Will Cassie die before the end of the episode?

A lot of people have decided that Cassie, now masquerading as the late Lexie, is well and truly doomed to die an untimely death.

Firstly, there’s those ultra-suspicious housemates: after all, they didn’t look all that pleased to learn that “Lexie” wasn’t just alive, but ready to return home after a night in the hospital.

Then, there’s that trailer for tomorrow’s episode (episode six, for those counting). In it, we see Cassie/Lexie can be seen sitting with her housemates for dinner, before a stone is thrown through the window. Unable to quell her inner detective, Cassie gives chase, but is later seen on her knees with a gun pointed directly into her face. Will she finally meet her maker?

Well, as we’ve noted before, the books upon which Dublin Murders is based see Cassie become too intertwined in the dynamics of the house. As she falls deeper and deeper into Lexie’s life, though, she uncovers a secret about her late doppelgänger’s housemates… and a very dark one about that. Hmm.

However, as this writer’s genius colleague has already pointed out, the very first scene of the very first episode of Dublin Murders looks an awful lot like it’s going to be the last one, too. You know, the one where Rob started banging on about how the murdered are the lucky ones, and the survivors are simply rejects? That one.

“They’re chosen. And the rest of us aren’t lucky at all. Not blessed. Not watched over by some kind angel, the ones who get left – they’re just too slow, too stupid, too muddy, too dull. The Gods don’t want them. Their lumps, their rejects. We all are. Rejects.”

His speech triggers Cassie to respond that she will not see him again… and Cassie has a fringe. As in, she looks just like Lexie, they are closing a case, and she is alive and well (or a ghost, we guess, but probably alive and well).

As such, we suspect that Cassie will live to fight another day, and another, and another, right up until that elusive episode eight. In fact, we’re willing to put money on it. Any takers?

What did Rob remember in the woods?

There’s nothing like a forest sleepover to jog your memories, as Rob Reilly knows all too well. In this episode, we saw him force himself to spend a night in the very same woods from which his two closest friends disappeared (and Katy Devlin’s lifeless body was found just days ago) - and he did it all in a bid to unlock the secrets of 1985.

It worked, too. In amongst all those strange hallucinations, Rob finally recalled a key detail from that fateful night: a brutal gang rape which he witnessed from the bushes in childhood.

Could this be the key to cracking both cases? Or is it a false memory, from an unreliable narrator? Only time will tell, we suppose…

What is up with Rosalind? Did she kill Katy?

Ah, the million dollar question. As fans of the show will know, Jonathan has sent his daughters Rosalind and Jessica away from Dublin in a bid to… hmm, protect them? Help them grieve? Cover their dastardly, murderous tracks? We’re still not really sure, but we’re intrigued all the same.

It isn’t long before Rob tracks Rosalind down to a dingy caravan park, and the extent of Rosalind’s disturbed behaviour emerges. But could she really have murdered her sister? And, if so, what was her motive? Jealousy over Katy’s abilities as a dancer? Desperation to keep her sister from leaving home? Or something far more sinister?

We guess we’ll have to wait and see, although don’t bank on Rob asking any of the right questions: he seems more than convinced that Rosalind is a damsel in need of saving, and he has himself pegged as her knight in shining armour/a crumpled suit. Sigh.

What are people on Twitter saying about it all?

Once again, the people of Twitter are absolute baffled by the events of Dublin Murders.

Dublin Murders episode 5 recap: Will Rob ever see Cassie alive again?