Broadchurch presented us with an interesting plot twist last night. It all comes down to who should be trusted.

For a small town on the coast of Dorset, Broadchurch seems to have more than its share of intrigue. Is anyone in the town trustworthy, and without some sort of secret agenda? The two chief characters who seem to live moment-by-moment of half-truths and mysteries are Claire Ripley Ashworth (Eve Myles) and Lee Ashworth (james D’Arcy).

To begin, Claire is initially presented to us a the ultimate victim done in by the judicial system. We were to have believed, that at great personal cost to herself, she selflessly testified against her husband in open court regarding the Sandbrook murder case. Due to a technicality, the case is thrown out and her husband released. Apparently, there’s no such thing as witness protection if a party is found not guilty (note to self: never testify in a U.K. case), and Claire is left to fear for her life from her husband, Lee.

Now, initially it seemed that DI Alec Hardy, (David Tennant) believed that Claire was the unsuspecting wife, or at worst, only found out about her husband’s actions in the Sandbrook murders after the crime was committed. Essentially, she was an unwilling accomplice. Now it seems that this isn’t the case at all. Claire may have been far more culpable than we previously thought. For starters, we learn that her story surrounding the events of the night of the Sandbrook murders has changed several times. Now some variation is to be expected, but a whole new tale is another matter.

Claire also seems not keen on not telling Alec, her knight in shining armor, where a mysterious letter containing a bluebell came from. It was anonymously sent to her former post box, and she hung onto it. We don’t know, at this point, the significance of the flower, but it appears in Alec’s haunting, recurring dreams of the case, and Claire seems mesmerized by it.

Lastly, Claire seems to toy with Ellie’s emotions. She wants them to be chums sharing a night out and one night stand, but at the same time, she hides information about Lee and her true feelings. In the end, Ellie doesn’t trust her, and apart from her own husband, Ellie seems to generally be a good judge of character.

Lee Ashworth is painted to be the ultimate villain: a murderer and a possible wife beater. He was all set to be convicted of the Sandbrook murders, until a key piece of evidence that would convict him went missing. The missing evidence was Lisa Newberry’s necklace that was found in Lee’s car.

On top of all this, Lee has stalked Alec Hardy, and searched his house going through his private correspondence. He has attempted to intimidate Claire via numerous phone calls. He’s also been lurking every place Hardy goes, staring ominously at him.

What really baffles us are the events of last night’s episode. Lee seems to be in town to stay, and has taken out a classified ad to offer his services as a handyman. Additionally, Lee visits the police station, presses harassment charges against Hardy, and then dismisses the same charges only after Hardy is forced to apologize. As if all this wasn’t strange enough, he visits Hardy at his home and asks him to reopen the Sandbrook case, claiming that Hardy didn’t do a good enough of a job years earlier. He dumps a pile of supposed evidence that he collected on Hardy’s table.

Obviously, both Claire and Lee have agendas. The question is, are they working together to undermine Hardy, or can one be trusted more than the other? Which of the two would you tend to trust more?