Inspector Lynley: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''DI Fiona Knight:''' You two really ''are'' a double act, aren't you!|''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', "Natural Causes"}}

 

'''Barbara:''' [[Sarcastic Devotee|Yeah]]. [[True Companions|Shall we hit the pub]]?|''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', "Payment In Blood"}}

 

 

== Episode List ==

* ''A Great Deliverance''<ref>two-part episode</ref>

 

* ''Well Schooled in Murder''

* ''Payment in Blood''

* ''Missing Joseph''

 

* ''Playing for the Ashes''

* ''In the Presence of the Enemy''

* ''Deception on His Mind''

 

* ''In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner''

* ''A Traitor to Memory''

* ''If Wishes Were Horses''

 

* ''In Divine Proportion''

* ''In the Guise of Death''

* ''Word of God''

 

* ''Natural Causes''

* ''One Guilty Deed''

* ''In the Blink of an Eye''

 

* ''Limbo''

* ''Know Thine Enemy''

 

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* [[Ability Over Appearance]]: [[Sharon Small]] was supposedly too pretty to play the plain Barbara Havers, but absolutely nailed the character in the pilot and won author Elizabeth George completely over. Her performance is to this day lauded as one of the best aspects of the series.

* [[Action Girl]]: Havers is quite capable of handling herself, thank you.

** Meta-wise, Nathaniel Parker said in an interview that he would have ended the series with Lynley and Barbara holding hands and walking into the sunset...

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Meta example. In the [[PBS]] airing of "Missing Joseph", host Diana Rigg notes that "[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|it might appear that Sergeant Havers has a thing for her partner]]" but hastily goes on to mention that "she gives him nothing but grief" (while apparently missing and/or ignoring the fact that the [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|subtext]] in the first season alone could crush your average linebacker). She then goes on to note that Lynley is already in love with Helen Clyde - who {{spoiler|dies at the end of series 5}}. Considering that [[Fan-Preferred Couple|shippers]] have looked past [[Incest Yay Shipping|blood relationships]], [[Ghost Shipping|death]], [[Ships That Pass in the Night|little-to-no interaction]], and ''[[Crossover Ship|not even being from the same universe]]'', this is hardly proof positive that nothing will ever happen, and in fact they are given an [[And the Adventure Continues...|open ending]] with {{spoiler|all romantic competition out of the way}} and seven years of added depth to their relationship. In light of all this, the denial is not particularly convincing.

* [[Subordinate Excuse]]: When Barbara is {{spoiler|demoted at the beginning of series 2}}, Lynley plays this trope to the ''hilt'' to {{spoiler|keep her with him, and calls her in on every case he possibly can even though she's not technically under his supervision any more}}. When forced to justify this to ''his'' supervisor, he tells said supervisor that {{spoiler|he's calling her in because she's proven that she can work with him effectively}}. This is absolutely true, and has absolutely ''nothing'' to do with [[True Companions|why he wants her around]].

* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Implied to be the main cause of Lynley's [[Heroic BSOD]] following {{spoiler|Helen's death}}, as she was {{spoiler|shot right in front of him because of a case he was working}}.

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