Dead on Time

There is the apparent suicide of Henry Fallon who, suffering from a fatal disease, appears to have shot himself. The problem is that he is deemed to be incapable of performing the act. The victims wife was, at one time, engaged to be married to Morse - Susan Fallon.

Suspicion falls on Peter Rhodes,who is thought to be responsible for the deaths of Henry and Susan Fallon's daughter and grandchild. Fallon had asked him at 3.pm to come to the house at 6.0pm but the evidence appears to be that his phone was out of order at the time.

This episode fully explores the relationship between Morse and Lewis which has not, in my opinion, been given full credit. There are few partnerships that have the chemistry of these two characters.

Morse eventually comes to the conclusion that it was an assisted suicide but never actually solves the mystery. Lewis does but keeps it to himself.

My problem with this is that Morse just lets it go and does not appear to want to continue his enquiries. Totally out of character.

I loved this episode. We definitely get more of an insight into the characters of Morse and Lewis. Lewis has a true love for Morse and Morse is so despairingly in need of someone's love. John Thaw is wonderful in this show..his character has so many facets to his personality. He's not just a grumpy guy..he's so much more. Lewis is truly a kind and very efficient partner..I just love his character more and more. I bought the box set from Amazon..money very well spent.

Morse is one of the best shows ever made, when it's good it's good, when it's on top form very little comes close, this is one of the best.

Dead on time is a fabulous murder mystery, but it is so much more, we get such an insight into the personal life of Morse, we meet the woman that he almost married, plus we see how much Lewis cares for his grumpy colleague.

Such a smart plot, it will have you puzzled right the way through, you'll be intrigued, but you'll also be engrossed by Morse's behaviour as he is re acquainted with his former love.

It's a wonderful episode for Lewis, possibly his best, he shows how clever he really is.

An amazing cast, some truly brilliant talent pops up here, Joanna David is tremendous, she's fantastic throughout, mentions also for Samantha Bond and David Haig.

One of the best of the best, 10/10.

In contrast to seemingly everyone else, I hated this episode. Really, really hated it. Mostly because Morse acts like a complete idiot the entire time.

He fawns over Susan, the woman from his past who left him for another man, like a love-sick puppy dog. It looks like he wants to lick her boots half the time, he's so infatuated. And all the time he acts like an idiot, disregarding the case and police procedure completely.

And for what? A woman that manipulates and twists and turns people around her little finger out of some need to have people worship at her feet.

The evil ladies don't stop there, with Miss Moneyponey herself giving particularly evil and spiteful life to an amazingly distasteful character.

The only ones I feel sorry for are Lewis (who needs to solve the case himself cause Morse doesn't have enough blood to operate his brain), and poor old David Haig, playing a very pathetic and easily manipulated man burdened by guilt he doesn't really deserve.

Morse has always had spectacularly bad taste in women. And this cements that as his biggest failing.

He can't see two feet in front of his nose when an old flame is involved, and he turns from dedicated, clever detective to a numpty of epic proportions. Susan is a selfish, horrible woman who almost destroys Morse here, and he lets her like the good little loyal puppy he is.

There's a fine line between being a gentleman and just being an idiot when it comes to love, and Morse crosses that line by about 100 thousand miles.

Awful episode.

Certainly, this is one of the better episodes of this series. An Oxford Don is found dead at his desk, an apparent suicide. When Morse comes to investigate, he realizes this is the husband of a woman he was once engaged to. The cause of death becomes questionable because of the timing of some phone calls. Morse begins to come into conflict with Lewis after he seeks out the former lover and soon becomes blinded to some possibilities. Mixed in all of this is the death of a mother and her child and an apparent cover-up. Once again Morse starts to move into a romantic relationship but can't break through the shadows.