I watched as I realised I actually couldn't remember much about the event (and there didn't seem anything else!)
But realised I was seeing it through the impact of the current lockdown. I wonder if they had released it last year whether we wouldn't have thought this seems a bit over the top. But every shot of a light switch being touched, the bottle top on the milk.
And yes I thought the police officer seemed a bit slow making the link but wonder whether that was because he wasn't part of the inner team and wasn't aware of just how contagious it was.
Or if he was just one of those men who thinks they go into work even when they are ill and making everyone else's life a misery!
But would have thought he would have tried to gett assurance from his boss or whoever that he wasn't a threat to his family.
But again maybe I only think that because of how we have all been educated about contagion with this lockdown.
And have seen quite a lot of online criticism about Anne Marie Duff and how her portrayal doesn't do justice to the woman who found she was expected to take the lead in this unprecedented situation. I thuoght her reaction was more that with each new revelation of what had happened, and how lethal the poison, was she going to be able to cope. Theoretical training can prepare you for this sort of reality. And she seems quite decisive about having to block of the shopping centre and remove the benches and so on, makes it clear she was able to process each new piece of information and act on it. (And get the security services to hand over all those mobile phone numbers. Scary!)