Great minds think alike - who cares which one of us though of it first! (Although I'm pretty chuffed I did - I'm usually useless at this sort of thing!) I'm happy to share the kudos with you!
Great minds think alike - who cares which one of us though of it first! (Although I'm pretty chuffed I did - I'm usually useless at this sort of thing!) I'm happy to share the kudos with you!
Worked out the culprit, the motive and the method about half way through. Never used to be able to do that with DiP.
I find Kris Marshall a bit underpowered. His acting style seems slightly pastel compared to the other's bright colours. Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure the blue shirt he gave to Dwayne /Fidel hadn't appeared in the show.
... really enjoying it Kris Marshall is really growing on me....
Hmmm And I think the ratings are holding steady; so I think that most people don't think he's "ruining" the show at all
Tonight's ep only spoiled by the massive visual continuity errors.
1. The dates on the calls list. I don't think this series was supposed to start this soon!
2. Watch the 'shampoo bottle' with the poison in it between scenes.
Wow, I didn't know you could still get stamps that you had to lick! I didn't get why they didn't look in the bathroom? Surely there must have been an ensuite, and surely the victim would have gone in there after drinking all evening? I realise they could have initially searched it off camera, but when the two detectives went back into the hotel room to check if they'd missed anything near the end, they never even mentioned the bathroom.
Can you ingest enough poison to kill from licking a stamp? Tip of the tongue test is often shown in detective stories.
What, for poisons?.
That would be bloody stupid, as many poisons need only minute amounts to kill. What detectives in TV land seem to do a lot is test drugs such as coke by the "tongue test" method, in real life though I doubt they would take the risk.
When Humphrey waved the make-up brush around and asked 'What on earth do women do with this?' I knew immediately that a make-up brush would figure in the solution and spent most of the episode thinking that the poison was in the victim's lip gloss, but couldn't figure out why she would have been applying it in the middle of the night.
I'm very impressed with the speed of the island's internet connection - all it took for Humphrey to discover that the best make-up brushes are made of goat's hair was a few taps on the keyboard and a glance at the screen. All done in less time than it takes for a page on my fast broadband connection to load. He must be quite a speedy reader too.
I thought he was really over-dramatic in the 'gathering people together at the end' bit this week. At one point I expected him to fall to his knees clutching a skull thrown by somebody off-camera and proclaim 'Alas, poor Yorick - I knew him well!'
I loved Dwayne adopting plain clothes and then attempting to look incognito in the motorbike and sidecar which must be known to every resident over the length and breadth of the island I also laughed at the shirt thing because something very similar happened to us once when we bumped into a friend wearing a hideous Hawaiian shirt at a football match. My husband was politely enthusiastic about it because he didn't want to hurt the bloke's feelings - next time we went into our local the guy had the shirt in a carrier bag ready to give to him 'because he'd liked it so much'. Truth is definitely every bit as strange as fiction
Yay! I got the stamps about halfway through. The postcards had to be relevant somehow. Really enjoying this again, just good old fun.
On Monday, there was a Jonathon Creek repeat on Drama. The method used was similar. In that case a stamped addressed envelope was sent to the victim, to return a book. When he licked the envelope, he was poisoned.
They do seem to flag up the key trick. In last week's show they kept reminding us about the timing of the murder and how it must have been a women that did it - therefore neither were true, and this week they kept mentioning that the woman who turned out to be the killer was in the air at the time of the murder, therefore her alibi was sure to be worthless.
We see Humph making a big thing about the large makeup brush, implying he doesn't know too much about them, but then magically connects that to the poison even though a different brush was used, so had no way in knowing if it was done that way.
Secondly bloody handy that the exact poison bottle she choose before getting to the island was exactly the same as the one she picked out of the trash in her BF's room.
Third, how the hell do you clean a shampoo bottle without wiping off any fingerprints, it's very hard to get all the shampoo out of a normal shampoo bottle, let alone a little one like that, without manhadling it so to speak, but that was a minor point.
Fourth, why didn't she see the hair, while decanting the poison from her bottle to the new bottle?
Enjoyed the episode and actually got that it was the stamps. Very pleased with self as a result. OH thought it was the gay guy, the one who hated the victim and said he didn't care if he didn't get promoted. The scene where he was interviewd and said that he seemed very gay indeed, almost a caricature.
Like most here, I guessed the perpetrator as soon as she appeared, but I confess the stamps just passed me by. I assumed it was on the make-up brush itself - but putting on make-up in the middle of the night?I did not think that one through, did I?!!
Anyway, apart from the non-appearance of Harry (they must have a budget for CGI and have run out for the moment) a thoroughly enjoyable show. Absolutely hit the spot with the wind howling and the rain splattering the windows outside last night!
Secondly bloody handy that the exact poison bottle she choose before getting to the island was exactly the same as the one she picked out of the trash in her BF's room.
A better question would be: why was she still carrying around the phial of poison that she had used?
