David Haig insists he did not kill fading Oxford Don in Dead on Time (Daniel Boyle).. tuns out he didn't in intriguing tale. Joanna David is the Don's wife and Morse's ex - he does his usual thing of moving in in a most untimely way. Lewis sweetly protects him from the truth. With Samantha Bond, Adrian Dunbar. And in Boyle's Happy Families, evil journalists (portrayed by Rupert Graves and Jamie Forman) are as bad as the killer of another posh entrepreneurial family. Anna Massey is mother to Jonathan Coy and Martin Clunes. A young girl, Charlotte Coleman, is involved, and an acting Superintendent in the guise of Alun Armstrong seems solely concerned about the Press.
The Death of the Self takes us to a suspicious death in Vicenza (and Verona) and Morse just knows that the charlatan 'healer' Michael Kitchen (good) is up to no good, though local copper Georges Corraface seems intent on being unhelpful. Is opera singer Frances Barber involved?
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| Piazza dei Signori. The statues are the Lion of Saint Mark and Christ the Redeemer |
Lewis doesn't even try the local food - idiot! Alma Cullen wrote it.
And in Absolute Conviction, written by John Brown, there's death in an open prison, run by Diana Quick. (Cells are 'rooms' and prisoners 'guests'.) You'll find Sean Bean and Richard Wilson and Jim Broadbent (as good as ever) inside, with Phil Davies on the outside, plus wives Susannah Hamilton and Sue Johnstone. And a new fledgling detective sergeant is Steven Mackintosh, who Lewis resents, and is thus pleased when he manages to not quite end up the golden boy.
The finale, Cherubim & Seraphim, directed by Danny Boyle, is quite a departure, especially for Julian Mitchell, who in interview sounds a bit Donnish like Dexter himself. Thus the rave scene and Ecstasy like pills must have seemed as foreign as it does to Morse. (There's an interesting conversation about drugs between Morse and Lewis - who confesses to have puffed on a joint - which is nicely echoed between Morse and Thursday in Endeavour: Lazaretto.) And talking of which, Morse reveals a sliver of his unhappy family background, again, to 'Robbie', and thus his lament at the death of his beloved niece - with whom he had Wilfred Owen in common - which again Lewis R. pounced upon in his later films for Endeavour. Sorcha Cusack is his step-sister.
Jason Isaacs is the foolish drug developer, and there's an amusing turn from a switched on pathologist, played by Bill Wallis. Liza Walker is the confused young lady. The House music now sounds awful!
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