Inspector Wexford - The Veiled One

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From the VHS cover:
A woman is found garroted in Kingsmarkham's multi-story car park, her body covered by a bloodstained curtain.
Before Detective Chief Inspector Wexford can solve the mystery of her murder, he narrowly escapes death himself....
While Wexford is recovering in hospital, his assistant Detective Inspector Burden, sets out in pursuit of the killer.
Gwen Robson's murder throws Wexford into the midst of a horrific nightmare of intrigue and death.
Some information from the cover has been extracted as it gives away the drama beforehand.
For the first fifteen seconds of the video there are problems with the picture, the first 30 seconds there's problems with the sound (the joys of VHS). From hereon the video is fine.

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  • @SuzanneU
    @SuzanneU3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading. Whoever wrote the screenplay for this episode must have eaten some really wild mushrooms!

  • @wordwarrior2350

    @wordwarrior2350

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean, "Thank you for stealing this video." These are all uploaded DVDs or VHS shows. Copied by thieves.

  • @elizabethstewart12

    @elizabethstewart12

    Жыл бұрын

    Spot on, Suz Cost. Not only red herrings here, but multi-colored herrings--a prolific school of them. (Screen writers, 'Fais attention!'.)

  • @ArcherGinger

    @ArcherGinger

    10 ай бұрын

    Came to comments to see if was just me and I’m only half way in! 🤪

  • @teresatv9209
    @teresatv92093 жыл бұрын

    I have read a lot of the comments about this episode and it being hard to watch. In his episode Reg suffered a traumatic injury and was also under a lot of stress worrying about his daughter. Two days ago my mother died suddenly and my dreams/nightmares have been unbearable. I am chasing loved ones, losing them in trains, riding roller coasters with any protective bars, and glimpsing my amazing mum just out of sight , whilst telling everyone my mum just died (in my dreams). It has been awful - this episode is reminding me of how I am right now when asleep. I was watching/listening to these episodes because they are soothing. This one made me remember how trauma affects your psyche. In my opinion the director of this episode was spot on. Thanks Paul

  • @paulgoddard

    @paulgoddard

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Teresa, I'm ever so sorry to hear about your bereavement, my heart goes out to you. Dreams can be very strange and upsetting and I'm glad you are finding some comfort in these Wexfords. Although this isn't many people's favourite story I agree with you about it being spot on. However I welcome everyone's opinion. Take care and be kind to yourself. ❤

  • @suzannewinz1099

    @suzannewinz1099

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope your nightmares have subsided.

  • @dianaroque8458

    @dianaroque8458

    Ай бұрын

    So sorry for your loss. Hope nightmares have subsided.BLESSINGS

  • @richardcatherwood7930
    @richardcatherwood79303 жыл бұрын

    This is the weirdest episode of Wexford I have ever seen....and I am only half way through....I feel like the whole thing was done on acid.

  • @sreedhanakatru

    @sreedhanakatru

    10 ай бұрын

    What is the style of the episode i wonder...in movie making

  • @dralissa123

    @dralissa123

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm freaking out watching it. I think I'll go on to a different one. No like it.

  • @janmeyer7074
    @janmeyer7074 Жыл бұрын

    "Only you could get yourself blown up and look like you cut yourself shaving." IMO, that line saved this episode. 😆

  • @beammeup8458
    @beammeup84583 жыл бұрын

    Poor. But an interesting example of trying to be too clever on all counts. Thanks for posting it. A lesson in how not to do things. I will not let it spoil my enjoyment of other Wexfords, though that obnoxious assistant pushes my patience at times ...

  • @louiseross5033
    @louiseross50333 жыл бұрын

    This episode appears to have been written by someone on an 'acid' trip!

  • @patp3800

    @patp3800

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @varonadee6980

    @varonadee6980

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for clearing that up; I was beginning to think I was on an acid trip MYSELF! You described it PERFECTLY 💯

  • @karmayt8956

    @karmayt8956

    Жыл бұрын

    I was just thinking “acid trip”

  • @kimmccabe1422

    @kimmccabe1422

    Жыл бұрын

    It's Ruth Rendall after all. She was a trip lol

  • @elainelessack

    @elainelessack

    Жыл бұрын

    Louise Ross: I couldn't agree with you and other commentators more!!! This episode suddenly brought to my imagination a horrific Salvador Dali painting brought to "life!"

