Law & Order: UK - episode two recap

[lizbee]

The House o'Squid is a bit behind, as I worked nearly every evening last week.  SOON WE WILL CATCH UP!  Until then, have some extremely important screencaps. 

The victim is a dead kid.  Another kid is the murderer.



Dervla Kirwan is the barrister for the defence.  I thought her name was "Fi" or "Vi", but it turns out to be "Beatrice", and James was calling her "Bea".  Oh well. 

She gives 'tude to Alesha, and plays with James's Rubix Cube, because they used to have a thing.  The Rubix Cube might be a metaphor for something.



This is Alesha's face when she discovers that James and Bea used to have a thing.



Matt is miffed because Alesha brings chocolate croissants to Ronnie but not him.  In fact, he chases after her as she leaves, because he doesn't know she's having a secret affair with James.



Alesha Philips: Girl Detective. 

Freema needs those shoes just to pass for a normal-sized person.



ALESHA CARDIGAN WATCH: Pink.



Note that he puts his hand on the back of her chair to say something personal.



This is just to demonstrate that James is handsome.



ALESHA CARDIGAN WATCH: Blue.



Yup, still handsome!

Comments

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

The fact that the dead kid's name was Daniel Jackson amused me to no end.

I've really never understood how the concept of a "violent gene" would be used as a defense at all. "Your honour, my client has a defective gene that means he's likely to kill people suddenly and for no real reason. I ask that he be released to kill again." I think the young actor did a great job of playing a really broken and messed-up kid, though.

The moment that the sleazy dog-racing guy was boasting about how he'd never hit a kid, as if that's some kind of accomplishment rather than absolute rock bottom, I guessed he was going to be a skeezy red herring.

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

I don't think James being handsome needs any demostration but the images are always welcome :) Ben Daniels is such a beautiful man. He and Freema were totally acting as an old married couple in the BFI L&O:UK event. That did not help my James/Alesha obssession at all.

This is complete OT, but...

[onomatopoetry.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd like this vid (I know I've watched it like four times now) http://www.imeem.com/people/uI1y5Bs/video/dwE9l9ep/one-girl-revolution-multi-fandom-tv-video/

Re: This is complete OT, but...

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

It's an amazing vid! But it was posted a few days after a similar vid, and uses so many of the same clips that I find it totally derivative. Which is a shame, because I like the song and editing on the second vid better.

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I loff her hair.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Am I being over-sensitive if I think that naming an intellectual black female character after Britain's current most prominent black mass-market popstress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alesha_Dixon) is a bit icky? Probably just my tendency to think the worst of Chibnall.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Was she definitely named after Dixon? Otherwise it's a common enough name (to me, at least) that it just seems like coincidence. (Also, Freema and Alesha Dixon are with the same PR agency, which also represents Burn Gorman -- so if it is intentional, I don't think it was so much Chibnall going, "Huh, name the black girl after another black girl" as aiming for a very incestuous in-joke.)

[aceofannwn.livejournal.com]

The photo used to demonstrate that James is handsome makes him look like a falcon. Really. check it out. He would make a good NewWho Rassilon, I think. But that could just be me.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I like this idea, but only if he turns into Don Warrington when he dies.

[falena]

This picspam is made of win!

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

This pic-spam rocks. Cardigan-spotting has become the highlight of my Tuesday evening TV watching.