History Recap / BlackMirrorLochHenry

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Downplayed. While Iain took part of killings and tortures, how willing of a participant he was is left ambigously. In his only appearance in the episode, during a snuff film, he looks disturbed and a little responsive, suggesting some kind of mental disability. It's not clear if he was been manipulated by Kenneth and Nancy or he was just a much of a sadistic as the couple.

* AmbigouslyEvil: Downplayed. While Iain took part of killings and tortures, how willing of a participant he was is left ambigously. In his only appearance in the episode, during a snuff film, he looks disturbed and a little responsive, suggesting some kind of mental disability. It's not clear if he was been manipulated by Kenneth and Nancy or he was just a much of a sadistic as the couple.

* ThePlace: The episode's title -- and that of the InUniverse depiction of the episode's events -- are titled Loch Henry, after the town where the murders took place.

* DramaticIrony: Janet commits suicide under the false impression that Pia has escaped to expose her as a fetishistic torturer/serial killer; Pia dashed her head mid-escape and died in the river. But Janet ends up RightForTheWrongReason: Richard had divulged his suspicions of Janet to Davis independently of this altercation.

* WhamShot: While going over some footage from the shoot, Pia discovers that she actually recorded on the same tape that Iain used. Turns out he had an accomplice [[spoiler: which is revealed when Janet, Davis’s mother, appears on screen.]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Davis explains that his father died when he was eight.

* DrivenToSuicide: The final fate of Iain Adair, along with his mother and father.

* ClusterFBomb: The normally mild mannered and soft spoken Janet lets loose an *extremely* foul mouthed tirade when it seems like Pia has escaped into the fields right after discovering Janet's past as a serial killer.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Inverted, in a surprising yet twisted way - Pia is dead, not even because of her pursuer but because she misstepped and fell down unconscious in a river, while Davis is left devastated and broken by both his girlfriend's death AND the reveal his now late mother and father were serial killers. Still, the truth ends up revealed to the world as all killers are finally dead and Loch Henry gets a boom of tourists that helps revive the dying town - too bad for Davis that he can't enjoy *any* of these facts.

* SerialKiller: Iain Adair, a local farmer, was later found to have eight bodies of people he tortured and killed on his farm, including a young couple who recently went missing. It killed local tourism. It eventually turns out that Davis' mother and father were also in on the murders.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Pia dies not because she ends up cornered by the recently-revealed to be a murderer Janet who barely makes an effort to run after her, but because she tripped and hit her head against the rocks in the river she was crossing - turns out moving across a risky body of water while in the dead of the night with no lights to speak off while distracted by a pursuer can be just as much of a dangerous affair as the aforementioned pursuer.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetsAHappyEnding: Inverted, in a surprising yet twisted way - Pia is dead, not even because of her pursuer but because she misstepped and fell down unconscious in a river, while Davis is left devastated and broken by both his girlfriend's death AND the reveal his now late mother and father were serial killers. Still, the truth ends up revealed to the world as all killers are finally dead and Loch Henry gets a boom of tourists that helps revive the dying town - too bad for Davis that he can't enjoy *any* of these facts.

A young couple, Davis (Creator/SamuelBlenkin) and Pia ([[Creator/MyahalaHerrold Myha’la Herrold]]) journey up to a sleepy Scottish town on the way to film a nature documentary, only to be drawn to the grisly tale of Iain Adair, a local serial killer. They decide to retell the incident in a TrueCrime documentary instead, but finds that the truth may in fact be worse.

* SerialKiller: Ian Adair, a local farmer, was later found to have eight bodies of people he tortured and killed on his farm, including a young couple who recently went missing. It killed local tourism. It eventually turns out that Davis' mother and father were also in on the murders.

* ContinuityNod: Multiple, almost all of them happening at the end with the in-universe trailer for the TrueCrime documentary which in itself is a inter-season one by depicting it being released on [[Recap/JoanIsAwful Streamberry]].

* OnlyTheLeadGetsTheHappyEnding: Inverted, in a surprising yet twisted way - Pia is dead, not even because of her pursuer but because she misstepped and fell down unconscious in a river, while Davis is left devastated and broken by both his girlfriend's death AND the reveal his now late mother and father were serial killers. Still, the truth ends up revealed to the world as all killers are finally dead and Loch Henry gets a boom of tourists that helps revive the dying town - too bad for Davis that he can't enjoy *any* of these facts.

* TakeThat: The show's theme is about the contemporary fascination of TrueCrime. Pia takes a detour to the farm where they found the bodies and pitches a documentary about it instead, because their original idea didn't have mass appeal. In her unethical efforts to do so, she finds that the truth is ''even worse'', and dies for it. And then it all becomes a sensationalized TrueCrime doc anyway, with a dramatization on the way. The whole experience destroys Davis emotionally.

* SerialKiller: Ian Adair, a local farmer, was later found to have eight bodies of people he tortured and killed on his farm, including a young couple who recently went missing. It killed local tourism.

A young couple, Davis (Creator/SamuelBlenkin) and Pia (Creator/MyahalaHerrold Myha’la Herrold]]) journey up to a sleepy Scottish town on the way to film a nature documentary, only to be drawn to the grisly tale of Iain Adair, a local serial killer. They decide to retell the incident in a TrueCrime documentary instead, but finds that the truth may in fact be worse.

Costarring Creator/DanielPortman as Stuart and Creator/EllieWhite as Kate Cezar.