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The Salisbury Poisonings

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JaneJeffer · 14/06/2020 21:42

Why hasn't the police officer twigged he's been poisoned yet?

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JasperRising · 17/06/2020 12:38

Re: the sealed bottle. If you Google the Sturgess family you will find they are taking legal action (hinted at in the last episode) because they don't think they have been told everything. One of the things they query is the fact that Charlie said the box was sealed (as shown with the scissors in the programme) and they think that more of the substance could be out there.

The Skripals house was due to be dismantled start of last year. I didn't Google the other ones.

Regular tests are still being carried out and will be for years, including on all the first responders who didn't fall ill. It's quite scary actually and I had no idea of the ongoing issues until I was prompted to search by this programme. It is all out there in news reports but I guess it shows how even such a big event as this quickly fades from general public awareness.

JasperRising · 17/06/2020 12:39

The Skripals did both survive. I would imagine this time they do have a new identity!

The policeman. Was due to have his third attempt at returning to active duty this Monday just gone.

stardance · 17/06/2020 12:55

I'm planning on watching part 3 today. I'm really enjoying it so far. I live not too far from Salisbury so it's quite surreal to see it all!

JacobReesMogadishu · 17/06/2020 13:24

Apparently the Skripals have new identities and are in New Zealand.

JacobReesMogadishu · 17/06/2020 13:24

Gosh, didn’t realise the policeman still wasn’t back to active duty. How awful for him.

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JacobReesMogadishu · 17/06/2020 13:28

If Charlie hadnt found the bottle and it had ended up in a landfill site could it have caused a major disaster there? Because stuff is often crushed and driven over by dumper trucks, the bottle could easily have been smashed. What would have happened if the whole bottle had leaked in a rubbish dump.....would it have been ok as partly buried/people not touching it?

DobbyTheHouseElk · 17/06/2020 14:00

@CaptainMyCaptain

You misunderstand me, I mean it scary to think something so deadly was taken in luggage amongst 1000’s of people. A deadly nerve agent in such close proximity to the public.

BikeRunSki · 17/06/2020 14:07

I’ve wondered that @JacobReesMogadishu! I used to design landfills (they’re not just thrown together), although none in Salisbury.

CaptainMyCaptain · 17/06/2020 14:09

I see what you mean @DobbyTheHouseElk. Frightening that it would be so easy to do.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 17/06/2020 14:14

Really Charlie did save lives because he found the bottle. It could have been so so much worse. The contamination could have been enormous.

stumbledin · 17/06/2020 16:17

Although I am glad they concentrated on Dawn Sturgiss and her family in the last episode, I think that having virtually no info about how the authorities went about dealing with this second incident sploit the story telling.

And still do not understand why the portrayed as this sort of run down defeated person and all who talked about her and the final real life video showed her to be quite a different sort of person. Most of the other people they had tried for some similarity.

I was also a bit confused about the bins still being full after what might have been quite a few days and it being found by Charlie. He was apparenlty known for skip diving which is why we had the earlier scene of him retrieving a stool and something else. (Couldn't quite workout how he seem to have been able to rent what seemed like quite a big house!)

I wonder is they glossed over how the poison actuallyl ended up on the door handle because now they are not so sure. At the time, or shortly aftwards, it was written as though there were 2 sealed bottles (ie very dangerous to carry something so lethal that wasn't) to have a back up source. The one used to spray the door handle could be anywhere, I can imagine that having been opened they took it back on the train with them. The other was just dumped because they didn't need it.

Have just checked the dates and the Skripals were poisoned on 4 March and Dawn and on 30 June. So even allowing for lockdown this doesn't make sense about the bins not being emptied. But maybe as someone said up thread he found shortly after the poisoning and only gave it to her later.

Or ... plot for a second drama ... there was a second Russian hit squad who came later to target ???

Its good that the people involved felt able to be seen to be part of it.

And yes the husband and son of Tracey must be totally embarrassed by how they were shown in the drama.

CaptainMyCaptain · 17/06/2020 17:45

They were probably trying to show how much stress the job put on her family like, it was unfortunate it made her family look so unhelpful. As for the crying, she only cried on her own then put her professional face on and went to the meeting or whatever.

thecatneuterer · 17/06/2020 19:23

@namechangedyetagain. Not according to this report: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/06/sergei-skripal-cat-guinea-pigs-die-police-sealed-house-salisbury-spy

JacobReesMogadishu · 17/06/2020 19:27

Poor animals. That’s really sad.

namechangedyetagain · 17/06/2020 19:32

@thecatneuterer yes it was sealed and decontaminated but I thought last year that it was being re done www.google.com/amp/s/www.spirefm.co.uk/news/local-news/2857720/refurbishment-on-sergei-skripals-house-progressing-well/amp/
I've not been down that road since then so I'm not sure what's happened to it. There were rumours that it was being sold to the council for housing, but like I say, just a rumour.

NecklessMumster · 17/06/2020 19:44

I've always been so shocked that Russia had such arrogance to carry out this attack and took the piss saying they'd come to look at the cathedral

thecatneuterer · 17/06/2020 19:49

@namechangedagain. Sorry I wasn't clear - my post was replying to your's saying that the cat is still alive. Not according to all news reports at the time it isn't.

namechangedyetagain · 17/06/2020 20:01

Oh sorry

The Salisbury Poisonings
namechangedyetagain · 17/06/2020 20:02

It was reported that the animals in the skripals house perished though (Guinea pigs?)

thecatneuterer · 17/06/2020 20:06

Look at the link I posted. Whose is that twitter page? Surely the Skripals are keeping a low profile - they won't be on Twitter.

tinytemper66 · 17/06/2020 20:09

I just finished watching it and I had tears in my eyes when the credits finished rolling. 😔

CaptainMyCaptain · 17/06/2020 20:14

@thecatneuterer

Look at the link I posted. Whose is that twitter page? Surely the Skripals are keeping a low profile - they won't be on Twitter.
Pippin was the policeman's cat not the Skripals.
DobbyTheHouseElk · 17/06/2020 20:15

Glad Pippen is ok.

Sadly I think the other cat in the skripols house didn’t make it.

namechangedyetagain · 17/06/2020 20:31

Sorry crossed wires! No in the first house (skripals) I don't think anything made it sadly😥

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