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland85492 жыл бұрын

    37:15 The weirdness of this defies belief. I'm glad I didn't start the Rendells with this, or I'd likely never have gone on . . . which would've been a loss. This is what a detective film would look like if it had been a joint venture by the Dadaists! Inspector Wexford seen through the lens of Eugene Ionesco, with sets by Salvador Dali and "music" by Karlheinz Stockhausen!

  • @swamiv.lubeck5045

    @swamiv.lubeck5045

    Жыл бұрын

    i totaly agree with you - never had seen such a surealistic detective story before -

  • @louloumoon1916

    @louloumoon1916

    Жыл бұрын

    I nearly didn't get past the opening, that music and the effect they were trying to create was not the viewing I was looking for at the time.

  • @carolinebarnes6832

    @carolinebarnes6832

    Жыл бұрын

    Or else a director trying to be too clever for their own good!

  • @richardcleveland8549

    @richardcleveland8549

    Жыл бұрын

    @@carolinebarnes6832 Always a possibility!

  • @barbarajolley6578

    @barbarajolley6578

    Жыл бұрын

    This episode resembles the style of postmodern rendition of Expressionistic or noir films. Even the color is subdued, almost black and white--it could be the VHS, but it looks intentional. The chaotic, disconnected beginning feels like a dream/nightmare sequence, yes, that is Surrealistic. The rest of the plot has loops and bounds, even some circular scenes with different characters, just like in a dream/nightmare. Very interesting. 🙂

  • @williamhicks2299
    @williamhicks22993 жыл бұрын

    This is the most bizarre Wexford yet. I can't stay with this one....click!

  • @mariapierce2707

    @mariapierce2707

    2 жыл бұрын

    me either truly bizarre. I'm close to midway and trying to figure out what this all white is a psych hospital? too much going on on too many levels.

  • @smc130

    @smc130

    2 жыл бұрын

    This episode is just too complicated with too many lines of inquiry to follow.

  • @alanmcrae8594
    @alanmcrae85946 ай бұрын

    Bizarre but fascinating episode. The range of human mental illness is far more wide, dark and deep than straightforward cases with the typical human motivations. Presenting a case like this that unhinges everyone who gets involved was incredibly unnerving & disorienting. I can understand why it was too much for some detective mystery fans who prefer a bit of emotional distance from the suspects being investigated. I think it is a good idea to shake up fans with something like this once and awhile, lest they start to think that solving murders is just the next level of crossword puzzle analytics. No, there is sometimes real madness and in your face emotionally charged insanity to be confronted. At times like these, it must be incredibly difficult to be a real detective in the real world...

  • @tomduggan51
    @tomduggan51 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Paul, I think you have good material for your private work in this episode. Very strange and complicated-it seemed everyone including the lead characters had lost their minds-I felt I was losing my own mind while watching it!

  • @lindahornbeck5318

    @lindahornbeck5318

    3 ай бұрын

    The sounds were stupid and the movie was boring .

  • @flufwix
    @flufwix9 ай бұрын

    Great episode! I’ve met therapists who speak like that. Can’t imagine how that would help patients

  • @alexiskiri9693
    @alexiskiri96933 жыл бұрын

    Okay, this one was bananas. Dream sequences to long. Jumps all over the place.

  • @QHarefield
    @QHarefield4 жыл бұрын

    I have seen a lot of Wexford episodes - and for that, I must say a big 'thank you' to Paul Goddard. However ... this one is not your typical Wexford - not by a long chalk. To say it is dark is an understatement (I certainly would never call it 'soothing,' as an earlier viewer did!). Some people may well prefer this episode, with its different directorial style, and different music, but it is definitely not 'my' cup of tea. I look forward to seeing another of the more usual ones : they 'can' be soothing!

  • @ekcentrik

    @ekcentrik

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree. There is too much going on: politics, psychology, family issues. It's probably better to read the book.

  • @virginiakienle1016

    @virginiakienle1016

    3 жыл бұрын

    very bizarre, and too abstract for me. It was like an especially bad Swedish or Italian film.

  • @meofamily4

    @meofamily4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think the producers decided that the audience needed to be shaken up. It was not successful effort.

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    QHarefield: I agree 100% with your comment.

