Broadchurch: One Case is Solved, but what About Danny?

Tonight got us one-step closer to finding the murderer of young Danny Latimer for those of us in the states. The show Broadchurch, which captured the U.K.'s attention, has been showing once a week on BBC America and has had us all on the edge of our seats.

WARNING: THIS IS NOT A SPOILER FREE POST
TW: Mentions of child abuse and rape

We opened tonight's episode with Alec Hardy in the hospital where we soon find out that he has a heart issue, and was supposed to have a pace maker put into his heart some months ago, and hasn't because of taking on this case. Ellie Miller is pissed of course; she can’t have a boss who passes out on her. In return, Alec leaves the hospital without the permission of his doctors. Surprised? Not even, close.
 

Ellie is interrogating Susan Wright when she says that she won't answer anything unless the dog is found, in return Ellie says that she'll kill the dog herself if Susan doesn't start talking.

She admits that she saw Danny's body while she was walking her dog on the cliffs above where he was found about three or four in the morning. She then tells the story of her own family that was torn apart by her husband who had raped her oldest daughter and then killed her after she tried to save her sister from the same fate. Her husband says that Susan knew that her daughter was being raped, and because of this, social services took the baby away that she was pregnant with, citing that she was an unfit mother. Susan hopes that her daughter looked that peaceful when she was killed, but she thinks not.
 
While this is going on, the head writer of the local newspaper finds out that Alec had spent time in the hospital and hands the story over to Olly Stevens, Ellie's nephew saying, "You should be the one to nail him." Afterward Olly confronts Alec and demands a story, which he'll get later on.

Ellie gets Susan to admit that she saw more than just the body on the beach that night. She reports that she saw a boat come up to the beach with a man in it who got out, and laid Danny's body down before getting back in and taking off due west. When asked who it was, she admits that it was Mark Latimer's coworker, Nige Carter.

Nige is brought in for questioning, and when interrogated by Alec he admits that he wasn't at home the night that Danny was murdered, but says he was out hunting pheasants also saying that the truck ran out of gas, and he siphoned some out of the tractor that we saw in the first episode. (Hey, but at least one case is solved) When asked about how he knows Susan, he says that she was harassing him about something. Moreover, when pressed by Alec, we find out that Susan tracked Nige down because he's the son she was forced to give up by social services. When Nige finds out about his biological family, he has a breakdown and cries in the interrogation room.

Alec and Ellie find out that the killer phoned them himself to lure them to the house, and a phone call draws Alec away to Reverend Paul Coates who hands over a beat up laptop that he found Tom Miller destroying in the woods the night before. When the Reverend confronted Tom about it, Tom threatened to tell police that the Reverend had been abusing Danny with whom he had had a falling out with some months earlier that the Reverend had also witnessed. Because it's Ellie's son, Alec hides the laptop from her and has it taken in to be looked at without her knowledge.

We finally get the interview with Alec and Olly where we find out more about the Sandbrooke murders, which Alec has become infamous for. We discover that the pendant that the whole case rested on was stolen out of a DS's car when she stopped at a hotel for a trist with another DS, not stolen from Alec like the reports had said before. He admits next that it was his ex- wife who had left the pendant in her car, and had taken the wrap so that their daughter wouldn't know that her mum had been the one to do it. Alec says that they can print the article, as long as his ex's name is kept out of it.

That night the Latimers have dinner with Chloe's boy friend, Dean Thomas who says that the Nige could've never done it since he got on so well with Danny when they went hunting together on Dean's land. When the Latimers are visibly surprised, Dean mentions that Danny had said they approved and Mark admits they hadn't.

By the end of the episode Susan is ran off by Nige, we find out that the killer wore size 10 shoes, and Ellie had no idea of Tom and Danny's falling out, and Alec receives an email about the emails found on Tom's laptop.

This is where the episode leaves us with us all on the edge of our seats, and left for another week wondering whom it was exactly that killed Danny Latimer. Maybe next week dear readers? Until then, keep guessing.