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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw[[note]]Yes, this is an actual British surname, and yes, it ''is'' pronounced "Fanshaw"[[/note]]. The absurdity of it all is best summed up by Havers’ response:
-->'''Havers''': ''[laughing]'' And that would make you Inspector Lah-Lah!
-->'''Havers''': ''[laughing]'' And that would make you Inspector Lah-Lah!
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** Possible {{Foreshadowing}} for the HeroicBSOD he goes through in the next episode.
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** Possible {{Foreshadowing}} for Possibly a symptom of the HeroicBSOD he goes has been going through pretty much the whole season, which comes to a climax in the next episode.
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** Possibly {Foreshadowing} for the HeroicBSOD he goes through in the next episode.
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* ReplacementLoveInterest: Christine Miller, potentially, for Lynley.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Whether he knows it or not, Lynley's reaction to Havers' sudden social life reads ''exactly'' like this.
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw. The absurdity of it all is best summed up by Havers’ response:
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw.Fanshaw[[note]]Yes, this is an actual British surname, and yes, it ''is'' pronounced "Fanshaw"[[/note]]. The absurdity of it all is best summed up by Havers’ response:
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* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen.
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* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen.Helen.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One more reason for the DownerEnding.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One more reason for the DownerEnding.
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* RecurringCharacter: This episode introduces M.E. Stuart Lafferty, who will appear in pretty much every remaining episode of the series.
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* RecurringCharacter: This episode introduces M.E. Stuart Lafferty, who will appear in pretty much every remaining episode of the series.programme.
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* RecurringCharacter: This episode introduces M.E. Stuart Lafferty, who will appear in pretty much every remaining episode.
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* RecurringCharacter: This episode introduces M.E. Stuart Lafferty, who will appear in pretty much every remaining episode.episode of the series.
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* BadDate: PlayedForLaughs, as Havers tries to keep control of her facial expression while watching her date slurp bottle after bottle of beer and carry on a monologue about his DJ-ing interests, before asking if she would like to go to his flat.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]]. She really wouldn't. Poor girl.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]]. She really wouldn't. Poor girl.
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* BadDate: PlayedForLaughs, as Havers tries to keep control of her facial expression while watching her date slurp bottle after bottle of beer and carry on a monologue about his DJ-ing interests, before asking if she would like to go to his flat. \n She really wouldn't. Poor girl.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]]. She really wouldn't. Poor girl.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]].
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]].
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley alone with a bottle, disillusioned about the reach of justice, feeling indifferent towards Helen, bitter about Havers’ dates, and deciding not to start a relationship with Christine Miller. Ouch.
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley alone with a bottle, disillusioned about the reach of justice, feeling indifferent towards Helen, bitter about Havers’ dates, and deciding not to start a relationship with Christine Miller. Ouch.
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]]. \n She really wouldn't. Poor girl.
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley [[DrowningMySorrows alone with abottle, bottle]], disillusioned about the reach of justice, feeling indifferent towards Helen, bitter about Havers’ dates, and deciding not to start a relationship with Christine Miller. Ouch.
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley [[DrowningMySorrows alone with a
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* LimitedSocialCircle: {{Averted}}. Lynley begins to display considerable interest in Ms. Christine Miller, while Havers takes up the services of a dating service agency, [[DatingServiceDisaster although without much success]].
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When the body of Eric Ramsey, ex-doorkeeper of the House of Lords, is found floating in the Thames, Lynley and Havers have to probe into the affairs of the House itself. They discover that Ramsey’s death is connected with the disappearance of a crucial document for a defence contract, which he had passed on to someone shortly before his murder. It soon becomes clear to Lynley and Havers that the interests of some of the most powerful men in the country are tied up with the missing document. Will they be able to find out the persons responsible, and more importantly, do they have the resources to bring those individuals to justice?
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When the body of Eric Ramsey, ex-doorkeeper of the House of Lords, is found floating in the Thames, Lynley and Havers have to probe into the affairs of the House itself. They discover that Ramsey’s death is connected with the disappearance of a crucial document for a defence contract, which he had passed on to someone shortly before his murder. It soon becomes clear to Lynley and Havers that the interests of some of the most powerful men in the country are tied up with the missing document. Will they be able to find out the persons responsible, and more importantly, do they have the resources is it within their powers to bring those individuals to justice?
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* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen, especially in front of Simon Featherstonehaugh.
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* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen, especially in front of Simon Featherstonehaugh.Helen.
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[[caption-width-right:260:Drifting apart? Let's hope not.]]
-> '''Havers''': Well, I should get going.
-> '''Lynley''':''[bitterly]'' Yeah, yeah. Can’t keep your latest beau waiting, can we?
-> '''Havers''':''[taken aback]'' Um, no. Goodnight, sir.
When the body of Eric Ramsey, ex-doorkeeper of the House of Lords, is found floating in the Thames, Lynley and Havers have to probe into the affairs of the House itself. They discover that Ramsey’s death is connected with the disappearance of a crucial document for a defence contract, which he had passed on to someone shortly before his murder. It soon becomes clear to Lynley and Havers that the interests of some of the most powerful men in the country are tied up with the missing document. Will they be able to find out the persons responsible, and more importantly, do they have the resources to bring those individuals to justice?
On the personal side, Lynley is becoming disgruntled with Helen’s utter lack of interest in resuming contact with him, while Havers’ sudden interest in dating men is bewildering and perhaps upsetting him.
