Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — S02E05 — A Rose by Any Other Name
1997 · 50 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · DIR. David Giles
Overview
The children of well-to-do widow Gillian Snape are worried that her photographer-fiancé Lester Rose is marrying her for her money, and hire Hetty to investigate Rose's past. With Geoffrey's help, Hetty learns that Rose is a gambler and a gigolo with several previous identities. Surprising facts revealed by two women from his past and Hetty's tense undercover visit to his studio expose a somewhat less thorny side of the man. Still, is he the marrying kind?
Dialogue Timeline — 521 lines
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00:01:00 Do you want to come in? Oh, thanks.
00:03:46 - I paid my share of it. - We're not saying you didn't!
00:05:32 Come on, she's MY mother, not yours. Can't she live her life without YOU hounding her?
00:07:18 Over there, is it? They say this Lester Rose is the best.
00:10:40 It goes back first thing tomorrow.
00:12:48 Do you think she's the fluffy little barn owl or just another conquest?
00:14:51 Has he a disc, a phone number?
00:17:57 Anyway, one day,
00:20:11 Well, then, now...
00:21:49 Her purse? He'd bring it to the bar.
00:23:38 The fluffy little barn owl? No, we'll leave her for another day.
00:25:33 Thank you for your time. Lady come about the housekeeping, dear, but she's just leaving.
00:27:21 Ain't coming? What do you mean? He's got a cold, Mr Sturridge.
00:28:54 Picking over the bones of this case and Geoffrey not here to keep my grey cells in order,
00:31:00 Where is he? In his idea of paradise.
00:32:44 You stayed in touch.
00:34:05 Is he making a hash of it?
00:36:20 That's very good. Getting the hang of it.
00:38:13 One... scratches around looking for some...
00:40:27 how many bodies have you dug up from my putrified past?
00:42:12 It's something I regret. I'm sorry. We put it back.
00:43:44 ..where she now lies.
00:46:13 I must talk to you. Let them get their nuptials done.
00:48:05 Eh?
Cast & Characters
Patricia Routledge
Hetty Wainthropp
Dominic Monaghan
Geoffrey Shawcross
Derek Benfield
Robert Wainthropp
Ronald Pickup
Lester Rose
Janet Hargreaves
Gillian Snape
Katherine Dow Blyton
Kelly
Peter Gunn
Bryan
Barbara Dryhurst
Lysette
Joan Sims
Adele McCarthy
Freddie Davies
Sidney Sturridge
Susan Edmonstone
Vanessa Webb
Gordon Langford Rowe
William Pollard
Judith Davis
Ida Wittle
Joe Belcher
Arnold Wittle
Laura Crossley
Wendy
Rachael C. Carter
Tina
Rebecca Lamb
Magda
John Graham Davies
D.C.I. Adams
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed521
Dialogue density10.4 lines / min
First line00:01:00
Final line00:48:05
Production Record
DirectorDavid Giles
LanguageEnglish
Factoids
Episode
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, season 2, episode 5: A Rose by Any Other Name.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/13427/season/2/episode/5
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