'Pylon'. Everything's changed: Morse is in uniform ('It was all that was available' i.e. someone's still fucking around with his career), Thursday's been demoted (someone's now fucking around with his career?), Bright's on traffic, Strange is.. doing something. Anyhow, they seem to come together, despite Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison) now being the guv'nor. This one's about a dead girl in a field.
Max at home: "It's nothing sinister. I'm just getting a seed cake out of the oven."
Van: 'Horse slaughterers and glue boilers'.
'Apollo'. Apollo 11, wife swapping, runaway kids, experimental therapy, a Thunderbirds type TV show, all artfully woven together. Stephen la Riviere was responsible for making some revival Thunderbirds episodes. He used existing and new puppets (one of which was chosen as it looked a bit like Dexter!), and had a Century 21 puppeteer and director on set. Shaun directed this one, Sophie Winkleman (from Trust) and the nutty therapist stand out in non-regular cast.
Not sure if there's any link really from Jago to Iago other than the latter is Othello's main antagonist.
'Confection.' Poison pen letters in Trumpton type village, involves agony aunt, sweet factory and murder. Morse falls for the wrong woman, as he is prone to (Olivia Chenery). Win is barely talking to Fred, who's getting a bit too chummy with Box and Jago.. Bright's wife is ill.
'Degüello.' The final tense episode. A tragedy at a dodgy tower block, a bent politician and construction company, the gun that killed Fancy, a dead surveyor, Strange's pursuit of Chinese heroin deaths, an assassination attempt on Bright.. It's corruption at a top level again, ending in a genuine Western showdown (even with the cavalry arriving!)
Very moody lighting (Chas Bain). Each film seems to have different editors and DPs.
But.. didn't really get who killed the librarian at the Bodleian, nor about the mysterious muddy footprints. (Q says it's a 'winkle-picker'.) Thursday: 'I'm more of a Holly Martens man myself' (The Third Man).
More seriously great work from Anton Lesser (e.g. scene in club discussing wife with De Bryn), Allam and Evans, Sara Vickers.
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