Fugue
- Episode aired Jul 14, 2013
- TV-PG
- 1h 33m
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8.6/10
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The strangulation of a married woman and the poisoning of an elderly botanist lead Morse to bring a serial killer to justice.The strangulation of a married woman and the poisoning of an elderly botanist lead Morse to bring a serial killer to justice.The strangulation of a married woman and the poisoning of an elderly botanist lead Morse to bring a serial killer to justice.
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- TriviaWhen Dr. Cronyn is describing high-functioning serial killers to the police, he refers to several American cases - "Starkweather, the Fairvale murders, and recently DeSalvo". Charles Starkweather and Albert DeSalvo were real serial killers, the latter apprehended only the year before the one in which this story takes place; however, "the Fairvale murders" is a reference to a famous film - Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Fairvale is the small town outside which the Bates Motel stands in that movie.
- GoofsAs Morse and his colleagues are looking at the sheet music of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera as part of their investigation, the name of the composer in Russian is misspelled on the cover page. The title of the opera is misleading as well: it reads Snezhnaya Koroleva, which means Snow Queen in Russian. However, the real title of the opera is Snegurochka - Vesennyaya Skazka. Snegurochka, correctly referred to as such by Morse, is a Russian fairy tale character that has nothing whatsoever in common with a Snow Queen (no such character exists in Russian folklore, by the way). The opera's title is habitually translated into English as The Snow Maiden - A Spring Fairy Tale.
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DI Fred Thursday: [to Morse] One day I'll send you out for a routine inquiry and it'll turn out to be just that. But I won't hold my breath. You'd find something suspicious in a saint's sock drawer.
- ConnectionsReferences The Singing Detective (1986)
- SoundtracksGreensleeves
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Good on mystery, accents confusing as well as plot
This episode was full of loud opera music which Morse loves.
He connects murders of people to different music operas and finds puzzles linking them. The people murdered were killed violently and in an unusual way.
The episode it good but very confusing. The accents of the Shawn/Morse is at times hard to understand but his boss is okay. It has a lot of mystery and scary moments in the episode. It runs over 2 hours.
The ending is a surprise. The characters are not easy to identify because they don't always call them by name when they interview them and then later you don't know who was who.
By the time it got through I watching it I was exhausted. I felt they dragged the story on which would have been good for a 1 hr episode.
He connects murders of people to different music operas and finds puzzles linking them. The people murdered were killed violently and in an unusual way.
The episode it good but very confusing. The accents of the Shawn/Morse is at times hard to understand but his boss is okay. It has a lot of mystery and scary moments in the episode. It runs over 2 hours.
The ending is a surprise. The characters are not easy to identify because they don't always call them by name when they interview them and then later you don't know who was who.
By the time it got through I watching it I was exhausted. I felt they dragged the story on which would have been good for a 1 hr episode.
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