Did He Or Didn’t He? Only The Scriptwriter Knows
A Geezer’s Notebook, By Jim Foster
I am confused (like you didn’t know that already) about the ending of one of the British TV mysteries. Perhaps someone out there can help me. Over the period of two or three months we have been watching Endeavour, a fine detective show on Vision TV as most of their offerings are, but the final show in the series has left me baffled.
I can’t tell you what actually happened because it might be into reruns soon and I’ll have spoiled it for you. Moses Znaimer has a habit of doing that every now and then. You are half-way through a show and realize you are saying the words along with the actors because it ran yesterday and twice the week before.
There was a shocking ending, or at least it appears there might have been. I say that because there were a few extra minutes that ran after the last commercial and I don’t know whether the extra part was a recap of the series or the actual series ending. If anyone knows why Endeavour Morse, the hero, did what he did let me know, and even more important, did he do what I think he did because I’m not sure he did?
I went so far as looking up the Endeavour series online and I’m still not sure he did what I think he did. I may have to fly to England and ask the writer if he did what I am not sure he did. If you know that he really did what I think he did, let me know. If the truth be known, I think he did. On the other hand, maybe he didn’t.
Like most crime programs on Vision they are repeats of repeats and have been running forever. (I saw one a week ago and Ann Boleyn was a bar maid and she still had her head.)
Dear old Jessica Fletcher has been snooping around crime scenes for decades. Angela and most of the leads in the series have gone to that great TV studio in the sky. Last week I’m sure I saw Francis X Bushman and Zasu Pitts peaking out Jessica’s bedroom window and they died in the 60s.
Father Brown has been solving crimes every afternoon since he was an altar boy. He will be a Pope before his series finishes.
Another problem for us is Moses changed the time slot for New Tricks, one of our favourites. It now comes on at 3 in the afternoon, much too early to get hooked on a show. Now we have to record it and watch Midsomer’s Murders at 4. Midsomers is two hours long and by the time we find out who the murderer is dinner is cold.
Which brings me to a problem, since no one in their right mind would go to the United States for a vacation while the present administration is in power, many adventurous souls are considering England as an ideal spot to visit, especially if those souls are interested in British history and want to see the birthplaces of many of their ancestors.
They are correct. It would be a wonderful place to spend a week or two except for one minor problem. You will very likely be murdered. It is not a certainty of course, some of the luckier ones will come out reasonably unscathed, perhaps not completely whole, just nursing one or two stab wounds and the odd poisoning, but as for coming out alive, only three or four out of ten will actually make it.
One good thing if you get murdered in England, they have a number of excellent detectives over there who will find the guy or gal who did you in within two hours, some of the sharper ones, in an hour.
If you think I am overstating the dangers of visiting England, one of the mystery programs running on Vision is The Marlow Murder Club. Can you imagine living in a community where there are so many slayings a bunch of busybody women formed a club to solve them on their own?
A bit of advice before you set out, there are a few places to avoid once you get to England, the moors for example, and especially the area near the Baskerville estate. If you plan to go out walking and hear hounds baying late at night, be sure to pick up a bag of Milk Bone treats before you go. It will give the doggie something chew on after he coughs up your leg.
One more thing, if it’s really foggy and you are a hooker person don’t go near Whitechapel at all.
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