Dexter's 1996 ingenious novel provides the story, written by the reliable Julian Mitchell, who no doubt is in it somewhere (didn't spot Dexter, either). It's in this novel too that Morse first reveals his christian name.
Well acted episode involves people being shot in their suburban homes and features an academic contest for Master of College, played wonderfully by Richard Briers (Sir Clixby Bream is a great name). In a wonderful presentiment of things to come, one of the contestants is played by Roger Allum (his wife Holley Chant); the other by John Shrapnel, his wife by Maggie Steed (Florence Foster Jenkins, Stella, Sensitive Skin). With journalist Mark McGann and Julia Dalkin as the woman who takes Morse's eye... (And you think, 'Oh my God, the wrong woman again...')
Plus Clare Holman - bit of frisson here between Morse and the pathologist. He is sexist - 'a woman shouldn't be doing a job like that...'
Bath Royal Crescent Hotel featured prominently.
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