Corruption would “make Lincoln roll over in his grave.”

[David Lockmiller]

(02-04-2018 01:14 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  we watched that episode about 3 months ago and I can still recall the storyline (that can show you the impact). Apart from anything else, the whole thing seemed far-fetched but was parodoxically credible. Issues involved corruption resulting from immoral behaviour that flowed into what can only be described as evil actions. And otherwise innocent people being caught up in a web of corruption that ultimately destroyed them.

It was the ending that intrigued me. Inspector Gently took the tough stance that the sergeant victim and the young woman victim would testify "if he ordered them to do so" against the dumb (unable to speak) boy (now a hollow young man whose life had been totally destroyed) for murdering the old man who had once again attacked the young woman in the garden after these many years. The two "normal" victims who had pieced together a life for themselves covered up the boy's crimes by getting rid of the murder weapon (the sergeant told Gently "you will never find the weapon") and setting up the false scenario that the crime was a burglary gone bad instead of a physical attack by the old man on the young woman.

In response to Gently's determined threat to the two that they would testify, the two did not even look at one another, but rather only gazed stoically ahead in their agreed upon silent determination that the "boy" would not suffer this injustice, no matter what.

It was Gently who had to yield. He expressed this to his sergeant with the words that the two would-be witnesses "would perjure themselves" rather than speak the truth.

In the final scene, the house was destroyed and Gently had to admit to his sergeant that it was the right ending of everything . . . all things considered.