Grantchester
Season 7: Episode 6
Do you remember the case from
episode three about vagrants being murdered? It’s back.
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| Development Kate Dorsey |
A solved case unsolved
Another vagrant has been found
killed in a doorway. With someone already in the asylum for the other three
dead vagrant men, DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) has to wonder if he has a
copycat on his hands or if they have charged the wrong man with the crime. Some
of the details of the first deaths were left out of the press, yet they are
present with this most recent murder. Geordie believes they have punished the
wrong man.
The situation becomes worse when
the man held responsible for the first three murders, Robin Fellows (Jeremy Ang
Jones), kills himself. He does this after a visit from his horribly cold
professor, Rowena King (Edith Larson), which makes Geordie wonder what happened
in that meeting.
Professor King barely bats an eye
when Geordie and Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) tell her about Robin’s suicide.
All she does is talk about how he and the homeless men are better off dead. She
argues no one can truly change and their lives are better off being over with.
With an attitude like this is, it is no surprise Professor King gets attacked
by the real culprit later.
No
matter how horrified Geordie and Will are about the professor’s views, they are secondary to the fact the real culprit is still at large.
Fortunately, Geordie’s boss, DCI Elliott Wallace (Michael D. Xavier), has a
change of heart about the case. Previously, Wallace deemed these vagrant deaths
unimportant. Now he tells Geordie to do whatever he has to in order to arrest
the true murderer.
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| Grantchester Season 7: Episode 6 Robson Green, Tom Brittney |
Will’s life is in danger
Geordie is at risk of finding the
guilty part too late, though. The true person responsible for the vagrant deaths
has cornered Will and stabbed him. He is in the vicarage with Will when
Geordie’s niece, Bonnie Evans (Charlotte Ritchie), comes around.
Through the mail slot Bonnie
tells Will she has rethought the Maya (Ellora Torchia) situation. She is
willing to put what she saw happen between Will and Maya in the past and stay
in town, if that is what Will wants. The murderer keeps Will from responding.
Mrs. C. goes in for surgery
At the same time, vicarage
housekeeper, Mrs. C. (Tessa Peake-Jones), is at the hospital preparing for
surgery. Will is supposed to be there with her, and Mrs. C. is questioning his
absence. Former curate, Leonard Finch (Al Weaver), says Will probably got
caught up in something, as he often does. This is true this time as well, just
not in the way they think.
Leonard; his partner, Daniel
Marlowe (Oliver Dimsdale); and Mrs. C.’s husband, Jack Chapman (Nick Brimble); all
insist on praying before Mrs. C.’s surgery. She is still mad at God and does
not want this, but this is something the others want to do. Even Daniel and
Jack want to, despite neither being religious. Whether the prayers helped or
not is up for opinion. But they certainly did not hurt. Mrs. C. makes it
through her surgery just fine.
Leonard’s changing passion
After the surgery, it is
discovered Leonard is struggling with running his café. The cafe is becoming
popular, but Leonard is unfulfilled. He worked with Geordie on the vagrant case
when they caught Robin, and now he wants to work with the homeless instead of
running the café. He is worried about upsetting Mrs. C. and Jack with these
thoughts since they were the ones who put up the money for the business.
Leonard needn’t have worried.
Jack is so relieved Mrs. C. is safely through her surgery that he decides to
let go of the café. He is no longer going to look for a return on his
investment. All he wants is for Leonard to be happy. He gives Leonard
permission to use the café space however he chooses.
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| Away We Go Kate Dorsey |
All is well
Everyone gets a happy ending when
this season ends. Happy to the point this could have easily been the final
season of Grantchester.
I have heard an eighth season is
in the works, which makes me happy. Another season means more great one-liners
from Geordie. There will be clever banter between Geordie and Will. Police
secretary Miss Scott (Melissa Johns) will again prove she is smarter and more
capable than anyone she works with. Leonard and Daniel will continue to have a
sweet, supportive relationship. At least that is what I want to see in the
eighth season, along with good mysteries.
What I don’t want to see is
Geordie’s marriage with Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) struggle again. They have been
through enough. Please leave their relationship alone!
Actually, leave all the
relationships alone. That doesn’t mean there can’t be conflict to work through,
but no separations or affairs. Nothing like that, please. Everyone is happy
where they are and with who they are with at the moment. It would be nice to
see that stick for a while.
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