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Bodies has been drip feeding it's time travel element. It comes to the fore here. How has a dead body got found in four time zones?

How has Commander Mannix (Stephen Graham) who is Detective Iris Maplewood's boss in the 2053 utopia managed to be in these other timelines?

It is Maplewood who catches a university lecture given by Gabriel Defoe about the Deutsch particle and the possibility of time travel.

In 2023 Shahara Hasan checks the archives for Alfred Hillinghead. To discover in a newspaper article that he found the same dead body in Longharvest Lane in 1890. There was a stench of a cover up. The archivist later gives Hasan a file of the same vitim turning up in 1941.

During a bombing raid Charles Whiteman finds you can trust no one as he helps a stranger who is linked to Alfred.

There is an intimation of a cult dating back to Alfred Hillinghead's time where Julian Harker is the leader. A cult whose tentacles have grown.

It is now a less a murder mystery and more a conspiracy and an enjoyable one at that.

While we are not sure where this is all going, we now know there is some kind of grand plan at work--at least in the present. The other people in the other times are probably unaware of the roles they are playing. They just know that the oddest things are happening in the oddest settings. The whole seance thing was a little Rosemary's Baby like in that the figures all seem evil, even the old ladies, but Harker is definitely the progenitor. I am a little tired of the gay lover connection. It seems superfluous to the plot. The future is getting more and more interesting all the time. The young woman detective is in over her head. Her neighbor proves interesting.

This show should win a prize for "How To Stretch a Thin Plot", using the well-worn trick of characters asking pertinent questions only to receive useless answers. As in this exchange:

Motherly Detective: What is going on?

Andrew: It's all happening as it should and it will be your fault.

Motherly Detective: But can you tell me what's happening?

Andrew: You will see it in due time.

And so on for a while. Then Andrew locks Motherly Detective into a basement for no reason (since he already knows what's going to happen) and the story can be stretched further, also pilfering "The Bodies in the Vats" from The Prestige.

In the 1890 timeline, the plot derails into a soppy gay love story, while Polly hints not so subtly that she's invited to some rich person's house to play. I wonder who could that rich guy be. Difficult to guess, but I bet my money on Harker (and I didn't see this before or read anything about it, it's just that predictable).

The only action takes place in my favorite 1941 timeline, where Karl Weissman tries desperately to save Esther. Why should Esther die is not clear, except to introduce an elderly Polly.

In the 2053 storyline Defoe proves to be less trustworthy than expected and the dizzy neighbour not so dizzy.