History Recap / InspectorMorseS1E02TheSilentWorldOfNicholasQuinn

* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone who works for the Foreign Examinations Syndicate, especially once Morse cottons on to the notion of a fraud being committed in connection with the Al-Jamara Education Department. He expects them all to be lying when he questions them about what they were doing on Friday, the last day when Quinn was seen at work. As it happens, ''two'' of them, Martin and Roope, were responsible for the murder; Martin did the deed, while Roope (probably) suggested using poison and later moved the body from the Syndicate offices to Roope's home. Martin did the second murder, that of Ogleby, on his own.

* TooCleverByHalf: Roope, who takes Quinn's body to his (Quinn's) house to make it look like he died there, re-arranging the furniture in the process and buying some food to mess with the estimate for the man's death -- only to move an arm chair to a position Quinn would never have put it (due to the fraught), in addition to which he buys a food item (salted butter) that Quinn never ate. Later, he tries to fool the police by ensuring that Lewis follows him to a clandestine meeting with Bartlett, thus implicating the latter.

->''The trouble with my method, Lewis is that its inspirational and as a result I sometimes, sometimes, get things arse about face.''

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

* TooCleverByHalf: Roope, who takes Quinn's body to his (Quinn's) house to make it look like he died there, re-arranging the furniture in the process and buying some food to mess with the estimate for the man's death -- only to buy a food item (salted butter) that Quinn never ate. Later, he tries to fool the police by ensuring that Lewis follows him to a clandestine meeting with Bartlett, thus implicating the latter.

* WrongAssumption: Morse, who suspects and arrests the wrong man during this episode, admits to being occasionally guilty of this when talking to Monica Height. He subsequently lives up to his own description by arresting the wrong man.

* TheCon: Two employees of the Foreign Examinations Syndicate -- Donald Martin and Roope -- have been passing the contents of the exams to the education department in Al-Jamara via their former colleague George Blake who now works in said Arabian country. Quinn was killed because he found out about it through lip-reading a conversation at a party -- although unfortunately for him, this led him to suspect the wrong man. Nevertheless, Martin had to kill him to prevent the authorities learning of his scheme, and subsequently had to kill Ogleby to prevent him from divulging what he knew.

* DrinkingOnDuty: Morse gladly accepts a large scotch from Ogleby when he goes to interview him. He also insists on getting Lewis to pour them both a sherry, then watches as Lewis drinks his and tells him that he's killed him -- thus demonstrating how Quinn was killed (by pouring himself a glass of poisoned sherry at the request of his murderer).

->''The trouble with my method, Lewis is that its inspirational and as a result I sometimes, sometimes, get things arse about face''

* TheAlibi: Roope's alibi for the murder of Quinn is that he was in London on the day in question, and met the Dean of Lonsdale College when getting off the train on his return to Oxford. But then, he's merely an accessory to the murderer, not the murderer.

* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone who works for the Foreign Examinations Syndicate, especially once Morse cottons on to the notion of a fraud being committed in connection with the Al-Jamara Education Department. He expects them all to be lying when he questions them about what they were doing on Friday, the last day when Quinn was seen at work.

* TheCon: Someone at the Foreign Examinations Syndicate has been passing the contents of the exams to the education department in Al-Jamarra. Quinn was killed because he found out about it through lip-reading a conversation at a party -- although unfortunately for him, this led him to suspect the wrong man.

* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone who works for the Foreign Examinations Syndicate, especially once Morse cottons on to the notion of a fraud being committed in connection with the Al-Jamarra Education Department. He expects them all to be lying when he questions them about what they were doing on Friday, the last day when Quinn was seen at work.

* TheGhost: George Bland, the man on the Al-Jamarra end of the exam fraud.

* 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 Philip Ogleby. Morse later attends a lip-reading class (in which he is surprised to learn that the teacher is herself deaf and was able to conduct a conversation with him purely by lip-reading), and later realises that, to a lip-reader, the names "Bartlett" and "Martin" involve very similar movements of the mouth.
* RedHerring: Dr. Bartlett, who Quinn assumed to have been the man implicated in the Al-Jamarra exam fraud. Roope, the murderer's accomplice, later manages to further implicate Bartlett by arranging a seemingly urgent meeting at a time when he knows he's being followed by Lewis.
** There's also the case of Quinn's shopping which was purchased on the Friday afternoon; Quinn's cleaner notes that it contains salted butter, which Quinn never bought, leading Morse to realise that the shopping was purchased by the murderer to push back the estimate for the time of Quinn's death.

-->'''Morse''': Interpol will deal with him. Quite roughly, if I know Interpol.
* GuiltyPleasures: More than character is embarrassed to have been caught having attended a screening of ''Film/LastTangoInParis'', treating it as if they'd gone to see a pornographic film. In the original novel, it ''was'' a pornographic film.

* RedHerring: Dr. Bartlett, who Quinn assumed to have been the man implicated in the Al-Jamarra exam fraud. Turns out, he was wrong.

* 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 Philip Ogleby. Morse later attends a lip-reading class (in which he is surprised to learn that the teacher is herself deaf and was able to conduct a conversation with him purely by lip-reading), and later demonstrates to Lewis how, to a lip-reader, the names "Bartlett" and "Martin" involve similar movements of the mouth.

* RedHerring: Roope and Bartlett are both arrested for the Quinn murder.

* RedHerring: Roope, who is wrongly arrested for the murders of Quinn and Ogleby. There's also the case of Quinn's shopping which was purchased on the Friday afternoon; Quinn's cleaner notes that it contains salted butter, which Quinn never bought, leading Morse to realise that the shopping was purchased by the murderer to push back the time of Quinn's death.

* SceneryPorn: Plenty of lingering shots of Oxford landmarks; standard for this show. Brasenose College is used as a stand-in for Lonsdale.

* SceneryPorn: Plenty of lingering shots of Oxford landmarks; standard for this show.

->''Too clever by half, Lewis. Too clever by two or three and a half.''

* 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. Morse demonstrates to Lewis how, to a lip-reader, the names "Bartlett" and "Martin" involve similar movements of the mouth.

->''No human action happens by pure chance, unconnected with other happenings.''

* RedHerring: Dr. Bartlett, who is wrongly arrested for the murders of Quinn and Ogleby. There's also the case of Quinn's shopping which was purchased on the Friday afternoon; Quinn's cleaner notes that it contains salted butter, which Quinn never bought, leading Morse to realise that the shopping was purchased by the murderer to push back the time of Quinn's death.

* WrongAssumption: Morse, who suspects and arrests the wrong man during this episode, admits to being occasionally guilty of this when talking to Monica Height.

-->'''Morse''': 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. Usually Wrong.

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

* WrongAssumption: Morse, who suspects and arrests the wrong man during this episode, admits to being occasionally guilty of this.
-->'''Morse''': 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.

->''I just killed you.''

* 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).

* CrosswordPuzzle: Ogleby sets crosswords using the pen-name "Daedalus". Morse, who's struggled with his puzzles for years, says he's the best crossword-setter in England.

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: A downplayed example -- when he goes to interview Ogleby, Morse is delighted to learn that he is "Daedalus", one of his favourite cryptic crossword compliers.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Richard Bartlett suffers from ... well, it's not made clear, with his mother describing his condition as "an emotional imbalance".