Why did the housekeeper have a cheque for 10k? I think I missed something.
What I want to know re: Liz is:
a) Why bring in a big gun like Sheila Hancock, and then just have her fire a spud pellet (a finely-crafted spud-pellet, but a spud-pellet)?
b) The vitriol between Liz and her Horrible Mum seems to have well pre-dated "head-in-the-fridge" man, so why did her Horrible Mum have such a hold over her, and why did she not play her "I know what you did" card sooner? What was her hold over Liz?
c) Liz was a top copper with a top copper's top wage - how was she unable to pay Eugenia a decent whack for looking after Horrible Mum? She couldn't have been that short of cash?
d) In fact, why did she even continue to share a house with Horrible Mum, when she could have either had the evil old bat put int a home, or just moved out and paid the carer as she was doing?
I also wanted to know why Ram's family - esp.his father - wouldn't speak to him. Was it because he married out of his faith (though I have met a number of Sikhs who have done this, and it hasn't seemed to cause problems)? Was it because he never saw his grandchildren from Ram's first marriage? Was it because he had dementia - was this why Ram was worried about a DS child? Maybe he thought he couldn't cope with both. Or was it just because he turned his back on Fabric and embraced the Power of the Force? Why did he get involved with drug-smuggling?
Fiona was a self-serving dipstick. I hope she goes down for a million years.
Nooo! Not lovely Dean! He was so wonderful with his children, so loving to his wife - I loved Dean! But why did he get/remain involved with drugs? I can totally understand why emotions overcame him and he stabbed Nasty Matthew, but in every other respect he was trying to distance himself from the seedy criminal underworld he was born into.
When he described the world of violence and abuse he'd been steeped in from birth I cried for him. All I could see was a poor, frightened child, listening to his drunken father beating up his mother, being terrified of being beaten himself, hating every minute of his life and wanting to be out of that atmosphere of abuse - and then, of course, the only brother who felt the same was brutally murdered. Of course he snapped. Poor Dean. (Excellent acting from Andy Nyman - what a strong, moving, believable performance - aced it!)
I wonder if the PP who suggested that the scripts had to be changed to accommodate NW's wanting to leave (or even because of her workload) is right?
I hope it continues with Sunny - it's such an intelligent series.