Happy Valley Series 3 - BBC1 9pm started 1 January 2023 - no spoilers - tv pace – thread 2

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And once it is welcome to everyone. Looking forward to any number of theories and learning things one never wanted to know about like tiny phones.

yep agree @JaneJeffer she is ether the mole or jo's mother maybe...there is a connection/reason she reacted as she did...😉

I don't believe Joyce will be Jo's mum, Catherine has known her for years.
Joyce's unseen daughter marrying the OCG fella maybe, but even that would be going a bit far I think.

My first thought when I watched is that Joyce is connected in some way to the pharmacist. She saw something in the info, and seemed alarmed. I wonder if she is related to the pharmacy owner somehow - Faisal just manages the shops, doesn’t he, for his uncle (I think)?

re: Faisal and the air embolus, there was definitely quite a significant bit on how he always wanted more, to be a doctor, but couldn’t afford the training, so I’d guess he has either done partial training and dropped out, or extra training at some point which would give him the skills.

Imagine the poor woman who is going to marry that Knezevic idiot!

Amazed so many picked up on Joyce

I didn’t

I thought she was her great friend

hope she isn’t a baddie

D’you think they’ll get through the full ceremony? I’m happily anticipating quite spectacular carnage - gangs and police racing to the venue, laden with weapons …

Remember in s2 they had a bit of a row after a night out, she bought Catherine a cactus after?

@MetaDaughter shit is definitely going to go down

I also wonder if Joyce is related to or knows Faisal in some way. The information on the screen that caused her to look very uncomfortable was Joanna's name, address, phone number and the lab result confirming the pills were diazepam.
Perhaps she recognised the address as a couple of doors up from Faisal. There was a lot of emphasis in that episode of them being near neighbours with Faisal seeing evil teacher leave the house and his subsequent comic stumbling round the back of the gardens.

My first thought when I watched is that Joyce is connected in some way to the pharmacist. She saw something in the info, and seemed alarmed. I wonder if she is related to the pharmacy owner somehow - Faisal just manages the shops, doesn’t he, for his uncle (I think)?

I think the shops belong to Faisal’s father-in-law. Doesn’t his sister-in-law manage the other?

I'm surprised she's not been on the Relationship board on here. LTB!!!!

I thought Faisal's father in law owned the shops. 🧐
In the Valley of the Squinting Windows ( a book title ) where I used to live, there would be no way Faisal wouldn't be spotted by a nosy neighbour.
Surprising horrible abusive PE teacher doesn't have a Ring doorbell and security at the back to keep an eye on "the wife" while he's out - see who is calling, what she's up to.

re: Faisal and the air embolus, there was definitely quite a significant bit on how he always wanted more, to be a doctor, but couldn’t afford the training, so I’d guess he has either done partial training and dropped out, or extra training at some point which would give him the skills.

Faisal’s daughters said that their grandparents would only pay for one child to study medicine so Faisal had to do a shorter degree - pharmacy. There seem to be quite a few reasons why Faisal might have a chip on his shoulder.

Ah but @LadyEloise1 we live in Ireland

I think he already has. I think he used the syringe full of air on himself not Joanne.

Brilliant @JaneJeffer 😂

Yes - Catherine's take down of neck beard at school was awesome.

Don't criticise the women who backchatted my enemy.

And what is the significance of Catherine leaving her reading glasses on the desk? Was there something in the rest of that episode she hasn't seen or read properly because she didn't have them with her? Or when she gets back to her office are they going to have mysteriously moved because Joyce has been snooping?

I don’t think there is much to Joyce. It’s not LOD! Maybe that scene more showing Catherine rushing/being busy, setting her up to overlook/forge my something. Potentially re Jo and linking up dots to gang and the car she spotted.

There is definitely something going on with Joyce. I played back the scene on iPlayer because I couldn't read what was on the screen Catherine was looking at. There's a close up shot of Joyce reading it over her shoulder and swallowing hard.

Good point, she read the car reg number and told Ann to make a note of it. Bet it gets recorded wrongly or something.

Yes, I wondered that about the accuracy of the car reg. But then thought the glasses she used for her screen are unlikely to be the distance glasses she'd need to see for car number plates ie the equivalent of driving.
I may be overthinking this!

I even thought when she grabbed the dodgy one and got him
On the floor that the other two lads might get out and batter her to get hold of him as there were no other police there at the time

What if Rob PE teacher is thinking of getting rid of his wife because if she is charged with anything, he thinks it will reflect on him and ruin his career. He has found out about Ryan's past (through Cesco) and is grooming him so he can they lay the blame on Ryan, not realising that Jo is already on the floor, possibly dead, and Ryan having a genuine alibi.

I thibk you've picked up on something though. I assumed there'd be a problem with the care reg because she told someone else to make a note of it and they probably weren't paying attention.

They didn't repeat it back, so either they don't hear or at all or they don't note it down.

But perhaps the glasses have something in it, she did squint at the car after all
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