Vigil: Episode three spoilers plus the true story that may have inspired the BBC's new crime drama

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7 Sep 2021, 09:08

SPOILER ALERT: If you've fallen hook, line and sinker for the BBC's new crime drama from the makers of Line of Duty then this information will blow your mind.

The big question: Who poisoned Craig Burke? After episode three's offering, it looks like it could be the Coxswain. With Craig Burke's surplus blackmail material on the crew locked on the explosive thumb drive (including X-rated pics of the potentially-married dragon-tattood CPO Glover getting up close and personal with the ship’s medic Lt Doherty.

Could either of them have had it in for Burke because he had saucy picture evidence of them?

Or was he killed because he was threatening to tell all about the Port Havers incident even though he wasn't on board at the time of the drama?

Burke had “something that showed these boats weren’t fit for purpose” which was detrimental to the nuclear submarines. Could Captain Newsome or the Rear Admiral have reason to silence him?

Elsewhere in episode three, DCI Silva discovers that Burke was poisoned and didn't die from a head injury, so asks submarine doctor Doherty to help identify the substance.

More bad news for Amy as Captain Newsome tells her she's on board for a further three weeks and she learns about Jade's death along with a coded message about the naughty pics of Doherty.

There's more darkness as Gary Shaw points a gun at Amy and Glover, then threatens to kill himself.

Glover and sample-switcher Doherty are worried that Amy will find out their saucy secret. Could the doc have something more sinister to hide?

So what happened in Port Havers, Florida in real life?

HMS Vigil was in Florida 18 months ago for missile maintenance and while the crew were ashore, carnage ensued resulting in a booze-filled brawl-heavy bust-up that led to a lot of them being arrested.

For more mind-bending antics, look at reports on Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in Florida in September 2018.

Local Jacksonville police arrested six naval personnel with one resisting arrest and getting tasered. The Ministry of Defence have since kept schtum which ship those six were from.

Catch the next episode of Vigil on Sunday 12 September at 9pm on BBC One.