Although I'm a great fan of detective stories, my track record isn't great. Sometimes I guess the culprit, more often I don't, sometimes I even figure out the motive. My successes usually occur late on in the programme, often just before the reveal, and usually just a fraction ahead of the police. But this time was way, way different. I have never, ever, guessed the culprit so early on in a programme, and with the correct motive as well. As soon as we discovered that Gabe had spent half an hour talking to the terminally ill man, I said to my partner "I bet I know what that conversation was about". It went something like: "Cheating at Watkins Glen, the terminally ill man knows, now Gabe knows, and so he has to die. Which means there's only one possible culprit".
Apart from being so easy to guess, this was another cracking episode. The two leads gel really well and the set up of the driver being killed at a pit stop worked really well - seventeen witnesses but also seventeen suspects - even if it turned out not to be the actual crime scene. Good to find out more about McDonald's back story and good too that Superintendant Ormond has got their backs and isn't a tosspot like so many senior police chiefs in detective shows.
Apart from being so easy to guess, this was another cracking episode. The two leads gel really well and the set up of the driver being killed at a pit stop worked really well - seventeen witnesses but also seventeen suspects - even if it turned out not to be the actual crime scene. Good to find out more about McDonald's back story and good too that Superintendant Ormond has got their backs and isn't a tosspot like so many senior police chiefs in detective shows.