"In Midsomer Murders Season 25, Episode 3 (2025), the picturesque villages of Midsomer are once again rocked by a series of puzzling crimes. DCI John Barnaby and DS Jamie Winter must navigate through local superstitions and long-held grudges to find the truth behind a mysterious death at a high-profile community event.
As the suspects pile up and the motives become increasingly personal, can Barnaby solve the puzzle before the killer strikes again?
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As the suspects pile up and the motives become increasingly personal, can Barnaby solve the puzzle before the killer strikes again?
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00:00:00I'll show him an absolute disgrace see how he likes it when no one turns off
00:00:18this will teach him
00:00:22hey they've been at it all morning it's killing my business so I've seen they're all over the village
00:00:33blue or grey I'd prefer the grey
00:00:45hmm blue it is then
00:00:48did brad rob a jewelers I'd have stolen the crown jewels to get frankie to say yes
00:01:10what's with your parents they can't even stretch to real champagne
00:01:16this is a step up for them I was expecting tap water
00:01:23Cordelia hi I'm not drinking this it's not real champagne
00:01:31I don't know what you're smiling about the village have voted to boycott our flower festival
00:01:36fear not my dear your brilliant husband has it all in hand what's that mean oh what have you done now
00:01:43there's nothing else no unfortunately not
00:01:50oh they're beautiful thank you Kim and Eve I was hoping you might hire me to do the flowers on your big day
00:01:58oh we're not really making any clear-cut decisions yet
00:02:05it's good to see you all right I'm getting a cold
00:02:13you might be over the moon for Frankie
00:02:15this is me being over the moon
00:02:20who the hell is that
00:02:23yes
00:02:24it's amazing isn't it
00:02:27my mum used to tell me about this place
00:02:30why have you stopped
00:02:33me and the others can start setting up
00:02:36yes you've got to come and say hello
00:02:38I can't do this on my own
00:02:40you're the one who couldn't wait to come here
00:02:42not me
00:02:43come on guys
00:03:00no I presume how should we handle this like Livingston and Stanley it's it's a bigger moment than that
00:03:11oh
00:03:12oh
00:03:13oh
00:03:14yeah
00:03:15um
00:03:16girls I want you to meet your uncle
00:03:18we don't have an uncle
00:03:19what on earth is going on
00:03:21Myrtle this is my half-brother Noah and suffice to say until recently neither of us knew the other existed
00:03:27hi
00:03:29well
00:03:30it's great to meet you all
00:03:36I didn't want to turn up empty-handed
00:03:39oh
00:03:40that's
00:03:41that's lovely
00:03:50time
00:03:51starts now
00:03:52as they say
00:03:53oh
00:03:55oh
00:03:56nice
00:04:00oh
00:04:05cuckoo
00:04:06wow
00:04:07come on everyone
00:04:10let's get a photo of you all by the clock
00:04:12oh
00:04:13oh
00:04:14it's a big moment
00:04:15old family
00:04:17new family
00:04:18family of the future
00:04:20I'm not family
00:04:21I'm not family
00:04:22just smile and say cheese
00:04:27go go
00:04:30love
00:04:31hang on
00:04:32we need the happy couple in the middle
00:04:35oh
00:04:36come on
00:04:37am I gonna get my share
00:04:38you have your reward for marrying my daughter
00:04:40that's not what we
00:04:41agreed Alan
00:04:42it's so Alan to you
00:04:43do you
00:04:44oh
00:04:46very nice
00:04:48that's it
00:04:49well done everyone
00:04:51well done
00:04:52well done
00:04:54well
00:04:55thank you
00:04:56well
00:04:57love
00:04:58feel free
00:05:00well
00:05:01Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:05:31Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:06:01Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:06:31Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:06:41Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:06:43Yeah, you did think that.
00:06:46And then I decided it needs doing properly.
00:06:49As you are well aware, my grandfather was a master carpenter.
00:06:53And as a carpenter, you make a brilliant detective.
00:06:56Oh, Winter.
00:07:01Sir.
00:07:02Oh.
00:07:03What are you building?
00:07:04Well, if I do it, it's going to be an arbor.
00:07:06And if John does it...
00:07:07Presumably, there's a reason you're here this early.
