Review of Broadchurch – Series 1, episode 7 

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Last updated: Monday, 15 April 2013 at 11:40 pm

SPOILERS: Do not read this if you have not see series 1, episode 7 of ‘Broadchurch’

Who could this Alistair Murray character be? He was found to cries of David Tennant shouting “of course, of course” to have been in email exchange with Danny, after police (finally) recovered his hard drive.

At first I thought maybe it could be Chloe’s boyfriend, because of the initial scent of Danny being implicated in drug dealing. But his name is Dean Thomas, alas.

Perhaps then it is Danny’s teacher, or the postman, or the town butcher: this sudden mysterious off-stage character who Nige, Dean and Danny catch pheasants for at night. All very eerie.

The vital missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle looks to be in a deleted email exchange between Danny and Alistair, information that Tom tried to immediately delete after hearing of Danny’s death in episode one. I am no expert in police procedure, but it seems odd that Danny’s hard drive and mobile phone weren’t taken away soon as after his death for further investigation.

Case in point: his smartphone is being used by the apparent killer, who phoned the police to tell the station about lights being seen in the beach hut. Who could have that smartphone? Somebody close to the family (as Will Mellor keeps saying), or could Nige somehow have got his hands on the phone?

After episode seven he has emerged as the prime suspect, and long-lost son to Susan Wright, who claims she saw his face as he emerged from the boat to lay Danny’s body down on the beach.

Do we believe her? Why would she dob her recently found son into the police? Was her monologue about her husband really so credible that we’re supposed to develop immediate visceral disgust towards him and believe her?

But when Nige confronted her alone in her caravan (and at least the dog is alive, praise be) and she told him it was his face that she saw on the beach, he did slam the door in a tellingly aggressive-guilty way.

Wright has predicted that Nige wasn’t alone in the murder plot, which is likely. But I still don’t think he committed the murder. This seems like a red herring plotline before the real killer is unveiled next week.

So who could his partner in crime be? Not Pauline Quirke after all, we now know. Not Mark Latimer, who was out kissing Becca Fisher. The only person without an alibi is the vicar, who I think is still hiding something.

He answered  hesitantly when Hardy asked him whether he had abused Danny (as Tom had implied when blackmailing him not to tell the police about the bashed-up computer) and he is still lacking an alibi for the night of Danny’s death. Also, why was he wondering around at night on his “usual route” when he came across Tom with the computer anyway?

We’ve waited eight long weeks for next week’s finale, and it had better be worth the emotional slog.

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Yeah, the reviewer doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

I’ve thought this for weeks, but the only thing that worries me is that an obviously distressed Tom asked his father a few weeks ago what kind of punishment you’d get if you murdered someone and Joe seemed quite nonchalant in his response. I got the sense that Tom either killed Danny himself (or, at least, erroneously believes that he killed Danny) or he suspects that someone he is close to killed Danny. If he was worried on Joe’s account, I don’t think he’d have asked Joe that question (and I think Joe would have been more spooked by the question). I think it’s more likely that he’s worried his mother is the killer. Of course, Tom himself could have got the wrong end of the stick.

And nige said in his questioning that the night danny died he had gone nicking pheasants and had run out of fuel and syphoned some from a tractor. The fact that danny often went hunting pheasants with him as well as the idea that it was red diesel dripping from dannys hands at the beginning of the first episode could be an idea. Plus that would explain why none of his family knew danny was out that night, as they didn’t know about the pheasants.

Whoever killed Danny, and for whatever reason, why lay the body on the beach at all? Why not just go further along the coast and then tip the body overboard? Then scupper the boat. If the body was washed up at all, it would probably be days, even weeks, later. Any DNA would presumably have been destroyed. It’s as if somebody wanted Danny’s body to be found; somebody who cared.

The reason Hardy says “of course!” Is because Alistair Murray (tech guy) is the psychic. When he says I got a message, he means literally. He’s seen emails and that’s how he knows stuff. Joe Miller did it, he was abusing Tom.

I think it might be red diesel from the petrol syphoning Nige mentioned to the police.

This review is hilarious in how bad and inaccurate it is. Was this reviewer even paying attention?

I may not be a journalist- but here’s a tip for Miss Wyatt. If you’re going to review a show then it might help if you actually watched it properly. Or at least make sure you know for sure what’s happening before posting a review that can be read by everyone. Your lack of understanding is simply laughable.

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