Episode #4.2

Hated this episode!!! So no more Sydney?? I guess I missed that!!!

Sidney's last episode and you would think he would be booted out of the church for being drunk and disorderly.

When a prostitute is found dead, Sidney was the last person to see her alive but he does not remember a thing.

Luckily Geordie does not view Sidney as a suspect. It is the great and good who come on the radar. The local councillor and his mates who own the bar where the girls work as hostesses or the slums houses where they pay good money to live in dives.

Realistically I felt there could only be two suspects and one of them certainly was not Young Sherlock Holmes.

The mystery was subdued, what came to the forefront of how these women were treated. These issues would be a stepping stone for Sidney's next move. Across the pond and the emerging civil rights movement. It is a bit hard to take that Sidney fell for a woman he hardly knew.

I was bored by this episode and I never reached the end of it. I kept ffwding until i finally gave up. So I had to pick up here from the reviews that it was the end of Sydney for this series. But i don,t mind that because it was to boring to watch. The first 5 minutes i got irritated by the excess of the smoking in this episode. It went from cigarette to cigarette and with that irritating sound it makes when he draws his cig. But the stupid smoking did not stop after that..... No... almost every other character in this episode had a cigarette in his or hers hands or mouth. Far to much to my liking so i gave up on this episode.

I like the fact that Sidney was given one last full mystery to solve with Geordie, before moving on for pastures new. I liked that it wasn't soppy, and didn't feature his replacement. As a mystery it was pretty good, suitably seedy for a Vicar that's descended into a work of casual sex and alcoholism, though where he finds time to address his flock is the real mystery.

Patrick Baladi was very good as the bad guy behind the scenes, so often a nice guy, good to see he can do a character that gets under the skin.

It wasn't super sentimental, but it had a touching scene, appropriate for the time I guess.

I was sceptical that the show still had legs, but after the first two, I feel like it still does. 8/10

Sidney has been drinking to excess throughout this first part of the season. In a drunken stupor, he converses with a prostitute. She is later found dead in the street. He can't remember anything, other than she gave him a light. He and Geordie investigate a nasty set of circumstances. This appears to be the last episode for Sidney and his successor will be the focus.