  • @Hillyg

    @Hillyg

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree poor editing jumps around too much. And too many plot distractions eith no follow through

  • @m.a.sanderson5016
    @m.a.sanderson50162 жыл бұрын

    Surreal. Wexford wanders into an episode of "The Prisoner". I expected any minute to hear him say "I am not a number..." And what's with the ticking soundtrack? It hardly seems like the same series.

  • @sandraelder1101

    @sandraelder1101

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, the obvious theme of “time” throughout.

  • @jamesrouillardjas1671

    @jamesrouillardjas1671

    Жыл бұрын

    And l expected a cameo appearance at any moment by Salvador Dali

  • @juliebarnes798

    @juliebarnes798

    Жыл бұрын

    It was really weird

  • @yvetjo9568
    @yvetjo95683 жыл бұрын

    That was a very strange Wexford episode.

  • @louwrainemyburgh8835

    @louwrainemyburgh8835

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very.

  • @900108Chale
    @900108Chale2 жыл бұрын

    We watch Wexford for it’s style, a trip back to when people crimes and even the baddies where simple and sincere. People were pleasant and had purpose. Bad things were sought out, investigated and corrected: justice done. Sweet dreams! Our wonderful late summer could then continue after having gifted us with an intriguing tale to share... This? I don’t even know what to say! Neurotic, noisy, angry, dark, mad, desperate, revolted. A terrible attempt at a psycho drama that stumbles every time it takes a step... A horrid attempt at what? Horror? Complex story? Film Noir? Deep emotions? NOT my cup of Tea, my dear

  • @dougmcartin3881
    @dougmcartin38813 жыл бұрын

    Yes agree with the other commenters. This was a hard to follow episode. Whoever wrote the screenplay had a certain vision in their head that did not come out on the finished product at all.

  • @ardeladimwit

    @ardeladimwit

    2 жыл бұрын

    hallucinogenic, no?

  • @DandeeDonna
    @DandeeDonna3 жыл бұрын

    Worst Wexford ever. Like falling in a rabbit hole of madness.

  • @bluebird5361
    @bluebird53613 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad to see the comments agreeing with my reaction to this. Missing Agatha Christie videos, but I have seen them all. This just seems like someone is SHOWING OFF! Wrong genre.

  • @cherylmacgregor5650
    @cherylmacgregor56504 жыл бұрын

    I discovered Wexford because of you!! Thanks 👏

  • @paulgoddard

    @paulgoddard

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Cheryl, that's really nice to hear 🙂

  • @BharatUIMe
    @BharatUIMe3 жыл бұрын

    Someone’s tried to defame wexford series by making this one

  • @danieladibenedetto6003

    @danieladibenedetto6003

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah, I don't get the plot!

  • @Nana-Kunwar

    @Nana-Kunwar

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very psychic

  • @laurencejames8108

    @laurencejames8108

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen- just about the worst- no! by far the worst episode

  • @small_joys2022

    @small_joys2022

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true.. have fallen asleep 4 times and still havent fimished even half of it.

  • @grindupBaker
    @grindupBaker2 жыл бұрын

    Reg is often going a bit dreamy in these but here he went full-blown Twin Peaks on us. I was eagerly awaiting the Giant and the Dancing Dwarf.

  • @StellaFl
    @StellaFl3 жыл бұрын

    If this is the first Wexford episode you're going to watch....give it a miss..... All the others Paul has uploaded are superb, this not so much

  • @grindupBaker

    @grindupBaker

    2 жыл бұрын

    You could try double speed.

  • @suzannewinz1099

    @suzannewinz1099

    Жыл бұрын

    I find it delightfully surreal.

  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall75323 жыл бұрын

    I’m a fan of mysteries in both print and video form. Thanks to you I’ve just added “Inspector Wexford” to my list of favorite British mysteries.

  • @kimberlykasimoff1447
    @kimberlykasimoff14472 жыл бұрын

    I am watching this one for the third time, and I have to say this is the only episode that I don't remember who the murderer is and the reason. Maybe because I really don't, along with so many others, like this episode. I have been fast forwarding it through all of the strange scenes. Looking forward to watching a normal Wexford. Now wait! There is the China trip we must get through with all of the excess tea drinking! I still love Wexford and still pick up things that I hadn't the other times I have watched episodes. Thank you Paul!

  • @23Josilee
    @23Josilee3 жыл бұрын

    Talk about "dark"...just a little too much...not exactly enjoyable...

