American tourists in Oxford finally get sick of the arrogant member of their party - missing archaeological treasure vs tourists good contrast. Tour being guided by Roberta Taylor and involved lecturers Simon Callow and Kenneth Cranham. Lewis offers Morse a drink while interviewing Taylor - firmly: "No thank you, Lewis, not while I'm on duty"!
Max says as Morse operates on the theory the last person to see the victim alive is the murderer, he should arrest himself.
Dexter's visible behind Morse and Lewis in a pub (apparently in discussion with Mitchell!). Hear (at amusing 'Elizabethan' banquet) rare performance of 'O Flow My Tears' by John Dowland - the equivalent of a seventeenth century pop star. Lewis is tired.
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| The Excalibur moment! |
Missing girl (Morse is convinced she's dead) takes us to investigate girls' school. Good story.
Peter McEnery, Suzanne Bertish, Glyn Houston, Fiona Mollison. And at school, Elizabeth Hurley and Julia Sawalha.
Missed Colin Dexter.
Morse gets a PC to fill a mug of whisky for him at crime scene! (Strange finds out.) He doesn't like the sight of blood or dead bodies - he's in the wrong job. He should have retired and become a crime writer instead!
The first edition had a great cover illustration:
The Settling of the Sun d. Peter Hammond, scr. Charles Wood (The Knack). Based on an idea by Dexter.
Good, barbed Japanese war themed episode involving murder at college peopled by foreign students - denouement is slightly fanciful but they're never as suspect as Endeavour's. The first example of an investigation being hindered by higher powers (naturally Morse takes no notice of this).
Q found Anna Calder-Marshall annoying, Robert Stephens as great and funny as ever as ultra-cynical don. With Derek Fowlds, Robert Lang, Avis Bunnage, Amanda Burton.
Missed Colin Dexter again (he's at the hospital at the end).
Good, moody Clive Tickner stuff again.
Morse dealing with friend's daughter is the sweetest thing we've seen of him so far.
Last Bus to Woodstock d. Peter Duffell, scr. Michael Wilcox. Dexter's debut 1975 novel. He is sat behind Morse at the lecture.
Anthony Bate (lecturer), Terrence Hardiman (boss), Fabia Drake (great old lady witness), Jill Baker (adulteress), Holly Aird (nice student who likes Morse), Paul Geoffrey (her dodgy tutor).
Themed around poet John Wilmot and dangers of love.
Lots of art evident everywhere.
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