Grantchester
Season 7: Episode 5
Sense has finally arrived!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Grantchester Season 7 Robson Green, Kacey Ainsworth Tom Brittney, Al Weaver Tessa Peake-Jones, Nick Brimble |
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