'Grantchester' Sets Up a Cliffhanger for Its Last Hurrah in Season 10's Finale

Grantchester's Season 10 finale opens in a place Geordie's been before, and I don't mean his living room. His vicar is mad at him, and once again, he is bound and determined not to apologize, even though it is entirely his own fault. Cathy rolls her eyes. Geordie will apologize because it's what he does, and because his vicars never give in first. (Sidenote: Cathy's extremely iPhone-like hand mirror she uses to do her makeup on the couch feels like it's underlining the point: "As it was ever thus.")  Besides, despite this season's crisis of David's Masculinity — Geordie's crisis, David seems to be fine with himself — her husband is the softest man who ever softened.

(Listen, if crying at Bambi is wrong, then I don't want to be right.)

But Grantchester is just as determined for this season's cop-and-vicar relationship to be different than previous iterations, which is why when Geordie comes out of the house, Alphy is right there, apology in hand. Of course, he's grateful that Geordie found a lead; it's just that he's spent his life living in what child psychologists refer to as a "ghost kingdom," where parents can be anything, anywhere, which makes the mere idea of meeting his mother as a fallible human somewhat terrifying.