Can we really trust Alister?

Alister, in all honesty, doesn’t make a very good first impression in this episode of The Cry. In it, we learn that he brought Joanna to his family home, laid her down on the bed he shared with his wife and proceeded to seduce her – without once telling her that he was still married to another woman. We know that he left Joanna feeling tired, isolated and unsupported after Noah’s birth: after all, it is he who insists that she do all the night feeds, keep the house tidy and run errands for him. And we know that he, when his wife has spent the entire flight to Australia trying to settle their teething and disgruntled baby boy, made sure that he got a good night’s kip – yet still complained about jet lag upon landing. What a douchebag.

Is all of that enough to point the finger at him? Well, no. But we have more to consider – such as, for instance, the fact that Alister is PR to a politician facing a bubbling scandal, and is therefore skilled at controlling perceptions. Indeed, when he and Joanna are readying for a television interview about Noah’s disappearance, he is shown leaning towards her and asking: “do you think you might cry?”

The Cry: the big questions we have after watching episode one