I liked this episode too. Not so much to watch it again and again, but enough to recommend everyone to give it a first try. It shows a bit of his personality: he likes to hear music very very loud, and he looooooves beer :-p
At a university, a man is killed, Quinn. He and his colleagues wrote exams.
Morse says that he always drinks at lunch time, it helps his imagination. He also says no woman would put up with him because he plays his records too loud...
Lewis doesn't like Morse drinking at a victim's house.
Morse uncovers a scandal about some of the university people selling the exams. Another one, Philip Ogleby, is killed, the one Morse suspected, and the Monica woman he kinda liked is hospitalised because of shock.
Morse likes "all sorts of puzzles, brain teasers, anything where you have to use your logic. My weakness is guess work, I leap to conclusions, sometimes, usually wrong"
At the inquest Morse reveals that he already has a warrant in his hand and is about to make an arrest. He arrests someone, an accomplice, and at the end arrests Quinn's boss, which surprised me because after his explanation of the 'how' I had another man in mind, and then it was indeed the cheating husband I had been thinking of, the one who showed up late because he was hiding the body.
At the beginning Morse says to Lewis: "you know Morse's law: there's always a 50-50 chance that the man who found the body did the deed" - "well, I was going to arrest him on the spot but I thought I'd let you have the pleasure" :-p
It took me some time to remember something: Morse realises he's 'gone and arrested the wrong man' when he realises that, if you read lips, it's easy to confuse 'doctor Bartlet' with 'Donald Martin', and at first I didn't remember the connection with Quinn until it came back to me that Quinn had asked Bartlet if "he" was involved but no, it was Martin.
At the end Lewis says "I should have arrested Martin straight away" because of "Morse's law" and Morse says: "that isn't Morse's law. Morse's law is : there's always time for one more pint" :-p
Just when Morse had decided to go watch 'last tango in Paris' they changed it to 101 Dalmatians, so Lewis goes home to fetch wife and kids :-D
domenica 25 agosto 2019
Inspector Morse - The dead of Jericho
I had never seen this series, but I liked this first episode. This ep (haven't seen enough to judge the whole series, so I judge ep by ep) was slow, 'peaceful' for a crime show, you know, quiet, but not boring because many things happen and you find them out along with Morse, little by little.
Details:
Morse says that he doesn't use his first name and that it's not him being silly, it was his parents being silly :-p
He walks a friend home, and Ned, a weird young musician, lives with her, and her neighbour Mr Jackson spies on her through the window. She sings in the choir with Morse.
Anne is very patient with Ned and gives him everything, even money, willingly. Mr Jackson has a key and does work in her house and gets angry when she tells him not to spy on her anymore.
When Morse doesn't find her at home he goes to the choir performance alone.
It seems like she hanged herself. Mr Jackson tells Lewis that he gave back the key and that he saw Morse coming and going from that house... this is how Lewis and Morse first come together.
Annie had a baby boy that was adopted, and was pregnant again when she died. Mr Jackson knows that married Mr Richards had an affair with her and blackmails him. Later on, he is killed.
Morse talks to Ned to ask if he killed her or had an affair with her or otherwise why was he stealing from her, and Ned hits him on the head and runs out.
Richards calls Morse 'the singing policeman' :-p Detective Bell tells Morse that he keeps 'turning up like a bad penny' - 'I do, don't I?' :-p
Morse suspected Richards but he was talking to him when Jackson was killed.
Bell is promoted superintendent, and Morse gets the case. He's chief inspector now, working with Lewis.
He suspected Richards because his car was at Anne's house with a ticket on it. Richards was with another woman, it was his wife Adele, she went there but Anne was already dead.
Adele took love letters between Anne and her husband, Ned found her dead too but he needed heroine so he took her money and left.
Anne killed herself because Richards broke her heart.
For a moment Morse thought that Ned might be her lover or her lost son, but he wasn't.
Regarding Mr Jackson, the Richards brothers swapped places, and one of them killed him, the one who was not with Morse, whatever his name was.