  • @terryabbey4209
    @terryabbey42093 жыл бұрын

    Ive watched several Wexford, but had i watched this one first i wouldn't have bothered

  • @odessacolonna9950
    @odessacolonna99503 жыл бұрын

    this episode is truly the worst of an otherwise splendid affair

  • @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was critisised about my comment now there is more people who agree I was upset about it very upset about his comment he washed the floor with me. Stay safe South Africa greetings to every one

  • @luciechapello1008

    @luciechapello1008

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ericawilhelminaolckers4781 Hello from a little town in Florida USA on the Gulf Coast.

  • @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luciechapello1008 hallo it is Erica from South Africa

  • @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luciechapello1008 hallo from a little town in South Africa

  • @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    @ericawilhelminaolckers4781

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luciechapello1008 hallo from a little town in South Africa

  • @terrythomas4524
    @terrythomas45243 жыл бұрын

    The absolute worst I've seen in the Wexford series.

  • @meligarrett9197
    @meligarrett91973 жыл бұрын

    This is the weirdest of the series...so bizarre!😳

  • @buzsalmon
    @buzsalmon4 жыл бұрын

    Paul if this is one you said people didn't seem to care for very much I'm really not sure why. Thank you my friend!

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you enjoy it, Buz?

  • @carolking6355
    @carolking63553 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting but found this was one I found too unnerving. Might have nightmares tonight. 😩

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope you didn't have nightmares, Carol. I found it unnerving too

  • @paulinecolraine4726
    @paulinecolraine47262 жыл бұрын

    Sorry Paul I have to give up on this one. Thank you for your effort’s in posting, this one is too complicated for me.😟😃

  • @rondareynolds5204
    @rondareynolds52044 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Paul I do enjoy this series looking forward to seeing more

  • @beckygeierman6401

    @beckygeierman6401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Love this show

  • @catherinesteele598
    @catherinesteele598 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Paul for up loading 🥰

  • @christianawatts6349
    @christianawatts63493 жыл бұрын

    this is total rubbish...somebody watched too much hitchcock...what a bringdown in this series. Ugh!

  • @mauriceharvey4300
    @mauriceharvey43003 жыл бұрын

    Just got 40 minutes into this and I've got to say whoever made this episode of Wexford are trying to hard to make it "strange". This is bordering on pretentious nonsense. I'll stick with it to the end but only because I like the lead characters and the actors. Thanks for the opportunity to watch this btw, but this isn't up to the usual Inspector Wexford mysteries.

  • @bodhiheeren

    @bodhiheeren

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ruth Rendell is well known for her psychologically complex story lines.

  • @vahramelagoz6759

    @vahramelagoz6759

    3 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't agree more.

  • @debbiehenri7170

    @debbiehenri7170

    3 жыл бұрын

    Have to agree here. So full of people going berserk at each other, overacting, overreacting, and then peculiar silences. It was trying to be arty, when there really is no place for it in an Inspector Wexford mystery.

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Maurice Harvey: I agree 100% with all you say. I am just wondering what the book's like.

  • @gilliankew

    @gilliankew

    3 жыл бұрын

    I gave up. Utter nonsense.

  • @kathleenwalker7405
    @kathleenwalker74054 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much I really appreciate your uploads ❤

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland85492 жыл бұрын

    12:43 This is SUCH a strange episode! I've watched six or eight in the series, and THIS one is just plain weird! It jumps around so I can hardly tell what's going on. I'll keep going, though . . . in the hope that All Will Be Revealed (OR, contrariwise, at LEAST make sense!). I've read several of Rendell's novels, but I don't remember this one; I hope the book makes more sense than this film.

  • @blackbean4509
    @blackbean45093 жыл бұрын

    Thank You Paul I've listened to the audiobook of the veiled one. It's nice to see it in a dramatizion. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THESE EPISODES ❤️♥️♥️

  • @INDYOSKARS
    @INDYOSKARS3 жыл бұрын

    I kept being reminded of, while watching this of that old American expression "this is some crazy sh₶".

  • @lorenrobertson8039

    @lorenrobertson8039

    3 жыл бұрын

    On point!

  • @jasm8913

    @jasm8913

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or that Canadian expression “you’ve gotta be fuckin’ kiddin me!”

  • @82Echo411
    @82Echo4112 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the opening w/ the background program theme in the background - MInder w/ Cole & Waterman.

