Another ruined castle on another tiny island. This one is in Scotland. Google tried to tell me that this is Castle Stalker, but it's not. The water and beach looks like the Caribbean, but the Inner Hebrides area off the west coast of Scotland also appears to have some white sandy beaches. Plus the title on the puzzle says Scotland.
The island's original castle was built in the thirteenth century; it became a stronghold of the Clan Mackenzie and their allies, the Clan MacRae. In response to the Mackenzies' involvement in the Jacobite rebellions against the newly United Kingdom, Royal Naval ships destroyed the castle in 1719. The present-day castle is Lieutenant-Colonel John Macrae-Gilstrap's 20th-century reconstruction of the old castle.
Another squad of misfits set up to look into old cases, much like Graveyard, except this one is in set in Scotland, not Turkey. Funny how both groups get office space in a creepy old basement, full of old stuff that no one cares about.
The show gets off to a horrific start when our hero, Morck, and his partner visit a crime scene and are ambushed by a gunman, who kills the patrolman, and seriously wounds Morck and his partner before escaping. Morck hates everybody in the cop shop and everybody hates him, he's basically an asshole.
Meanwhile, in the courtroom, Moira, the prosecutor, is trying to convict Graham Finch of killing his wife by pushing her down the stairs. Except it wasn't meanwhile, it was four years ago. Moira disappeared shortly thereafter.
Merritt Lingard is the boss of the cop shop. I was confused at first because I thought Moira and Merritt were the same person. I thought they looked alike, my wife doesn't understand how I could not tell them apart.
Akram is the first person to join Morck's team. He is devout Muslim would used to do police work in Syria, whatever that means. Like all good immigrants he is willing to do all the scut work without complaining.
The missing Moira becomes the first cold case for our brand new Department Q to investigate.
The show has the usual Netflix complement of folks from the fringes: guy with mental problems, smart gal stifled in tedious administrative busy work, brown immigrant who works hard, a cripple, and I'm pretty sure there are several gays. None of that matters because the main story is intriguing. They keep giving the audience clues. How the devil is this group of misfit toys going to figure this out?
Sometimes he does a live stream, which I have found mesmerizing for a few minutes until I start to feel vicarious exhaustion and hopelessness.
I enjoyed watching these guys digging a road in Turkey:
Caterpillar D7g Bulldozer And Excavator Removes Giant Block Rock~Dev Kaya Çıkartma Operasyonu
GREYDER MEHMET
These guys are pulling a bulldozer out of the mud.
Amazing Expertly Technique Skills SHANTUI BULLDOZER Falling Into The Water Help Heavy Crean Success
Construction Cambodia
I am amazed by how thin those cables are. They don't look to be more than 3/4 of an inch thick and they are lifting that multi-ton bulldozer. It is Cambodia, so maybe they are working a little closer to the edge. Shoot, we probably have guys here doing the same kind of sketchy looking things. A 30 ton load will break a 3/4" steel cable. This bulldozer, a Shantui DH17, weighs about 9 tons, so they should be okay. A 3 to 1 ration is not the normal safety factor of 10 to 1, but at least they are not on the hairy edge.
Most of Scotland's coal in the sixteenth century was mined close to the Firth of Forth and transported by sea. Shipping the coal from the Moat pit at Culross, Fife, was easy because one of its shafts emerged on an artificial island on the foreshore. Boats could come alongside to load directly from it.
This remarkable innovation was developed by Sir George Bruce of Carnock in 1590. Sea water, which leaked constantly into the pit, was drained by a horse-driven chain of buckets and emptied back into the sea. The pit was flooded in a violent storm in 1625 and abandoned.
We watched it once before, back in 2019. It's still pretty good. The Battle of Loudoun Hill is glorious, Billy Howle as Prince of Wales is properly villainous, you will have no trouble hating him. Locking Queen Elizabeth in a cage and hanging it off the castle wall doesn't seem so bad until you realize how cold Scotland is. I don't image she could have survived long. Of course she survived, it's a movie after all.