Morse - John Thaw
Lewis - Kevin Whately
Anne - Gemma Jones
ITA ispettore Morse
Details:
Morse says that he doesn't use his first name and that it's not him being silly, it was his parents being silly :-p
He walks a friend home, and Ned, a weird young musician, lives with her, and her neighbour Mr Jackson spies on her through the window. She sings in the choir with Morse.
Anne is very patient with Ned and gives him everything, even money, willingly. Mr Jackson has a key and does work in her house and gets angry when she tells him not to spy on her anymore.
When Morse doesn't find her at home he goes to the choir performance alone.
It seems like she hanged herself. Mr Jackson tells Lewis that he gave back the key and that he saw Morse coming and going from that house... this is how Lewis and Morse first come together.
Annie had a baby boy that was adopted, and was pregnant again when she died. Mr Jackson knows that married Mr Richards had an affair with her and blackmails him. Later on, he is killed.
Morse talks to Ned to ask if he killed her or had an affair with her or otherwise why was he stealing from her, and Ned hits him on the head and runs out.
Richards calls Morse 'the singing policeman' :-p Detective Bell tells Morse that he keeps 'turning up like a bad penny' - 'I do, don't I?' :-p
Morse suspected Richards but he was talking to him when Jackson was killed.
Bell is promoted superintendent, and Morse gets the case. He's chief inspector now, working with Lewis.
He suspected Richards because his car was at Anne's house with a ticket on it. Richards was with another woman, it was his wife Adele, she went there but Anne was already dead.
Adele took love letters between Anne and her husband, Ned found her dead too but he needed heroine so he took her money and left.
Anne killed herself because Richards broke her heart.
For a moment Morse thought that Ned might be her lover or her lost son, but he wasn't.
Regarding Mr Jackson, the Richards brothers swapped places, and one of them killed him, the one who was not with Morse, whatever his name was.
Morse - John Thaw
Lewis - Kevin Whately
Anne - Gemma Jones
ITA ispettore Morse
domenica 18 agosto 2019
Operasjon Arktis - 2014
From Norway. It was a good movie, with three children as protagonists. They don't really get along with each other, and they 'accidentally' end up alone in a deserted island. They must survive the cold and the bears, waiting for the stupid grown-ups to find them. Luckily food is not a big problem.
Details: Julia is the older sister. She cares about appearance, and at the new school she doesn't want to be mingled with her little brother and sister: Sindre and Ida. Basically Ida is a little know-it-all who thinks that Julia is a good-for-nothing, while Sindre is a bit of a troublemaker, butt a good kid: he won't lower his head and he would fight any bully on his way, but since Julia keeps on her own as if she doesn't know them, he doesn't listen to her at all. Their father is located at a base somewhere else, and Sindre misses him a lot, so when he sees a helicopter he wants to go to his father.
When the pilot sees the three children he warns them to stay away, and he's well satisfied when he sees them walking away, and thinks nothing more of it. Moron.
Sindre runs back and his sisters run after him. Julia tries to stop them but nobody listens to her so she joins them.
On the deserted, iced island there was a man, a researcher checking how much the climate change is affecting the ice and the lives of the bears. He got injured so he called for help. Now the helicopter is sent on an emergency rescue mission, but the children don't know this, so they hide inside the helicopter thinking they'll go to see their father. As soon as it lands, the children go out. It's night, dark, and they don't realise that they are in the wrong place. Well, Julia does, but they don't listen to her plea to go back inside the helicopter until they see it fly away without them.
Now they are there alone, nobody knows where they are. Their mom immediately calls their father and searches start immediately, but of course nobody thinks that they might have gone that far.
Well, they should have, and maybe would have, if that pilot had told anyone that he had seen the children... but he says nothing. He never thought it was important..?!? He was the last person to see them, but he never thought of telling anyone that he had seen them.... I mean, what do you call someone like that???
Anyway, the helicopter obviously landed near the researcher's shelter, so that's where the kids go, still thinking that in the morning they'll be able to ask someone for help, until morning comes and they realise where they are. There is nobody, nothing around them, only ice. They eat the man's food and have enough food to keep them warm while inside. Julia was dressed very lightly (for appearance purposes) but luckily she finds a big coat in there (wow, the man was twice her size, and yet...)
