Grantchester

Season 7: Episode 5

Sense has finally arrived!

Hand-drawn drawing. Gray mountains and grassy hills in the background. A white, curving, dashed line leading to a white X is in the foreground.
Follow the Trail
Kate Dorsey

Seniors on the run

Life in a nursing home cannot be easy. It must be especially hard when you have a matron running around who belittles, embarrasses, and prevents anyone from having any fun. Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) doesn’t like seeing the residents of a local nursing home treated this way. But when he confronts Matron Fletcher (Caroline Faber), she makes it out that he is the one in the wrong for objecting to the poor treatment. Is it any wonder this woman ends up dead?

Along with the death, two residents, Clem Preston (Bruce Alexander) and Ida Merryman (Anna Calder-Marshall), go missing. The body and moonshine are found in Clem’s bedroom. They are the residents who got in trouble during Will’s visit. With their disappearance, Clem and Ida become the prime suspects.

Clem and Ida’s problems get worse when it is reported they have stolen a car and held someone up at gunpoint.

Thanks to Clem’s daughter, Clara (Kirsten Foster), DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) is able to track down the pair at a fancy hotel. There it is discovered they never had a gun at all. Clem was just able to make it look like they had one. After finding out more facts about Clem and Ida, Geordie begins to question whether or not they could really be capable of murder.

Geordie finally understands

Geordie is still living at the vicarage at this time. The situation with his wife, Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth), does not look like it has any chance of improving when he arrests her for protesting.

Cathy is protesting the lack of fair wage for women at the department store where she works.

Arresting his wife is not something Geordie wants to do, but he does not have a choice. Cathy and another protestor have handcuffed themselves to a door at the store. The handcuffs are from Miss Scott (Melissa Johns), a police secretary who works with Geordie. These handcuffs are ruining the finish on the door. This is what the official complaint is about. Not surprisingly, what the women are protesting about is completely ignored.

The arrest ends up being good for Cathy and Geordie’s marriage. In the interrogation room they are finally able to talk about the problems between them. Cathy forces Geordie to see her as she is now, not who she was in the past. By doing this, Geordie and Cathy are finally able to move through their problems. Geordie moves back home.

Hand-drawn drawing. Train tracks intersecting at an angle. Grass is in the background.
Crossed Tracks
Kate Dorsey

Will is still confused

In this episode Maya (Ellora Torchia), returns to the scene. She has broken off her engagement with DCI Elliott Wallace (Michael D. Xavier) and wants Will to travel with her instead of staying in Grantchester.

The thing is, just moments before, Will told Geordie’s niece, Bonnie Evans (Charlotte Ritchie), that he has feelings for her. Then Maya shows up.

At first Will puts Maya off, but when Geordie and Cathy get back together, it isn’t long before he calls Maya up and hops into bed with her. This back and forth makes me think Will does not know what he truly wants.

The next morning, Bonnie comes to the vicarage to tell Will how she feels about him. She discovers Maya in the kitchen wearing very little. Angry over the mixed messages he is sending, Bonnie tells Will off and leaves. Then Maya tells Will off and leaves. Will is left in the kitchen all alone.

Something I wondered about this scene, why wasn’t Will worried about vicarage housekeeper Mrs. C. (Tessa Peake-Jones) showing up? She has returned to work, and certainly would not approve of a scantily dressed woman in her kitchen.

Mrs. C. chooses for herself

Mrs. C. has returned to her work at the vicarage despite being angry at God. The treatment schedule for her cancer has arrived, and she is not sure she wants to go through with any of it. Her husband, Jack Chapman (Nick Brimble), tells her it is her decision to have the treatment or not. He loves Mrs. C. and wants more time with her, but he acknowledges and respects it is her body, and therefore everything should be her choice. (Ahem, politicians and judges. Are you listening?) Jack says he will support whatever decision Mrs. C. makes.

Set on letting the cancer take its course, it is Geordie who helps Mrs. C. see things differently. She thinks over what Geordie says to her and decides to go forward with the treatment.

One more episode of season seven to go.

Photos of six actors from the show Grantchester.
Grantchester
Season 7
Robson Green, Kacey Ainsworth
Tom Brittney, Al Weaver
Tessa Peake-Jones, Nick Brimble

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