User Reviews

Albert de Vink lives pretty much as a vagrant, but he's suddenly spotted flashing the cash, Van Der Valk investigates, and soon realises that de Vink has some pretty powerful friends.

Quality episode, I really enjoyed this one, don't ask why, but this feels along the lines of an Inspector Morse episode to be, it has that high brow feel to it. An interesting opening sequence, we never quite see the full story.

Richard Pasco was perfectly cast as de Vink, something of a surprise seeing him playing such a role, but he was perfectly cast, I truly believed in him being someone who once had stature, I always think if Pasco in Inspector Morse, he always looked so well to do.

Van der Valk being propositioned by The Madame was quite amusing, he displayed good will power.

I'm still not sold on Nigel Stock.

Well made and intriguing.

Richard Pasco was always such a smooth actor. It is hard to take him as a vagrant. It is a bit like seeing Laurence Olivier as a seedy music hall comedian.

Pasco plays Albert the runt of the family litter. He comes from a well to do family and was well educated but lives the life of a down and out by the canal.

Albert has come into some money, large notes and there is a man missing. We see the man fall in the canal in the beginning of the episode.

Van der Valk wants to trace the money and it takes him to a late wealthy benefactor and a high class madam.

We see a rather nasty side to Van der Valk here. He certainly picks on poor Albert. He threatens to interrogate Albert for however long it takes knowing he is afraid of confined spaces. He even denies Albert a lawyer when he requests one. A sign that justice was not always on the side of the weak and the oppressed especially as we know that Albert had nothing to do with the man falling in the canal.

In the end this episode is more about lost love and and time you will never get back.