They find the man's diary and also a dog for company (the other dogs went into the helicopter? I think so). Reading that the man called for help, Julia realises there must be a radio somewhere. They find it but have trouble using it. They don't know how to make it work. Ida wants to do it but Julia doesn't let her because she's younger, and Julia tries herself but doesn't know how. There is also a mother-bear in search for food, for her and her little bear, but they manage to hide inside the shelter.
Now, there were many moments when two younger children made you want to slap them in the face, causing a lot of troubles, until you remember that they are indeed children, without proper control, so... it's actually quite understandable. Ida heard on tv that there is better reception in high places, so she sneaks out at night while the others sleep, takes the radio and tries to lift it up to see if it works, but it's heavy, she's a little girl, and no surprise, she drops it and loses sight of it...
The first time they see the bears the younger children are like 'awww so cute' and Ida is like waiting for them to come near, until Julia drags them inside the shelter. The dog is left outside, and the little ones want to open the door, but Julia is against it because it's too dangerous (well, she was right), fortunately the dog isn't as stupid as many humans and finds a way to hide behind the wood stack and go unnoticed. Thanks to the bear though, they discover the existence of a place underground with food provisions. That's great, now they'll have food for a long time, right? No, wrong, because Sindre thinks it's a great idea to go there alone to get food for the dog, and forgets the door open. Julia is very angry when she finds the place has been totally emptied by the hungry bear.
I mean, these two little children cause a lot of troubles, but they are indeed little children, left unguarded... so it's not really surprising, it's rather quite understandable.
Julia thinks they should move, but they meet more trouble when Sindre falls in the iced water because the ice was too thin. Julia saves him but she falls too (in order to save him), but luckily Ida keeps her head straight and manages to save her using something Julia can cling onto so she can lift her out of the water.
Sindre gets sick, no wonder, but now Julia starts reasoning on their choices. She asks Ida where the radio fell, and together they manage to get it back. It hadn't fallen in the water, only on the ice. Julia this time leaves it to Ida to try and make it work. The little scholar follows the book instructions (there was a manual? Come on, Julia, there was a manual?) and manages to make it work, and she leaves a message to a surprised man. They are starting to lose hope, Sindre is sick, they are tired...
The man who received the message calls others to discuss it, because it was a strange message, and he's told that there is nobody on that island, but luckily their mother listens to the discussions, and when she realises that the last time they went there was the same day the children went missing, she runs to that stupid helicopter pilot ( 'yes, I saw them, but I told them to go away, they were not in the helicopter'...... I have no words... ). The parents realise that they must have hidden in the back and immediately arrange a rescue mission. That night the weather is horrible and they can't see them and think of going back, until Julia manages to light a fire. She had prepared it earlier, but of course it was difficult to light it with a simple lighter, so she poured gasoline on it and she managed to light it, but it wasn't enough. Luckily ( !! ) since it was heavy she had left a trail of gasoline that made the fire move to the gasoline tank, which exploded alerting the people on the helicopter, so they went back and rescued the children.
The movie ends right there, after the parents hug the children.
Details: Julia is the older sister. She cares about appearance, and at the new school she doesn't want to be mingled with her little brother and sister: Sindre and Ida. Basically Ida is a little know-it-all who thinks that Julia is a good-for-nothing, while Sindre is a bit of a troublemaker, butt a good kid: he won't lower his head and he would fight any bully on his way, but since Julia keeps on her own as if she doesn't know them, he doesn't listen to her at all. Their father is located at a base somewhere else, and Sindre misses him a lot, so when he sees a helicopter he wants to go to his father.
When the pilot sees the three children he warns them to stay away, and he's well satisfied when he sees them walking away, and thinks nothing more of it. Moron.
Sindre runs back and his sisters run after him. Julia tries to stop them but nobody listens to her so she joins them.
