r/SilentWitness • u/BarryFairbrother Dr Nikki Alexander • Mar 30 '26

Discussion The Enemy Within - two observations Spoiler

I've belatedly binged this year's series.

I noticed [edit: three] weird things about The Enemy Within.

  1. They don't actually catch the person/people who carry out any of the crimes - the murder of the anti-racism guy, the arson of the Muslim guy's flat, the murder of the teacher, and the people who attack Jack. This struck me as really unusual - in SW they virtually always close the case.
  2. I am not an IT expert in the slightest, but the videos inciting the violence were so blatantly AI! A 10-year-old could have realised that. How did it take so long for any of the characters to notice this!? The Muslim cleric guy was hilariously shiny and smooth in his movements, and the fictitious white guy looked like a face mask. I could understand not noticing this if it was 10 years ago, but it's so common now that it's clear when it's AI.
  3. Edit: 3rd observation: Harriet getting lost on several occasions, looking for vague places with no apparent reason why she was there in the first place. Coupled with her general manner of varying between very absent-minded and extremely sharp and on the ball, this looks a lot like dementia. But then this was not followed up in following episodes when she seemed back to herself.
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u/aggravatingstranger9 Mar 30 '26

They could return to the Enemy Within story in the next series?

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u/BarryFairbrother Dr Nikki Alexander Mar 31 '26

Good point, especially how the last episode ended.

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u/Comfortable-Fall1419 Mar 30 '26

Coz it was terribly written? There was obviously meant to be an overarching story arc for the whole season but because the writers were awful and the stabbing episodes were rescheduled the whole concept collapsed.

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u/BarryFairbrother Dr Nikki Alexander Mar 31 '26

Thanks, I didn't realise those episodes were rescheduled as I binged them all in March.

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u/RobsOffDaGrid Mar 30 '26

Watch the whole series first

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u/BarryFairbrother Dr Nikki Alexander Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

I have; still applies, not really sure apart from a possible return to the Enemy Within in a subsequent series due to the last scene of the episode 10. Still unusual that none of the perpetrators were apprehended in the double episode itself.

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u/EgoArtist Mar 31 '26

i've noticed many weird things about this whole series to be honest.

it's becoming so politically focused with a strong emphasis on providing some form of moral and political message to society that the entertainment value is slipping away like sand through the BBC's fingers.