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609 – Crime Traveller – Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity
Just in time for Christmas, it’s a new series here on Fusion Patrol! (And this is one we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time – for at least seven years!)
We’re beginning our journey through Anthony Horowitz’s 1997 time-traveling* detective series, Crime Traveller.
Simon and Eugene get our first look at our heroes and the premise of this oft-forgotten BBC series and we discuss how all crime drama is essentially time travel, actors trying to break out of soaps, and if time can make value judgments in the intersection between the laws of economics and the law of physics.
It’s episode one of Crime Traveller, entitled Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity.
Episode Synopsis
Detective Jeff Slade and his detectives are on a stakeout, surveilling a train station. Their job is to observe a slippery character they suspect of committing multiple murders but have no evidence to convict.
To the horror of his boss, Chief Inspector Grisham, Slade thinks the suspect has spotted them, and he gives chase, first in the station and then by motorcycle on the streets of a great metropolitan British city. In the end, the suspect’s car plummets several stories into the river and almost certain death. Slade is going to be cashiered over this one. If only they knew why the suspect was at the station.
Police Science Officer Holly Turner does not want to see Slade gone, so secretly, she heads home, where part of her flat is a time machine. She travels back in time, goes to the train station, and observes the suspect at the train lockers. With that information, she returns to the present, gives the info to Slade, and they discover that the locker contained the very evidence needed to convict – if he’s even still alive. Slade can keep his job.
He’s curious how Holly got the information, and eventually, she tells him. She only works for the police to make money to help perfect her father’s time machine. He doesn’t believe it.
Slade is called away to the scene of an alleged suicide. Industrialist Guy Lombard has been found dead of a gunshot wound in a locked room at his home. He was about to make a ton of money at a meeting this very evening; it didn’t seem likely that he’d commit suicide at this time.
Some suspicious caterers were trying to escape the scene and have been detained for later questioning by Slade, but they’ve escaped.
Slade returns to see Holly and apologizes for his skepticism; he convinces her to demonstrate the time machine.
She explains how it works to him:
The machine sends them back 10 hours, and Slade immediately starts acting like a bull in a china shop. He confiscates a catering van and clothes, and they head to the Lombard house, posing as the caterers. While Holly tries to pull off the catering, Slade snoops around and learns that Lombard is a complete ass to everyone, and they all might have motives to kill him. Eventually, he witnesses part of the crime and, in the process, gets shot. He doesn’t know who the killer is, but he does know Lombard wasn’t alone in the room and that the suicide was staged.
Now, as the police are arriving, they must return to the time machine, but their actions trying to flee the scene are suspicious, and they are held by the local police for questioning when Detective Slade arrives. They manage to escape with the police hot on their tails.
Once in town, they split up, planning to rendezvous at Holy’s flat. Slade takes a moment to bet on a horse, planning to collect when he returns.
They make it in the nick of time, and Slade’s gunshot wound is miraculously healed. Holly explains that everything resets when they return to the present.
Armed now with what he knows, Slade returns to the scene of the crimes and reveals that the murderer is Lombard’s business partner. It’s a fair cop, and Chief Inspector Grisham is impressed with Slade’s detectiving.
Slade takes Holly out to a very expensive dinner to thank her and also to try to convince her to let him use the time machine more. Nope, that’s never happening, she says.
Slade gets one more surprise. His betting ticket is blank. Holly explains: Time won’t let you cheat.
*There seems to be a distinct dislike of American spell-checkers to the British spelling of the word “traveller” as in the series title, favoring the American spelling “traveler.” I’m not going to lie; this has caused constant grief and back and forth on how things got spelled in the notes, the graphics, the write-ups – you name it. As an internal style guide, I have adopted the practice of spelling the series name as credited on screen, but I will use the American spelling elsewhere unless something gets mixed up. Again.
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Just in time for Christmas, it’s a new series here on Fusion Patrol! (And this is one we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time – for at least seven years!)
We’re beginning our journey through Anthony Horowitz’s 1997 time-traveling* detective series, Crime Traveller.
Simon and Eugene get our first look at our heroes and the premise of this oft-forgotten BBC series and we discuss how all crime drama is essentially time travel, actors trying to break out of soaps, and if time can make value judgments in the intersection between the laws of economics and the law of physics.
It’s episode one of Crime Traveller, entitled Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity.
Episode Synopsis
Detective Jeff Slade and his detectives are on a stakeout, surveilling a train station. Their job is to observe a slippery character they suspect of committing multiple murders but have no evidence to convict.
To the horror of his boss, Chief Inspector Grisham, Slade thinks the suspect has spotted them, and he gives chase, first in the station and then by motorcycle on the streets of a great metropolitan British city. In the end, the suspect’s car plummets several stories into the river and almost certain death. Slade is going to be cashiered over this one. If only they knew why the suspect was at the station.
Police Science Officer Holly Turner does not want to see Slade gone, so secretly, she heads home, where part of her flat is a time machine. She travels back in time, goes to the train station, and observes the suspect at the train lockers. With that information, she returns to the present, gives the info to Slade, and they discover that the locker contained the very evidence needed to convict – if he’s even still alive. Slade can keep his job.
He’s curious how Holly got the information, and eventually, she tells him. She only works for the police to make money to help perfect her father’s time machine. He doesn’t believe it.
Slade is called away to the scene of an alleged suicide. Industrialist Guy Lombard has been found dead of a gunshot wound in a locked room at his home. He was about to make a ton of money at a meeting this very evening; it didn’t seem likely that he’d commit suicide at this time.
Some suspicious caterers were trying to escape the scene and have been detained for later questioning by Slade, but they’ve escaped.
Slade returns to see Holly and apologizes for his skepticism; he convinces her to demonstrate the time machine.
She explains how it works to him:
The machine sends them back 10 hours, and Slade immediately starts acting like a bull in a china shop. He confiscates a catering van and clothes, and they head to the Lombard house, posing as the caterers. While Holly tries to pull off the catering, Slade snoops around and learns that Lombard is a complete ass to everyone, and they all might have motives to kill him. Eventually, he witnesses part of the crime and, in the process, gets shot. He doesn’t know who the killer is, but he does know Lombard wasn’t alone in the room and that the suicide was staged.
Now, as the police are arriving, they must return to the time machine, but their actions trying to flee the scene are suspicious, and they are held by the local police for questioning when Detective Slade arrives. They manage to escape with the police hot on their tails.
Once in town, they split up, planning to rendezvous at Holy’s flat. Slade takes a moment to bet on a horse, planning to collect when he returns.
They make it in the nick of time, and Slade’s gunshot wound is miraculously healed. Holly explains that everything resets when they return to the present.
Armed now with what he knows, Slade returns to the scene of the crimes and reveals that the murderer is Lombard’s business partner. It’s a fair cop, and Chief Inspector Grisham is impressed with Slade’s detectiving.
Slade takes Holly out to a very expensive dinner to thank her and also to try to convince her to let him use the time machine more. Nope, that’s never happening, she says.
Slade gets one more surprise. His betting ticket is blank. Holly explains: Time won’t let you cheat.
*There seems to be a distinct dislike of American spell-checkers to the British spelling of the word “traveller” as in the series title, favoring the American spelling “traveler.” I’m not going to lie; this has caused constant grief and back and forth on how things got spelled in the notes, the graphics, the write-ups – you name it. As an internal style guide, I have adopted the practice of spelling the series name as credited on screen, but I will use the American spelling elsewhere unless something gets mixed up. Again.
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