Code of Silence – episode 6
Aug. 27th, 2025 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessThis episode kind of devolved into a generic thriller finale, with Alison being bluntly informed by several people that her doing things off her own bat, and those things that she’d been told not to Had Consequences, and then doing things that put her in danger. Liam was also determined to carry on with his plan A, or seemed to be, even when two people who cared for him pointed out an alternative that was hard, but less chancy. Also, he seemed to be ignoring all the evidence he’s had that Braden is a psycho.
After the previous episode’s hostile interview, where I was left thinking Alison needed a lawyer, the police had decided to treat her as a witness, not a criminal, and put her and her mum in a safe house (with gigantic windows in the back, even if the garden seemed secluded) with police protection. The police officer seemed a bit thick, buying Alison’s not suspicious at all ‘I didn’t order this extra food. Oh, wait, I totally did.’ And then putting buds in his ears when he was the person with the best hearing in the whole building.
I liked that they remembered to show Ben’s wife by his bedside and his mistress outside in the corridor. She was one of the people who told Alison what was what – that Ben would have waited for armed police if she hadn’t been inside the hotel and saying ‘sorry’ didn’t make it all right.
The extra takeaway was a way for Liam to pass on a burner phone with a message inviting Alison to meet again, where they were both angry that the other had used them. He still wanted her to come to Brazil. She gave away that the police had finally worked out who he’d been before becoming Liam Barlow. Which was quite a breakthrough, after all the gang members they’d brought in for interviewing had lawyered up and read from a statement denying any involvement. As Alison’s evidence mostly pointed to plans for robbing the vault, the police didn’t have much: an obviously fake signal saying that Liam’s phone was in Budapest, several sightings of Braden, the last of which was that he was still in the vicinity.
The inspector went back to the widow, who it turned out had fostered Liam – he’d decided to steal the necklace off the gang because taking their money was the only way to hurt them, in revenge for killing his beloved foster father. She didn’t give him up, but the inspector had a bit of a nose around the house and found that Liam had visited there.
Alison walked away from Liam, but never got back to the safe house, getting nabbed by Braden, who sent Liam footage. He…went to visit his foster mum, saying he’d go swop the necklace for Alison and…get away on his private plane somehow. Which sounded stupid. She told him to go to the police, as Alison had done.
There were no subtitles for lipreading as most hearing people who wanted to speak to Alison made sure that she was looking at them. Her mum had to descend to writing notes to tell the police when she realised Alison was gone from the safe house. Liam’s ability to sign did come into play at the end of the episode.
I thought he’d handed the necklace over to Helen straight away, which seemed stupid, but he hadn’t. She took him to the warehouse where Braden had only terrorised, not hurt Alison. Liam got them to talk before handing over the necklace and ordering Alison to go, and when she wouldn’t because Braden looked like he was going to assassinate Liam, signed ‘p-o-l-i-c-e’ and next thing there were blue lights, and the police had wired Liam and got enough to arrest Helen and Braden (and Liam) as a result. He and Alison had a moment – and he’d be signing at her two months later in court and signing his guilty plea, so I guess Eithan had better give up all his hopes of getting back together with Alison.
Alison had been trying to explain to Liam that helping the police validated her abilities and given her importance. The inspector came a-visiting as she was packing to leave her home, telling her that they’d got the gang member who was involved in her housing association on something else, and handing over a cheque for £50k for her services (which had involved sleeping with a subject but I daresay that wasn’t in the paperwork) and a leaflet for a course on forensic lipreading from a made-up university. Which was about as positive an ending as she could have hoped for.
After the previous episode’s hostile interview, where I was left thinking Alison needed a lawyer, the police had decided to treat her as a witness, not a criminal, and put her and her mum in a safe house (with gigantic windows in the back, even if the garden seemed secluded) with police protection. The police officer seemed a bit thick, buying Alison’s not suspicious at all ‘I didn’t order this extra food. Oh, wait, I totally did.’ And then putting buds in his ears when he was the person with the best hearing in the whole building.
I liked that they remembered to show Ben’s wife by his bedside and his mistress outside in the corridor. She was one of the people who told Alison what was what – that Ben would have waited for armed police if she hadn’t been inside the hotel and saying ‘sorry’ didn’t make it all right.
The extra takeaway was a way for Liam to pass on a burner phone with a message inviting Alison to meet again, where they were both angry that the other had used them. He still wanted her to come to Brazil. She gave away that the police had finally worked out who he’d been before becoming Liam Barlow. Which was quite a breakthrough, after all the gang members they’d brought in for interviewing had lawyered up and read from a statement denying any involvement. As Alison’s evidence mostly pointed to plans for robbing the vault, the police didn’t have much: an obviously fake signal saying that Liam’s phone was in Budapest, several sightings of Braden, the last of which was that he was still in the vicinity.
The inspector went back to the widow, who it turned out had fostered Liam – he’d decided to steal the necklace off the gang because taking their money was the only way to hurt them, in revenge for killing his beloved foster father. She didn’t give him up, but the inspector had a bit of a nose around the house and found that Liam had visited there.
Alison walked away from Liam, but never got back to the safe house, getting nabbed by Braden, who sent Liam footage. He…went to visit his foster mum, saying he’d go swop the necklace for Alison and…get away on his private plane somehow. Which sounded stupid. She told him to go to the police, as Alison had done.
There were no subtitles for lipreading as most hearing people who wanted to speak to Alison made sure that she was looking at them. Her mum had to descend to writing notes to tell the police when she realised Alison was gone from the safe house. Liam’s ability to sign did come into play at the end of the episode.
I thought he’d handed the necklace over to Helen straight away, which seemed stupid, but he hadn’t. She took him to the warehouse where Braden had only terrorised, not hurt Alison. Liam got them to talk before handing over the necklace and ordering Alison to go, and when she wouldn’t because Braden looked like he was going to assassinate Liam, signed ‘p-o-l-i-c-e’ and next thing there were blue lights, and the police had wired Liam and got enough to arrest Helen and Braden (and Liam) as a result. He and Alison had a moment – and he’d be signing at her two months later in court and signing his guilty plea, so I guess Eithan had better give up all his hopes of getting back together with Alison.
Alison had been trying to explain to Liam that helping the police validated her abilities and given her importance. The inspector came a-visiting as she was packing to leave her home, telling her that they’d got the gang member who was involved in her housing association on something else, and handing over a cheque for £50k for her services (which had involved sleeping with a subject but I daresay that wasn’t in the paperwork) and a leaflet for a course on forensic lipreading from a made-up university. Which was about as positive an ending as she could have hoped for.
