Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- College-educated Morse quietly shutting down a condescending Oxford professor with his superior knowledge of medieval history in "Trove." Even Jakes is impressed.
- All we see of Fred Thursday going Papa Wolf on the two thugs who beat up and threatened Morse is what's reflected in his windscreen. It's still badass. Thursday's Pre-Asskicking One-liner is also awesome in its simplicity and Roger Allam's delivery...I'll have to take off my hat.
- DCS Bright usually comes across as a combination of Obstructive Bureaucrat and Pointy-Haired Boss, but he has a genuinely heroic moment at the end of "Prey". Halfway through the episode, during a hunt for the killer of the week on the grounds of Crevecoeur Hall,note he tells a story about being stationed in India before World War II and having to shoot a tiger that had been killing scores of local villagers and farmers; however, he was unable to save his colleague, McKendrick, from being killed by the tiger. Craven, the Mortmaignes' land boss, doesn't believe for a moment that Bright is capable of such an act. However, when the episode's killer is revealed to be Brutus, a tiger kept by the Mortmaignes whom Guy Mortmaigne supposedly put down after he mauled his sister Georgina years earlier but who has actually been kept in secret in a cage far too small for him, Craven is outwitted and killed by Brutus, who then corners Morse, Julia Mortmaigne, and Julia's baby son Milo in the centre of Crevecoeur Hall's hedge maze. Morse tells Julia to run when the tiger jumps so that she and Milo can get away, but as Brutus jumps, a shot rings out, Brutus drops dead... and Bright is revealed as the man who fired the shot, saving Morse's life to atone for being unable to save McKendrick's life decades earlier.
- "Coda":
- Thursday calls the bank robbers and demands that they stand down, telling them that he only has three weeks left to live before the bullet that's still lodged in his lungs from "Neverland" works its way into his heart and kills him and thereby he has nothing to lose by assaulting the bank, but the robbers merely laugh at him, point out that they're holding both Joan and Morse hostage, and actually increase the demands they'd already made. Having hit his Despair Event Horizon, Thursday then starts coughing up blood and retreats to the bathroom... where he coughs up the bullet and quickly regains his full strength, before leading Strange on an assault on the bank that ends with both Joan and Morse rescued unharmed.
- Trewlove is sent into a brief Heroic BSoD after one of the robbers panics and shoots a fellow officer dead right in front of her eyes (the police having not even been aware that the robbery was taking place until that point), forcing Thursday to give her a pep talk. Later in the episode, she ends up capturing and arresting the robber in question.
- Morse, Strange and Thursday standing up for Trewlove after she's subjected to a particularly cruel and misogynistic bit of (attempted, anyway) humiliation by Ronnie Box in Passenger, followed by Bright giving Box a further verbal dressing-down in his office, telling the latter to 'go back to whatever disgusting sewer [he] crawled out of'.
- Morse ensuring that Helen can't take Bobby away from Pamela in Girl by issuing an alert to all ports and airports.
- Doctor De Bryn saving a child's life in Quartet.
