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I've seen a lot of old Dodge Darts -- never such a spiffy one! Good catch! From the episode (they certainly gave it a loving shot!):

For some reason, the episode is not posted to Comcast yet, but it is on the PBS site. The scene at the theatre, when they are on the orange crush quest, goes from Thursday/Morse walking up to the theatre, then cut to Thursday introducing Morse to the counter salesperson. So, the scene is not there, nor was on what I watched last night. I feel less loopy now!

I was surprised they (Thursday and Morse) were not more concerned about Joan after having a brick heaved in her direction and her place of employment burned down. And she was quite bland about the fact that the building had a major fire -- not concerned about anything that I remember. I still want to re-watch the first episode (last week), but I have no interest in seeing this one again. (Unless someone tells me the mysterious conversation about ye olde tymes at the cinema can be viewed! Right now, that is more of a mystery than the plot this week.) And by the way, Carol pretty breezily moved on to Mr. Movie Star the minute she saw him. That whole side of the Thursday family was a little off-center. Did Fred tell us that another brother had been killed in the war? I know he said that at the end, but there had been so many war references by then, I could not remember if he had mentioned it to someone earlier. It would certainly make him more anxious for his son.

I did not step away from the screen at all, and just do not remember that!

You are right, that scene was not in the US version! Too bad, it sounds like a great moment!

I also was very distracted by Carol's very plumped lips -- she is so young that I assume that is just her natural lip shape, but the glossy lipstick was a poor choice, which just focused our attention on her lips.

I thought they had lost the rights to show the Harry Potter films a while back -- and the rights now are going to SyFy and USA . My only real point was that I was so surprised that the farewell of Harry and Petunia was not part of the film, because I did not know Freeform had shown it as an extra. I thought it was part of the theatrical release. I love the scene.

Huh, the first post in this thread, from the British airing, mentions that Thursday was reminiscing about going to the cinema when he was young. Did we see that? I did watch the entire episode, but don't remember a scene like that. The red letters in the credits spell out: "RIVERS OF BLOOD" -- a speech made in Britain 50 years ago, vigorously arguing against racial integration and inciting strong reactions on many sides. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/europe/bbc-rivers-of-blood-enoch-powell.html

It is possible to have a deep love-hate relationship with a sibling, yet still miss that sibling, which is what I got from the Lily-Petunia dynamic in the books and movies. And we don't know what Petunia knew about the night Lily was killed, but I got the sense that Petunia somehow blamed Harry, if only that Lily died protecting him. Petunia might not have understood all that happened with Harry's parents, but even so, Harry represented both a burden in the household and a reminder of loss. Petunia was not a well-balanced personality, but she could still feel the loss of a childhood sibling. And her resentment of Harry had several layers -- his intrusion into their household and his part in the death of Lily (clearly not his fault, but again, Petunia was not inclined to understand the intricacy of that). I suspect that there was nothing to prevent the Dursleys from returning to Privet Drive. It was less than a year from their departure (end of July) to the battle at Hogwarts (May), so the condiments in the refrigerator should still be good...

I was catching up with the movies before they left HBO (today!), and was stunned at one of the deleted scenes in "Deathly Hallows, Part 1". It is the scene at 4 Privet Lane, when Aunt Petunia and the other Dursleys are preparing to leave their home, on one day's notice. It has always been one of my favourite scenes in the movies, and it was my last stop of favourite scenes in going through the films. BUT, it is not in the HBO version; I guess I had always seen it in the Freeform presentations of the films (which I miss!). But that moment when Harry and Petunia both connect over the loss of Lily is extremely powerful, even though Petunia cannot remove her resentment from reminding Harry that "you didn't just lose a mother; I lost a sister." And you really do have to sympathize with her distress at standing in the empty living room and asking, "just like that", she was expected to leave her home of many years. I never realized that long scene was not part of the theatrical release. It is such an important scene to understanding Harry's family story.

Rachel said a couple of times last night that the Senate only needed to hold off on a vote for four months. But this same Congress is in office for two months after the election. So, although there are breaks in the schedule, it's half a year until new Senators are in place -- if that even makes a difference. That's a long time to stall when you are in the minority. So is four months.

