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:The mystery in the summary refers to the plot involving Nazis and Communists. The killed tramp is just a minor part of that larger tapestry. That (I'm fairly certain) is never solved in a complete way (there aren't any explanations, as I recall). I should watch it again though...I may have missed something. -- [[User:Yossarian|Yossarian]] 18:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC) |
:The mystery in the summary refers to the plot involving Nazis and Communists. The killed tramp is just a minor part of that larger tapestry. That (I'm fairly certain) is never solved in a complete way (there aren't any explanations, as I recall). I should watch it again though...I may have missed something. -- [[User:Yossarian|Yossarian]] 18:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC) |
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The Christian singing group sang in front of a banner which suggests the hospital was named "St. Christopher's Hospital". There appears to be a Hospital by that name in Fareham, UK. |
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Revision as of 08:07, 28 April 2006
Finney, Binney etc
The whole series is basically one long hallucination and deliberately makes the plot unclear, but I think it can be clarified slightly:
- Mark Binney is at school with Philip Marlow, they are enemies, Marlow frames him.
- Raymond is having an affair with Philip's mother.
- Philip and his mother move away to London, she kills herself.
- Mark Binney (in the detective plot) is a combination of Binney and Raymond.
- The deaths in the detective plot are an echo of Marlow's mother's death.
- Mark Finney (in the modern segments) is a figment of Marlow's paranoid imagination.
I've removed "ironically" from the article - one of the themes of the series is that mysteries are often not solved: "lots of clues and no answers", as Marlow puts it, in episode four I think, and since the whole thing's a fantasy there may not be a solution. --ajn (talk) 22:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Was the mystery really never solved?
Template:Spoiler The plot summary states that "this mystery is never actually solved", referring to the body-in-the-river mystery in the thriller Marlow writes. However, I was sure that in either the 3rd of 4th episode, when the two mysterious men are in the car, the tall/fat/dumb one asks the shorter/smarter one if he has the gun, and the shorter/smarter one replies something like "Yes, I have it, I killed the tramp with it, didn't I?"
I've only seen it once though, and it's certainly possible that I missed something. Can anyone clarify?
- The mystery in the summary refers to the plot involving Nazis and Communists. The killed tramp is just a minor part of that larger tapestry. That (I'm fairly certain) is never solved in a complete way (there aren't any explanations, as I recall). I should watch it again though...I may have missed something. -- Yossarian 18:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Unnamed Hospital?
The Christian singing group sang in front of a banner which suggests the hospital was named "St. Christopher's Hospital". There appears to be a Hospital by that name in Fareham, UK.