00:07:19This way, sir.
00:07:30Ah, I thought it'd be this place.
00:07:33I almost came here last year.
00:07:34They have an annual flower festival.
00:07:37I don't know you're into horticulture, Winter.
00:07:39No, I'm not, but this girl I was seeing was...
00:07:41But when you say you almost came here...
00:07:43Well, when she took one look at my house plants,
00:07:45she decided that I wasn't the one for her.
00:07:47Apparently, I put the wrong perennials
00:07:48next to each other in the same pot.
00:07:50Small margins, Winter.
00:07:51Well, how am I supposed to know
00:07:52that some plants don't get on?
00:07:57Looks like more police are arriving.
00:08:03Do you think I should go up there?
00:08:06Then do what?
00:08:07I don't actually know.
00:08:08I mean, how do brothers brother?
00:08:12His brother.
00:08:19Da.
00:08:29Where'd you get to last night?
00:08:31I woke up when you weren't there.
00:08:32I, uh, I had a nightmare.
00:08:34I took a walk to calm down.
00:08:35If your brother needs you, he will tell you.
00:08:50Hello.
00:08:52Here's a new one for you.
00:08:54The poor fellow was pecked to death.
00:08:58Pecked?
00:08:59They didn't realize it was the murder weapon
00:09:01until it struck the hour and stabbed one of my sockers.
00:09:05As lucky as tall.
00:09:07Well, taller than the victim.
00:09:09Watch this.
00:09:10Um, better stand back first.
00:09:16Furban?
00:09:27Well, I've seen everything now.
00:09:29The victim's name was Brad Furbank, aged 29.
00:09:35Time of death?
00:09:36Judging from his lividity and rigour,
00:09:38I'd say he'd been dead at least five hours.
00:09:41Well, that will put it about three o'clock this morning.
00:09:43Who found him?
00:09:44The lady of the house.
00:09:46Myrtle Bruce.
00:09:47Well, she lives here with her husband, Sir Alan.
00:09:50Where was the clock hanging?
00:09:52It was level with that ghoulish portrait.
00:09:56The cuckoo stabbed Brad and he came tumbling down the stairs.
00:10:01Well, it seems they were right all along.
00:10:04Time is indeed the enemy.
00:10:10I couldn't believe it.
00:10:12Brad was just lying at the foot of the stairs.
00:10:15What time was this?
00:10:17Probably about seven.
00:10:19You hadn't heard anything before that?
00:10:21Say around three this morning?
00:10:23I had a bit too much to drink last night.
00:10:28So I was out like a light.
00:10:33Don't look at me.
00:10:34I tend to sleep the sleep of the just.
00:10:37Quite.
00:10:38Tell me about Brad.
00:10:41Presumably he lived here with you.
00:10:43Oh goodness, no.
00:10:44He's been staying at the Raging Stag.
00:10:46It's a pub in the village.
00:10:48Would either of you know why he came here in the middle of the night?
00:10:55I hadn't a clue what Brad was doing here.
00:10:58Presumably he was coming to see you.
00:11:00He knew I was out last night with my friends carrying on the celebrations.
00:11:06So it was our engagement party yesterday.
00:11:10It's all right.
00:11:11I'm here.
00:11:13When did you get back to Godly Manor?
00:11:15I didn't.
00:11:16My friends and I crashed at Cordelia's flat.
00:11:19I saw, I can't believe this.
00:11:21I'm sorry, I just have a few more questions.
00:11:23When did you last see Brad?
00:11:28Yesterday evening.
00:11:29Before I left with my friends.
00:11:31That was around nine, I think.
00:11:34And did anything untoward happen before then?
00:11:36Does the arrival of an uncle we never knew we had qualify?
00:11:40The clock was a gift.
00:11:43From a brother-in-law I didn't know I had.
00:11:46It's a long story.
00:11:47I'd still like to hear it.
00:11:49Well, my father, Sir Percival Bruce, sired Noah out of wedlock.
00:11:55Noah?
00:11:56Noah Connoboy.
00:11:57Now I had no idea he existed until the family solicitor told me at my father's funeral.
00:12:03Was this recently?
00:12:05About six weeks ago.
