I haven't been watching "The Fall" but writer Allan Cubitt deserves all kinds of awards for this wording of consent. It's stunning
"Men always think in terms of fight or flight. In fact, the most common instinct in the face of this kind of threat is to freeze. If she didn't fight, if she didn't scream, if she was silent and numb, it's because she was petrified.
"If she went with him quietly, it's because she was afraid for her life. And not just her life - yours and Nancy's and the baby's.
"In that state of fear she might well have been compliant. She might well have submitted. But that does not mean she consented."
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