Talk:Episode 2/@comment-1982833-20141030085826/@comment-4189499-20141031023734

There are many cases where moral compasses break or are damaged, and you can tell from the way Carver says it that he has seen compasses break before. Ellie's never had to deal with a murder before Danny while Carver has. That is the main reason he seems so cold towards potential suspects; he has seen before how unexpectedly people you know and love can suddenly turn out to have very different morals on the inside. "Potential spoilers": Carver's Broadchurch counterpart from the original series found this out the hard way when he caught his wife cheating on him, and Ellie the original found that she was sleeping next to an almost paedophile for the past however many years. I don't know if Gracepoint is going to go in the same direction with those sub-plots, but it shows you just how much compasses really can break, and that Carver is completely justified in his statement. You can even see Gracepoint Ellie starting to realise this in episode two when "spoilers again" she finds out that Mark, who she has been friends with for many years, had been cheating on his wife. So yes, compasses can break. I just feel so sorry for Carver. Well, the fact he's played by the amazing David Tennant might be having some effect on my opinion of him, but still, I think he's justified.