It's 1967, and Morse is living in a rich friend's lake house, gets involved with even richer neighbour Bixby (David Oakes). 'Ride' is the title, and it seems to have some Gatsby influences, and involves a fairground and a murder, which gradually brings Morse (somewhat disillusioned) back to the force - there has been a major cover up of Blenheim Vale and the corruption. 'What did you expect?' asks Thursday.
'Arcadia' isn't quite as mad as the others, does kick off with a brilliant bit of exposition as a woman comes out of Robinsons supermarket and drops to the street as some poshers pursue an African and throw him into the river - turns out he is important to the story, as was her death. The bright spark PC Trewlove is introduced (Dakota Blue Richards) and Jakes unexpectedly finds a future in America as a cowboy!
'Prey'. The first shot is a tiger skin rug. 'A tiger - in Oxfordshire?' you almost expect Anton Lesser to exclaim. I find the idea of a tiger in a maze somehow wonderful. And Thursday brandishing fire at it - The Jungle Book? The tiger in question - Shere Khan! - was filmed in his own enclosure, which had some maze walls added.
I didn't realise there's a Lewis connection here. The gardener Philip Hathaway is the father of the detective who grows up there - the house is in the episode 'The Dead of Winter', written by Lewis. (It's actually Rousham House, Bicester.)
Then the inevitably gripping season finale, 'Coda' - the bank siege. I don't think Joan can believe she's seen her dad almost kill a man in cold blood, so she just leaves... With Samantha Colley and Mark Heap as a duplicitous don.
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