  • @jamesread6017
    @jamesread60174 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading these Paul. They bring back many memories. I have to admit though that this is my least favourite Wexford. It's a curious entry in the series, having the same production team, but for some reason they decided to go in an entirely different direction with this one. Mary McMuray directed a number of Wexfords but she seems unsure what to do with Trevor Preston's screenplay here. Preston also adapted 'The Speaker Of Mandarin' which also makes heavy use of dream sequences but the style is much more in keeping with the other episodes. He seems to be trying to communicate the complex psychological themes of the story visually rather than through straight dialogue, but it just doesn't come off. The Reese character doesn't appear in Rendell's novel; I believe he is meant to be some kind of manifestation or 'guide' from Wexford's subconscious, possibly based on a real-life interview he had with special branch. The music seems to have been composed for something else and sounds off right from the start. If you are confused, my advice is to read the novel which is far more satisfying.

  • @anizad2011

    @anizad2011

    3 жыл бұрын

    James Read: Please, could you tell me who killed the first woman, and why? In all the decades of watching whodunnits, this is the first time where I've completely lost the plot, tuned out, and don't want to have to re-watch the thing to figure it out!

  • @julianwalch3567

    @julianwalch3567

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree.The novel is far superior.I think that compressing the story to one hour forty was a mistake and it should have been a longer two-parter like others in the series.Having said that the cast put in their usual sterling service.Thanks for uploading Paul.

  • @u.synlig

    @u.synlig

    3 жыл бұрын

    anizad2011 Dorothy Sanders (mother of the disturbed young man) killed Gwen Robson (blackmailer - found in the car park), in retaliation for being blackmailed (or attempted blackmail) in regard to the murder of her husband and the female friend/neighbor (wife of the shotgun-wielding recluse.

  • @ardeladimwit

    @ardeladimwit

    2 жыл бұрын

    mild assessment--they're all bonking nuts and its a mashup of Kafka's Amerika with The Shining with far less coherent dialog and surrealistic scenes. Even Doctors in the House can at least get a hospital scene right.

  • @binebum1
    @binebum13 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting tthis. I didn't enjoy it at all, but it is interesting to have a completely different feel in this episode. What caused this difference? Different director? Different scriptwriter?

  • @melanieohara6941
    @melanieohara69414 жыл бұрын

    Watching from Wyoming-Thank You!🙋🏼‍♀️

  • @joeceonnia1954
    @joeceonnia19543 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Paul Joe from Philadelphia, I can't remember when I saw an episode that is so damn strange I think their trying too hard now, but keep them coming Paul and thanks again. I'm trying to figure out the directors Point here it's like watching the bad Quentin Tarantino episode... or a bed Alfred Hitchcock without the MacGuffin

  • @julianwalch3567
    @julianwalch35673 жыл бұрын

    Good episode-very unsettling.

  • @marcleblanc3602
    @marcleblanc36023 жыл бұрын

    Lord this one is mad, everyone was on drugs, MI5 experience?

  • @stevecharters8965
    @stevecharters89653 жыл бұрын

    More Barbara Vine than Ruth Rendell. The whole Greenham Common/terrorism subplot was just padding vaguely justified by the theme of parental influence on children. And as for the fantasy paranoia 10 minutes sequence - I thought I was watching The Avengers or the Prisoner with the spooky soundscape - and yet this was filmed in 1989!

  • @mamayusuf7635
    @mamayusuf76353 жыл бұрын

    Definitely an ‘outside of the box’ episode. Thought provoking, too - made a change, and likable for me. Thank you!

  • @skywalkercowgirl
    @skywalkercowgirl3 жыл бұрын

    In this episode a character with steady feet on the ground would help! A straight thinking character among all the circles!

  • @nazufani4016
    @nazufani40163 жыл бұрын

    "And now for something completely different". ;-) TU. Gave the old brain a workout. TU.

  • @rivkahyaron2958
    @rivkahyaron29583 жыл бұрын

    Un intento frustrado y frustrante de mezclarse con Frutillas Silvestres (Ingmar Bergman) y Alfred Hitchcock. Y un resultado deplorable.

  • @lloydbotway5930
    @lloydbotway59303 жыл бұрын

    Excellent actors, suffering under a really bad director...

