else Dillon did not want to get in the shit?

I think we will see more of the other Doctor this week. Why identify Dillon as his son? I would like to think that a son in that much distress would evoke a caring response from his parents, especially if they both work in healthcare.

I think the fact the Dad works closely with Tom is not a coincidence. They both do. Both have access to insulin. Both would have injecting skills. And the Dad was Kate's GP. He said she was doing better recently. He would have noticed something was wrong, and she would have been protected by Dr Patient confidentiality. But clearly he is a cunt, as evident in the treatment of his son and practically blaming Kate before she was even cold.

LordOfTheWhys · 26/01/2020 10:40

I'll be so annoyed if it was Kate - just because it's so rare for a woman to be a family annihilator and it feeds into that 'women do it too' narrative. Angry

SushiGo · 26/01/2020 10:43

Same Lord I'm still pissed off about silent witness this week
It's seriously so rare for women to commit this kind if crime and yet it gets held up on tv like it's the usual scenario.

Werking · 26/01/2020 10:47

Yes I’m hoping that the cast & crew have made a point of saying in the media that it’s a woman-led team - female writer, female director, female producers - means that they won’t go down the Kate-did-it route.

Piggywaspushed · 26/01/2020 10:50

I was about to post that thought, too. Let us hope so.

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 12:00

I find it interesting that we automatically think that Kate, if she did do it, did it to protect her girls from him. Not to hurt him. But if he did it then he did so to hurt Kate.

I am trying to think of how much nurturing we have seen from Kate.

Carol called through to say 'the girls are asking after you' when she was smoking a spliff with Jess.

Carol said 'someone should have been with her' to Tom (not Kate) on the beach when little one fell over.

She was not exactly nice to the girls in the car before the crash, and drove them knowing she had drunk alcohol.

They always did bath time together - that suggests Tom was more involved than most Dads I know.

Any excuse to get out of the house - she was more than happy to leave the kids with Dad.

After the crash she was not with the children. If that has happened to my kids I would not have left their side for a second. Very odd behaviour.

Tom is the one seen interacting with the kids most. They clearly love him.

Any thoughts?

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 12:09

I do appreciate she was depressed and abused. But that can happen to men too.

Herringbone31 · 26/01/2020 12:12

I’m pretty certain it’s not the dad. That’s way too obvious. Same with the mum

Or Jess.

Steve - maybe. He’s already proved with the lie

That kid- maybe. I don’t think he’s got it in him

Now I’m thinking it’s usually someone that we will know

I’m guessing on the head teacher. He’s having an affair with kate. But I don’t know.

Oh. It’s soooo good!!

Herringbone31 · 26/01/2020 12:25

I’m also wondering about the doctor

Not the husband. But the other doctor. The one who’s son said it was Tom that ran into the woods. Not Kate’s....there’s a link there. He’s got access to insulin etc. Worked with Tom

LordOfTheWhys · 26/01/2020 12:30

I'm not sure it's about making excuses for Kate. It's about reading the narrative that has been presented ie Kate was depressed. She was on medication. She was abused. Three points that affect decision-making. DT hasn't been shown to have impaired decision making at all.
But as I said earlier I will not be happy if Kate did this and we are supposed to sympathise with an abusive git like DT.

SushiGo · 26/01/2020 12:44

Also, he has clearly been drugging her, and encouraging her to drink a lot (when it mixes badly with the medication)

I don't think we can interpret Kate's behaviour as how she naturally is as a parent/how close she actually is to the girls, as we are only seeing a small snapshot of that last week or so before the fire.

Tom is quite disney dad, but they are also girls and he is an absolute shit to all of the women in his life, which wouldn't bode well for the girls long term even if he turns out not have killed them.

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 13:07

Yes, it is a small snapshot of behaviour, but it is consistent over the three occasions we are given privy to. And we haven't seen anything else. Of course next week may give a very different impression as other snippets are revealed. Everything I have seen of Kate has been selfish, understandably so, but still selfish.

LordOfTheWhys · 26/01/2020 14:24

But DT is incredibly selfish. He's abusing the mother of his children. There isn't anything that will impact them more - from creating an atmosphere at home, to teaching them that is how relationships should be. It's the ultimate narcissism.

Plus he filmed his interactions with the girls when Kate was smoking. He was deliberately creating an impression that Kate was reckless and he was responsible. It's not very responsible to shag your wife's friend and your DD's teacher whilst they all sleep upstairs.

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 14:28

I agree completely. He is ultimately responsible, regardless of who did it.

ChicChicChicChiclana · 26/01/2020 15:40

Do we know why DT is in so much debt? He's got a very well paid job - why would he be asking his mother to remortgage her home, not for the first time?

CheekyFucker · 26/01/2020 16:08

We don't know why.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 26/01/2020 16:33

Secret gambling habit? Paying off someone who knows what he’s been up to?

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