Shetland - help!!!

Alice has been really shoe horned in to create the closure of Perez loving again. It hasnt really flowed, there was no build up, a kiss now they are going to spend the rest of their lives together???
Plus. The on screen chemistry isnt there..

I get that she wants a bit of excitement cause she is in a dull marraige but thats lust not love, and it hasnt really shown what he sees in her at all!

Its been more of a fling up to now and without even progressing to a full blown fling its suddenly all serious??

I do not like Alice one bit and hope she sails off into the blue yonder again with her husband.
Tosh and her boyfriend do not seem to gel either.

Will Perez realise that Tosh is his true love after all?

Is anyone else suspicious of Alice's husband? He seems to be everywhere and even when happy he seems to exude a sort of false bonhomie. (However it could just be the acting)

Did anyone else wonder how Drunken Duncan managed to get from that small beach in front of Perez's house in the town centre to that remote beach where he woke up at the end of the episode? He hardly looked capable of staggering 10 metres!

I was suspicious of him Cold as he usually plays a baddie!

Well, I was too as I didn't think Duncan was on the same beach - and how handy to have a dog walker just strolling along at that time!

I'm still enjoying it though!

Shetland is apparently 566 sq miles so I cannot understand why people who grew up there are completely unaware of others in their approximate peer group, even though they moved away years ago.
There are only two secondary schools and surely there must be general knowledge about those who moved away and became rich, especially if they visited Shetland frequently? Do they not have relatives living locally?
I always think of it as a small community where everyone knows everything about others who live or have lived there!

Or is it me?

Jalima I was thinking exactly the same last night when the blonde woman was asked where McGuire was, and she said she didn't know the actual address but she could describe it. In such a small place with a small population, it was bonkers. Plus surely Duncan would have known that his property had "squatters", etc etc. I expect he drove past it every week

It's rather like Death in Paradise when the local policeman didn't know that there was a library in their town.
I thought "Somehow, I don't think you picked the right occupation".

I always think of it as a small community where everyone knows everything about others who live or have lived there!

I think the premise is that Shetland has an indiginous community AND quite a transient community: oil workers, hotel/tourism workers, hippies/artists and tourists.

The interractions between the Shetlanders and the blow ins is a running theme in the books

I went to Shetland on holiday last year - lovely , so much Nordic influence in the place names, style of houses , lots of Norwegian and Shetland flags around. We did see Jimmy Perez’ house which apparently is only used for the exterior shots, the inside is a studio in Glasgow! You can get a map from the tourist office showing the sites that have featured in the series. Because of the oil money, Shetland has very good infrastructure- roads, lots of public toilets, clean etc I’d love to visit again.

notanan [sigh]
I'm not thinking of tourists, oil rig workers etc etc

Jimmy Perez is (as I understand it) a Shetlander.
As is Sandy Wilson
Duncan too?

You'd think that they would know a bit more about Mr Big (Graeme Benson) who grew up on Shetland.

I have been wondering about Tosh’s boyfriend for a couple of episodes. He seems to be a bit too much of an ancillary character and I can’t imagine that he is there just to provide some love interest for Tosh.

Jimmy Perez can do no wrong!!!

As I said, upthread, I started the thread, so he's mine.

My husband has decided that Alice will turn out to be the chief of the baddies and is just using Perez to draw attention away from what she is really up to!You heard it here first!

I second that Susan56 - well, we have to get rid of her somehow!

Jalima,definitely!!

I think we should write the last episode.

Is Alice using her 'safe refuges' to house some of the people being trafficked?

Gosh, Susan56! If that happens he’ll go into more of an emotional decline than he’s in now and join Duncan on the beach! They’ll probably walk into the sea together!

We're here for him Greyduster

My OH suspects Sandy but I have more suspicions about Alice

Plot is very complicated this time- hope everything will get clearer in last episode. I enjoy these dramas- looking forward to next series of Line of Duty. It’s the speculation and discussions about suspicions that make them fun.

All I will say is that if you get next week's Radio Times there are some hints dropped that support one of the above theories!

Greyduster?Luckygirl,I think I may have to buy the Radio Times!