  • @joniweinberger1362
    @joniweinberger13623 жыл бұрын

    I found this to be very intriguing. It was as if watching a Hitchcock movie, combined with a Salvador Dali painting rolled into one. A deffinite observation of how a person's psyche can be influenced by another, whether by suggestion or by an harrowing event, and the effects it will have. A very interesting Wexford.

  • @JW-vd4il

    @JW-vd4il

    2 жыл бұрын

    @ Joni Weinberger I enjoyed it, too, tho different for a Wexford. And I like your analysis!

  • @lindakeogh4178
    @lindakeogh41783 жыл бұрын

    This is the weirdest Wexford I've ever watched! Never did like Burden - narrow minded, self righteous individual, but they are all in the Twilight Zone in this one!

  • @ardeladimwit

    @ardeladimwit

    2 жыл бұрын

    you're giving the Twilight Zone a bad name-- at least it had outstanding writers and basically good actors even if the sets were cardboard.

  • @ourreg
    @ourreg3 жыл бұрын

    the acting in this episode with the exception of wexford is appalling

  • @margo3367
    @margo33673 жыл бұрын

    This was a weird one.

  • @Blonde_Somnambulist
    @Blonde_Somnambulist3 жыл бұрын

    A failed experiment.. pretentious nonsense and not worthy of the tremendous acting talents of the principle cast. It was a test of endurance just getting through it .

  • @jeanettesdaughter
    @jeanettesdaughter2 жыл бұрын

    Life can get strange even in Kingsmarkham. The desire for a nice tidy life must be interrrupted by vice to remain vital. No virtue without vice! That is the Rendell oeuvre. You shall have no virtue unless you confront vice.

  • @janetdickinson6368
    @janetdickinson63683 жыл бұрын

    I had some difficulty understanding who did what. Did weird mother kill woman in car park because she was being blackmailed by her? Now that I see beginning again, was weird mother trying to get out because she had killed woman? Who was the gray haired bearded man Wexford interviewed (my audio wasn't very strong there)? At the end weird son killed mother. Were police digging up yard because believed mother killed pops? And who exactly bombed daughter's car?

  • @kilgoretrout3875

    @kilgoretrout3875

    3 жыл бұрын

    My questions exactly

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    According to another viewer on here who has read the book, Sheila's car was bombed because she was in a relationship with a QC who was acting as Counsel for the Prosecution in respect of a terrorist group. But this is really nothing to do with the main issue (i.e. who killed Cliff's mother). It's one of Ruth Rendell's famous secondary plots. Unfortunately for Reg, he got caught in the crossfire.

  • @soniavadnjal7553

    @soniavadnjal7553

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kilgoretrout3875 lol

  • @soniavadnjal7553

    @soniavadnjal7553

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol.

  • @maryannsilva4160
    @maryannsilva41602 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful series! This one is so different yet loved it. Refreshing change from usual detective stories. Really appreciate your posting the series during COVID time.

  • @kevinhorn9682
    @kevinhorn96823 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing Paul.😀

  • @JoFunnyOnion
    @JoFunnyOnion3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Some deeply unpleasant characters which sadly reflects real life!

  • @mikc666
    @mikc6663 жыл бұрын

    Nope. I gave up after 40 minutes. Just totally weird and incomprehensible. Wonder what George Baker thought about having to act through this drivel ...

  • @daphnekivinen9482
    @daphnekivinen94823 жыл бұрын

    I agree with the negative comments. I've almost turned this one off a couple times and I might still do that.

  • @lorenrobertson8039
    @lorenrobertson80393 жыл бұрын

    This one is creepy! Freaked me out.

  • @RITAMUKHERJEEuniverseisgod5797
    @RITAMUKHERJEEuniverseisgod57973 жыл бұрын

    VERY CONFUSING DRAMA... NO CLARITY... ONLY PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICAL CLASS ... WEIRD ☹️

  • @meofamily4

    @meofamily4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I gave it a thumbs-down.

  • @lady.a.7647
    @lady.a.7647 Жыл бұрын

    I just finished rereading this book, it was nowhere close to being this weird.

  • @sleim754
    @sleim7544 жыл бұрын

    This was a tough one to understand. I never did figure out about the bombing.

  • @corneliawissing7950

    @corneliawissing7950

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neither did I.

  • @corneliawissing7950

    @corneliawissing7950

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't know whether my attention wandered ... Who killed the blackmailer?

  • @julianwalch3567

    @julianwalch3567

    3 жыл бұрын

    The lunatics mother killed the blackmailer.

