The Tower

I do enjoy Agatha C type crime where everything is nearly wrapped up, but life isn't like that and I thought the ending of The Tower was realistic. A reasonable explanation of what had occurred but with a few loose threads. Just like life.

Yes, a vague ending curly "Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey" [grin}

Luckylegs

So, if we’re allowed to discuss it now……. who pushed who off the roof then? Why was it left open with the wife having the phone in her bag? Why did the fat policeman have the stuff under his nails if there wasn’t any contact between him and the girl? Where did the scratches on the girl come from? Why was the policewoman told to lie? Anyone?

I agree with BigBertha that the wife knew her husband was having an affair, and has decided to keep the phone in case it comes in handy as a useful bargaining tool. (or maybe it's been left open for another series?)

Secondly, the policewoman, Lizzie, said she tried to grab the girl, and so did the fat policeman - hence the girl's skin under his nails and the scratches on her arm. I think Lizzie said that actually she felt that she pushed the girl off because if she hadn't tried to grab her, she and the fat policeman might not have fallen, but ............

While she, Lizzie, was in the cell, someone took her a cup of tea. We didn't see who it was, but the window flap was opened and she stood up and smiled.

Later it was said that the detective named Steve (with the beard) who had spoken to her earlier about lying to save her career, had been the person who took her a cup of tea and that he had "coached" her in what to say about the fat policeman trying to save the girl, not push her, thereby making the whole situation a terrible accident.

Unless the story carries on in a future series, the ending was awful. Why did the wife keep the phone and what is she going to do with it? Lizzie getting away with lying - even though the detective knew all about it - where's AC12 and Ted Hastings when you need them!

I images ne the inspectors wife regards the phone she has kept which she said she had destroyed as her insurance policy

I purposely avoid threads on a programme until I've watched it all, as I assume there may well be spoilers.

I really enjoyed it, but there were questions at the end. I felt there should be another series that followed on, and answered some off it. Why did wife keep phone, what will she do with it.

So, if we’re allowed to discuss it now……. who pushed who off the roof then? Why was it left open with the wife having the phone in her bag? Why did the fat policeman have the stuff under his nails if there wasn’t any contact between him and the girl? Where did the scratches on the girl come from? Why was the policewoman told to lie? Anyone?

This was the first of 3 books, assuming they have a second series, this the second book

October 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new case and must once again work with a troubled young police officer from her past, Lizzie Griffiths.

PC Lizzie Griffiths, now a training detective, is working in the Domestic Violence Unit, known by cops as the 'murder prevention squad'. Called to an incident of domestic violence, she encounters a vicious, volatile man - and a woman too frightened to ask for help. Soon Lizzie finds herself drawn into the centre of the investigation as she fights to protect a mother and daughter in peril.

As both cases unfold, Sarah and Lizzie must survive the dangerous territory where love and violence meet.

Lots of loose ends and that’s all I’m saying. I enjoyed it but was left wondering.

Surely it’s not up to people on here to not talk about it but up those who haven’t finished it to not read !!

Good point BlueBelle.
Can we now discuss the ending? How did everyone interpret it?

I know what I have done and should have been done with that phone! Sorry to be so cryptic but I do not want to spoil it for others.

May I just politely ask why would you go on a thread about a programme that’s finished, but you haven’t watched ??
Surely it’s not up to people on here to not talk about it but up those who haven’t finished it to not read !!

Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it’s left well open for a new series

Keeleklogger

Was that it? I watched the thing for 3 whole hours and that was it? If there's one thing I hate it's a wishy washy ending where it seems the writer can't make up their minds which way to go. I'll bear this in mind next time I'm tempted to watch drama on ITV

We thought it went flat at the end too. We watched all three at once.

I dont think the last episode stood up to scrutiny. Having said that, not a lot do!
Maybe I'm a tad bored of stereotypical characters, or jaded with story lines involving corruption in the police force (I think I probably exhausted that genre by the end of Line Of Duty)
However, it could return as a crime fighting duo with Ms Grim and Prim working with Ms Goody2shoes perhaps as an under cover cop. A twist on Batman and Robin! I'd watch it.

Was that it? I watched the thing for 3 whole hours and that was it? If there's one thing I hate it's a wishy washy ending where it seems the writer can't make up their minds which way to go. I'll bear this in mind next time I'm tempted to watch drama on ITV

&Nandaot% yes, tonight, tomorrow and the last two are next week. I do not know if more will be shown.

Are you watching Show Trial? It is well worth it.

The last one WAS last night! I’m often running behind but if it’s discussed on here, too bad surely? A while back, I plaintively asked for something not to be discussed openly as I hadn’t had time to watch it and was told, in no uncertain terms, tough!

Nandalot

Oh no, Calendargirl. The last part was only on last night and I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet....tonight’s treat. Give us a week’s grace at least before any spoilers!

Oh no, a week is far too long! We will have moved on by then, you must get it watched quicker!

IThanks, Charleygirl5. I have watched Dalgleish, Shroud for a Nightingale. It was very good. Is there another one on tonight? Goody, shall have to record it! Months with nothing worth watching and then....

Nandalot please consider watching Dalgliesh which part 1 is on tonight, channel 5 at 9 pm and the second and last tomorrow. It is dated in 1975 but filmed recently. Well worth it.

Very interesting ending.......

Oh no, Calendargirl. The last part was only on last night and I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet....tonight’s treat. Give us a week’s grace at least before any spoilers!

Well worth watching I thought.

Luckylegs

I know what was said, Sparkle but it didn’t clear up the anomalies or be clear about what actually happened, did it? When can we talk about it openly then?

I think you can talk freely about a programme once it has ‘gone out’. If others watch it later on catch up, too bad.

I don’t think you should discuss episodes after ‘binge watching’ before they have been screened at proper time.

I know what was said, Sparkle but it didn’t clear up the anomalies or be clear about what actually happened, did it? When can we talk about it openly then?