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So what exactly is D"Abberville up to? SPOILER

posted 7 years ago by CobblersAwls
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First, when he meets with his handler to discuss getting more and final information for him from Toby's stuff before he disappears with a greal of money. Disappearing rich seems to be his plan.

Then, the next time we see him he's engaged to marry the Merry Widow. So, not going anywhere after all?

What's he up to? Is he afraid now that Toby is onto him and Toby's boyfriend also might tell Mi5 what he's up to, he decides in a panic to marry the mother of Lord Hamilton with the idea that if Toby causes a problem or he's otherwise fingered, he can hide behind the family title and get Lord Hamilton to intervene AGAIN to save him?

Is he banking Lord Hamilton and mumsy wouldn't want the scandal of her being married to a traitor, so they'll cover it up? So he's quickly marrying her after he realizes he's been found out?

What?

[–] sith_suzie 7 years ago

He's a smarmy git isn't he? I suspect he's trying to make it as difficult as possible for Toby to shop him, and doesn't care if he leaves her with a broken heart. It'll be interesting to see who gets killed in the bombing next week (not a spoiler as the bombing was shown at the beginning of the first episode).

[–] CobblersAwls 7 years ago

Thank you. Yes, I think we are surmising along the same lines.

And he is played so well as that smarmy git! ha

I thought, as well, about the bombing we saw in the opener taking place during the 50th anniversary party.

I suspect we are headed for one of those unfortunate series approaches too prevalent these days for my tastes: A series that is one single arc of a story divided into several series over several years being doled out 6-8 episodes at a time, with a huge cliffhanger at the end of every series. Ergo, the bombing.

We may not find out who lives and dies and how that affects the plot until next year--IF there is a next year.

Unlike "Unforgotten" and others that simply use the same cast to tell a different story every year, these continuing stories that have so few episodes per year are often not worth investing time in, due to the fact that they often disappear after one incomplete outing.

I've really gone off these series that throw out 4-8 episodes a year to tell a tiny bit of one story, then stop right in the middle of the narrative with a kind of "to be continued" at the end, which used to mean "to be continued next week" back in the day. Now they mean "next year." ha