In which Hetty learns a very valuable lesson about paying attention to what’s going on.
Otherwise, I was denied someone being burnt in a wickerman. The end mystery turned out to make a lot of sense but as I’ve noticed with this series so far, the end result is rarely any sort of clear ‘punishment’.
Also elder abuse is bad. And Robert’s grief was pretty darn well written/acted which was a nice bit to this episode.
This started out a little unexpectedly with a chopped off finger being sent to someone’s parents. On the other hand, the one preceding this involved an hour long torture of some poor hard of hearing dude so. You know.
I did have a moment of ‘oh great, Italy and a mafia plot’ but there was a TWEEST and an entire scene with that europop stuff pumping in the background and enjoyable graffiti bits and well, overall it was a good episode.
I could have done without Robert comforting a stressed out person with ‘well, keep your pecker up!’
The hair on the victim’s sister was gorgeous:
