I dunno - this is short, but there are an awful lot of non-Doyle things, for me.
I can't imagine him forgetting the house that he lived in for 17+ years of his life - not only was he old enough when he left, but he's got a good memory for things, and if he didn't then he'd have struggled in the police. Plus he's been to Gabe's house, which was only ten houses away, so surely...!
I can't really imagine him deciding not to visit his mum, since he's gone all the way to Derby. The Doyle we see in the eps is pretty compassionate. I can get past it, because she didn't stand up for him against his dad, but... still, I think he'd go. If nothing else, to make sure that she's okay, especially since there's a boarded up window in her house.
He's far too uncertain and submissive in this chapter too, except perhaps with the boy on the bike. That sentence in the first paragraph - "Gabe," he says uncertainly, "Which one was mine?" Then later "he feels his guts clench" when Gabe suggests he visit his mum, and later wakes up "whispering [Bodie's] name". When Gabe tells him Cowley's phoned his mum, Doyle "subsides onto the bed", and Gabe holds both his hands and tells him "You're going to have to be brave" (as if he was six years old!) Then it's Gabe that tells him what to do, to get dressed while he gets a hire car, and Gabe who gives him money for it (again, as if he was a kid rather than someone who's probably got a credit card by now!)
I mean, I know it was all supposed to be very traumatic, but... it just seemed like too much. Where's the bolshy, defiant Doyle that we know and love (and who was set up for us, too, in the Prologue)?
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I can't imagine him forgetting the house that he lived in for 17+ years of his life - not only was he old enough when he left, but he's got a good memory for things, and if he didn't then he'd have struggled in the police. Plus he's been to Gabe's house, which was only ten houses away, so surely...!
I can't really imagine him deciding not to visit his mum, since he's gone all the way to Derby. The Doyle we see in the eps is pretty compassionate. I can get past it, because she didn't stand up for him against his dad, but... still, I think he'd go. If nothing else, to make sure that she's okay, especially since there's a boarded up window in her house.
He's far too uncertain and submissive in this chapter too, except perhaps with the boy on the bike. That sentence in the first paragraph - "Gabe," he says uncertainly, "Which one was mine?" Then later "he feels his guts clench" when Gabe suggests he visit his mum, and later wakes up "whispering [Bodie's] name". When Gabe tells him Cowley's phoned his mum, Doyle "subsides onto the bed", and Gabe holds both his hands and tells him "You're going to have to be brave" (as if he was six years old!) Then it's Gabe that tells him what to do, to get dressed while he gets a hire car, and Gabe who gives him money for it (again, as if he was a kid rather than someone who's probably got a credit card by now!)
I mean, I know it was all supposed to be very traumatic, but... it just seemed like too much. Where's the bolshy, defiant Doyle that we know and love (and who was set up for us, too, in the Prologue)?