Limbo/ Know Thine Enemy
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
seville08 — 16 years ago(February 15, 2010 03:20 PM)
I am trying to watch the entire series on DVD but do not know when to include "Limbo" and "Know Thine Enemy". I have heard that these episodes do not pick up where "In the Blink of An Eye" left off in season 5, yet they are listed as belonging in season 6. They are episodes that where filmed before "In the Blink of a An Eye", but aired after. Where do these two episodes fit in regards to sequence of events. Thanks.
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bloem1 — 16 years ago(February 26, 2010 03:00 PM)
Hello seville08,
You can watch "Limbo" and "Know Thine Enemy" after "In the Blink of An Eye".
"In the Blink of An Eye" is the last episode of season 5, "Limbo" is the first episode of season 6. In the meantime, 6 months have passed. So "Limbo" starts 6 months after "In the Blink of An Eye". "Know Thine Enemy" is the second episode of season 6.
I hope I have answered your question.
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angelsbabe15-1 — 16 years ago(March 07, 2010 09:43 AM)
Know Thine Enemy isn't based on the novels. It's based on a real-life Canadian case- the murders of two Ontario high-school students Kristen French, and Leslie Mahaffi in the early 1990's. Accused, and subsequently convicted were the husband/ wife duo of Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.
It didn't end as neatly as it did in the show. Prosecutors here were forced to make a deal with Homolka in order to convict Bernardo; known as the deal with the devil. Homolka is now free, and living somewhere in the Carribean, and Bernardo is still in jail- solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
I taped this episode and meant to watch it a second time, but found it too disturbing. -
rachelpendle25 — 14 years ago(December 12, 2011 07:59 AM)
I was about to go to bed last night when I heard Allan Cumming doing an intro for this episode and was kind of stunned. I remember this case in Canada when it happened, I was just a child and I was terrified when French and Mahaffi disappeared.
The only change to the story that really bothered me was the portrayal of "Guy's" father, coming to his son's aid at the police station and how they used the reveal of his background being that he was embarrassed by his mother. In the real story, while Bernardo did come from a highly disfunctional background his mother's real guilt in it was that she she married a guy like his father. Or the man he thought was his father, it turned out she had an affair. The story went that Bernardo senior was a control freak who humiliated his wife in front of the kids and had been charged with assaulting young girls in their neighborhood. The protrait painted was of a home where women were devalued and if Bernardo was embarrassed by his mother, like Guy, then it was because his father told him to do so.
I got the sense that we were just suppose to see Guy as having mommy issues and his father was not part of what created his negative view of woman.
I also noticed that the woman playing the Karla character was taller then the female investigator. They did the same thing with the American film version with the "That 70's Show" star in it. THey always cast tall statuesque woman to play Homalka when the thing that stunned Canadians so much was that she was such a teeny tiny fragile looking woman and also a monster. Homalka was may 5'0 and 100 lbs. Infact the teenage victims where bigger women then her.