Silent witness - new series

[Deranged Rover]

WrekinCrew said:

You don't need to be an electrician to know that cutting all the wires in the CCTV control box would disable the camera.

Only one wire was cut and the cut end was tucked under the black plate so it wasn't immediately obvious until Jack pulled on it.

[silobass]

Some of the camera work annoys me, it's like they have a trainee producing it sometimes. It seems homemade at times with wierd close ups of them processing in the lab or Jacks imagining what happened.

Overall, I enjoy the story.

[droopsnoot]

There seemed to be a lot more gory close-ups of insides of dead people than usual.

[gt_12345]

I wish they would get rid of the Lyell Centre professor. Utter waste of space.

[Paul Dishman]

droopsnoot said:

There seemed to be a lot more gory close-ups of insides of dead people than usual.

But more blue cloths covering the corpse’s genitalia

[droopsnoot]

And we're off again with them sticking their noses into stuff that they wouldn't normally be involved in. Would the pathologists normally go off collecting CCTV footage? Why did all four of them troop in to see the old professor when just the copper would have done? And even though the group contained one copper, two pathologists and the head of the lab, none of them thought to ask for DNA and fingerprints while they were there, and she had to come back for another trip. Still, at least they didn't have the lab head with his three weeks of training winning his first boxing match.

[misssinead]

droopsnoot said:

And we're off again with them sticking their noses into stuff that they wouldn't normally be involved in. Would the pathologists normally go off collecting CCTV footage? Why did all four of them troop in to see the old professor when just the copper would have done? And even though the group contained one copper, two pathologists and the head of the lab, none of them thought to ask for DNA and fingerprints while they were there, and she had to come back for another trip. Still, at least they didn't have the lab head with his three weeks of training winning his first boxing match.

Let's face it: we probably wouldn't watch it if it didn't have a bit of drama!!! I love picking out plot holes too

[HTP99]

Does anyone else think David Caves is a terrible and awkward looking actor, I've had brief dealings with him in a retail environment, dealing predominantly with his rather lovely wife, I didn't let on I knew who he was, he was just as awkward, in terms of how he carried himself, then?

[droopsnoot]

misssinead said:

Let's face it: we probably wouldn't watch it if it didn't have a bit of drama!!! I love picking out plot holes too

True, it would probably be quite boring if they just stayed in the lab all the time.

HTP99 said:

Does anyone else think David Caves is a terrible and awkward looking actor, I've had brief dealings with him in a retail environment, dealing predominantly with his rather lovely wife, I didn't let on I knew who he was, he was just as awkward, in terms of how he carried himself, then?

I did think he came across as quite awkward when he was on The One Show the other week. Maybe he just doesn't like that kind of thing. I can't say I've noticed that much in the actual series, though it does seem a bit strange that HR aren't having a bit of a word when he comes in to work with all the marks on his face from having had his head kicked in the night before, when that's a hobby rather than having been attacked.

[Jasey_]

So what was the point of the driwned electrician and his wife or did I miss something in one of the sign language bits explaining what he had to do with the main story.

[droopsnoot]

I don't think he had anything to do with the main story, unless I missed it as well. As I recall it, that was just so we could have a moral dilemma towards the end - did he slip and fall accidentally into the river, or did he deliberately jump in? He'd got loads of debts that his life assurance would pay off, but it wouldn't be valid if he'd topped himself and then she'd lose the house. So it's down to whether the coroner decides the death was accidental or self-inflicted. Which way will Dr Alexander tip the scales? The goody-goody "probably suicide given that he probably disconnected the camera" or the kind and generous not-my-money "can't say it was definitely suicide". Nod and a wink at the end suggests the latter.

[droopsnoot]

The DNA thing, in the latest episode, seemed weird to me.


They have a body, "A", "figure out" who it is, then talk to her sister "B", take DNA sample etc. Later on, they take DNA from "B"s son to eliminate him from some other enquiry, then notice that he can't actually be the son of B. B confesses that her sister A actually gave birth but was such a druggy that she took the kid away and raised him as her own. That doesn't work, though, because the body has never given birth, so can't be who they thought it was. I don't understand why that wasn't apparent when they first took B's DNA and compared it to A, nor why they didn't notice that the son's DNA didn't match A either, why it isn't until the next episode that they think of checking that.

There seemed to be a lot of interaction with B before they'd even confirmed that the body was her sister, but that isn't unusual.