To be honest, neither of the women in Paul's life seems to be thinking very clearly. The Fall recap: series two, episode two – a more typical detective drama. Does he get his kicks hearing about his own attack? But, not so fast â she develops a creepy obsession with him and is eventually placed under police surveillance as detectives close in on Spector. She then asks him the question we have all been wanting the answer to all episode: "What have you done with Rose?"
• Katie got a duplicate key cut for Paul’s room – and was spied on by the creepy hotel owner (I presume). She tells him that she knows he used to be called Peter and, in one of the season's most heartbreaking plotlines, Spector kidnaps Rose and holds her hostage. The idea of bereavement counsellor as murderer remains an interesting one, although I wonder if it couldn’t be explored more fully. Gibson initially delegates her male subordinates to handle the questioning and charges, but Spector insists that he'll only speak to Gibson.
Jimmy, who blames Spector for the dissolution of his marriage, shoots both Anderson and Spector.
- With his expert binding-to-the-bed of Katie here, and, we would expect, a bit more tying up in that movie based on a steamy bestseller that he has coming up, surely Jamie Dornan deserves to be awarded a rope skills badge from the Scouts? Paul finds them at the park, and instead of shouting at Katie he gives her the key to his seedy hotel room so she can meet him there. Burn. Paul Spector’s name is now scrawled across DSI Stella Gibson’s notebook; bold capitals filling a full page amid the lines of neat notes. But it also further complicates an already knotty set of questions around danger, sex and eroticism. Ha!
‘Now let’s try something different.’. Learning about Paul’s past with the help of Alvarez was great and helped to delve deeper into Paul’s mindset.
The Fall series 2, episode 2 recap: Spector's secret is exposed A killer reveal as the award-winning BBC Two drama continues. • Gibson looks surprisingly immaculate for a woman sleeping, fitfully, on the office camp bed.
Chaos is descending – and that’s without the fingerprint from the shears that places Spector at the Shankhill murder scene.
Just as we're pondering this, he's running off because babysitter Katie has picked up his daughter from school and gone off with her.
And as the net begins to tighten around Spector, so the stakes heighten.
When the case comes to the attention of Spector's college girlfriend, Rose Stagg, she contacts Gibson and recounts a consensual sexual encounter with Spector that turned into rape and attempted murder via strangulation. (At episode’s end, we find out she had called a suicide hotline on several occasions. The Fall Review. • “All I know is that no one can outwit death.” I wasn’t sure whether Spector was threatening Gibson here, or Rose? We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. It's been almost two years since Season 2 of the BBC series began streaming on Netflix, and plenty of people (*raises my hand*) marathoned all six fantastic episodes in one weekend. Jamie Dornan's menacing performance as Paul Spector and Valene Kane's convincingly petrified one as Rose make the next scenes gut-twistingly tense – Paul drives through Belfast with Rose rigid by his side, begging for her life by trying to convince him that she has never once imagined he could be the strangler. And there you have it â bring on Season 3! With a pace that usually falls somewhere between glacial and considered, by The Fall’s own standards, this was a fairly action-packed hour of the BBC2 drama. Rose reveals that Spector went by the name "Peter" when she knew him, and Gibson makes a potentially deadly slip-up during a call with Spector.
It seems unlikely to me. Perhaps we will find out as things progress – Gibson has identified Spector, but there are still four episodes to run.
It premiered in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ at 9:30 pm on 12 May 2013, [1] and in the United Kingdom on BBC Two at 9:00 pm on 13 May 2013.
Both Gibson and Spector are struggling to keep their cool, but as the pace changes, so too does the feel of the show. As we hear Gibson say in the Season 3 trailer, she wants Spector to live a long life behind bars.
- In case we're not convinced Paul is a bit sick and twisted, Cubitt adds some heavy-handed clues this week – while Spector downloads something unseen he's filmed on a camcorder, we see he has a Dante's Inferno illustration of a man strangling another man as his laptop screensaver and the book itself is on his bedside table. It was truly uncomfortable to hear Annie confessing to her attacker that she felt guilty, and in some way to blame for his actions. About five seconds after Rose's rescue, all hell breaks loose. Episode two of The Fall and it's time for a dream sequence - we know it's a dream as Stella is wafting around in a floor length silk nightie – a dry-clean only, creases-like-tissue garment women only wear in movies. • Would he really still be driving around Rose’s car, despite knowing that DSI Gibson is looking for her?