Rachel, unusually, was a call-in guest for the first ten minutes on Nicole Wallace's mid-day show, to talk about the Supreme Court retirement and to analyze the political realities on both sides. They talked about how the Democrats might start to become more like Republicans in terms of playing hardball on nominations -- while acknowledging that as long as they are in the minority, the Dems will not be very effective. Rachel said that "tactically, it will be kind of fascinating to see if Democrats have it in them". Nicole said at the end that she will be watching tonight (which means Rachel will be on the air, yes! -- I was concerned that the call-in meant that Rachel might be away, whew), and said that Rachel is her "air traffic controller". Ours too, Nicole.

Aha! They did include Thing 2 in the repeat of the show at midnight.

This is a great analysis of how Rachel is dealing with the various threads of Avenatti's portfolio, thank you! Suomi also, and TexasGal have made insightful contributions on this dynamic.

Yes, me too. I would not watch him every night, but he is like wasabi, a welcome bracing addition periodically, but not on everything.

Well, that's just weird. I'll try to remember to watch the midnight repeat for "Thing 2"!

There are two main layers to the show: (1) the crime of the week, which generally requires no background knowledge; and (2) the multi-year relationships that go back across the past four seasons/series , and forward to the "Inspector Morse" series of the 1980s, which is this character in his final decade. I think you can enjoy it as a "crime of the week" show; but it would take watching the first four seasons of "Endeavour" to understand how all these characters have grown together and grown apart over the 1960s. (And if you ever watch "Inspector Morse", you will appreciate where some of these characters end up in relation to one another.)

Several posters here thought she was somewhat dismayed by his brashness. (and by "dismayed", I think I remember "disgusted"; and by "brashness", I think I mean alpha male 'tude)

I saw the first segment , when she said that "the attorney" for the facility child-care worker (who had taped the child in the facility) would be on the show. But she never said his name. I was surprised to come back in the room and see Avenatti! Yes, he was more subdued, and it felt appropriate.

What happened to "Thing 2" on the show this evening? There was "Thing 1" about Trump criticizing the Red Hen restaurants, and instead of coming back in 60 seconds, there were TEN commercials, and we never got "Thing 2"! (at least, not in Seattle) -- I assumed it was going to be about the health inspector reports on the Trump restaurants. Seriously, TEN commercials -- I only noticed the number because when we got to the third one, I went, huh, this is no 60 seconds, and then started counting the rest. Did MSNBC get taken over by bots for a few minutes?

Thursday really deserves an apology from Joan -- she is acting like she has been away at a girls school instead of being kept by a married man. I don't think Thursday knew she had been pregnant, but Morse knew from the doctor at the hospital after the accident. Joan really does not have the high ground here when it comes to recognizing how precarious the world can be, which is the environment Thursday lives in every day. I am glad to see Mrs. Thursday doing so much better than last season, when I thought she would need to be hospitalized for her breakdown after Joan disappeared.

The red letters in the credits spell out: ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI -- this is the artist of the paintings in the book Morse was looking at. I also was wondering why Morse was in Strange's flat -- even if he had to move, why not get his own place? Maybe that will come. Now, the game of figuring out the scenes that were deleted for the U.S. viewing. I think they must have entered Eve's flat initially in the full-length version, because she said later "I'm not common, you've seen my place, you know that." (or something like that). All we saw was Morse and Thursday going up to a grim-looking door, so I had no idea what she meant until we saw the interior of her flat later. Ah, so good to see these characters back again. And six episodes this series! The whole episode only took four days, from April 1 to April 4 (when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed). So, am I right that it was an actual Faberge egg? And they just were forging the provenance documents to ratchet up the price? And they waited over 20 years to bring it forward? If I heard right, they got the egg in exchange for helping some refugees? That part of the plot was kind of murky to me. Why not just sell the egg, which was already worth a lot, and not mess with the false provenance. Yes, I was a little concerned for Morse when he was wandering around Eve's flat toward the end -- had to keep reminding myself that there are five more episodes, plus, you know, the whole Morse series to come, so he would survive somehow.

Thanks, I never get to see The Beat, so did not realize! I listened again to the start of Rachel's Friday show, and he did not say anything about location. Oh, I see he is from Seattle, with parents still here.

Was Ari in Seattle? I just noticed the backdrop when I went to look at the shadows!

I am watching the repeat and even with the horrors of the past month, I have not wanted until now to reach through the screen and scream at that congressman. And the "y'all can eat shit" grin at the end was the turd on top of that steaming mess. That was terrible. Chris should have stopped after ninety seconds.