The Last Detective (TV Series) The Man from Montevideo (2007) User Reviews

The second last episode ever for The Last Detective

[safenoe · 8/10 · 19 October 2016]

The London black cabs abound in this, the second last episode ever of The Last Detective. We also get to see the famous green cab shelters that are an exclusive resting spot for London cabbies. One thing I like about The Last Detective, and this episode is no exception, is the London streets we see. You can also feel the cold weather just by watching this and other episodes of The Last Detective. It's very atmospheric in that sense.

The murder of a limo driver is the subject of The Man from Montevideo, and a sub-plot is the football match between Aspinall and his squad vs. some other team, with sheep playing a prominent role believe it or not!!

One prescient line was when one of the characters referred to someone as "Uruguay's answer to Donald Trump"!!

Sticks and stones

[xmasdaybaby1966 · 9/10 · 26 February 2021]

Probably the best episode if this series featuring another plethora of British comedy actors. Great acting and a script featuring sport, sex, work, sex work and a loose sheep. This should have been the end of the series as the next episode us not so good.

The Man from Montevideo

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 4 May 2023]

Dangerous Davies luck is on the up. It opens up with an easy arrest. When a man stops in on the street offers him some dodgy designer suits going cheap. The arrest is then complicated when the suits disappear when Davies chases the seller.

At least his relationship with Julie is on the up. She fancies him again.

The latest murder case Davies gets embroiled in brings him face to face with a retired policeman that his boss DI Aspinall is very pally with.

Tony Hill (Norman Pace) is the limousine driver who is found in his car with his neck was slashed with a broken bottle. Davies finds that He was previously known as Jim Horner. A London black cab driver who found a briefcase full of money and disappeared with £2 million in cash.

This explains why the coroner tells him that the dead man had plastic surgery.

Davies talks to his widow who tells him that they met in Uruguay. He was a business mogul, Uruguay's answer to Donald Trump. However they recently returned to Britain where he became a limo driver.

Davies believes that someone recognised that Hill was actually Jim Horner. He needed to trace just who he ferried the night before as well as track down some former acquaintances.

There was a nice bit of comedy here and there. Davies getting mistaken for a kinky client who is pretending to be a policeman by a tart. Mod gets a girlfriend who wears him out.

There is a good cast in this one ranging from Sam Kelly to Kenneth Cranham to Alison Steadman. It was a bit of a stretch to see much difference in Norman Pace in the flashback scenes.