Thursday, April 28, 2016

Key facts are so clear to Tom Mathias

(Trying to say this without ruining the story for anyone who's not seen it already.)

Season one, episode two, near the end, the perpetrator has been identified but has escaped, and the task now is to find him.

Mathias, knowing where the perp must be, gets up and off he goes to get him. DI Rhys objects. In the brief moment it takes him to exit the scene, Mathias tells Rhys how he knows where the perp is. Rhys hesitates and Mathias is gone, just that quick. Now Rhys knows, and we know too.

Turns out Mathias was right, of course. He's the Jason Bourne of crime solving.

1 comment:

The Arthurian said...

I watched an episode of Endeavour the other day. Good series, about Inspector Morse as a young cop. But I noticed that the young cop seems to discover clues by accident. It's not like that with Tom Mathias and Hinterland.