Girl
- Episode aired Jul 7, 2013
- TV-14
- 1h 34m
The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.
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- TriviaAt one point, Rev. Monkford's housekeeper reports that he was muttering something about "Do not talk at meals. Do not talk traveling." He was, in fact, quoting from a notice issued to the staff at Bletchley Park, stressing the importance of avoiding unguarded talk: "Do not talk at meals, Do not talk in the transport. Do not talk traveling. Do not talk in your billet. Be careful even in your hut. Do not talk by your own fireside." This was an allusion to the fact that he worked as a cryptographer (presumably at Bletchley) during the Second World War.
- GoofsWhen Morse asks Dr Prentice about digoxin and digitalis, Dr Prentice replies, "They don't call it deadly nightshade for nothing." This is wrong: the deadly nightshade (belladonna) plant produces atropine, not digitalis which is derived from the foxglove.
- Quotes
DC Endeavour Morse: Strange, there's a blackboard there. Could you...?
[Strange gets the board]
DC Endeavour Morse: Each element is assigned a symbol: Typically an abbreviation of its name together with a unique one or two-digit atomic number. Can you write these down as I call then off?
[Strange cleans the board and writes the elements on the board as Morse calls them out]
DC Endeavour Morse: So, 74 gives us Tungsten. 17, Chlorine. 18, Argon. 19, Potassium. The elements spell out a name.
Chief Superintendent Bright: [looking at the first letters of the elements] T.C.A.P Tucap?
DC Endeavour Morse: No, not quite, sir, but you're on the right lines.
[Morse walks over to the blackboard and Strange gives him the chalk]
DC Endeavour Morse: Um, the chemical symbol for Tungsten isn't Tu as you might expect. It's W from the German Wolframite. And Potassium isn't P as you might expect but K after the Latin Kalium. Taken together they're Tungsten...
[close-ups of these four elements and their chemical symbols in the Periodic Table are seen as Morse writes the chemical symbol W]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...Chorine...
[Morse writes the chemical symbol CL on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...Argon...
[Morse writes the chemical symbol AR on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...and Potassium.
[Morse writes the chemical symbol K on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: W-C-L-A-R-K. Wallace Clark.
[flashbacks of Wallace Clark committing the murders are seen with close-ups of the Periodic Table]
Chief Superintendent Bright: [almost speechless] Good grief.
DI Fred Thursday: Derek's father.
Chief Superintendent Bright: But there's nothing to say he even knew the vicar.
DC Endeavour Morse: Ivy Clark, sir. Wallace's wife is buried in the churchyard.
[Ivy's Clark's tombstone is seen]
DC Endeavour Morse: The next plot but one to Lady Daphne Sloan. Reverend Monkford performed the service.
PC Jim Strange: [laughs] Bloody hell, matey. That's...
DI Fred Thursday: [stunned and impressed] Elementary.
- ConnectionsReferences Gideon C.I.D. (1964)
As said in my review for the entire show two years ago, 'Endeavour' is not just a more than worthy prequel series to one of my favourite detective dramas of all time and goes very well with it, but it is a great series on its own as well. It maintains everything that makes 'Inspector Morse' so good, while also containing enough to make it its own, and in my mind 'Inspector Morse', 'Lewis' and 'Endeavour' go perfectly well together.
Was very impressed by the pilot episode, even with a very understandable slight finding-its-feet feel (that is true of a lot of shows, exceptions like 'Morse' itself, 'A Touch of Frost' and 'Midsomer Murders', which started off great and were remarkably well established, are fairly few. The first episode of the first season "Girl" was a very welcome return, a fine episode in its own right and was even better. Morse's personality is more established with more obvious recognisable personality quirks and generally things feel more settled.
My only real complaint is that the story does get a little over-complicated in some of the latter parts of the episode, which actually at times was not unusual for 'Endeavour'. Other than that, "Girl" was great.
"Girl" once again looks great. It is exquisitely photographed and there is something very nostalgic and charming about the atmospherically evoked 1960s period detail. It was also a genius move to keep Barrington Pheloung on board, with his hauntingly beautiful scoring and immortal Inspector Morse theme, while the classical music excerpts are delightful to hear.
Writing, even for so early on, is every bit as intelligent, entertaining and tense. The story has tension, a good deal going on and little feels improbable or too obvious. Morse and Thursday's father/son relationship, while even stronger later being more entertaining and heartfelt, has a lot of warmth, is so well written within the story and is a large part of the series' appeal and there is some good suspense. How great to see a younger Max and Strange well before he became superintendent.
The pacing is restrained, but that allows the atmosphere to come through, and pretty much all the same it excels in that aspect. The characters are interesting.
Shaun Evans again does some powerful, charismatic work as younger Morse, showing enough loyalty to John Thaw's iconic Morse while making the character his own too. Roger Allam is also superb, his rapport with Evans always compels and entertains but Thursday is quite a sympathetic character, as well as loyal and firm, and Allam does a lot special with a role that could have been less interesting possibly in lesser hands. All the acting is very good, with supporting standouts being Sophie Stuckey and Jonathan Hyde. Sean Rigby does a nice job as Strange, while James Bradshaw would make Peter Woodthorpe proud and Colin Dexter's cameo is worth looking out for if brief (basically as with his other cameos a walk-on).
Overall, a fine episode and a welcome return. 9/10 Bethany Cox
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- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK(St Edmund Hall, Front Quad and Old Dinning Hall)
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