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Just wondering...why would the witness maintain her false identification? The guy's in prison and if she told Gibbs the truth that he really was the guy she saw, wouldn't she be ensuring that he STAYED in prison and couldn't come after her? Or maybe she worried that she'd get in trouble because she didn't tell the truth to the FBI the first time around? I liked this episode but some parts of it didn't fall into line for me. (But am used to ignoring my "credulity-meter" when I watch.) Was starting to adjust to Sloane but the whole pedicure/feet thing just seemed off to me. Concur with those who have said this season is better than last, however.

Yes, that. Plus the bird from the murdered widow of episode 3. "No girl," he can tell Frazill, "but I have pets now."

My memory is hazy but though they seemed happy together, didn't McQueen move out of the country and Morse stay behind? Also, I never thought Joan fell on purpose but thought as you suggested that she returned for her things and had a confrontation with her lover.

I enjoyed the bookend episodes of this season more than the interiors. Unlike many of the forum participants, I'm more interested in the mystery part than the Joan/Morse thing. (There's something about knowing the senior Morse that makes it almost superfluous to me.) As soon as the doc's sister (thought something about that bro/sis relationship was off - in a creepy way - "but a brother isn't like a husband, right?" says the unrequited lover) unloaded the truth, I knew who the murderer was. (Sir, man up but do NOT shoot your dog!!) I find the many sides of Thursday interesting, from brutal thug to tender husband to relentless and courageous saver-of-the-empire to grinning medal recipient. For me, he's the puzzle within the puzzle. Also enjoyed the constant juxtaposition of atomic power with superstition and the mystical "old ways" & the dark, Oz-like presence of the scarecrow from the beginning. Another season done (sad face) but the ending was satisfying. For me anyway, it felt right - good to see Win smiling again (there now, Joan, was it that hard to call your mum?) - and an explanation of sorts for each episode's Tarot cards, too. Thanks to all for your insights about cast etc. Was there a Colin Dexter tease in this one?

I'm no expert, but I don't think people choose to be depressed. Also, from her character's previous behavior I think Win would be willing to support Joan - if only she knew her daughter was safe and well. (She criticized Mrs. Church Woman in last week's episode & hasn't come off as a restrictive, up-tight parent in other seasons that I can recall) Today, family members of people who undergo trauma can seek and be trained in the best ways to help their loved ones handle emotional stress. Not so 50 years ago. Win seems to be doing the best she can under the circumstances, so her actions don't seem totally inappropriate to me. I see her much more sympathetically. Simply human. And a mom. I'd be happy if in the upcoming last episode of this season, the Thursdays find out their daughter is okay, even if Joan chooses to keep her distance. But that Tarot death card makes me nervous.

O that's just splendid! Thank you for catching it. Since I watch each episode intently and still miss major plot moves, I would NEVER catch these peripheral teases. Toy with me all you want, show. I won't complain.

O thank you. That's what I was left with. Who killed those two and stuffed them in the trunk?! Just so Trewlove could find them and once more save the story line and the day? (Ha! But sitting next to Bright - kind of sweet, I admit - while he's being murdered might mess up any young copper's career so now you owe Morse big time!)

Wasn't it the stalking ex-magazine guy who told Thursday and Strange that he saw a girl in the room with the chocolates and when they said, "Bettina?" he said, "No, I know what she looks like"? I do think there was some too-long explanation from the medical examiner about why laxatives ultimately killed the minister but I fear I briefly lost interest at that spot. Looks like I have a rewatch in my future.

She put laxatives in the chocolate not expecting to kill anyone, but unfortunately the reaction to the laxative exacerbated a preexisting condition of the minister's and killed him.

I watch Endeavour with a persistent melancholy. Not because of the 60's (I would have been a decade or so younger than Morse at the time and do not recall a single enjoyable thing in the decade. Memories of VietNam and repetitive song lyrics are all that linger.) but because I know how the macro story ends. Read all the Morse books, viewed all the Morse shows on PBS, and now here is the young Morse. No curmudgeon. Just an attractive and rather endearing pup. Makes me sigh. Continue to enjoy all the cinematic images of this show. Especially when Thursday and M are rowing through the night in search of the lost "boy." Mist and darkness and 2 knights of justice alone in the world. Not as many red herrings as ep 1, an episode I enjoyed far more & have rewatched twice for the pleasure of it. Thought the hypocritical religious person was cliche & seemed superfluous to the story. And frankly, I'm becoming less and less interested in the Joan arc of the story. But for me an average Endeavour is better than anything else currently on my viewing calendar so no complaint here. More Bright, please, and am becoming quite fond of the bespectacled med examiner. Trewlove shines periodically, which is fine as long as she doesn't cast a shadow on young Morse.

