INSPECTOR MORSE (4 x DVD) SERIES THREE 

INSPECTOR MORSE (4 x DVD) SERIES THREE -  JOHN THAW IN THE CLASSIC TELEVISION DRAMA

Erittäin hyväkuntoinenn DVD ja kotelo vuodelta 1987, kesto 408 minuuttia, kieli on englanti, tekstitys vain englanti. DVD-kotelon ja suojakotelon tekstit vain englanniksi.

John Thaw on nerokas mutta omaperäinen komisario Morse kriitikoiden ylistämässä, palkitussa ja valtavan suosion saavuttaneessa murhamysteerisarjassa.

THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE - Morse and Lewis are sent to Hanbury House where an upper class family have apparently suffered a break in and the theft of a number of paintings. Sir Julius Hanbury, however, is nowhere to be seen which is particularly unusual since he is vying to be the next Master of an Oxford college and the vote is tied. Exploring the grounds of Hanbury House, Morse is shown into the family mausoleum and the battered body of Sir Julius is shockingly discovered. Soon after, Roger Meadows, the boyfriend of the family’s au pair, Michelle, overturns his sports car driving away from the house. Lewis notices that his brakes had been cut. Two murders then, or possibly one, as when Lady Hanbury is put under some pressure by Morse’s enquiries she claims that Sir Julius’ death was suicide, which she and the gardener, John McKendrick, made to look like murder to present a less shameful story to the watching world. The ‘theft’ was similarly part of their plan and the paintings are later recovered from their hiding place. But Morse is not satisfied by this wafer thin confession and keeps snooping, particularly around the attic where there happens to be a photographic studio. Lewis’ keen eye realises that the pictures being produced, in the style of Sir Julius’ classical paintings, in fact feature Michelle. The prior suggestion that Sir Julius might have been blackmailed is now grounded in evidence. Lady Handbury’s alibi for the night of Sir Julius’ death soon falls apart under Morse’s questioning when she claims to have witnessed Placido Domingi featuring Tosca on Covent Garden, while Morse knows this didn’t happen as he himself was present for the performance. Caught in her lies she finally confesses that her affair with the McKendrick had been long term, that on confronting Sir Julius in his studio, and discovering what he had been up to, there had been a struggle, and that she had killed him in self-defence. She then had McKendrick cut the brakes of Roger Meadows’ car in response to his threats to sell the story of Sir Julius, the au pair and the pornographic pictures to the tabloid press. As the episode ends, Lady Handbury, McKendrick and Michelle are all driven away in police cars, leaving the six-year old daughter on the doorstep of the stately home, and a weary Morse, looking on and decrying the tragedy she has inherited.

THE LAST ENEMY -The torso of a man is found floating in a canal at  Thrupp. An old university friend of Morse's, and now the Master of the Oxford college Beaumont, Sir Alexander Reece, asks Morse to investigate the disappearance of the Deputy Master. Based on Colin Dexter's novel THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE.

DECEIVED BY FLIGHT - An old college roommate of Morse's, Anthony Donn, comes to Oxford for an annual cricket match, calls Morse after 20 years and wants to get together and talk. They eat chips on a bench, but Donn never gets round to saying what is on his mind, though he tells a zen story. Morse soon gets distracted by a case where three people are killed in a hate crime in the fire bombing of a radical bookshop. Donn then turns up dead in his college lodging. At first sight it looks as if he has electrocuted himself, but puzzlingly he had a gun in his luggage. His wife says he hated guns. Lewis postpones his leave to go undercover as a college porter and replaces Donn on the cricket team, the Clarets. One of the team members, Vince Cranston, resents this as he is not a gentleman. At the cricket match between the Clarets and the Hearties, organized by another former college friend of Morse's, Roly Marshall, Lewis acquits himself well, while Morse dozes. Meanwhile Lewis had seen Peter Foster searching Donn's room. Both Anthony Donn's widow, Kate, and Peter Foster's apparent wife, Philippa, appear attracted to Morse. During the cricket match, Peter Foster is found murdered in the changing rooms, stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors. Morse confronts Philippa Foster, who admits that she is a customs investigator and Peter is not her husband but her boss. Over the last two years, they have traced regular exports of cocaine and heroin that correspond with the Clarets' tours to the Low Countries. They had not told Morse as he might have been involved. She persuades Morse to permit this year's tour to continue. When the tour bus arrives at Dover, it is searched but nothing is found. Meanwhile Morse has tailed Kate Donn and seen her passionately kissing Vince Cranston. Morse realises that, contrary to E. M. Forster's  advice to "only connect", he has to delink the two killings. He discovers cocaine hidden in the seat of the wheelchair used by Roly Marshall and deduces that Jamie Jasper, Marshall's nephew, killed Foster. Jasper worked in international finance and so had the opportunity to obtain drugs in the Far East. Morse then goes to the radio studio where Kate Donn is hosting her chat show and arrests her for murdering her husband. The motive is that she wanted to leave him for Vince, but he threatened to kill either Vince or himself (hence the gun). Morse suspected this because Vince had given Kate a book on zen with a florid dedication. The action takes place during the Test Match, with commentary by Brian Johnston, which annoys Morse because it deprives him of his habitual music on BBC Radio 3.

THE SECRET OF BAY 5B - A murder at a muti-storey car park uncovers a crime of passion involving a jealous husband, his wife, and her lover. Based loosely on Colin Dexter's novel THE SECRET OF ANNEXE 3.

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