So "Doc Martin's Wife" can't play any role other than "Doc Marin's Wife." She has been chosen because of her fragility and her lack of self esteem. She is a stumbling block to Banks and does a good job of being the clueless, insensitive newby. What works is the mysterious phone call from Banks' brother, that he is in trouble and Banks putting aside everything to see what is going. We get a view of the Banks family and the pecking order in the family. We have an overzealous replacement for Annie Cabbot getting in Banks' face and getting it right back. Her assumption that he is complicit is way beyond the acceptable bounds. There is a dead woman, shot in the head in close proximity to the brother. The ending of the first half really intensifies everything.
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If Catz' job......
hpringnitz24 January 2022
.....was to make the character of DI Morton a completely unlikable one, then she did a yeoman's work with this one episode.
But the fact of the matter is that Catz herself is completely unlikable. A very wooden performance by a very unaccomplished actress. I never liked her on Doc Martin and I don't like her in this show either. Terrible casting.
But the fact of the matter is that Catz herself is completely unlikable. A very wooden performance by a very unaccomplished actress. I never liked her on Doc Martin and I don't like her in this show either. Terrible casting.
that's laughable
sandcrab2778 October 2018
Strange Affair: Part 1
Prismark1015 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
DS Annie Cabbot had to be written out as actress Andrea Lowe was pregnant.
Just as the show began with Cabbot arriving from Internal Affairs and having an antagonistic relationship with DCI Banks.
DI Helen Morton (Caroline Catz) has been bought in as her replacement by CS McLaughlin.
Trouble starts as a dead body is found and DCI Banks is missing.
So Morton takes over the murder investigation. She grates her new colleagues because Banks has become a person of interest. His address is found in the dead woman's car.
Banks meanwhile is looking for his younger brother Roy. He received a phone message from Roy and he has skipped work. Maybe Banks should had called CS McLaughlin to make his absence clearer.
The episode began with Roy calling Banks and a dead woman is in the car. The assumption being that Roy is in trouble as he killed her.
This is the murdered woman Jennifer Lewis that Morton is investigating. She somehow holds Banks in the frame on the flimsy basis that Lewis had Bank's address.
This is a hollow episode that bends over backwards so Morton and Banks start off in the wrong foot.
I do not know where CS McLaughlin found Morton. If she was in the same police force then I am surprised she has never come across Banks before. She certainly seemed surprised that Bank's colleagues are loyal to their boss.
Just as the show began with Cabbot arriving from Internal Affairs and having an antagonistic relationship with DCI Banks.
DI Helen Morton (Caroline Catz) has been bought in as her replacement by CS McLaughlin.
Trouble starts as a dead body is found and DCI Banks is missing.
So Morton takes over the murder investigation. She grates her new colleagues because Banks has become a person of interest. His address is found in the dead woman's car.
Banks meanwhile is looking for his younger brother Roy. He received a phone message from Roy and he has skipped work. Maybe Banks should had called CS McLaughlin to make his absence clearer.
The episode began with Roy calling Banks and a dead woman is in the car. The assumption being that Roy is in trouble as he killed her.
This is the murdered woman Jennifer Lewis that Morton is investigating. She somehow holds Banks in the frame on the flimsy basis that Lewis had Bank's address.
This is a hollow episode that bends over backwards so Morton and Banks start off in the wrong foot.
I do not know where CS McLaughlin found Morton. If she was in the same police force then I am surprised she has never come across Banks before. She certainly seemed surprised that Bank's colleagues are loyal to their boss.
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