  • @kilgoretrout3875

    @kilgoretrout3875

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@corneliawissing7950 I am guessing that the wacko son killed the blackmailer. His mother was killed the same way, with a wire. I think Mike was right all along. But very confusing!

  • @u.synlig

    @u.synlig

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dorothy Sanders (mother of the disturbed young man) killed Gwen Robson (blackmailer - found in the car park), in retaliation for being blackmailed (or attempted blackmail) in regard to the murder of her husband and the female friend/neighbor (wife of the shotgun-wielding recluse.

  • @carolpaupst4346
    @carolpaupst43464 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @samikhalil5027
    @samikhalil50274 ай бұрын

    Wexford and the Psychedelics. A big change. Music fits perfect. Thanks alot!

  • @elainelessack
    @elainelessack Жыл бұрын

    Paul Goddard: Please do not bother to apologize for the beginning sound quality! The entire episode's score was horrific, as if it were someone's terrifying nightmare! I cannot bring myself to call the irritating cacophony of discordant sounds music; I do reserve that word for what truly deserves to be called such!

  • @fredjones7307
    @fredjones73073 жыл бұрын

    Sorry, can't watch this, it reminds me of The Prisoner. One wonders what the director was on..

  • @kilgoretrout3875

    @kilgoretrout3875

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, it does remind me of a bad acid trip

  • @lorenrobertson8039

    @lorenrobertson8039

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kilgoretrout3875 Indeed! Definitely a bad trip.

  • @robinredshanks9096

    @robinredshanks9096

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just about what I said in my comment. They must have been on some weird trip man.

  • @mfjdv2020

    @mfjdv2020

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Fred Jones: One does indeed wonder, Fred! Like Maurice Harvey, I am sticking it out till the end, but only because I so enjoy watching Reg, Mike and Sergeant Martin and all the interaction and little comic moments these three have.

  • @bluebird5361

    @bluebird5361

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fred Jones I was reminded of decades ago being a visiting child in London after the War - and going to museums with my mother, and they had lots of "Prisoner of War" Sculptures that made no sense to my mind - like this episode.

  • @mr.niceguy1812
    @mr.niceguy18122 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mr. Goddard for sharing this show with me, i love it! Cheers from Canada

  • @gracer5923
    @gracer59232 жыл бұрын

    A mirror to (broken) reality than most are willing to admit... Very sad...

  • @Mary-hs3gu
    @Mary-hs3gu2 жыл бұрын

    Finally finished it. Sorry I wasted the time.

  • @debbiehenri7170
    @debbiehenri71703 жыл бұрын

    Not Ruth Rendell's finest moment. Her weirdest perhaps. And yet there were all the elements for a fine mystery murder: dominating mother, oppressed son, blackmail, and a past double murder.

  • @jamesrouillardjas1671
    @jamesrouillardjas167128 күн бұрын

    I must confess this is one of the more opaque of the Inspector Wexford episodes. But I’m grasping more on this, my second viewing. Also enjoying more. I may not have finished watching the first time…

  • @JWeibertKM
    @JWeibertKM3 жыл бұрын

    Wow !!!! I kept asking myself, what the hell is going on here ?? Glad I stayed until the end. 😷

  • @sheilakethley5351
    @sheilakethley53512 жыл бұрын

    Think I picked the wrong episode to drop in to this series!

  • @avicennitegh1377
    @avicennitegh13773 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for editing out the spoiler. The director must have overdosed on Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943), keywords: nightmare, surrealism, experimentation.

  • @shlomoweinstein2775
    @shlomoweinstein27752 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely brilliant!

  • @sarah_pings_witherby
    @sarah_pings_witherby3 жыл бұрын

    It’s interesting that the director of this one also directed A guilty thing surprised, No crying he makes, From Doon with death and Kissing the Gunner’s daughter - all quite superior episodes! I have read the book and it is very similar in style to the filmed version. It has the same strange Samuel Beckett type dialogue ... I’m at a loss as to why they thought it would work ... strangely compelling though...

  • @deba4537

    @deba4537

    2 жыл бұрын

    Samuel Beckett directed by David Lynch! That's it exactly.

  • @jennypockets
    @jennypockets2 жыл бұрын

    Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you for uploading it. I really enjoy scripts that make you use your brain instead of the 'chewing gum for the mind' type of thing.

