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How could Will have known (spoiler)?


How could Will have known that Foyle's body would be cremated, so that any traces of the allergan at the site of the epi-pen puncture wound would have been destroyed by the time Maggie (or anyone) realized they would prove Will's guilt? I missed a chunk of the middle of the show, so I apologize if this was addressed in the script -- but it seems more likely to me that it was just another plot hole in a script that was full of plot holes.

This may seem like a small point, but it bothers me because, if Foyle's cremation was just dumb luck for Will, then Will wasn't the flawless "escape artist" he was made out to be, and the whole premise of the show falls.

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Well, he seemed smug when he said it to Maggie so I assume he already knew it was going to happen. Perhaps Foyle had made a will with the lawyers at some point and Will had had a look at it? Foyle seemed to do all his business with the one firm so they could have done a will for him too.

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He didn't....he knew by the time he was in court.Will had a plan. BUT not everything went off with out a hitch. I don't think he PLANNED on there being a fire. So I think some of it he was going a little by the seat of his pants. He didn't know the body was going to be cremated. It's all flash back.....if you watch Will when Maggie tell him it was the perfect crime accept for three thing and how would he slept knowing they could come after him. Will is now a little uneasy when she starts.He knows she knows. The dispose of the weapon.....he wanted to go back to his car but ER people said they wanted him to come with them.....so that he had to improvise. 2 was the prescription which was his mother and the last was the body and he knew this was problematic . He knew it wasn't the perfect crime unless some things fell into place which not everything did... like the fire and the disposal of the pen. He knew he could rest easy once the body was totally gone. Which in flash back form it was....he got lucky. I mean the trial and the body being cremated happen months apart. I'd have to watch it again but this is what I remember. Mind you I'm bad about watching stuff and doing other things. I'll have to watch it again!


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Prozac -- thanks, that's pretty much what I thought ("not everything went off without a hitch ... he got lucky"). But if that's the case, then he wasn't an "escape artist", he was just an ordinary guy who got lucky, which makes me ask, what was so special about him that would justify centering a three-hour TV show around him?

Darryl -- you could be right. But back when I used to practice law and write wills for clients, one of the cardinal rules of will drafting was never to include funeral/cremation instructions in a will, because very often no one got around to looking at the will until after the person had already been buried or cremated. But what the heck, the writers got so much else wrong, maybe they were wrong about this issue too.

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Yeah, I haven;t written a will yet (no wife or kids so no idea who I'd leave anything to anyway and I've never been the beneficiary of one either) so I know very little about them.

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Trails, even in the UK, don't happen the day after being arrested. They can weeks/months. On the other hand, a dead person's funeral happens a mere few days after said death. Even the coroner only keeps you so long to perform the autopsy. Of course Will already knew he'd been created weeks/months earlier. Everyone involved with Foyle would know. Why she hadn't heard was probably because the guy had creeped her out so badly she wanted to know nothing more of him.

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Oops, t-r-i-a-l-s.

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Even thought I thought Doctor Who.... Ooops I mean Will did preform the perfect Murder. I thru the BS card at the Cremation twist at the very end. It was something that Colombo would never have let slip He would of played with Will for a great Two Hour Mystery.

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"Colombo" ROtFLMAO!!!! OK, let's face she's not that good. She's not Colombo good. I think that was the point of that subplot of the story. Maggie wanted to be better than, not even just as good as, Will at what he does. But in the end, he was still better and was able to get himself off the hook!

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Nice mention. I believe Columbo is a favourite of David Tennant's and an inspiration for how he plays Alec Hardy in Broadchurch.

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I got the sense that Will had slipped instructions requesting the cremation into Foyle's file at the law firm. Since he'd been Foyle's defense attorney Will could have falsified the instructions to make it look like Foyle had requested them while Will was defending him.

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