Confusingly, Tuppence Middleton plays every character in this episode. Then there's a Talullah Fox, but I don't think she is one (but would wager it's her own baby Fifi Fox playing the baby). And Neil Stuke is in it again. Plus Emily Joyce, and Sanjeev Bhaskar, who isn't terribly convincing.
Owing to a car accident, Hathaway spends the whole episode in a neck brace, which bizarrely looks like an oversized priest collar (commented on by Lewis), which fits into a storyline about belief in the unknowable, and also features in a beautifully exciting finale in Oxford market in which Laurence Fox acts superbly well and convincingly.
It involves an elephant poison, clairvoyants, and a boy who had an accident with a horse, so quite a lively episode. Or two episodes, as originally broadcast.
The Ramblin' Boy d. Dan Reed, scr Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell etc.)
The one in which Hathaway is on 'holiday' painting an orphanage, Lewis has to work with a stand-in who turns out to have a sweet connection to him, and where he and Hobson finally get it together. Yeah!
And it all revolves around a funeral home and drugs and a dinner party, hosted by odious Peter Davidson. Mark Powley, Lia Williams, Tom Brooke, Camille Power, Harriet Ballard and (thought he looked familiar) Taron Egerton.
Also loved the last shot...
Intelligent Design d. Tim Fywell, story Stphen Churchett scr. Helen Jenkins (former script editor for Parade's End, writer since of Vera and Midsomer Murders.
An ex-con (Churchett himself) is murdered; there are many suspects, including vicar Alison Steadman and Edward Fox.
Lewis is threatening to retire and Hathaway to resign...
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