'Professor T' Achieves Personal Progress & Unravels “The Perfect Murder”

We've reached the penultimate episode of Professor T Season 4, and everyone's personal lives are in flux. Zelda’s story is taking prominence, and the Dean becomes a less shallow and more fully-fledged character. Though Peter Snares seems like a lovely man, the Dean’s heartache at seeing his one true love slipping away is quite compelling. You feel crushed along with him when he selflessly advises Peter to propose to Zelda. Meanwhile, feeling guilty, Ms. Snares comes clean to Jasper about the surreptitious paternity test she ran on him and the Dean.

(Ed Note: Good to see Douglas Reith thriving post-Downton Abbey.)

She surrenders the unopened envelope, but Jasper can’t bring himself to look at the results. Dr. Goldberg helps Jasper process his uncertain patrilineage while managing complicated feelings about him. The professor continues making steady strides towards repairing his mental health. The prospect of the Dean being his father gives him a renewed sense of self. With the encouragement of his drum teacher, Lydia, the gloves are starting to come off – literally. Jasper cuts off a few more gloved fingertips, ostensibly to play better, but really a slow dismantling of the walls he’s built around himself.