  • @lisasim
    @lisasim3 жыл бұрын

    Some people can't stomach weird, but I loved this episode with all the surrealism and psychological analysis. A different episode from usual, well... life can be very unusual, at times, especially now at covid-19 time. Cheers Paul! Thank you for uploading this! 🍻

  • @bonnymontes4461

    @bonnymontes4461

    Жыл бұрын

    I found the comments far more entertaining than the episode. The cameraman was in league with some proponent of surrealism, symbolism, repetition of imagery - the red shoes, footsteps, emptying of handbags with similar contents, and a final valiant afford to emphasize the mother and sons madness and reinforce this theme by using Reg Wexfords knock on the head to unhinge him and allowing annoying psychiatrists to emerge from the mists of the mind. Too long, bady done and boring. Having taken a coffee break I don't feel strong enough for more.

  • @nigelbrennan3816
    @nigelbrennan38162 жыл бұрын

    I hope the directors acid trip freaked him right out . I don't think the inspector will ever be the same after acting that one out .

  • @christopherking3937
    @christopherking39373 жыл бұрын

    Im struggling to watch this episode in it’s entirety. A tad too Avantgarde for my personal taste.

  • @Vampirebear13
    @Vampirebear134 жыл бұрын

    This episode seems so much different than the other. It has a much "darker vibe" & through much of it, it seemed like the writers had come across some old blotter acid while looking for script paper. And when the agent from special branch said they'd had a file on Wexford's daughter for 6 years, it kid of made me giggle. Because here in the states, from the moment someone has a social security number, the FBI starts a file... on EVERYONE. That comes straight from my friend who's been an agent for over 30 years. Love you Paul !!!

  • @u.synlig

    @u.synlig

    3 жыл бұрын

    Vampirebear13 I am previewing, by reading the comments first, so I have no insight on this episode yet; however, your comment - supposing a writers’ adventure - made me laugh so sharply, that I must give you a thumbs-up right away! [Your next remark (re: universal citizen FBI-files) also made me laugh, ... in a different way.]

  • @Vampirebear13

    @Vampirebear13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@u.synlig Well thanks, I guess. Hope you're having a Blessed day.

  • @davidhull7115
    @davidhull71152 жыл бұрын

    Camille Coduri was in Nuns on the Run; Ian Fitzgibbon was in Prime Suspect, he was Tennison's right hand man for a while.

  • @beerdrinker6452
    @beerdrinker64527 ай бұрын

    If this is your first Wexford, don't worry, all the other ones I have watched have been much much better.

  • @reinadegrillos
    @reinadegrillos3 жыл бұрын

    I found it hard to follow this one. Am I the only one?

  • @jjroseknows777
    @jjroseknows7773 жыл бұрын

    106:34 "you're pushing witnesses, right??!!" Ah, yes, that's where things go amok... a police detective thinks they know who is guilty and they proceed to "push" witnesses... just an observation; I love Inspector Wexford!

  • @gsmith5140
    @gsmith51402 жыл бұрын

    Strange one with a serious twist at the end. Wow.

  • @mikewilliams4438
    @mikewilliams44383 жыл бұрын

    Like the lost episode of 'The prisoner'

  • @robinhopkins6339
    @robinhopkins63393 жыл бұрын

    I felt like I was in the twilight zone or watching twin peaks with this episode.😱

  • @jiejie1119
    @jiejie11192 жыл бұрын

    The most bizarre Wexford episode I've ever seen! Reminiscent of "The Prisoner" and "Twin Peaks."

  • @miladachudickova1096

    @miladachudickova1096

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, feels like something from David Lynch!

  • @gina.1
    @gina.13 жыл бұрын

    Guys it's just director's choice. Doing film noir style 30's, 40's. Look at the shot choices, truncated dialogue, hairstyles, music, etc.

  • @vivianhamilton616
    @vivianhamilton6163 жыл бұрын

    @33:27...im gone! I tried, but this is not working for me. thank you though.

  • @meofamily4

    @meofamily4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I lasted, but only to @35:36.

  • @brianshaw6951
    @brianshaw69512 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for these uploads Paul. I remember watching 'Wexford' back when they first aired in the uk but i have to say i do not remember seeing this one at all. VERY VERY different to the usual. Not Bad just different BUT then i suppose as i was 28 at the time i decided not to bother with this one and went to the pub instead.......... who knows, very strange episode

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