‘Miss Scarlet’ Finale: How Do You Feel About That Eliza-Blake Ending? (POLL)

Miss Scarlet Season 5 was a season of change. The formerly titular Duke, William (Stuart Martin), departed the series after Season 4, and Tom Durant-Pritchard joined the cast as the by-the-book detective Alexander Blake, who wasn’t keen to let private detective Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips) work out of Scotland Yards. Eliza pursued her work anyway, putting her in close proximity to Blake throughout the season’s six episodes. They grew on each other as the progressed, leading to a moment in the finale that wasn’t a long-time coming per se but a major development for Eliza.

The February 16 finale featured a dangerous case that saw Oliver Fitzroy (Evan McCabe) attacked. As Blake and his men worked to solve the mystery, Eliza was hired by Oliver’s mother. Marianne Fitzroy (Robin Weaver), to investigate his father, Commissioner Fitzroy (Stephen Boxer), whom she suspected was being unfaithful. She was right, but she never would’ve guessed that her husband was having an affair with a man. This detail remained unaddressed by the episode’s end (perhaps it will be more important should the series get a Season 6?). Eliza and Clarence (Paul Bazely) also had their lives threatened in this investigation more than once, and one of the threatening presences turned out to be a woman spy working for British intelligence.