Grantchester
Season 7: Episode 3
Geordie takes a stand
For a while now, DI Geordie
Keating (Robson Green) has been wondering about a series of vagrant deaths. His
boss, DCI Elliott Wallace (Michael D. Xavier), wants to dismiss these cases
with the belief that no one cares these people have died, nor should they.
Geordie rightfully disagrees.
When he and former curate Leonard
Finch (Al Weaver) discover a dead homeless man in the doorway of Leonard’s
café, Geordie refuses to let the case go. Still, others he works with disagree,
but Geordie will not dismiss this case. DC Larry Peters (Bradley Hall) is one
of the ones who says the man in the café doorway is not worth looking into. The
disgusted look Geordie gives Larry is absolutely perfect.
Usually, Geordie investigates his
cases with Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), only Wallace no longer wants
Will working on cases. He does not see why a clergyman would be involved in
uncovering culprits in murders. Which, when you think about it, there is a
point to. What is a clergyman doing helping with police business so often?
So, this time, Leonard, an ex-con, helps instead. (For the explanation about Leonard’s time in prison, see my Grantchester
season six post).
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The case takes them to school
The victim in the doorway was
found with a book belonging to someone at Cambridge University. Leonard says he
knows his way around the university and is eager to show Geordie. Together they go
to the school where Leonard’s sense of direction is proven to be a bit off, but
he does eventually get them to where they need to go.
At the university, Geordie and
Leonard discover the owner of the book, Robin Fellows (Jeremy Ang Jones), is
missing. They also find out he is ill, something his professor, Rowena King
(Edith Larson), has no sympathy for.
A very cold woman, Professor King
does not think much of anyone or anything. She is continuously surprised by the
knowledge Geordie has, or the fact that he has any intelligence at all. Because
apparently, in her mind, cops cannot be educated or intelligent.
Professor King also makes it very
clear she thought little of Robin’s attempts at helping the homeless. She saw
it as a complete waste of time.
Absolutely nothing Professor King
says goes over well with Geordie, nor should it.
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Will has a more personal case
Instead of investigating, Will
spends most of this episode caring for a young boy.
Ernie Evans (Isaac Highams) is
caught by vicarage housekeeper, Mrs. C. (Tessa Peake-Jones), carving his initials
into a pew of the church. Mrs. C. absolutely loses it on him. She calls Ernie
wicked. Will steps in and takes the boy away.
Bonnie (Charlotte Ritchie),
Ernie’s mother, is not happy about what Ernie has done either. And here is
where Will’s idiocy comes in.
Instead of allowing Bonnie to be
upset about her son’s bad behavior, Will becomes condescending and makes it out
to be that Bonnie is the one in the wrong.
Why men do this, I have no idea,
but it happens all the time. ALL THE TIME!
Will claims he does and says what
he does because he doesn’t like conflict. I think it’s really because he feels
he knows better. If he has decided a situation has been handled and is
finished, then it is finished. And no one else should feel any other way about
it.
Bonnie confides to Will that she
is worried about her son. She also honestly admits somedays she wants to
throttle her child, something I’m sure all mothers feel at some point but may
be afraid to say out loud.
What Bonnie is worried about is
the fact that Ernie never talks about his deceased father. He doesn’t even want
to.
Will tells Bonnie he will try and
get Ernie to open up. He’s only successful to a point when he and Ernie work on
Will’s motorcycle. When Ernie’s father is mentioned, Ernie clams up. Otherwise,
he and Will have a good time together.
With time Will figures out Ernie
was carving his father’s initials into the pew, not his own. Will finishes the
job for him and lets Ernie know about it. This is a place Ernie can go to
remember his father.
Tied Up in Knots
Kate Dorsey
Mrs. C. reaches the end of her rope
Mrs. C. reaches her breaking
point in this episode. She confronts God and asks him why he has forsaken her.
She has been devout and loyal to him for so long, yet she still gets cancer.
Why, when she has been so good to him, does he punish her? It is a very fair
question.
That is not all we see of Mrs. C.
in this episode, though. She and Leonard also go to a fancy restaurant. While
there, Mrs. C. talks about how people have always looked down at her. Just like
the people at the restaurant are doing.
The others in the restaurant look
down at Mrs. C. so badly that when Mrs. C. waves at a girl across the room, the
girl’s mother rushes her out of the restaurant. Now, if the mother thought Mrs.
C. was going to harm the girl, I could see why this would happen. But this act
seemed to stem more from the fact she did not want her daughter even associating
from across the room with someone like Mrs. C. She is simply not classy enough.
After this, the waiter very
snootily denies Mrs. C. more champagne. Fed up with everything in life, Mrs. C.
makes a scene and storms out. Embarrassed, Leonard follows, but not before
making a crack about his own dinner to show his support for Mrs. C.
Later, Mrs. C. tells Leonard
something about herself she has never told him before.
At fourteen, Mrs. C. became
pregnant and had an abortion. The boy she was with said he loved her. And she
loved him. They loved each other until the boy got what he wanted. Then his
love disappeared.
I have to wonder how many babies
have been conceived throughout history by males lying about their feelings in
order to get females to have sex with them. Then they just walk off and
disappear, leaving all the consequences of their actions for someone else to
handle. I have a feeling the number of these instances is extremely high.
After her conversation with
Leonard, Mrs. C. confronts God again. This time she tells God she is done with
him. After her abortion, Mrs. C. swore she would be faithful and true to him.
All he gave her was miscarriages and cancer. Her relationship with God is over.
And so is this episode.
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