Grantchester
Season 7: Episode 2
One would think, once you find
out a woman is unavailable, you would stay away from her. But not Will. He goes
right back into her arms.
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| Grantchester Season 7 Robson Green, Kacey Ainsworth Tom Brittney, Al Weaver Tessa Peake Jones, Nick Brimble |
The delusion of love
After Reverend Will Davenport (Tom
Brittney) finds out the truth about his love interest, Maya (Ellora Torchia),
he’s not sure what to do with himself. He spends time alone, under a tree,
smoking. Or at least that is what he is doing when Maya shows up again. After
which they go to bed together, again. (Now you see why I said in the last post
Will is acting like an idiot?)
Will is now more certain than
ever that he is in love. He makes plans about marriage and kids; two things
Maya clearly does not want to talk about. What Will does not think about is the
fact he is participating in infidelity. One would think a reverend would have at
least a little hesitation about this, but I guess not. Nor does Will think
about the awkward position he’s putting Geordie into, as Maya is engaged to Geordie’s
boss.
Geordie struggles to find his way
DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green)
has enough awkward situations. He does not need Will’s help to get him into any
more. In the first episode, Geordie grew flowers for his wife, Cathy (Kacey
Ainsworth), thinking they were her favorites, which they weren’t. Now he
discovers Cathy’s niece, Bonnie Evans (Charlotte Ritchie), is in town to help
with the kids.
Bonnie brings the kids over to
Geordie for his usual Saturday, which is when Geordie finds out she is in town.
Instead of spending the day with his kids, though, he is forced to leave them
with Bonnie because he has to leave the vicarage, where he’s staying, to
investigate a call of distress. This call of distress leads to even more
tension with Cathy.
What started out as a call of distress leads to the discovery of the body of Lester Carmichael (Rob Pomfret).
As usual, the main suspect is the dead man’s wife, Melanie Carmichael (Kirsty
Besterman). The problem is Mrs. Carmichael has an alibi. She was in a room full
of people when Lester received the injury that led to his death. One of the
people in that room was Cathy.
To investigate Mrs. Carmichael’s
alibi, Geordie must go to the department store where Cathy works. When he
enters the breakroom, he finds Cathy laughing away with her co-worker Clive
(Ryan Early) and smoking. (Note: There is a lot of smoking this season.) Both
Clive and the smoking upsets Geordie. He and Cathy have a fight right there in
the breakroom.
After the fight, Geordie follows
the case to a brothel. He does not know it is a brothel at the time. Geordie
and Will believe they are simply visiting this particular house to talk to
Carmichael’s mistress. Will believes he will be a more comforting presence for
the mistress than Geordie and insists on going in alone. He has no idea what
he’s walked into.
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| On the Hunt Kate Dorsey |
Leonard Finch, PI
While Geordie and Will
investigate Carmichael’s death, former curate Leonard Finch (Al Weaver) is on
an investigation of his own. Mrs. C. (Tessa Peake-Jones), the vicarage
housekeeper, has been acting oddly lately, and her husband, Jack Chapman (Nick
Brimble), believes she is having an affair. Leonard cannot believe this of Mrs.
C. and decides to find out what is going on.
What Leonard discovers is a man
entering and leaving the Chapman house when Mrs. C. is there alone. Appalled,
Leonard confronts Mrs. C. with the allegation of an affair. What he receives in
return is an admission from Mrs. C. that she is sick. She has been seeing her
doctor in secret because she does not want Jack or anyone else to know.
Leonard, being his kind and
caring self, agrees to keep Mrs. C.’s secret as well as help her with whatever
she needs. He goes to the doctor’s appointment with her where it is confirmed
she has cancer. The treatment will involve a hysterectomy.
All of this is told to Mrs. C. by
a cold, dismissive male doctor. A man who clearly believes women’s healthcare
is not of importance, especially once a woman reaches a certain age. This
season was set in 1959. Sixty-three years later and we still have this
mentality about women’s healthcare.
As great as it was to see Leonard
support Mrs. C. during this time, I really wish Jack had been there. I could
easily see him verbally taking out that doctor for how badly and coldly he
treated Mrs. C. It was a scene I would have loved to see, because that doctor
really did need to be confronted.
Secrets weigh heavy
Will, in the meantime, is spending
a lot of his life living in secrets. He’s helping Geordie in secret. He’s
running around with Maya in secret. Will and Maya even secretly get together in
the police station with her fiancé, DCI Elliott Wallace (Michael D. Xavier), in
the building. How stupid is that?! Especially since their secret rendezvous is
not so secret with Geordie knowing where they are and what they’re up to.
Eventually Will does realize a
future with Maya is not possible. He breaks things off with her after one final
dance. Then Will actually gets some sense, for the moment, and walks away.
Geordie gets himself in trouble again
Sense is not necessarily with
Geordie, though. When Bonnie drops the kids off at the police station to spend
the night with Geordie, he learns Cathy is away at a hotel. He is convinced she
is there to be with Clive and sends police secretary, Miss Scott (Melissa
Johns), to the hotel to spy on her. This plan backfires as at the hotel Cathy
and Miss Scott team up against Geordie, making him even more bewildered about
what is going on with his wife and women in general.
The question now is, will Will
and Geordie get their heads on straight during episode three?
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