We both agreed to give up after 20 minutes. This was so full of implausibility that it was comedic:
Perhaps this is being clever, too clever and a long game is being played, but it's either way over our heads or is as poor as it seems.
- widowed the evening before, she greets the police with a beaming smile
- her mother greets her recently widowed daughter with a nasty comment about her dress
- the bank call centre's closure 'is there anything else we can help you with'
- her joke about the car accident victim to his grieving family
Perhaps this is being clever, too clever and a long game is being played, but it's either way over our heads or is as poor as it seems.