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Girl Number 9
I'm a little bit in shock.

I just watched the final part (part 6, all parts five minutes or so...) of Girl Number 9, the web-only thriller written by James Moran, and starring Gareth David-Lloyd, Joe Absalom and Tracy Ann Oberman.

It's dark. And I don't know how to tell you anything about it that won't give the plot away, so I'm going to go with the official site's lines of:
Vincent Boylan (Joe Absolom) has just been arrested, suspected of being the man behind the brutal murder of seven girls, but the team only have a limited time to get a confession out of him. If they can't make him talk, he could slip through their fingers.

Detective Matheson (Gareth David-Lloyd), who led the investigation, is sent in to try and get some answers. But things soon take a horrifying turn for the worse, as Matheson and his boss Lyndon (Tracy-Ann Oberman) are about to find out that all is not as it seems.
Here's the trailer:



Episode One was good enough to make me want to watch Episode Two. With Episode Two, I was hooked.

Warning though. The show comes with its own warning saying it's not suitable for anyone younger than 15. To be honest, I'm surprised that left it that low...

Girl Number 9 - all is not as it seems...
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cath From: [info]cath Date: November 8th, 2009 07:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
Good but a little exposition heavy towards the end with everyone explaining their motivation, took me a while to recognise everyone mind!
budgie_uk From: [info]budgie_uk Date: November 8th, 2009 08:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
I don't think there's any other way they could have played it, given the restrictions of the format, but I think it was an incredible achievement to do it in something like about 27 minutes.

And as a father, it really wasn't comfortable to watch for some of it...
cath From: [info]cath Date: November 12th, 2009 02:20 pm (UTC) (Link)
Not sure, with you on the format restrictions but Joe Absoloms's chatter at the end about power etc. didn't feel necessary, it was pretty obvious he was getting off on what he'd managed to cause and it would have given them a minute or so to build on someone else.

Granted I'm not a parent so I'm likely looking at it from a whole other angle!
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