!! Tropes
* AutopsySnackTime: Lafferty is perfectly happy to munch chocolate-coated biscuits while describing how his subject’s arteries were coated black with heavy internal bleeding. Lynley and Havers are fascinated.
* BadDate: PlayedForLaughs, as Havers tries to keep control of her facial expression while watching her date slurp bottle after bottle of beer and carry on a monologue about his DJ-ing interests, before asking if she would like to go to his flat.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]].
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley alone with a bottle, disillusioned about the reach of justice, feeling indifferent towards Helen, bitter about Havers’ dates, and deciding not to start a relationship with Christine Miller. Ouch.
* HandWave: Lynley and Havers arrest a suspect, and the two police officers who meet them outside just happen to be [[spoiler: the ManBehindTheMan’s EvilMinions]]? If it isn’t a ContrivedCoincidence, then the episode doesn’t do a very good job of explaining [[spoiler: how Lynley and Havers were so successfully duped by the fake cops]].
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw. The absurdity of it all is best summed up by Havers’ response:
-->'''Havers''': ''[laughing]'' And that would make you Inspector Lah-Lah!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The real villains cannot be connected with the crime, and retain their front of respectability, much to Lynley’s disgust.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler: The killer is shot dead by fake policemen before he divulges any secrets about the men who had put him under pressure to retrieve the document]].
* LimitedSocialCircle: {{Averted}}. Lynley begins to display considerable interest in Ms. Christine Miller, while Havers takes up the services of a dating service agency, [[DatingServiceDisaster although without much success]].
* {{OOC}}: For once, Lynley appears ill at ease in high society and is unable to deliver the snarky comebacks for which he is known.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: {{Invoked}} by the killer. The way the two victims’ hands were tied up was intended to mislead the investigators about the killer’s background]].
* ReplacementLoveInterest: Christine Miller, potentially, for Lynley.
* ShaggyDogStory: The entire investigation seems a bit pointless: there is nothing Lynley can do with the information he knows.
* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen, especially in front of Simon Featherstonehaugh.
[[caption-width-right:260:Drifting apart? Let's hope not.]]
-> '''Havers''': Well, I should get going.
-> '''Lynley''':''[bitterly]'' Yeah, yeah. Can’t keep your latest beau waiting, can we?
-> '''Havers''':''[taken aback]'' Um, no. Goodnight, sir.
When the body of Eric Ramsey, ex-doorkeeper of the House of Lords, is found floating in the Thames, Lynley and Havers have to probe into the affairs of the House itself. They discover that Ramsey’s death is connected with the disappearance of a crucial document for a defence contract, which he had passed on to someone shortly before his murder. It soon becomes clear to Lynley and Havers that the interests of some of the most powerful men in the country are tied up with the missing document. Will they be able to find out the persons responsible, and more importantly, do they have the resources to bring those individuals to justice?
On the personal side, Lynley is becoming disgruntled with Helen’s utter lack of interest in resuming contact with him, while Havers’ sudden interest in dating men is bewildering and perhaps upsetting him.
!! Tropes
* AutopsySnackTime: Lafferty is perfectly happy to munch chocolate-coated biscuits while describing how his subject’s arteries were coated black with heavy internal bleeding. Lynley and Havers are fascinated.
* BadDate: PlayedForLaughs, as Havers tries to keep control of her facial expression while watching her date slurp bottle after bottle of beer and carry on a monologue about his DJ-ing interests, before asking if she would like to go to his flat.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Simon Featherstonehaugh]].
* DownerEnding: Leaving aside the KarmaHoudini, we end this episode with Lynley alone with a bottle, disillusioned about the reach of justice, feeling indifferent towards Helen, bitter about Havers’ dates, and deciding not to start a relationship with Christine Miller. Ouch.
* HandWave: Lynley and Havers arrest a suspect, and the two police officers who meet them outside just happen to be [[spoiler: the ManBehindTheMan’s EvilMinions]]? If it isn’t a ContrivedCoincidence, then the episode doesn’t do a very good job of explaining [[spoiler: how Lynley and Havers were so successfully duped by the fake cops]].
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Fanshaw. The absurdity of it all is best summed up by Havers’ response:
-->'''Havers''': ''[laughing]'' And that would make you Inspector Lah-Lah!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The real villains cannot be connected with the crime, and retain their front of respectability, much to Lynley’s disgust.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler: The killer is shot dead by fake policemen before he divulges any secrets about the men who had put him under pressure to retrieve the document]].
* LimitedSocialCircle: {{Averted}}. Lynley begins to display considerable interest in Ms. Christine Miller, while Havers takes up the services of a dating service agency, [[DatingServiceDisaster although without much success]].
* {{OOC}}: For once, Lynley appears ill at ease in high society and is unable to deliver the snarky comebacks for which he is known.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: {{Invoked}} by the killer. The way the two victims’ hands were tied up was intended to mislead the investigators about the killer’s background]].
* ReplacementLoveInterest: Christine Miller, potentially, for Lynley.
* ShaggyDogStory: The entire investigation seems a bit pointless: there is nothing Lynley can do with the information he knows.
* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: Lynley isn’t very pleased when Pippa Featherstonehaugh brings up the topic of his separation with Helen, especially in front of Simon Featherstonehaugh.
