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Dull without Brian Cox


He spent all of tonight's ep in a coma, so the (somewhat chaotic) narrative had to be carried by the rest of the cast. The women were the best part of Episode 3 - or 4, or whatever it is.

For me, Harry holds the whole thing together, and his character is strong enough to be present even in the scenes in which he doesn't appear.

I for one am hoping that he recovers, otherwise I won't be tuning in for much longer. I mean, how dumb was that assassin?

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I still enjoyed it. Brian Cox is great though.

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I am enjoying the series and he has the best lines "all i want is a fully functionally set of dog stairs is that too much to ask Vince?"

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Especially as Vince seems to be his minder rather than his carpenter.

Cox being gone for the last two episodes has been bad for its lack of Cox but great for the story. Nothing like removing the established leader of a group to create a bit of tension.

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Tension is good, which by the way Harry has slowly begun to wake up from his coma, so will he remember about he phone call from Gary telling him about sleeping with Lola?

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My guess is no. Especially since he was shot in the head.

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SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!!

Harry is out of the coma- question remains is does he remember Gary telling him about having an affair with Lola and what will Marou do when he finds out?

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If he does remember he may take into account the fact that Lola kidnapped a kid, albeit the wrong one, to try and help get Marou back. Marou is not Harry's flavour of the month since Noel is in prison because of his mistake. So Harry may not care so much that Noel has been cuckolded.

But yeah, if Harry has his head screwed on properly he should know he can't trust Lola. And I seem to remember a few thinly veiled threats to him while he was in his coma. If he remembers those then Lola's toast.

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Looks like Harry has now has problems with his memory. This will complicate things.

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