How did Leanne know Calvin Sarwar? Also - as she seemed to me a bit dim - how did she know how to create a false email account in Lerwick library that it took the police days to work out? Or am I just useless at technology and that's really easy.
shareI have another question: Why was Leanne looking for Robbie in the ferry after waking up at the beginning of the first episode since she had already locked him in the container?
shareI think that was because they were both 'wasted' after spending some time together in the shipping container smoking weed as she recalled.
She may have easily exited the container in the early hours to use the toilet for example and fell asleep on deck not realising that when she shut the container door behind her she inadvertently shut Robbie inside.
I still can't fathom the connection between Leanne and Sarwar though, and how she knew him to send the email to.
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Leanne didn't know Sarwar, different storyline. Leanne saw the witness protection guy with Ashar, then lost them, but then saw wit protection guy again and followed him hoping to run into Ashar again. She then recognized in his mannerisms that he was in witness protection like she had been in her younger life, so she created fiascos to bring Ashar back because she knew she was his controller. It isn't to hard to make a fake email account. If you get a hold of an ancient copy of Netscape gold 3.0 you can even forge the from: line in the header from a regular account, so I've heard. ;-)
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But how did Leanne know whom Michael was testifying against? And why did Leanne follow Michael as if she really thought he was responsible for Robbie's death? Looking back her behaviour at the first two episodes of the series doesn't make much sense to me.
shareLeanne sent the email to Sarwar saying that Michael was on Shetland, didn't she?
shareHard to say. She might have had a mental illness "blockage" of her knowledge about her involvement in Robbies death. Her following Michael was always in the hopes of spotting Asha again. She might have gotten information from Robbie about who Michael was. She was clearly misleading Jimmy in the hopes of keeping the Michael story active so as to get Asha back to Shetland. The fact that she was mental does make her story a bit harder to follow regarding what was true, what was deliberate misrepresentation, and what was mental illness. I suspect that if one googled Michael's name that there would be enough newspaper articles about Michael that one could sort out who he worked for and who was representing his boss in court.
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Yes I thought the concluding episode was very sloppily written, didn't make a lot of sense from the earlier episodes. And it did not help having two postponements for the footie or ruggie or what the hell it was. Shame on you BBC.
shareAnd the concluding episode is once again written by David Kane.
sharePerez went to the library in Lerwick, to ask about Asha and is told that she hadn't been there. From the conversation with the librarian it appears that Leanne/Lena has been there and Perez asks if she used the computer, which she has, apparently several times.
All of you know this already, but what no one has mentioned is that the librarian is also saying that when Leanne have been there and used the computer, she has also deleted all browsing/search history, to leave no tracks, which apparently had caused problems. So it's just as sluggr says; Leanne didn't know Sarwar, but had realised that Michael was under witness protection.
So Leanne sat and googled and somehow found something, enough newspaper articles about Michael that pointed to Sarwar. And in all honesty, if you're stubborn enough one can easily find very much on the internet. And it really isn't that difficult to create a false email account. Even I would've made it :)
I still wonder how she could have done it since Michael was under a false name.
shareMichael was under a false name to the people in Lerick but not to his son. Who knows what Leanne overheard when they were arguing. Googling Michael, Glasgow, Organized crime would likely have turned up his picture on the first results page. I'm also starting to think that she wasn't accidentally shot at the old farmstead. Sarwar may have also given instructions to eliminate anyone who was close to Michael who may have been the source of the info from Lerick.
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I don't think Leanne learned Michael's real identity from Robbie. She didn't even know Robbie was his son until Perez told her at the end.
shareMichael was under a false name to the people in Lerick but not to his son. Who knows what Leanne overheard when they were arguing. Googling Michael, Glasgow, Organized crime would likely have turned up his picture on the first results page.
The point was that Lena Gilborne was a very clever young woman driven mad by grief and a sense of injustice and who was smart enough to create the dumb and innocent Leanne Randall. She deliberately left Kola Kubes in Freya's home to lure Michael into following her and to his death. Her shooting was not the intention of the gunman, but it was an accident that turned in Leanne's favour as it removed her further from suspicion.
She didn't mean to kill Robbie, as she says at the end, but just thought his being found there would be enough to frame Michael and bring Asha over. So although her grief at his death was in part genuine, again it worked in her favour.
The how did she know Calvin question foxed me too until I read the comments here, but of course it was just a matter of research.
I imagine that she saw it all as a suicide mission on behalf of revenge for the way her mother's WP was handled and so wasn't covering her tracks in order to get away with killing Asha, if she had to, but to ensure that the mission would not be halted in its tracks.
Just watched S3 again on DVD in time for S4, 1st episode Sky+d and ready to go 😊