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"The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" For the Sake of Elena (2002)


Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   144 votes
Director:
Richard Laxton
Writers:
Elizabeth George (novel)
Valerie Windsor (screenplay)
Contact:
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TV Series:
"The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" (2001)
Original Air Date:
22 April 2002 (Season 1, Episode 4)
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Mystery more
Plot:
When the daughter of a Cambridge professor is brutally killed while out jogging, Lynley and Havers are assigned to the case... more | full synopsis
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User Comments:
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Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)
Samantha Baker ... Elena Weaver
Cherie Lunghi ... Sarah Gordon

Nathaniel Parker ... Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small ... Barbara Havers
Tim Pigott-Smith ... Philip Weaver
James Hillier ... Adam Jenn
June Watson ... Mrs Havers
Shaun Prendergast ... Sheehan
Elizabeth Kelly ... Mrs G
Joanna Brookes ... Edwina
Richard Syms ... College Porter
Will Knightley ... Troughton
Selina Cadell ... Glynn Weaver

Sophie Ward ... Justine Weaver
Katie Blake ... Mel
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
UK:15 | USA:TV-PG
Company:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) more

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Movie Connections:
Follows "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance (#1.1)" (2001) more

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3 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Should Have Been Painted, 10 August 2006
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Some of these are excellent, and some poor. This is a poor one, I'm afraid.

The mystery involves a fold of sorts, all is motivated, we learn, by an artist and in a way her art is the body. The book made more of the fact that the professor here was an expert in transferred symbols, and that's a main dynamic in the mystery.

Those two facts are why I tagged this as having spoilers.

There's a third dynamic she folds in, the notion that the corpse who "speaks" is deaf so unable to speak well. In life, she speaks via sex. It parallels the notion in the book that the story is presented cinematically, rather than by having one cop "explain" things to another.

So three folds in the original story. Bluntly noted and defused in the TeeVee-ization.

It would have been so east too. Its a tale of strong, strong, damaged women orbiting each other and wreaking tidal havoc in their lives and the ones they encounter. Its a twist on the small house setup. We know that one of the three women we are introduced to did it. One of them surely. But why? Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

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