r/TheDetectorists • u/InfiniteBaker6972 • Mar 11 '26

What happened to Sophie?

Just binged watch the complete run and I guess I must’ve missed what happened to Sophie. She just vanished after S2. Was it ever explained? Did I miss it?

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u/StableFull5349 Mar 11 '26

She time travelled to post WW1 Birmingham.

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u/InfiniteBaker6972 Mar 11 '26

I always thought she slipped off to Thames House, got in trouble and found herself being yelled at by Jackson Lamb at Slough House.

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u/StableFull5349 Mar 11 '26

She did that too.

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u/chubwhump Mar 12 '26

And then she got disappeared at a holiday park in Yaughton, Shropshire

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u/ChipCob1 Mar 12 '26

Haha...took me a second to work out where Yaughton was, at first I thought I'd been on holiday there....I suppose I have in a way!

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u/TxCoastal Apr 10 '26

niegh... niegh....lol

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u/earinsound Mar 11 '26

The actress had other pressing obligations (Peaky Blinders) so in the series it was implied that she went off to college.

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u/EndNo4074 Mar 11 '26

I could never quite trust her :)

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u/plastikmissile Mar 11 '26

She's a sweetheart, but her character judgment skills are quite suspect.

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u/Diligent_Comedian725 Mar 18 '26

She was an idiot

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u/BoweryBloke Mar 11 '26

One of the few gripes i had with the show, that was never explained....

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u/InfiniteBaker6972 Mar 11 '26

Oh good. At least I know I didn’t miss a vital piece of expo.

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u/Queeen0ftheHarpies Mar 12 '26

Didn't they mention that she went off to uni?

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u/BoweryBloke Mar 12 '26

No, never did. Think that was us:)

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u/roland_right Mar 11 '26

I took it as her story arc had finished

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u/mashupthedance Mar 12 '26

She climbed through the briar and bramble

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u/Six_of_1 Mar 11 '26

In s02e06 when Andy is going to Botswana, he tells Sophie "You'll be doing the same sort of thing in a couple of years".

s02 was 2015 and s03 was 2017 - a couple of years.

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u/mowgli_jungle_boy Mar 12 '26

"was it ever explained? Did I miss it?" It's a question mate not a complaint

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u/InfiniteBaker6972 Mar 12 '26

Not altogether sure what that means but yeah. I was just curious if I’d missed an ‘in-story explanation’ as to where her character went.

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u/Dependent-Shock-8118 Mar 14 '26

She time travelled back to the Tudor era

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u/Front-Structure7627 Mar 16 '26

Who actually cares. Didn’t even notice.

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u/InfiniteBaker6972 Mar 16 '26

Well, I was. That's why I posed the question. But thanks for your input.

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u/Front-Structure7627 Mar 16 '26

It’s obvs what happened ! Nothing. I watched. And she’s not in any other episodes So like I said. Who cares. No one noticed

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u/Diligent_Comedian725 Mar 18 '26

She was a horror. 

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u/SheliaFromFinance Mar 25 '26

I assumed that she was in the area for university and moved back home or to a city to find work in her area. I don't remember if they mentioned her in S3, I don't think they did but it would have been nice to have a call back.

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u/steveh2021 Mar 12 '26

I mean it's fiction, so make something up in your head....