Silent Witness - news series for 2024 starts tonight - what will our multi tasking pathologists get up to this time.

[IwantToRetire]

I know fron the last series that many think this is a series that should have quietly been taken of air years ago.

But the telly addicts thread last time was so funny that it made it worth watching just to be able to join in the comments.

As our two lead characters have zero chemistry and barely speak, and they rarely do any actual pathology, one can only speculate what even more far fetched adventure they will get up to this series.

Not forgetting each more implausible fashion get up Nikki will be wearing to work each episode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007y6k8/silent-witness?seriesId=m001v6nh

But what was with the pre sex talk🤣 you mean your like a watch 😩😂

Almost croaked when Jack patted Nikki on the arse, later tells her she's like a kind of bicycle while sitting her on his knee. The awful over egging of the Fight Club story line where we are supposed to believe that Jack takes part in white collar boxing the night before an important shift at work.... WTAF?! He has still fresh cuts on his face while visiting a crime scene to swab for blood etc. I would have appreciated the taping of Jack's gob and the rest of series off for him. Bring back Clara and Simon, Jack out to pasture asap please.

That's interesting will have to search it out

Just watching a season 2 episode where police officer tells them off for acting outside scope of forensic pathology and there is talk of reporting them to coroner for be being over involved! That shifted somewhat to where we are now

Do you think they are setting up some sort of rape / sexual assault story line with Jack and the student?

Very odd episode.

second one is up on iplayer already.
Love that they feel they can only have Jack being ultra flirty when he can only mumble his cringey lines and not talk properly 😂

Jack is a GCF. Yay!

As said up thread I too thought the writers must have read mumsnet telly addicts.

But couldn't help but think Nikki looked really uncomfortable when getting up close and personal. And yes tapping her behind in a public and professional setting more 70s throwback than anything else.

And hard to think that Jack's role is in fact just to be some sort of male body bait. But only for some as his body looks as wooden as his acting.

The fighting is gross, and would say mor,e but have watched the second episode, but setting it up as some sort of personal satisfaction process is rather gross.

But in looking at the whole cancel culture politics in universities was I thought quite interesting. And daring for the BBC.

Have more to say but think they would be spoilers so will say more later.

They had a story line with Nikki getting intimate with a student not that long ago .

I obviously wasn't watching properly last night. Who was on fire at the end?

It's not on bbc 1 tonight (due to football), will watch on iPlayer. (I don't know when it will air as Traitors on Wed-Fri).

Wasn't that the same episode where she got with jack in the same episode. The weird student at the Halloween party when jack was in the flooded care home then he got ill and she put him in a taxi then kissed him?

@tennissquare it's already on iPlayer, I've seen both.

Agree with @IwantToRetire that they must be reading here and jack is suddenly all over Nikki 😂 the bum tapping just looked odd. And as for the bike comment 🤮

The woman from the interview panel.

Ah thanks I will try to pay attention tonight.

This weeks was extra silly. Back to the usual toot. Last weeks had a bit of decent story writing. This was horrendous. I loved it

The second episode was much better than last nights. I just watched it on iPlayer. I believe it’s going to be on BBC next Monday so don’t know how that’ll work on Tuesday.

Given the content of the second episode it wouldn’t surprise me if the BBC try and find a way to avoid showing it.

Given the content of the second episode it wouldn’t surprise me if the BBC try and find a way to avoid showing it.

Yes I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow got lost in re-scheduling and after any complaints just go well it was on iPlayer.

Can we discuss episode 2 or do we have to wait a week?!

I have questions ......................

I watched episode 2 on iplayer last night ? Was it not on tonight ?

No, it was *** football. If there was any indication of when it would be shown I missed it.

Watched it on iplayer like you. I haven't watched SW for many series. Are the plot points always as obvious to predict as this?

Watched on iplayer last night. The cameraman was really making an effort with the aerial shots (in fact the shots in general) of Royal Holloway. I wasn't paying much attention to the storyline(probably just as well) just admiring the scenery!

I'm assuming the Lyle Centre is meant to be part of the university Cara is attending? As we've never actually seen it before.

The Lyle centre is the lab isn’t it

Can we discuss? Not sure I can wait til next week.

Trevor Eve was 'Waking The Dead'

I think we should. I asked yesterday and now a day later I cant remember what I wanted to say exactly.

So yes please.

Can always head each post about episode 2 with the word Spoiler!

Good idea @IwantToRetire maybe we can post the actual spoiler a few spaces down in the post as well so people don’t accidentally see when reading the spoiler warning?

kind of like:
Episode Two SPOILER DONT READ BELOW IF YOU HAVENT SEEN:

and spoiler down here somewhere?