One more Endeavour episode & the bad taste that's lingered from this summer's MM series (Formerly Known as Grantchester) will be gone. Just love the look of this show, the colors, layered cinematic shots, fashions. Love it all. The writers manage to give us personal drama among the characters (I will NEVER forgive you, however, if you mess up the warm Thursday marriage) without overpowering the puzzle in the story. Bright is becoming my favorite character. He started as a seemingly fussy little man, a marionette of sorts (to me, anyway) but has transformed into a seriously awesome leader. (Think it was the tiger from last season that turned the corner for me). Favorite line of last evening (I paraphrase): "Love and fishing...it always comes down to the one that got away." O yes.

Didn't watch the episode & didn't miss it. Figured I'd check in here to see if anyone (I'm looking at you, Geordie and Sidney) got his rightful comeuppance. Doesn't sound like it. I have 2 issues about the show, 1 broad and 1 specific. The latter is Sidney's un-vicar-like behavior, especially for the 1950's. Out at night in jazz clubs with a married woman? As someone experienced with the mystery of communication in small to mid size parishes, that knowledge would be common in his congregation before the next service. And it would be dealt with on several levels, not necessarily top down either. The fact that he did not pursue the request for forgiveness from the woman who had the abortion ("God will forgive me, won't He?") says that Sid has long passed the point of being a true shepherd. Forgiveness and God in the same question is a trigger of sorts for any clergyman and while the answers might vary depending on theology, the question would get some kinds of acknowledgement. Admittedly, she was Catholic and Sid isn't but his total silence after the Q said a lot. His flock would be well aware of his loss of interest in spiritual matters and he would not still be there, (flexing his manly muscles or not. ) On a broader level, I personally feel betrayed by Grantchester because it's shown on Masterpiece MYSTERY. Imo, that means the puzzle dominates. Of course, there are relationships and personalities involved, too, but the mystery should be primary. Otherwise, it's simply Downton 30 years later and should show up on one of the other iterations of Masterpiece. All the moral and sexual angst of Grantchester has overcome the puzzle and that feels wrong - to me, anyway. The writers have stepped over a line (that I admit may be only in MY mind.) Maybe better shown on Masterpiece CLASSIC?

Ick. Just ick. It's hard to credit, but I now find myself longing for the sensible plot line of a tiger roaming the English countryside willy-nilly. Endeavour in August. Yes, please.

Thank you, Leonard. I switched stations at the opening cricket match with Amanda doing her indiscreet cheering and Geordie acting adolescent. Just couldn't cope with the melding of Grantchester and Peyton Place so missed the poisoning part. Glad I tuned back in because I enjoyed watching the new bishop walk a theological tightrope, taking over from a "scoundrel" and trying to return proper ecclesiastical order without overtly bashing anyone with a stick. (Though I think he could bash a stick with the best of them, if needed) And then there was Leonard standing before Amanda, hands clasped but brow unfurrowed speaking "on behalf of the Church of England..." You go, guy! Finally, a still, small voice of reason among all those raging hormones. Now everyone go back to your corner for a while so we can have at least one respectable mystery to solve before the season ends.

Didn't the episode seem a tad hodgepodgey? Ransom ware and cryogenics and issues with mom and dependence on technology (ah, my man Gibbs, I like my flip phone, too) ... or maybe meant to be a vague commentary on the passage of time? Then again, maybe I'm simply looking for too much meaning on a Tuesday night. More likely, I guess. But thanks for the Bruce Boxleitner tip. That was a treat.

Shades of The Bad Seed & the dueling banjos of Deliverance! This ep not for me. Sorry. Not even a teensy bit of sympathy for crazy sister, who kills little boys, therapists (hope they got that body out of the closet), and women strapped to chairs. And what was that whole dangling brothers thing? Sheesh. Oh crime solving duo, please come back...I really, really miss you.

