Silent witness - new series
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On the plus side, for the next series she might have learned a lesson and not stick her nose in quite so much. You'd think they might have learned that journeying to foreign countries never ends well - Leo got hit by a bomb I think, and Harry almost got bumped off as well, also somewhere foreign. At least they got a nice trip to Tenerife to film this one, though.
Only 'watched' part one of the Mexican jolly. Dreadful over acting, plot had more holes than a Swiss cheese and Jack seems to think he's Sherlock all of a sudden. Sometimes when something is gripping, you can forgive the odd continuity error or unbelievable plotline, but this was utter shark jumping at it's best.
Just caught up with part 2 on iplayer. What a load of dross, she spent 8 hours in a box which turns out to be covered in about an inch of dirt yet not for a minute did she wonder why her mobile phone was working if she was six feet under or what a f
king scorpion would be doing mooching about under ground.
It really was an anticlimax to see her survive at the end. I was willing for her character to be bumped off.
king scorpion would be doing mooching about under ground.It really was an anticlimax to see her survive at the end. I was willing for her character to be bumped off.
Blaster72 said:
Just caught up with part 2 on iplayer. What a load of dross, she spent 8 hours in a box which turns out to be covered in about an inch of dirt yet not for a minute did she wonder why her mobile phone was working if she was six feet under or what a fking scorpion would be doing mooching about under ground.
Exactly. The scorpion was the bit that got me. She seemingly knows everything about everything and overlooked that glaringly obvious fact?king scorpion would be doing mooching about under ground.Really going to struggle to gain any interest in it next series.
Also - Thomas was on a plane over, yet never even appeared! So it was just Clarissa doing all the work back at the Lyell?
bingybongy said:
yup, that's about it.Don't think I'll bother next week.
DSLiverpool said:
Could someone explain the ending particularly the couple cutting up the car. I'm stumped.
This was the conclusion to the 'secondary' story, the death of Nicki's friend. She'd thought her new colleague David and the funeral directors daughter had killed Nicki's friend to cover up an organ harvesting operation but then at the last minute they discovered it was the other pathologist and the funeral director himself who'd done it. They had killed her to cover up their dodgy stuff and were cutting up her car to hide the evidence.After listening to an interview on Steve Wright, SWIMBO decided she wanted to watch this on Monday. After 10mins she had the good sense to fall asleep. I tried to stay with it, but also kept drifting off. So did not watch the concluding part last night.
I have to say, that I do not recall ever seeing such drivel on the BBC before. I am assuming that the scenario is basically Quincy from several decades ago. Just done appallingly badly.
It would be interesting to know the opinion of someone who has worked in a UK pathology / forensics lab. Using someone as a technical adviser on the series seems to be its biggest failing.
I have to say, that I do not recall ever seeing such drivel on the BBC before. I am assuming that the scenario is basically Quincy from several decades ago. Just done appallingly badly.
It would be interesting to know the opinion of someone who has worked in a UK pathology / forensics lab. Using someone as a technical adviser on the series seems to be its biggest failing.
I enjoy the series usually, the angle grinder bit was annoying though.
First of all she saw an angle grinder on the screen having done a search (presumably) on the hire company name and product code (who doesn't put a description on a hire invoice? they'd have businesses on the phone all the time trying to reconcile stuff) and immediately thought that its prime use would be to cut up a car?
Second, I'm not sure I'd use something like that in any case, as it looked a bit small. And then, how come between the lab assistant that lives on a suspiciously expensive-looking farm with outbuildings and farm equipment; and a funeral director, they haven't got something as basic as an angle grinder floating around the place?
And, for pity's sake, a day or so after the body had been found, why on earth would you cut the car up with the barn door wide open so anyone who happened to be wandering around could catch you? And surely it would have been better, if you're going to plant the body on the dodgy bloke's farm, and go to the trouble of planting paint from her car on his Peugeot 504, to stick her car there as well? Or take it down a local lane near his farm and set light to it? I can't imagine the thought process that those two people would use and arrive at the conclusion that it's best to take it to one of their homes and manually cut it into pieces.
Still, I'll watch it next week again. Not as if there's much else on.
First of all she saw an angle grinder on the screen having done a search (presumably) on the hire company name and product code (who doesn't put a description on a hire invoice? they'd have businesses on the phone all the time trying to reconcile stuff) and immediately thought that its prime use would be to cut up a car?
Second, I'm not sure I'd use something like that in any case, as it looked a bit small. And then, how come between the lab assistant that lives on a suspiciously expensive-looking farm with outbuildings and farm equipment; and a funeral director, they haven't got something as basic as an angle grinder floating around the place?
And, for pity's sake, a day or so after the body had been found, why on earth would you cut the car up with the barn door wide open so anyone who happened to be wandering around could catch you? And surely it would have been better, if you're going to plant the body on the dodgy bloke's farm, and go to the trouble of planting paint from her car on his Peugeot 504, to stick her car there as well? Or take it down a local lane near his farm and set light to it? I can't imagine the thought process that those two people would use and arrive at the conclusion that it's best to take it to one of their homes and manually cut it into pieces.
Still, I'll watch it next week again. Not as if there's much else on.
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