BBC crime drama Shetland hasn't been kind to the detective, who was raped in season 3 and almost blown up in season 7, to name just a couple of extremely difficult moments in her life.
In tonight's episode (3rd December), Tosh went to meet him for a second time following an explosive confrontation that morning, in which she said she would go to Professional Standards with the information she had if he disobeyed her order not to come into work.
Billy and Robert — and their wives, who worked together — were also very close friends.
Billy initially told Tosh it was a loan to buy his house, but during their second conversation, the picture shifted again.
Their bodies were never recovered, but the boat they were on did wash up in a bay a few miles south — which Billy searched in the hope of "salvaging something personal" for Eadie and Robert.
That information didn't make it into the police report, however, because Robert asked him to keep it to himself. And Billy, not wanting to cause him any more pain than was unavoidable, believing he was doing right by his friend, agreed.
Two months later, Robert loaned Billy the money — which he did eventually pay back. But regardless of how Billy perceived his friend's actions at the time, it was a pay-off, plain and simple.
"Did Robert Tulloch sell them on?" she enquired. "Because that would explain where all his money came from."
Ray was a local criminal who had admitted to a robbery at the docks a number of years ago — despite being innocent of that particular crime — after Robert threatened to have Ray and his wife Gina's son, also their neighbours, taken into care. And after a recent conversation with Gina, Billy was under no illusions that Robert was only guilty of "a few backhanders" here and there; his friend was a very unpleasant man.
"I'm sorry, Tosh. I really am," he said, before he left, leaving the DI in floods of tears.
There's also a question mark hanging over Billy's relationships with Tosh and Sandy in particular, which could well be tarnished beyond repair.
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And another relationship that looks set to be tarnished — before it's even really gotten going — is that of Calder and Ed, Eadie and Robert's son.
And at the end of tonight's episode, after enjoying an intimate drink together at Calder's house — Ed spoke about the death of his brother, while she confided in him about the attempted murder of recovering drug addict Will Louden, which she blames herself for, given she promised to overturn his shoplifting charge in exchange for evidence on drug dealing family the Callaghans — it looks like they ended up spending the night together.
Shortly before they went upstairs, the stormy conditions outside were causing the DI's broken gate — which she'd long been meaning to fix — to bang, which was quite the mood killer. So Ed, ever the gentleman, raced outside (bad weather be damned), grabbed some thick rope from his car, and tied it shut — which, on the surface, sounds like a perfectly lovely thing to do, and totally innocuous to boot.
While it's already been acknowledged that more than one person in Shetland is handy with knots, there's no denying the spotlight is now firmly on Ed — especially given what was unfolding elsewhere on the isles at the same time.
After cuffing him, Sandy searched his bag and found drugs, a passport and, crucially, Louden's missing phone. Jackpot.
"I've got information," he added. "About the Callaghans, who works for them."
Then, just before the credits rolled, there it was again: Ed's elegant knotwork, as the storm raged on. But the real storm is undoubtedly yet to come.
Oh, Calder. You sure can pick 'em.
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