The Man Who Wasn't There
- Episode aired Feb 28, 2021
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7.4/10
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Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.Five people go up in a hot air balloon, but only four return alive.
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Bern Collaço
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis episode's title refers to a line from the 1899 poem "Antigonish" (also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There") by William Hughes Mearns. The first stanza of the poem is quoted (albeit slightly altered) by DS Dodds (Jason Watkins) and Roy Gilbert (Rob Brydon) during their investigation at the hot air balloon company.
- GoofsIt is said that 'Captain' Elkins has however many hundreds of hours of flying experience on gliders and balloons (of course the skills required for those two types of aircraft are utterly different) and so they just allowed him to take a balloon, plus passengers, totally unsupervised. This simply would not happen! No matter how experienced a pilot claims to be, no aviation business would ever allow that person unsupervised command without at least one trial flight to demonstrate his/her fundamental competence. People have been known to 'borrow' or forge licences and log-books! In any case, their insurance would absolutely insist upon a proper programme of supervision before an aircraft is handed over to someone from outside the company.
- Quotes
DS Dodds: All set, ma'am?
DCI Lauren McDonald: Yeah. Got your, erm...
DS Dodds: My gubbins? Oh yes, ma'am.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Magnifying glass?
DS Dodds: Check.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Pencil and notebook?
DS Dodds: Check. Check.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Latex gloves?
DS Dodds: Oh, I never go anywhere without my latex, ma'am.
DCI Lauren McDonald: Ego?
DS Dodds: Oh, I left that at home, ma'am. It weighs me down.
- SoundtracksGhosts
composed by David Sylvian
performed by Japan
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Could have been a better series
I tried hard to like this series because I love British mysteries. I struggled through the first season even though I couldn't stomach DCI McDonald. By the end of the first series it seemed she might finally have realized how invaluable Dodds was to her investigations. But for most of the very first episode of the second season she's back to the stereotype of every bad police officer in British crime shows. She's an arrogant know it all who routinely dismisses valid points of view to cling to her own poor deductions. She's constantly sneering at those who serve under her and she's happy to throw them under the bus to deflect criticism. She's the worst kind of female stereotype- a female who can't be driven or aggressive without being a witch. Having her finally work with Dodds as an equal for the last part of the episode is too little, too late. If I continue watching the series it will only be because I really enjoy the Dodd character and the always stellar casts in British tv. They made a major mistake creating that female character. It's as if the writers don't like women and feel compelled to make them unlikable.
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- spikeluvr
- Aug 9, 2021
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