Oh, and minus nearly all the marks for the single weediest sound effect ever for the moment where Maurice hits Nancy with the iron bar. Top marks to all involved for playing the scene with such intensity and in near complete silence. It’s difficult to know what’s more disturbing: the initial, silent seduction or the moment Nancy spots the single red shoe and realises what’s going to happen. The hapless prefect seemed easily led and banally evil last week but the transformation into murderer makes perfect sense, given how Magda’s abusing him. The fact that she’s Maurice’s victim makes it all the more wrenching. But here, all she is here is the first victim. In a kinder story she’d be the heroine, succeeding at least a little. This is Nancy’s finest hour, lying her way into gathering some chilling information about Cribben, facing down Percy’s casually malicious mother and singlehandedly setting off to rescue the children. This is surprising in and of itself, but coming on the heels of Nancy’s fascinating plot in episode, it’s a real jolt. It’s only as Maurice throws Nancy’s – possibly dead – body down the well that you realise what you’ve just seen a main character killed and taken off the game board with a full hour of the story to go.
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