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The Sister - 4 part drama on ITV starting tonight

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stumbledin · 26/10/2020 20:48

The series focuses on Tovey’s character – a man with a terrible secret who is (perhaps literally) haunted by the mistakes of his past.

Not sure if this link has spoilers but couldn't find the ITV one!
www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-10-26/the-sister-itv-release-date-cast/

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SaltandPepperIt · 27/10/2020 22:26

Blooming Itv player stopped 10 mins before the end - when they had met up in Bob's car. Did I miss much?

Clawdy · 27/10/2020 22:27

Bit weird that Holly has so many pictures of her dead sister all over the walls, how depressing to live with. Don't agree with earlier post saying policewoman could be involved, she is obviously determined to get to the truth about Nathan and Bob.

Honeyroar · 27/10/2020 22:29

I’m not sure what’s going on, but it’s holding my attention. I just want to buy a load of lamps for their house! It’s lighter in the creepy woods. Bob’s car always has lights and dry ice behind it!

the80sweregreat · 27/10/2020 22:32

There didn't seem enough in that bag for her to overdose so quickly unless Bob had doctored them for some reason. Or she had already taken shed loads at the party before getting in the car.
Nathan didn't take any drugs. Or not that we saw.
Maybe Bob and Alish are working together? Did the police look into her boyfriend any more? We haven't met him have we?
There is more to all this I'm sure.

peacypops · 28/10/2020 00:04

Bertie Carvel was also Miss Trunchbull in the stage version of Matilda. It's all I can think of when he is on screen.

Fridgeandkitchen · 28/10/2020 06:57

I think Elise and Holly’s dad reminds me of Trigger from Only Fools and Horses.

I really hope it’s not as simple as she took an over dose and they buried her.

JamminDoughnuts · 28/10/2020 08:18

she was heard at the boyfriends after being buried, but was that her ghost?

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 28/10/2020 08:50

After last night's episode I was almost certain that Holly knows that Nathan had something to do with Elise, but dh said it's a bit longwinded to marry someone and all that to get revenge years later, which I suppose is true. I think there will definitely be a twist though.
When it shows the flashback scenes of the party, we've seen Elise, and her mum and dad there I think, where was Holly?

SaltandPepperIt · 28/10/2020 09:07

Holly was at the party, went back to give elise a final goodbye and went out as Nathan was coming in

1990s · 28/10/2020 09:12

So the policewoman said that Elise was heard banging on her ex boyfriends window at 4.30 after Nathan and Bob had been seen driving home at 4.15, and that’s why they weren’t suspects.

They obviously did kill her, so that combined with her voice in the tape makes me think they are implying she’s a ghost that can be heard?

JimmyJabs · 28/10/2020 10:35

There were a lot of people at the party so why were the police so interested in Nathan as a witness? The sort of grilling they were giving him in that interview room is not how witnesses are treated irl (I'm a former police officer), nor would they record it, nor would they bother to get CCTV footage proving his movements. It seemed like he was a suspect but we haven't been let in on why?

thetoughhaveleft · 28/10/2020 11:12

I think it's intentional that the sisters look very similar. I think it's the 'wife' who was the one who went to the ex boyfriend's house and in the dark was mistaken for her sister. I think she knows that her husband killed her and that she is the person who recorded the "I'm alive" recording. I don't think it's a ghost story at all.

PinkDaydreams · 28/10/2020 11:24

@thetoughhaveleft I hadn't thought that it could have been the sister! Yes I think you could be right. I'm not sure she knows Nathan killed her though as a previous poster said surely that would be too much effort marrying him etc.

thetoughhaveleft · 28/10/2020 11:25

@PinkDaydreams maybe she's only just found out??

PinkDaydreams · 28/10/2020 11:45

Ahhhh yes, and maybe them trying for a baby is so that he doesn't suspect that she knows and to also break his heart when she tells him that she knows. Ooooo I hope we get a bit more from tonight's episode

Clawdy · 28/10/2020 12:40

I don't actually think the sisters look alike. Although Elise is only ever seen in semi-darkness so far.

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 28/10/2020 12:58

Can't have been the sister, she wasn't in the car and she'd have remembered Nathan? When she met him as estate agent she didn't know him?

stumbledin · 28/10/2020 14:07

Loved the big house by a lake / river, and how hopeful in a sad way that the sister was having the opportunity to re-start her life.

My predicition for the plot is that the dead sister didn't in fact die and that when they buried her (shown more as just covering her with dirt) that she was unconcious. (Did Bob have a motive in convincing that really doppy young man that she was dead?)

She regains consciousness and somehow staggers back to boyfriends and bangs on his windows. (Was he in, who say her banging, if it was him why isn't he in the plot)

Bob meanwhile knowing she isn't dead goes back to the scene of the crime, because he has his reputation to preserve, finds her missing tracks her down and kills her.

Not sure why Bob, some sort of radio personality, took such an interest in turnip head Nathan just a lowly sound engineer.

But as the writer is the one who wrote Luther, he is probably meant to be some sort of incarnation of evil.

But actually again I was so bored my mind wandered off. There are so many holes in the story.

Just the thing of Nathan transferring his attraction from the dead sister to the living one - wtf??? Yuk!

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Deathraystare · 28/10/2020 15:57

I actually thought the Bob character was Paul Kaye!!! Until I saw the credits that is.

thenightsky · 28/10/2020 16:14

@Deathraystare

I actually thought the Bob character was Paul Kaye!!! Until I saw the credits that is.
Yes! Me too.
the80sweregreat · 28/10/2020 16:24

Bob does have a Paul Kaye vibe going on. It's the straggly hair. (Which annoys me more than it should really. It's only a silly drama after all)

EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide · 28/10/2020 16:58

Ooooh you've given me an idea now op! Maybe Elise and Bob planned it all, hence Elise following Nathan into the woods (unlikely as he was a bit of a geek imo) and then Bob turning up shortly after in car, but why I don't know unless Elise wanted to disappear for some reason. But why Bob's back now I can't fathom.

Rollergirl11 · 28/10/2020 17:54

Another one thought Bob was Paul Kaye initially. I think that’s a good theory ref Elise and Bob being in cahoots as it doesn’t make any sense why Elise followed Nathan out of the party. They hadn’t even spoken at the party! And why would you leave a party early on NYE and decide to go to a pub?!

I find Holly’s acting really stilted and wooden in present day. They are not convincing as husband and wife whatsoever! Better back in the flashbacks.

LumpySpacedPrincess · 28/10/2020 18:38

Did Bob give her the drugs? I wondered if he wanted to create a ghost which is why he parked the car there, as an experiment?

the80sweregreat · 28/10/2020 18:42

I'm going to miss tonight's one :( I'll catch up tomorrow.

It did seem odd that she followed Nathan after he decided to go home from the NYE party. He could have been anyone after all.
Did she know Bob already maybe?
She wasn't fazed at getting in his car with two men she didn't know!