The Remorseful Day
The final episode of Inspector Morse is on TV tonight, so I thought I’d reblog this post about it from over a decade ago.
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Not for the first time, I’m going to make an admission that will no doubt expose me to public ridicule. I can’t watch the last episode of the TV series Inspector Morse (The Remorseful Day) without bursting into tears at the end when it is revealed that the eponymous detective has died. Not that it comes as a surprise – the story has plenty of scenes that make it clear that Morse knows his days are numbered. Take this one, for example, wonderfully acted by John Thaw who was himself very ill while this episode was being filmed; he died in 2002.
The poignant quotation is from a poem by A. E. Housman. Here’s the poem in its entirety.
Yonder see the morning blink:
The sun is up, and up must I,
To wash and dress and eat and drink
And look at things and talk and think
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In the Dark 
April 20, 2021 at 8:57 pm
Yes, and the sene from Faure’s Requiem in the Chapel is second to none. On the positive side, they may start showing the successor series LEWIS next. In some ways, this was even better, I quite like the way Lewis and Hathaway work theiry way quietly to a conclusion as a team, no more shouting matches.