Inside Number 9 - Series 5

[CaptainHammer]

Starts tonight! 🎉
10pm BBC 2

What did we all think this week. I really enjoyed it. Was so clever as always. Look forward to this show every week now shame its not on for more episodes

I loved this week's! It reminded me of the crossword episode.

thenightsky - I thought that same! Both episodes far too clever for me to get my head around, will probably need a second watch to get all the details.

Yes, I had to have a moment of screwing up my face and concentrating after it had finished, but the seeds were very carefully sown throughout the episode. A lot of misdirection going on. Reece has some skill as a magician and I think it was clear he knew his stuff in the way the tricks were explained.

Spotted the Hare in this episode but I totally forgot to keep an eye out for it in the other episodes this series. Need to go back and rewatch them all now!

It reminded me a bit of the Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes series with the flashbacks etc. Very clever. I thought he was going to appear behind the wife in the hotel room on the video call but it was cleverer than that - they are always (at least!) one step ahead!

THIS MAY HAVE SPOILERS!

This fourth episode was perfect. The bit I liked most, and thought was inspired, was the bit with the trick rope.

Utter genius. Absolute utter genius to put that in. And such a small detail, but so subversive.

I initially thought we were going to see something spooky because they mentioned a spirit box. I knew something was up when his wife said the hotel had received loads of abusive calls, but I half expected the policemen to be fake.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS

Am I missing anything? Quite a lot probably. The murder weapon is in the safe but how?

SPOILERS

The grandson fitted a device on the ring so it would trace the safe numbers.
He knew Reece Shearsmith’s character would work out the word Mountweazel and then worry his camera/safe could be hacked in to. This made him turn the cameras off to burn any evidence.
Grandson then went in and placed the knife after he had killed the wife and the cameras were off.
It does show it in little flashbacks right at the end if you re watch it :)

Thank you

I must admit, I was a bit diverted during the replay of the ring

I can’t think what you could fit to a ring though? It would need to be a grain of sand size!

I’m not sure, the ring was pretty chunky though! It would have been like a tiny sensor that traced his finger movements and linked to the phone app.

This series has been brilliant and last nights was my favourite so far. I love magic, big Derren Brown fan & loved all the nods to the different tricks. The twist was so clever.

Steve’s second Tweet here is really interesting

Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? 😃

twitter.com/SP1nightonly/status/1232391089081982977

Every episode is just a slice of perfection.

I thought last night's was a good one. Eas it just me that thought that it was going to go all 'Seven' and the wife's head would be in the safe....??

No, I thought of Seven as well, I think it was misdirecting us that way, so then I thought, no. But from the flashbacks I went with knife but was befuddled how it got in there.

I thought there pd be sone reveal that grandpa had got in and done it....

I’ve just caught up. How did the grandson find out where the magicians wife was? That’s the only thing irking next about this episode. Did they mention it as she was leaving so he might of overheard it?

One thing I feel a bit troubled by - they fell back on the trope of a man killing a woman in order to get revenge on another man. I really don't like that plot device. They used it in The Riddle of the Sphinx as well, and I remember hating it then too, but at least the woman in that story had more of an active role. The wife in this one was just there to be killed to service the plot. Was anyone else a bit bothered by that?

Eoin, the only way to change that would be to make the partner gay, or the magicians women, which would mean the writers couldn’t be the actors. I know what you mean about the trope but it fits the story fine.

If you look at Steve’s Tweet I linked upthread, he does seem to say he wishes they’d used the route mentioned in the review to solve that.

Making the wife complicit in the murder would have been a better way around it, yes. I'm not really quibbling about the ingenuity of the episode, I just agree with the review that you can't revel in the grandson's revenge because it involved an innocent woman being murdered.

But do we need to revel? I don’t want to a spoiler but everyone knows what the Woman in Black is about? Sometimes revenge is just about cruelty.

Fionn Whitehead was fab. He was in Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) wasn't he? Wonder how Reece feels about that, given his twitter comments on how he hates the two programmes being compared. Fantastic episode.

Oh I didn’t know people compared them, interesting.

@TheGriffle The grandson was the client who the wife was meeting, so she was walking into a trap at a prearranged location. At least that's what I assumed

Glad other people find them a bit confusing. Especially the one where the mum maybe ran over the loan shark (how did she find him? The dad was the one who knew about him and was hanging around at night with a cricket bat) I had to rewind some of that to understand what was happening. Agree the portrayal of ordinary lives and flawed characters is good. I didn't get why they were all pretending it was Christmas a few days before with crackers etc. That was weird.