They think it's all over... It nearly is, but do we have a clue what's going on? Um, kind of...
Don't tell Hardy your secrets
He's a PROPER blabbermouth. Newly reinvigorated by his recent pacemaker op, Robocop headed over the fields to confront Lee in his doorless stone house (you really can't rent anywhere these days). Becoming more Scottish with every single statement, he revealed that the Sandbrook investigation was being reopened (um, sort of stretching the truth with that one), before dropping the bombshell that Dodgy Claire had been pregnant back in the day. OK, not ideal, but it could have been worked around? Nu-uh - not only did she get rid of the baby, but it may not even have been Lee's! OUCH.
Dodgy Claire doesn't like being doubted
Heading straight over to his ex-wife's beach hut (seriously, the rental market is bad in this town), Lee totally misinterpreted the concept of a 'seaweed facial' and dragged Claire head first into the sea to get her to confess to the pregnancy. She owned up to having been preggo, but when Lee dared suggest he wasn't the baby daddy, Claire returned the favour and tried to drown him. Not long after, they decided their relationship was over. You think?
Sandbrook got a mystery new suspect
Well, sort of. Tom Rosenthal popped up out of nowhere being all weird and shifty, his utter inability to maintain eye contact with Hardy and Miller immediately marking him out as dubious. But there was no need for good cop, bad cop - he blabbed his entire sob story in under 20 seconds, confessing to stalking Missing Lisa.He couldn't have had anything to do with her disappearance, mind - he was busy trying to top himself.
Suspicion swung straight back to Angry Ricky, with his bluebell wall art and secret phone calls from Claire. But twenty minutes later, suspicion swung right back round to Lee again. We can't keep up!
Charlotte Rampling earned her keep
There's no point calling Hollywood if you're not going to pull out all the acting stops, and tonight CR showed us her full credentials. She played a steely blinder in court, making a meal of Joe's highly conspicuous inability to walk across the courtroom and, you know, defend himself (although Rottweiler Sharon went on to throw bucketloads of reasonable doubt all over this argument - more on that in a mo).
She made us sad about her Poor Dead Mum (although having a little cry over what must have been the dirtiest hairbrush this side of the dog grooming van at Crufts was a bit distracting), before finally, FINALLY copping off with the lady journo (yes, we saw that coming in episode one). Well played, CR.
Sharon threw shade all over Mark
How was the defence ever going to get Joe off, we've wondered since ep 1. Well, we wondered no more during Rottweiler Sharon's summation. It was Mark. Yep, the crux of her argument was Poor Dead Danny caught his dad romping in the car park with Tarty Becca and an ensuing argument ended up with Mark killing his son.
Bad enough. But she really put the boot in with phrases like "he interpreted a fumble in a car as true love" (oof!) and "his absurd schoolboy fantasy" (double oof!) Mark was left so far in the shade, he thought there was an eclipse.
THAT cliffhanger
"Do you find the defendant Joe Miller guilty or not guilty?" Cue a silence longer than the announcement for the X Factor winner and then... Arrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Hang on, let us think about it again... Argggggggrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! All that AND Claire returned Poor Dead Pippa's pendant. Can we just skip the next seven days already?
Next week: WE FINALLY FIND OUT WHODUNIT!