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[wetpants]

Anyone watching? I love this series and fancy Perez He seems to have some extra timber on him.. I don’t like him in a suit, much prefer a fishermans knitted jumper on him..

Where were we left when the last series ended? Did he get together with someone? Someone who seemed to have shady motives? I can’t remember!

@choccyJules
After she got the pregnancy test I noticed a bit of a bump too.

What is the point of Sandy? In the books he starts off as pretty gormless but develops and matures as the series goes on. I don't get that in the TV version.

Well I have been on google and there is to be a series 7, very excited!

I think the point of Sandy is they found one actor with a Shetland accent.

All other eligible Shetlanders are either busy murdering people or baking ;-)

Tosh looked shocked and then happy right and the end of that scene, didn't she?
Not the best timing for her, with Sandy continuing to be shit and Jimmy out of action.

Am assuming Jimmy and Duncan would be on bail? And Jimmy suspended from duties? In which case we could have lots of lovely odd-couple scenes with the two of them.

Hopefully with knitwear.

Gosh they stuffed that series with so much going on.
Too much I think.
Just to clarify :
The drone man was not supposed to be killed, just frightened ?
Had he images of Alex's wife driving hime ?
Merren knew her mother was the killer from the start ?
Did Creggan make the bullets for the gun used to shoot Alex ?
The final murder tally
Drone Man
Alex
Sr Caroline
The Mussing girl
Donna - imo not murdered.
Have I missed anyone ?

@SirSamuelVimes

Tosh looked shocked and then happy right and the end of that scene, didn't she? Not the best timing for her, with Sandy continuing to be shit and Jimmy out of action.

Am assuming Jimmy and Duncan would be on bail? And Jimmy suspended from duties? In which case we could have lots of lovely odd-couple scenes with the two of them.

Hopefully with knitwear.

The Duncan/Jimmy slash industry will be going wild.

Yeah I was wondering about the bulllets. They weren't made by Creggan that was ruled out in episode 4 I think? So did Eve just happen to have her grandfather's old war gun, and it still had bullets?

Poor Merren. Lost both parents.

Whoever the other political candidate is will be delighted though!

Gotta love Evil From Beyond the Grave Donna. What character in the series Rome (Lindsay Duncan’s character?) invokes a horrific curse on her rival and then kills herself on her doorstep to make it stick?

I partly didn't get the bit about Duncan putting the mug in the sink.

I mean he could have made Donna a drink & she added the drugs later.

It'll surely hinge on whether she was capable of that?

Perhaps there will be enough doubt?

Also, can it be proved that she was dead before Duncan moved the mug iyswim?

I think they were setting up the very persistent and obvious love interest nurse to be a witness in the future case by her quick chat with Jimmy in the graveyard

@ChoccyJules

I thought the Tosh actress might have had a small bump earlier on this series but presumably not, unless they have carried on and filmed the next one already? There was a previous season the actress was hiding a pregnancy behind ever-growing bags and files.

Liked the doorbell thing but it was an obvious lightbulb moment when his Dad finished talking, we knew then what had happened (although I briefly thought it was the daughter).

Maybe given the way it ended they are going to continue fairly soon.

She had her second baby just before this series started filming I think.

Can anyone tell me who killed the drone man?

@diddl

I partly didn't get the bit about Duncan putting the mug in the sink.

I mean he could have made Donna a drink & she added the drugs later.

It'll surely hinge on whether she was capable of that?

Perhaps there will be enough doubt?

Also, can it be proved that she was dead before Duncan moved the mug iyswim?

Putting the mug in the sink was to explain why Duncan's prints were on it if his story is that he turned up and found Donna dead. Doesn't explain though why his prints will be on the cocoa and the meds bottles

Really pissed off with the very unlikely Donna nonsense. I found Duncan's behaviour round Donna unbelievable. She kept telling him she felt betrayed by him and she was quite capable of killing herself without his involvement.
It means the next series will have a very boring "Perez and Duncan try to avoid gaol" plot.

I imagine Series 7 will be broadcast in October/November again next year.

@diddl

I partly didn't get the bit about Duncan putting the mug in the sink.

I mean he could have made Donna a drink & she added the drugs later.

