How the mind works

LohMan and I were watching an Inspector Lewis just now. One of the first faces to appear on the screen was some elderly bald fellow and LohMan said it was the guy who played James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small. How could he recognize him? "The profile," he said.


The plot device was a vicious crime that had occurred some 30 years before. The perpetrators were a couple of 10-year-old girls. After serving time (about nine years), they were released with new identities. The grown woman had recognized the police detective who'd arrested her. So she and LohMan were on the same page as far as Christopher Timothy goes.

The revelation about the character's past reminded LohWoman of something. Crime novelist Anne Perry participated in the beating death of her friend's mother when the girls were 15-year-olds. Anne Perry had a new identity, too. It was 40 years later that the story of her teenage crime came to light.