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- Episode aired Jul 1, 2018
- TV-14
- 1h 29m
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7.9/10
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The unexplained poisoning of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema.The unexplained poisoning of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema.The unexplained poisoning of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema.
David Shaw Parker
- Commissionaire Edmund Gordon
- (as David Shaw-Parker)
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Did you know
- TriviaThere is a hint of biographical detail concerning Fred Thursday in this story. At the start, he recalls his visits to the Mile End Rivoli cinema, when he would buy one ticket and then secretively hold open the window in the Men's Toilet so "Chaz and Billy" could get in for free. These two are not identified in the story, but the Inspector's brother appears later in the story and is called Charlie. At the end, when he calls Fred "the best of us". Fred replies that "the best of us didn't come back", implying that there was a third Thursday brother - Billy - killed during the Second World War.
- GoofsAt the scene of the burned office fire hoses of a rather modern type are rolled out as they have been used to extinguish the fire. But they are completely flat, that is they do not contain water. Such flatness can only be seen after the water has been pressed out as the hoses are rolled up. They have thus not been used.
- Quotes
DS Jim Strange: [rhetorically, as he reacts with anger to Dr. Shoukry's anti-British sentiments] They forget who built the Suez Canal in the first place!
DS Endeavour Morse: It was the French.
- ConnectionsReferences Helpmates (1932)
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Keeping up the standard
For me, this keeps up the standard of the series, in acting, writing and production.
Morse's character is developed. He gives in to his natural instincts by sleeping with Carol, then runs slap bang into his sense of honour and duty when he finds out her identity.
He immediately fends her off. Does this have anything to do with his possible recognition of the Thursday family (or maybe the police force?) as *his* family?
The musing towards the end between Thursday and Morse about officers without a family ending up lonely with a bottle for company seems to overshadow Morse's future.
The Eddie Nero story arc is gently developed, pointing us towards the end of the season.
As to the reviewer complaining that current politics are affecting the scripting and making it appear to be written by Michael Moore - oh dear! For a start, she is gauging her time period over 40 years, from 1968, while the driver of the plot runs from events in 1918, so actually 90 years.
The story was set in 1968, the year in which Enoch Powell made his anti-immigration "Rivers of Blood" speech which rocked the UK, triggering all sorts of responses from every political faction, and causing huge social tension.
It was also set only twelve years after the Suez Crisis (see Wikipedia for a reasonable summary), which can well be presented as the last gasp of the British Empire. Feelings were running high, particularly on the right wing.
Whether or not the Suez débâcle was a concerted attack on Egypt by Israel, France and the UK, it was clearly the last attempt by the UK to present itself as the Global Policeman, surrendering that rôle to the USA.
I have to say no, there are no "modern day politics" - there are only politics. The tensions that caused the fight between the Israelite David and the Palestinian (Philistinian) Goliath from Gaza (Gath) four thousand years ago are the same driving conflict today.
Perhaps the problem is "Politics".
I have no cure for these - surely someone in the world can find one?
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- akicork
- Jun 29, 2019
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