{"id":21455,"date":"2022-09-05T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1702089"},"modified":"2022-09-05T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T21:28:32","slug":"the-suspect-episode-2-clears-one-potential-killer-so-is-joe-guilty","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-suspect-episode-2-clears-one-potential-killer-so-is-joe-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suspect episode 2 clears one potential killer \u2013 so is Joe guilty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Morgan Jeffery\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 05 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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So much for the \u201crooftop hero\u201d \u2013 Dr Joe O\u2019Loughlin is now firmly in the police\u2019s sights on ITV\u2019s The Suspect<\/a>, after another potential killer was cleared in tonight\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

The first episode of the series<\/a> presented us with two credible suspects for the murder of Catherine McCain (Tara Lee), her former therapist Joe (Aidan Turner) and his patient Bobby Moran (Bobby Schofield).<\/p>\n

Bobby has a history of violence and indulges in fantasies of harming women, while he\u2019s also obsessed with the number \u201c21\u201d \u2013 the same number of times that Catherine was stabbed.<\/p>\n

But in episode 2, Moran was apparently cleared of any involvement in the killing, with Joe sharing his suspicions about Bobby with the police only to learn that the young man has a cast-iron alibi for the night Catherine went missing. This leaves us with two remaining options\u2026<\/p>

The first is that, as DI Ruiz (Shaun Parkes) and DS Devi (Anjli Mohindra) suspect, Joe did indeed kill Catherine \u2013 that she tracked O\u2019Loughlin down in London, having made an allegation of sexual assault against him some years earlier, and that he murdered her in a fit of drunken rage, having previously been left emotionally unstable by his Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Catherine had, according to her recovered mobile phone, planned to meet with someone she referred to as \u201cJ.O.\u201d on the night she was killed and had also placed a call earlier that day to Joe\u2019s office.\u00a0His ongoing refusal to be straight with the police \u2013 keeping hidden that he (allegedly) spent the night with sex worker Cara (Bronagh Waugh), which would alibi him out of the murder \u2013 certainly doesn\u2019t do much to bolster their, or our, trust in Joe either.<\/p>\n

The second possibility is far more complex \u2013 but given that we still have three of The Suspect\u2019s five episodes to go, it\u2019s the more probable.<\/p>\n

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Bobby Schofield as Bobby Moran in ITV\u2019s The Suspect<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV\/World Productions<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Joe insists that he\u2019s somehow being framed for Catherine\u2019s murder \u2013 and that Bobby, while perhaps not a killer, is somehow involved with the fit-up job. Sure, Joe could have been\u00a0lying about detecting a scent of chloroform on Bobby \u2013 the same substance found on Catherine\u2019s body \u2013 but why did Bobby lie to Joe about his past in their sessions together? And what happened to Bobby on Waterloo Bridge, where he was found anxious and badly beaten by police?<\/p>\n

Who is paying for Bobby\u2019s high-price lawyer, given that \u2013 as we learn this episode \u2013 he doesn\u2019t even have a job? Is it the same person with deep pockets who mysteriously outbid Joe in his daughter\u2019s school auction for her sketch of a whale?<\/p>\n

O\u2019Loughlin might just be a fantasist \u2013 trying to convince even himself that he\u2019s innocent, as Ruiz suggests \u2013 but there are certainly a number of clues indicating that he might indeed be caught up in a \u201cwell-planned nightmare\u201d orchestrated by powers unknown.<\/p>\n

Who is pulling the strings? Some shadowy figure, yet to reveal themselves? Joe\u2019s old friend Dr. Gerald \u2018Jack\u2019 Owens (Adam James)? DJ the plumber (Tom McKay)?! At this stage, we\u2019re ruling nothing out.<\/p>\n

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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson\/Stylist: Kenny Ho Groomer: Bryony Blake Cover image: Jacket and t-shirt, both by Mr Porter Reclining on chair image: Top by Reiss, trousers by Universal Works, sneakers by Grenson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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The Suspect\u2019s Aidan Turner photographed for Radio Times<\/span> <\/figcaption> Radio Times\/Robert Wilson<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

Photographer:<\/span> Robert Wilson, <\/span><\/em>Stylist: Kenny Ho, <\/span><\/em>Groomer: Bryony Blake, <\/span><\/em>Cover image: Jacket and t-shirt, both by Mr Porter, <\/span><\/em>Reclining on chair image:\u00a0Top by Reiss, trousers by Universal Works, sneakers by Grenson<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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