The weirdest element in this creepy serial killer/cold cop story is how everyone seems to find the Paul character "charming". Even without suspecting anything about him, the guy is constantly arrogant, detached, creepy, dispassionate and behaving in a weird way - to say the least. Always covering his tracks, disappearing at all times of day and night, disrespectful with colleagues and his doormat of a wife and yet women find him irresistible, like the fake blonde bimbo on the train and sl*ttish Katie. About her, I have serious doubts anybody her age would play that sort of game, but maybe it's the arrogance of youth.
Elsewhere, the Belfast police certainly proves to be grossly incompetent and women to be natural born victims, with Rose not even attempting the weakest resistance to being kidnapped from her own home and Annie as trembling gelatine, unable to recognise anything of the man who assaulted her - granted the shock, the darkness, etc... If men are portrayed as either corrupted or murderous (or both), women don't fare any better in this dismal tale.
Elsewhere, the Belfast police certainly proves to be grossly incompetent and women to be natural born victims, with Rose not even attempting the weakest resistance to being kidnapped from her own home and Annie as trembling gelatine, unable to recognise anything of the man who assaulted her - granted the shock, the darkness, etc... If men are portrayed as either corrupted or murderous (or both), women don't fare any better in this dismal tale.