Muse. Threat to steal Faberge egg. Is 'The Shadow' involved?
Very funny visual joke (it's the calling card of 'The Shadow'.) What do we think? Is Trewlove interested in Morse? If she is, she's smart enough to know it isn't go to go anywhere. But new DC George Fancy (Lewis Peek) takes one...
Charlotte Hope is the professional prostitute who may be involved in murders. When she invites Morse in one rainy night we're shouting 'No..!' In fact it turns out to be a Riot Club-type story, involving unspeakable upper class cunts who feel they are above any law.
Morse is sharing digs with long-suffering Strange ('He's always been a prickly customer at the best of times') so they can individually save money to buy houses. He upsets Morse by putting his bottle of bitter in the fridge! (This lager vs. 'real beer' thing has been going on since Jakes.) And Joan is back in town... Do we get the feeling that now, if Morse opened up to her, she might...? No, I don't think so. Too much has happened.
Lewis is having more fun in Cartouche, which involves the world of cinema, past and present - Donald Sumpter is the aging horror film star. But criminal Edie Nero is once again involved and once again gets away with it.
In a funny side story, Morse 'accidentally' beds the daughter of Thursday's brother Phil Daniels.
In Passenger, Morse uncovers a murder at a disused railway line, which may link to one similar from 1964. It's a brilliantly clever one. And more fun with place names - 'Gibbet End'. (There is a Gibbet Hill in Hindhead, where a sailor was murdered by three men whose bodies were then hanged there - it's mentioned in 'Nicholas Nickleby'.)
We meet the loathsome DI Ronnie Box, Simon Harrison, who has a go at Trewlove, then has the effrontery to confront Bright - who is incensed (good work here Anton) and kicks him off the case.
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