Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries
Masonic Mysteries
- 15.
- Season: 4
- Episode: 4
- First Aired: 1/24/1990
Morse's friend Beryl Newsome is stabbed at a rehearsal for an amateur production of The Magic Flute. Then Lewis starts uncovering incriminating evidence, including the transfer by the murder victim of £99,000 into Morse's bank account. With his rival Bottomley pursuing him, Morse finds himself at the top of the suspect list and is eventually arrested for the murder he is investigating.
After his arrest, Morse's house is searched, and a clergyman's body is found in a cupboard. With Morse seeing a Masonic conspiracy, Lewis suspects that someone with a grudge is out to frame Morse, partly by hacking into computer systems.
After his release, Morse becomes the target of a direct attack, when his house catches fire, with him in it. Who wants to get at Morse so badly? Can it really be an old enemy who is dead?
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- Writers:
- Julian Mitchell
- Director:
- Danny Boyle
- Stars:
- James Grout (Chief Superintendant Strange)
- John Thaw (Chief Inspector Morse)
- Kevin Whately (Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis)
- Guest Star:
- Iain Cuthbertson (Desmond McNutt)
- Mark Strong (PC Mike Butterworth)
- Diane Fletcher (Marion Brooke)
- Ken Drury (Norman)
- James Smith (R G Prettyman)
- Jenny Howe (Angry neighbour)
- Piers Ibbotson (Ambulance man)
- Yvonne Gidden (Yvonne (Marion's maid))
- Michael Mears (Wine merchant)
- Richard Huw (Det Const Deardon)
- Steven Elliott (Officious constable)
- John Arthur (Hall porter)
- Madelaine Newton (Beryl Newsome)
- Ian McDiarmid (Hugo De Vries)
- Celestine Randall (Sandra Machin)
- Roland Oliver (Conductor)
- Richard Kane (Chief Inspector Bottomley)
- Tip Tipping (PC Dene)
- In this episode, we see some details of Morse's bank account on a computer screen, and the account is called "E. Morse". This is long before Morse's first name, Endeavour, is at last revealed. edit »
- Rated PG in the UK and 12 in Ireland edit »
- Morse: Wouldn't you say I was fair, Lewis?
Lewis: Fairer to women than to men, sometimes.
Morse: They are the fair sex. edit » - Morse: I was meant to pick up the knife! It's handle was toward my hand.
McNutt: You can leave out the literary flourishes, Morse. They always were a weakness. edit » - McNutt: Have another beer, it may help you to think.
Morse: No, thanks.
Lewis: You're in shock. edit » - Morse: Someone, I don't know who and I don't know why, it trying to frame me.
Strange: I'm sorry, Morse, but I don't think you've been telling us the whole truth. I'm putting you under arrest. edit » - Morse: Myself, I always work on the principle that the last person to see them alive did it. He [meaning Bottomley] thinks it's the first person to see them dead. edit »
- When Morse says "I was meant to pick up the knife! It's handle was toward my hand", and McNutt replies "You can leave out the literary flourishes, Morse", the reference is to the dagger speech in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth:
Macbeth:
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee -
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still!
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight, or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain? edit »
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