The Man Who Wasn't There
- Episode aired Feb 28, 2021
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Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.
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Bern Collaço
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis episode's title refers to a line from the 1899 poem "Antigonish" (also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There") by William Hughes Mearns. The first stanza of the poem is quoted (albeit slightly altered) by DS Dodds (Jason Watkins) and Roy Gilbert (Rob Brydon) during their investigation at the hot air balloon company.
- GoofsIt is said that 'Captain' Elkins has however many hundreds of hours of flying experience on gliders and balloons (of course the skills required for those two types of aircraft are utterly different) and so they just allowed him to take a balloon, plus passengers, totally unsupervised. This simply would not happen! No matter how experienced a pilot claims to be, no aviation business would ever allow that person unsupervised command without at least one trial flight to demonstrate his/her fundamental competence. People have been known to 'borrow' or forge licences and log-books! In any case, their insurance would absolutely insist upon a proper programme of supervision before an aircraft is handed over to someone from outside the company.
- Quotes
DS Dodds: All set, ma'am?
DCI Lauren McDonald: Yeah. Got your, erm...
DS Dodds: My gubbins? Oh yes, ma'am.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Magnifying glass?
DS Dodds: Check.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Pencil and notebook?
DS Dodds: Check. Check.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Latex gloves?
DS Dodds: Oh, I never go anywhere without my latex, ma'am.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Ego?
DS Dodds: Oh, I left that at home, ma'am. It weighs me down.
- SoundtracksGhosts
composed by David Sylvian
performed by Japan
Featured review
I'm glad it's back-
But the plot holes in this story were shocking! I am hoping the writing in the next episodes improve, though. I will watch them all because of the wonderful Jason Watkins input. He is such a pleasure to watch-like Toby Jones. They both dignify any dodgy scripts and nonsense. Rob Brydon was equally marvellous- and the two junior sidekicks are shaping up well. I enjoyed the developing relationship between DCI McDonald and Dodds. All of them deserved a better script. It was still fun- and I look forward to seeing Bath-just like Oxford was for Morse. I did enjoy it- a bit-but I look forward to a better story next week.
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- agnabeya
- Mar 1, 2021
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