S01.E03: Episode 3

[Snazzy Daisy]

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Carl and Akram recreate the fateful ferry journey on their way to the Isle of Mhòr.

A frustrated Rose makes her case for joining their Department.

Air Date: May 29, 2025

 

Edited June 1 by Snazzy Daisy

[Snazzy Daisy]

More clues…

The “boobrie” symbol is found on:

• A hat on a faceless man that William saw at home and on the boat.
• Merritt also sees the same symbol as a silhouette on a document pinned inside the chamber.
• “Boobrie” is also the name of a boat outside the Lingard home in Mhór. 

Carl thinks that Merritt’s case was messed-up on purpose. He asks Rose to look further into Fergus Dunbar and why he was being assigned to this high-profile case.

[Raja]

In case they run out of time to torturers up the pressure on the decompression chamber. I think Merritt is also suffering from lack of dental care and that pain can get as bad as any physical torture that can come from outside the walls.

The police station set up reminds me of season 5 of The Wire with the boss skimming most of the funds from Dept Q. And the first couple of seasons of Hunter where the captains assigned him junk cars. In this age with more of a jacked fitness orientation than in the past that they could forget about a gym and locker room in the basement seemed odd. With all the quirky looking detectives I was wondering how they presented authority as ordinary uniformed constables before their detective days.

[Raja]

Before moving on to episode 4 speaking of the lack of professional presence the other detectives have. In the crack house alone when Akram stated what would I need with a gun while facing multiple hypes and a knife  I knew  he wasn't just an analyst in Syria and things were about to get real.

[dramachick]

Damn, Merritt seems to have rubbed everybody the wrong way. When Clair Marsh the caregiver said, "I hope you never find her," I knew there were going to be quite a few suspects. 

[Raja]

Back to the does he have a gun scene. I thought it was weird thing to ask with the show set in Scotland. Along with Japan police and detectives normally don't carry guns so why would that be suspected and asked.

Now I know the show was adapted from a story set in Denmark. It is like a word for word translation where you miss the true meaning. Maybe if the addicts came equipped with a foreign accent, but even with Akram you don't want to portray the only other immigrants in a negative light. 

[Paloma]

Morck thinks the disappearance of Merritt was a crime of opportunity, but that doesn't really make sense if her decision to go with William on the ferry to Mhor was a sudden one. If someone was watching and following her for some time before this, and they followed her onto the ferry, I would consider that premeditated and planned. Also, they had to have planned where to keep her--a hyperbaric chamber in what looks like a big ship (maybe a submarine?) isn't something you can find on the spur of the moment. (Of course, Morck doesn't yet know where they are keeping her or even if she is still alive.)

I guess by crime of opportunity Morck means that they may have planned the crime but had to wait for the right opportunity to grab Merritt.

The references to Harry Jennings, the person who broke into the Lingard home when Merritt and William were younger and who supposedly jumped into the water from the ferry and died when trying to avoid capture, makes me wonder if the old woman and the man who are Merritt's captors are Harry's mother and brother seeking revenge. But I don't know why they would blame Merritt for Harry's death when he was the one who committed the crime against her home and brother, and she was not involved in trying to arrest or prosecute him.

I'm also wondering if the old woman is actually old, or even a woman--something about the brief glimpses we've seen make me feel like it is a disguise. I'm not sure why they are showing glimpses of that person but not really anything of the man.