“She should be asleep now,” Claire tells him.Lee silently goes upstairs. S2 E6 Recap this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Lee shagged Lisa so Ricky killed her?

“No, I need Miller,” he says. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Finding out who killed the Sandbrook girls and in what circumstances registered high on the shrug-o-meter.

Lee is clearly worried.Alec and Ellie, back at the jailhouse, enter the interrogation room where Claire is, and start to quiz her.Before we can get into it though, we go back to the church. Ricky loses it.Meanwhile we see Lee burning the bloodied floorboards in the animal incinerator.Back in the woods, Ricky is a mess. © Copyright 2020 Meredith Corporation. And just like that, Joe Miller is free to leave. Why was she interviewing suspects in Broadchurch police station? Discovering them, Ricky killed Lisa in a rage. He then arrests Lee in connection with the murder of Lisa and Pippa.Back at the church, Joe is sitting in a pew when Mark and Nigel come in.

Eight weeks spent following a trial that finds a guilty man innocent was never likely to be particularly satisfying television. “We know you killed Lisa, but where did you bury her body?” asks Hardy. Hope at last.Hardy gets into a taxi, takes one last look around Broadchurch. Good too to see Ellie and her boys joining them.Given that he had basically half an episode in which to conclude the Sandbrook case, Chibnall did not too bad a job here. The terrible truth at the very heart of the show – that if the man you know is guilty is found innocent, you will never have justice – is not often dramatically explored.

As he gets up to go, he glances back at his wife Ellie Miller, and she stares at him with such vitriol it’s almost scary.Beth runs out of the courtroom in a shock, and Tom sobs into his aunt Lucy.Claire, who is sitting next to Alec Hardy, asks if he’s okay, and in return he tells her he’s arresting her for the death of Pippa Gillespie and Lisa Newbury. The child killer. I guess the subtlety was in whether that at some level, he understood that he was asking Claire to kill Pippa. “You did it,” Ellie tells him. Paul enters and who is there but Joe Miller.

Hardy asks if he was “looking for this?” and shows him the pendant. I hate Joe Miller, but don’t want them to do anything that would get them in trouble!Up on the cliff, newspaper editor Maggie brings a bottle of gin to her girlfriend Jocelyn, who is pissed she lost the case for the Latimers. They rush off.They have Lee in the interrogation room next. Hardy goes into the room by himself, looking at the photos of Lisa and Pippa. “Best place to hide a body,” he says. “We all get to live! The inference was clear: they’re going to kill him. But the emphasis on procedure actually meant that it wasn’t properly examined here, either.Perhaps if the barrister storyline had worked better, if the rivalry between Sharon and Jocelyn had ever seemed more than an odd sideplot, the verdict might have given rise to more than a general feeling of deflation. No. After spending much of the season on the Sandbrook case, the Great Scot (along with Miller, of course) has finally figured out whodunit… was he right all along? Lisa calls him a bastard, and he punches her. A free man. S2 E8 Recap The acting was first rate, as all the loose ends were finally tied up – although perhaps not as neatly as some would have likedThis was a packed finale that showcased the strengths and the weaknesses of This feels as good a place to start as any. “Let’s talk about how the Gillespies used to trust you to take their daughter to school!” Hardy shouts. Miller was surely right to try and stop the tape.

Not here,” Beth spat. It felt like Broadchurch was trying to have it both ways: Claire and Lee a victim of circumstances they couldn’t control, but Claire still a manipulative criminal mastermind and Lee still a child killer. )“You know what happened to Pippa Gillespie and Lisa Newbury,” says Alec, looking Claire in the eye. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. We all get to live. Home Partners in crime, friends in life.The family of Danny then gather on the beach, and tell baby Lizzie they have to reclaim the beautiful beach for her, and keep their love as strong as steel. To protect Lee, Claire drugs Pippa with Rohypnol from Ricky's flask, manipulates Lee into murdering Pippa, and tells Ricky that Pippa died from a reaction to the Rohypnol, threatening him with the flask as evidence should he go to the police. Paul shakes his head.