Inspector Morse - Episode 10: Deceived by Flight [DVD]

Inspector Morse - Episode 10: Deceived by Flight [DVD]

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Anthony Donn, Morse's college roommate from twenty years prior, comes to Oxford for an annual cricket match. He calls Morse to get together and talk. They eat chips on a bench, but Donn never tells Morse what is on his mind. Morse begins investigating a hate crime involving the fire bombing of a radical bookshop in which three people are killed. After leaving a message for Morse that he remembered what he wanted to tell him, Donn is found dead in his college lodging, appearing to have electrocuted himself. A gun is found in his luggage, but his wife says that he hated guns. Lewis postpones his leave to go undercover as a college porter and replaces Donn on the cricket team, the Clarets. Team member Vince Cranston resents this, as he does not consider Lewis a "gentleman". Lewis acquits himself well in the match between the Clarets and the Hearties, organised by another former college friend of Morse, Roly Marshall. Morse is present but sleeps through much of the match.

During the cricket match, Peter Foster who claims to be doing research in the college library is found murdered in the changing rooms, stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors. Previously, Lewis had seen Foster enter Donn's room. Morse confronts the woman staying with Foster, supposedly his wife Phillipa, and she admits that she is a customs investigator and that Peter is not her husband but her colleague. Over the previous two years, they have traced regular exports of cocaine and heroin from England to other European countries that correspond with the Clarets' tours. 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 Clarets coach Roly Marshall and deduces that Jamie Jasper, Marshall's nephew, killed Foster. Jasper's job in international finance gave him the opportunity to obtain drugs in the Far East.

Cranston had given Kate Donn a book with a florid dedication, leading Morse to suspect that she wanted to leave her husband for Cranston but her husband threatened to kill either Cranston or himself (hence the gun). Morse goes to the radio studio where Kate Donn is hosting her chat show and arrests her for murdering her husband. The action takes place during the Test match, with commentary by Brian Johnston, which annoys Morse because it deprives him of his usual music on BBC Radio 3.