Since the deed (doctoring the stamps) had been done long ago, there would be no need to keep the poison on her person or in her bags. Even if the ploy hadn't worked, it would have been better to have stashed it elsewhere, rather than carrying the "smoking gun" all around the world and risking a customs search. (and, since it was so powerful that just a lick of it was enough to kill, why did she have enough in the bottle to knock-off half the island?)
So we have had 4 episodes of this series: 2 of them have been poisonings. We are also told in other cop-shows that poison is a woman's weapon and that seems to have been the case here, too.
Getting a bit samey?
Well done. I didn't think of that: I was convinced the poison was on the end of the pen and she put it in her mouth.
Again, I guessed whodunnit very early, since the last three episodes have followed exactly the same formula: it's never one of the original suspects the team put up on the board. This trick is all very well to pull occasionally, but if they keep using it every week it becomes obvious who the culprit is. The 'cast iron' alibi also made me instantly suspicious.
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Great minds think alike - who cares which one of us though of it first! (Although I'm pretty chuffed I did - I'm usually useless at this sort of thing!) I'm happy to share the kudos with you!
I ended up imdb-ing him - he was in Muriel's Wedding and apparently in Zero Dark Thirty but I don't really remember him in that ...
Respect to both of you for figuring it out
I agree
the murderer had to be the one who was not on the island
I find Kris Marshall a bit underpowered. His acting style seems slightly pastel compared to the other's bright colours. Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure the blue shirt he gave to Dwayne /Fidel hadn't appeared in the show.
Tonight's ep only spoiled by the massive visual continuity errors.
1. The dates on the calls list. I don't think this series was supposed to start this soon!
2. Watch the 'shampoo bottle' with the poison in it between scenes.
What, for poisons?.
That would be bloody stupid, as many poisons need only minute amounts to kill. What detectives in TV land seem to do a lot is test drugs such as coke by the "tongue test" method, in real life though I doubt they would take the risk.
I'm with you dave, KM has really bedded in nicely, and the supporting cast were on form in last nights show.
The Poole is dead, long live the Humph!...
No Harry though....boooooooooo
I'm very impressed with the speed of the island's internet connection - all it took for Humphrey to discover that the best make-up brushes are made of goat's hair was a few taps on the keyboard and a glance at the screen. All done in less time than it takes for a page on my fast broadband connection to load. He must be quite a speedy reader too.
I thought he was really over-dramatic in the 'gathering people together at the end' bit this week. At one point I expected him to fall to his knees clutching a skull thrown by somebody off-camera and proclaim 'Alas, poor Yorick - I knew him well!'
I loved Dwayne adopting plain clothes and then attempting to look incognito in the motorbike and sidecar which must be known to every resident over the length and breadth of the island
The spicy stew scene really made me laugh. Not original but much more believable than falling out of a window!
I like the way Humphrey uses his team strenghts even when it's not by the book. Like when he asked Dwayne about unofficial gamblin establishment.
Another good one
On Monday, there was a Jonathon Creek repeat on Drama. The method used was similar. In that case a stamped addressed envelope was sent to the victim, to return a book. When he licked the envelope, he was poisoned.
They do seem to flag up the key trick. In last week's show they kept reminding us about the timing of the murder and how it must have been a women that did it - therefore neither were true, and this week they kept mentioning that the woman who turned out to be the killer was in the air at the time of the murder, therefore her alibi was sure to be worthless.
Still lots of fun, though.
We see Humph making a big thing about the large makeup brush, implying he doesn't know too much about them, but then magically connects that to the poison even though a different brush was used, so had no way in knowing if it was done that way.
Secondly bloody handy that the exact poison bottle she choose before getting to the island was exactly the same as the one she picked out of the trash in her BF's room.
Third, how the hell do you clean a shampoo bottle without wiping off any fingerprints, it's very hard to get all the shampoo out of a normal shampoo bottle, let alone a little one like that, without manhadling it so to speak, but that was a minor point.
Fourth, why didn't she see the hair, while decanting the poison from her bottle to the new bottle?
Anyway, apart from the non-appearance of Harry (they must have a budget for CGI and have run out for the moment) a thoroughly enjoyable show. Absolutely hit the spot with the wind howling and the rain splattering the windows outside last night!
A better question would be: why was she still carrying around the phial of poison that she had used?
Since the deed (doctoring the stamps) had been done long ago, there would be no need to keep the poison on her person or in her bags. Even if the ploy hadn't worked, it would have been better to have stashed it elsewhere, rather than carrying the "smoking gun" all around the world and risking a customs search. (and, since it was so powerful that just a lick of it was enough to kill, why did she have enough in the bottle to knock-off half the island?)
So we have had 4 episodes of this series: 2 of them have been poisonings. We are also told in other cop-shows that poison is a woman's weapon and that seems to have been the case here, too.
Getting a bit samey?
Well done. I didn't think of that: I was convinced the poison was on the end of the pen and she put it in her mouth.
Again, I guessed whodunnit very early, since the last three episodes have followed exactly the same formula: it's never one of the original suspects the team put up on the board. This trick is all very well to pull occasionally, but if they keep using it every week it becomes obvious who the culprit is. The 'cast iron' alibi also made me instantly suspicious.