The Cry

I enjoyed the programme but I can't accept that two well-educated people, who had presumably travelled by air before, didn't know the rules about taking liquids in hand luggage.

It was also a big coincidence that the medicines were identical.

When they first arrived and drove close to the bush fire there was a shot of a ruined, wooden building. I thought that was going to be where he had put Noah’s body.

I do love a programme that makes me think so I think I am going to get the book on my Kindle. BlueBelle perhaps the book might answer our questions. I also wondered how she had managed to afford to buy the new build house, perhaps he had a hefty life insurance policy and had no inmates her as beneficiary as I don’t think they were married at the time of his death.

Now I'm even more confused! I made the fatal mistake of thinking the last scene was in the cottage on the beach - no, obviously it was the new-build he took her to see, penny drops! I'm just going to have to read the book.....

I was a bit disappointed with last episode- slow and confusing till last 15 minutes. Comments above by more observant viewers help though!

Yes Jane43 I thought the lady with the job was the next on his list I also wondered why she shunned the friend

He buried him before the house was built on top

I do find the floor board thing (which I didn’t pick up on at all) a bit flimsy how would he have taken the floorboards up and when... did they still have the dead baby with them while they were in that house I think I m going to have to watch it all again as I seem to have missed some clues along the way

POGS thank you for that.

Oldbatty I assumed that either they only found out about not being able to take the medicines in their proper bottles in their hand luggage at the airport and purchased the bottles afterwards, unlikely though. Or that she didn’t bother to label the bottles because she always did the taste test before giving Noah his medicine and she was always the one to give him the medicine since he wasn’t hands on with Noah, he seemed to delegate all the childcare duties to Jo, I think this is more likely.

You should carry on watching programmes like this because they make us think and provoke discussion.

She made an educated guess by looking at the photo he took of her standing in that spot in the kitchen when they went to view the house .

It was after he died in the crash and if I remember after her trial had finished.

Humptydumpty I assumed she found out where Noah was some time prior to or during the car journey in a bit we didn’t see. Regarding the seatbelt she could have said that he was careless and often didn’t wear it. I think you are right in assuming that she was found not guilty, again in a bit we didn’t see.

A small point that puzzled me was why she didn’t want contact with her best friend when they returned to Scotland.

Also, did anybody think that the lady who offered him the job with the charity was being lined up by him as his next affair?

Perhaps somebody who has read the book could answer some of these questions.

Thanks Jane, I know what you mean - but when did she find out about the floorboards? during the car journey in a bit we didn't see?

also she seems to have been found not guilty (or not proven?) in the court case but we never heard that - or did I miss something? and surely the police would have been able to tell that his seatbelt had not been fastened when the crash happened? - in which case how did she get off? (which is not to say that I don't have EVERY sympathy with her!)

mmm inspite of post natal exhaustion I reckon I would have labeled the bottles, before leaving home obviously, not in a airport lounge.

I have been watching far too much TV and it must stop!

Humptydumpty. In the last episode he told her that he knew the police were monitoring their movements so couldn’t take her to where Noah was buried. After they left the tree the police were digging up the area with a mechanical digger. He felt that them finding nothing would take the focus off them as suspects but it was a cruel thing to do as she genuinely thought that was where he was buried and why she took away some of the soil. He really was a self-centred, nasty piece of work. I don’t think she found out the truth of where Noah was really buried until right at the end. I think it was another factor in why she wanted to kill him.

It was a good drama and I would like to read the book as there is probably much more in it.

oldbatty Labels on the bottles? Well, I suppose no one has labels to hand in an airport checkout queue, but bear in mind that the mother was totally exhausted because the baby never slept and her husband didn't help.

They should have said "Oh no, the baby has died" , as you say, but he was always thinking that it would go against him getting custody of his daughter Chloe. Plus they were in the middle of nowhere with bush fires raging and the baby was cold so had clearly been dead for a little while.

I wasn't sure about The Cry to be honest after the 1st program but I am glad I kept going.

I honestly thought it was a good story and whilst I disliked the acting to start with I understood the reason for her aloofness by the second.

I thought it was a reasonably clever story and I was happy it was covered in 4 programs and not spun out to 6, just about right.

Why didn't they just put a label on the bottles and why didn't they say "oh no the baby has died, tragic accident"

If the police were watching their every move, how on earth did he manage to bury the baby under the newbuild floorboards? Don't they have CCTV on building sites?

I wasam totally confused by the ending, which seems to completely contradict the rest of the story i.e. she wasn't in on it - what about the bit where he took her to 'where the baby was buried' - was that a set-up between them if she already knew??

GrandmaKT The mother had an ear infection and was taking antibiotics. They decanted the medicines at the airport because of security and had to go off and buy the acceptable plastic bottles to check in with. He gave the baby the antibiotic by mistake because he hadn't tasted it, and the baby was allergic to penicillin.

The medicine thing was that he mistakenly gave the baby the mother's anti depression medicine. That's why she asked him if he'd tasted it to check it was the right one. That they had two medicines in identical bottles with pippettes takes a bit of a stretch of imagination!

Polly48 I don't want to say and spoil it for anyone who might read it.

Sparklefizz how did the book end?

The book is better .... the TV series changed the plot as they often do. The book makes it all very clear.