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shallownessMiss Scarlet and the Duke - 3.4 Bloodline
I got access to U on my TV set! Which makes it easier to watch last thing before going to bed.
This episode revolved around the Duke being sent to handle a case in Manchester for an indeterminate amount of time, leaving Phelps, as the longest serving detective, acting up/in charge. First and mainly, this was a problem for Fitzroy, who had called Phelps out on cheating while playing dominos with his colleague in a pub, had to fight it out, and showed he’d learned to be handy with his fists under Moses’s tutelage. The next day at work, where Phelps announced he was in charge, Fitzroy got scut work, and then had to follow him on a robbery case. He thought he saw Phelps plant a stolen watch on a young man who was part of a Greek crime family.
Eliza had been put out because without William around, she wasn’t helping the police with a certain case. She got a new one soon, though, when Fitzroy hired her to investigate whether Phelps had planted the watch. She was also having to deal with Ivy in a mood, giving Potts advice on his love life (which Ivy interpreted as interfering, just as she’d asked Lizzy not to.) It turned out that Ivy was no longer sure that she wanted to be Mrs Potts, because though she lived Potts a lot, she also liked her life with her surrogate daughter a lot. Lizzy advised her to follow her heart, which led to an engagement, but on Ivy’s terms. Potts had to work out if being ‘henpecked’ as he’d see it was what he wanted for the rest of his life.
The case itself was muddled. Michael, the jailed suspect was a bit like Fitzroy, young, not good at his job (though this episode proved that Fitzroy’s observational skills were improving.) Moses had advised Eliza to stay away from the whole thing, because the Greek gang were dangerous, but ended up being her associate/protector/interpreter. The Greeks gave them another suspect, conveniently, but he turned out to be a rival, who turned out to be related to Phelps. It became clear that Michael hadn’t done it, his grandfather had ordered someone else to to protect him, behind Michael’s dying uncle’s back, because the uncle wouldn’t see that Michael wasn’t cut out for this life.
After involving Solomon the shopkeeper, following some dangerous chappies, Eliza had her own dilemma, to let injustice be done or let Michael go free and have to kill (the suspect that the gang had named) under his uncle’s orders. Using a line that has become as much of a running joke as people’s disbelief in a woman private detective, Ivy reminded Eliza of what she did when she was a little girl – find another way.
What she did was find evidence that proved Phelps’s cousin had committed another crime, so she put pressure on Phelps for not letting the force know about his cousinly relationship (although it turned out that the cousins weren’t in contact.) She offered the deal to the Greeks, offering fifteen years hard labour to their hated rival. Justice was done for Michael, and he wouldn’t have to become a killer. Fitzroy was now an even bigger Miss Scarlet fan.
Phelps had also revealed that maybe he wasn’t so bad, because he’d spent the money he’d got off the Greeks on setting up a gymnasium to teach boxing and discipline and guidance to young ones. (Well, only if they avoided brain damage!)
But he was the one to tell Eliza that the Duke was back in town, and who he’d gone to visit when he got there. With relish! She went to snoop and saw William bidding Arabella a fond farewell.
I got access to U on my TV set! Which makes it easier to watch last thing before going to bed.
This episode revolved around the Duke being sent to handle a case in Manchester for an indeterminate amount of time, leaving Phelps, as the longest serving detective, acting up/in charge. First and mainly, this was a problem for Fitzroy, who had called Phelps out on cheating while playing dominos with his colleague in a pub, had to fight it out, and showed he’d learned to be handy with his fists under Moses’s tutelage. The next day at work, where Phelps announced he was in charge, Fitzroy got scut work, and then had to follow him on a robbery case. He thought he saw Phelps plant a stolen watch on a young man who was part of a Greek crime family.
Eliza had been put out because without William around, she wasn’t helping the police with a certain case. She got a new one soon, though, when Fitzroy hired her to investigate whether Phelps had planted the watch. She was also having to deal with Ivy in a mood, giving Potts advice on his love life (which Ivy interpreted as interfering, just as she’d asked Lizzy not to.) It turned out that Ivy was no longer sure that she wanted to be Mrs Potts, because though she lived Potts a lot, she also liked her life with her surrogate daughter a lot. Lizzy advised her to follow her heart, which led to an engagement, but on Ivy’s terms. Potts had to work out if being ‘henpecked’ as he’d see it was what he wanted for the rest of his life.
The case itself was muddled. Michael, the jailed suspect was a bit like Fitzroy, young, not good at his job (though this episode proved that Fitzroy’s observational skills were improving.) Moses had advised Eliza to stay away from the whole thing, because the Greek gang were dangerous, but ended up being her associate/protector/interpreter. The Greeks gave them another suspect, conveniently, but he turned out to be a rival, who turned out to be related to Phelps. It became clear that Michael hadn’t done it, his grandfather had ordered someone else to to protect him, behind Michael’s dying uncle’s back, because the uncle wouldn’t see that Michael wasn’t cut out for this life.
After involving Solomon the shopkeeper, following some dangerous chappies, Eliza had her own dilemma, to let injustice be done or let Michael go free and have to kill (the suspect that the gang had named) under his uncle’s orders. Using a line that has become as much of a running joke as people’s disbelief in a woman private detective, Ivy reminded Eliza of what she did when she was a little girl – find another way.
What she did was find evidence that proved Phelps’s cousin had committed another crime, so she put pressure on Phelps for not letting the force know about his cousinly relationship (although it turned out that the cousins weren’t in contact.) She offered the deal to the Greeks, offering fifteen years hard labour to their hated rival. Justice was done for Michael, and he wouldn’t have to become a killer. Fitzroy was now an even bigger Miss Scarlet fan.
Phelps had also revealed that maybe he wasn’t so bad, because he’d spent the money he’d got off the Greeks on setting up a gymnasium to teach boxing and discipline and guidance to young ones. (Well, only if they avoided brain damage!)
But he was the one to tell Eliza that the Duke was back in town, and who he’d gone to visit when he got there. With relish! She went to snoop and saw William bidding Arabella a fond farewell.
