History Recap / InspectorMorseS1E02TheSilentWorldOfNicholasQuinn

* GuiltyPleasures: One of the characters is embarrassed to have been caught having attended a screening of ''Film/LastTangoInParis'', treating it as if he had gone to see a pornographic film. In the original novel, it ''was'' a pornographic film.

* RedHerring: Dr. Bartlett, who is wrongly arrested for the murders of Quinn and Ogleby.

* EverybodyLies: Morse reckons that everyone who works for the syndicate is lying.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: The title character is killed within the first couple of minutes.

-->'''Lewis''': Chap named Quinn, sir. He works for Foreign Academics Examinations.

-->'''Morse''': ''Worked'', Lewis — he's dead, isn't he? ''[Looks admiringly at the deceased's property]'' These academics do themselves alright, don't they?

* ShoutOut: While Morse hasn't seen ''Film/LastTangoInParis'', he does seem to know what's used as a lubricant in the infamous sex scene.

Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Nicholas Quinn, a hard-of-hearing Oxford examiner who had recently complained to his superior that others in the examination syndicate was selling secrets. Quinn died of cyanide poisoning but Morse is convinced that this is a case of murder, not suicide. When a second prominent member of the syndicate is killed, Morse looks to the other members for the murderer. What he finds is a maze of deceit and office adultery.

* ReadingLips: Nicholas Quinn could do this. It's what leads to his murder, as he thinks he's lip-read a conversation which implicates Dr. Bartlett in the selling of exam papers, and reports it to his colleague Donald Martin. Unfortunately, the man implicated in the conversation ''was'' Donald Martin, who subsequently murdered Quinn to prevent him from telling anyone else.

* WrongAssumption: Morse admits to being occasionally guilty of this.

* GuiltyPleasures: One of the characters is embarrassed to have been caught having attended a screening of ''Film/LastTangoInParis'', almost treating it as if he had gone to see a pornographic film. In the original novel, it ''was'' a pornographic film.

Based on the 1977 novel of the same name. First broadcast 13 January 1987.

->''I like all sorts of puzzles. Brain-teasers, anything where you have to use your logic. My weakness is guesswork. I leap to conclusions, sometimes.''

* AlwaysMurder: Two bodies in this episode, both murdered by the same person but with different methods (Quinn by poison, Ogleby by a blow to the head with a poker).

-->'''Morse''': Me neither. ''[beat]'' My doctor says I should lose some weight, stop eating butter, start eating, err, polyunsaturates, whatever they are. Not quite the same though, is it, Lewis?

Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Nicholas Quinn, a hard-of-hearing Oxford examiner who had recently complained to his superior that others in the examination syndicate were selling secrets. Quinn died of cyanide poisoning but Morse is convinced that this is a case of murder, not suicide. When a second prominent member of the syndicate is killed, Morse looks to the other members for the murderer. What he finds is a maze of deceit and office adultery.

->''I just killed you.''

-->'''Morse''': Me neither. ''[beat]'' My doctor says I should lose some weight, stop eating butter, start eating, err, polyunsaturates, whatever they are. Not quite the same though, is it, Lewis?
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In one of the pub scenes, Lewis is shocked to find that two pints of beer cost £1.98; three decades later, he'd be lucky to get change from a fiver for ''one'' pint.

-->'''Morse''': Me neither. ''[beat]'' My doctor says I should lose some weight, stop eating butter, start eating, err, polyunsaturates, whatever they are. Not quite the same though, is it, Lewis?

-->'''Morse''': ''[standing in front of movie poster]'' You ever seen this?

-->'''Morse''': My doctor says I should lose some weight, stop eating butter, start eating, err, polyunsaturates, whatever they are.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: At the end, Morse, who's been looking forward to going to the cinema to see ''Last Tango in Paris'', is disappointed to see that the cinema is now showing ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. He goes to the pub next door to the cinema instead.

Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Nicholas Quinn, a hard-of-hearing Oxford examiner who had recently complained to his superior that others in the examination syndicate were selling secrets. Quinn died of cyanide poisoning but Morse is convinced that this is a case of murder, not suicide. When a second prominent member of the syndicate is killed, Morse looks to the other members for the murderer. What he finds is a maze of deceit and office adultery.