Does it matter that in the initial "you all won't care if I have masked nurses strap you up to iv s, will you?" scene, the terrible-toothed villain made it a point to say that 1 of the participants was a "high-ranking" police official? Probably not. I'm consistently wrong about what's important and what's not & have never met a red herring I didn't like.

Not a cinematically beautiful episode (as I thought ep 1 was,) but meaty & I don't know how else to say it. Always enjoy how this show blurs lines between reality and hallucination. Not too much Mary for me, thought it was just right but then I like(d) her. Appreciated John's confession, even if it was manipulated & ended up being about girl-on-a-bus-creepy-man's-dtr-psycho-psych (jeesh) Perfectly creepy villain. Gasped at psych-counselor reveal. Love being surprised. Interested about any Mycroft/top-secret-Lady relationship. Now THAT seems fantasy to me. I am being strung along and enjoying every minute of it.

Always so visually pleasing. Really, really liked the circling sharks in the aquarium as backdrop to that particular drama. As usual, will have to watch it a 2nd time. Sensory overload so I always miss something important the 1st time through.

I stopped watching start-to-finish 3 episodes ago but have tuned in to see the start of a couple. Could not get past the trailer on this one. Something like, "we won't let that happen" had a smug reading that was off the charts. Can't deal with the MW character. So doggone noble and right and omniscient. Makes me cringe. Guess I like my hero flawed enough to be human so that when he pulls out a victory it's something to celebrate. Sad about the show, tho. I so wanted to like it.

Wait. Did I fall asleep between scenes? (Yes, it's more than possible. Likely even.) One moment a chartreuse snake (Or else I need to adjust the color) is slithering toward Watson's ever-stylishly-clad feet & Holmes is checking what to do (then pause for commercial) and the next scene the snake has taken up residence in the brownstone. Did I doze off during its capture? Or was this another time when subsequent dialogue explained a plot turn? Honestly, if we could get this show on even an hour earlier, I might be able to keep up.

Ditto to UncleChuck. I like the new team, tho I have to get used to there being so MANY of them (or so it seems.) No Ziva or echoes of Ziva or allusions to Ziva just makes me happy. And yes, thank you MH for being so darned attractive AND my age. A great - albeit rare - viewing experience. If anyone's counting, I'm in.

Think this was my favorite episode of the 4 this season. Like a set of those wooden nesting dolls: Lift up the top one and..."O, look, there's another plot thread underneath!" And like every episode, including ones that featured large tigers and babies that suddenly appeared out of nowhere and were completely UNremarked upon (ditto for former girlfriends in hospitals) I'll have to re-view the whole thing. I think I'm watching with all the focus I can muster but I still miss so much! Loved Thursday coughing up the bullet (physically possible or not) and the 1 remaining bullet in the bad guy's gun. Some kind of balance there...bullets in/bullets out. All the actors, from major to minor, are so darned GOOD and the sets terrific! Enjoyed "watching" Morse's thoughts about love settling on Joan. Just his woman du jour, I think. Still saying "Miss Thursday" after sharing a murderous bank robbery says something about both of them. Now at least a year for new episodes-? well. sigh.

Yes, I agree, one thread only, please. Who fixes these things?

Me, too, Magdalene. Engrossed, as well. For me, this was the most entertaining episode of the 3 I've seen this season. Loved the overhead shot in the maze of Tiger, Tiger (gosh, it was a gorgeous thing but made so malevolent in those full face shots - "Lock me away in a tiny cage, will you?? My turn now") on one side and Endeavour on the other. I liked the peeling away of layers of the characters, too. Bright dignified and heroic and valiant. Thursday ill and frustrated and missing Mrs. Thursday. (And the small, tender fingertip kiss he gave the comatose victim...nice touch) Morse somewhat petulant as he adjusts to Strange's presence but incredibly brave, shielding Mother and baby. I'll rewatch this episode to see the connections between the two missing similarly blonde women. Was the same date (& route) of their disappearances just coincidence, then? I "had" to get something from another room when the baby was in the yard and Mom was hanging clothes...I know the goat became tiger snack, but did the big cat get that feisty little dog, too? Thanks to all for the Hathaway connection.