It'll surely hinge on whether she was capable of that?

Perhaps there will be enough doubt?

Also, can it be proved that she was dead before Duncan moved the mug iyswim?

Hmm, will she have been clever enough to make the nurse or doctor or whoever carefully put the pills in question high up on a distant, inaccessible shelf she wouldn't have had the strength to get to, hence Duncan (or someone) must have taken them down?

We know she was (at least to an extent) faking her own pain and weakness in front of gullible Duncan, because we see him make her a sandwich, her refuse it saying she feels terrible, but then, the second he goes out of the house, she sits up and tears into it.

If Jimmy's Love Interest Nurse is a key witness in series seven, she really shouldn't have started talking to him after the funeral and saying she knows what really happened, surely? Let alone then ask him out???

You can just imagine the prosecution ripping holes in her evidence on the grounds of her being Jimmy's girlfriend, therefore biased.

Mind you, Duncan was an awful fool to imagine he could turn himself in without involving Perez, his housemate, co-father, and the first person on the scene, because he phoned him!

Delighted that Rhona is coming back -- maybe it'll be Battle of the Fiscals?

@LadyEloise1

Gosh they stuffed that series with so much going on. Too much I think. Just to clarify : The drone man was not supposed to be killed, just frightened ? Had he images of Alex's wife driving hime ? Merren knew her mother was the killer from the start ? Did Creggan make the bullets for the gun used to shoot Alex ? The final murder tally Drone Man Alex Sr Caroline The Mussing girl Donna - imo not murdered. Have I missed anyone ?

Creggan's son

"Doesn't explain though why his prints will be on the cocoa and the meds bottles"

Well yes that's sort of what I mean.

No reason his prints can't be on a cup & the cocoa tin I wouldn't have thought but obviously not the meds.

I think that that whole plot line is pretty daft.

Have I missed anyone ?

Alex's affair with Fiona Bedford
Sandy getting KO'd
Sandy leaking photos
Dougie's mother's funeral and father's illness

There's probably more...

Oh yeah the whole drugs storyline went quiet pretty quickly. I want to know what happened to the mum / addict who lost her kids.

Also, Fiona Bedford said she'd found a tracking device on her phone so looks like Dr Bedford was suspicious that she might be cheating (and if so, he was right - not that that gives him the right to track his wife's movements, of course). He doesn't seem to have acted on that knowledge, presumably because he was trying to prevent Galbraith from blowing the whistle.

The Marianne story was weak, I thought. It was plausible that they were all taking drugs. It was credible that she died, as sadly this does happen. How many people knew who was there that night? Not many, I would imagine. Her Dad didn't know where Marianne was. Why didn't they clean up the house to remove all fingerprints and evidence of drug use and leave her body somewhere else where it would be found, possibly weeks later when there would be less forensic evidence? Still a dreadful thing to do but much less bad than what they actually did, and safer for them.

I dunno, I can see why they would want to bury her there and then. It's done, you walk away, you can put it behind you. Not hiding the body, moving it, etc. Knowing if it's found and then drugs discovered in her body, that could lead to you.

The Marianne story was weak

Very.

If she had left Shetland (or even Fetlar), people would know. There's not too many options. Had she been reported as a missing person, they would have checked the ferries and the flights, and they would know that it was very unlikely that she had gone anywhere.

@FluffyBooBoo

The Marianne story was weak

Very.

If she had left Shetland (or even Fetlar), people would know. There's not too many options. Had she been reported as a missing person, they would have checked the ferries and the flights, and they would know that it was very unlikely that she had gone anywhere.

Yes -- absolutely! The first thing they'd do would be to check flights and ferries!

Also, I was expecting there to be a long walk to get to where they'd buried her body -- but it was about fifty yards from the lodge where the party was, on a completely bare patch of hillside where people surreptitiously burying a body would have been in full view not only of the house, but of anyone passing on the road, and the disturbed earth would have been obvious to anyone who came by to check out where Marianne was last seen...?

I don't think series 7 will feature the Duncan/Perez/Donna assisted suicide case. That will be over and done with and referred to but not based around it. There will be a whole new confusing case for us to puzzle over.