On the deserted, iced island there was a man, a researcher checking how much the climate change is affecting the ice and the lives of the bears. He got injured so he called for help. Now the helicopter is sent on an emergency rescue mission, but the children don't know this, so they hide inside the helicopter thinking they'll go to see their father. As soon as it lands, the children go out. It's night, dark, and they don't realise that they are in the wrong place. Well, Julia does, but they don't listen to her plea to go back inside the helicopter until they see it fly away without them.
Now they are there alone, nobody knows where they are. Their mom immediately calls their father and searches start immediately, but of course nobody thinks that they might have gone that far.
Well, they should have, and maybe would have, if that pilot had told anyone that he had seen the children... but he says nothing. He never thought it was important..?!? He was the last person to see them, but he never thought of telling anyone that he had seen them.... I mean, what do you call someone like that???
Anyway, the helicopter obviously landed near the researcher's shelter, so that's where the kids go, still thinking that in the morning they'll be able to ask someone for help, until morning comes and they realise where they are. There is nobody, nothing around them, only ice. They eat the man's food and have enough food to keep them warm while inside. Julia was dressed very lightly (for appearance purposes) but luckily she finds a big coat in there (wow, the man was twice her size, and yet...)
They find the man's diary and also a dog for company (the other dogs went into the helicopter? I think so). Reading that the man called for help, Julia realises there must be a radio somewhere. They find it but have trouble using it. They don't know how to make it work. Ida wants to do it but Julia doesn't let her because she's younger, and Julia tries herself but doesn't know how. There is also a mother-bear in search for food, for her and her little bear, but they manage to hide inside the shelter.
Now, there were many moments when two younger children made you want to slap them in the face, causing a lot of troubles, until you remember that they are indeed children, without proper control, so... it's actually quite understandable. Ida heard on tv that there is better reception in high places, so she sneaks out at night while the others sleep, takes the radio and tries to lift it up to see if it works, but it's heavy, she's a little girl, and no surprise, she drops it and loses sight of it...
The first time they see the bears the younger children are like 'awww so cute' and Ida is like waiting for them to come near, until Julia drags them inside the shelter. The dog is left outside, and the little ones want to open the door, but Julia is against it because it's too dangerous (well, she was right), fortunately the dog isn't as stupid as many humans and finds a way to hide behind the wood stack and go unnoticed. Thanks to the bear though, they discover the existence of a place underground with food provisions. That's great, now they'll have food for a long time, right? No, wrong, because Sindre thinks it's a great idea to go there alone to get food for the dog, and forgets the door open. Julia is very angry when she finds the place has been totally emptied by the hungry bear.
I mean, these two little children cause a lot of troubles, but they are indeed little children, left unguarded... so it's not really surprising, it's rather quite understandable.
Julia thinks they should move, but they meet more trouble when Sindre falls in the iced water because the ice was too thin. Julia saves him but she falls too (in order to save him), but luckily Ida keeps her head straight and manages to save her using something Julia can cling onto so she can lift her out of the water.
Sindre gets sick, no wonder, but now Julia starts reasoning on their choices. She asks Ida where the radio fell, and together they manage to get it back. It hadn't fallen in the water, only on the ice. Julia this time leaves it to Ida to try and make it work. The little scholar follows the book instructions (there was a manual? Come on, Julia, there was a manual?) and manages to make it work, and she leaves a message to a surprised man. They are starting to lose hope, Sindre is sick, they are tired...
The man who received the message calls others to discuss it, because it was a strange message, and he's told that there is nobody on that island, but luckily their mother listens to the discussions, and when she realises that the last time they went there was the same day the children went missing, she runs to that stupid helicopter pilot ( 'yes, I saw them, but I told them to go away, they were not in the helicopter'...... I have no words... ). The parents realise that they must have hidden in the back and immediately arrange a rescue mission. That night the weather is horrible and they can't see them and think of going back, until Julia manages to light a fire. She had prepared it earlier, but of course it was difficult to light it with a simple lighter, so she poured gasoline on it and she managed to light it, but it wasn't enough. Luckily ( !! ) since it was heavy she had left a trail of gasoline that made the fire move to the gasoline tank, which exploded alerting the people on the helicopter, so they went back and rescued the children.
The movie ends right there, after the parents hug the children.
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