00:12:07So I asked Brad to search for him.
00:12:10He's very good at the internet.
00:12:12Well, was.
00:12:15So Noah turned up with the clock?
00:12:16Yes, he said that he'd made it especially for the occasion.
00:12:20Shall I save you some time?
00:12:22The only reason Noah's here is to claim his share.
00:12:26Oh, so you think Sir Alan was the intended target?
00:12:29A child of five could tell you that.
00:12:31So, off you trot and go and arrest Noah.
00:12:35He'll be outside, contaminating our grounds.
00:12:38What my darling wife means is that Noah's arrived with his troop.
00:12:41They put on oldy-worldy woodworking festivals.
00:12:45Very popular, apparently.
00:12:46Brings people from far and wide.
00:12:48So we don't need some limp flower festival when we can replace it with something much more popular.
00:12:55Did Brad work in the village?
00:13:00He could work anywhere.
00:13:02He was in Bitcoin.
00:13:04He was doing really well.
00:13:05Always on his phone, checking the markets.
00:13:07So he didn't have an argument with someone in Godly Buzzards, hey?
00:13:11Brad, never.
00:13:13He was really popular. My sister can vouch for that.
00:13:14He was lovely.
00:13:16Never seen Frankie as happy.
00:13:23You know, I nearly came to the flower festival last year.
00:13:26Would have been a waste of time.
00:13:28It was rained off.
00:13:29Worst thunderstorm in decades.
00:13:31Destroyed all the flower beds.
00:13:33It was an absolute disaster.
00:13:35Well, hopefully it'll be different this year.
00:13:37No chance.
00:13:38The village have boycotted it.
00:13:40Our magnanimous father decided to charge double this year.
00:13:44Which made a lot of people very angry.
00:14:07We're looking for a Noah Connor boy.
00:14:10That will be me.
00:14:11Oh, I saw you earlier.
00:14:12But you were a bit taller.
00:14:15Oh, yeah.
00:14:17Yeah, no, I get that a lot.
00:14:22Sorry, I'm Nessie.
00:14:23Nessie Copeland.
00:14:25What's happening up at the house?
00:14:27I'm afraid we have reason to believe that Brad Furbank was murdered last night.
00:14:32Murdered?
00:14:34Are you serious?
00:14:36That's awful.
00:14:38And what can you tell us about the cuckoo clock?
00:14:41It tells the time.
00:14:44What else is there to say?
00:14:45What did you build it yourself?
00:14:47I craft everything myself.
00:14:49Sorry, why are you asking about a cuckoo clock?
00:14:52Its spring had been tightened to a murderous degree.
00:14:56A sharp piece of metal had been attached to the cuckoo's beak.
00:14:59The second it chimed, it sprang out, and I'm sure you can work out the rest.
00:15:05Everyone saw the clock yesterday.
00:15:09There wasn't anything attached to the beak.
00:15:12There was a woman taking photos.
00:15:15That'll prove it.
00:15:16I think she was called Kimony.
00:15:18Runs the flower shop in the village.
00:15:20This has nothing to do with Noah.
00:15:24Did either of you notice anything off at the engagement party?
00:15:28I wasn't there.
00:15:30I was here with the others setting up.
00:15:31There was a lot to do.
00:15:33Alan wants me to put on a festival.
00:15:35He couldn't get me here quick enough.
00:15:37Did you know your father owned all of this?
00:15:39I was born in the village.
00:15:40It wasn't long before my mother up sticks.
00:15:44But she often told me about this place.
00:15:47Is that your way of saying that you did know?
00:15:51When you put it like that, I guess it is.
00:15:59Well, sir, Noah could have been trying to kill Sir Alan,
00:16:02because there's obviously something to gain.
00:16:04I can see it now.
00:16:05He sneaks back up to the house, rigs the clock,
00:16:07and then potentially inherits the lot.
00:16:08But how would he know Sir Alan was going to get so close to it,
00:16:12and at the exact time?
00:16:15Fleur.
00:16:17It's called a dibbler.
00:16:18Say that again.
00:16:19And gardeners use it to make holes in the ground.
00:16:21Oh, thanks as ever, Fleur.
00:16:23I'm still talking.
00:16:25The so-called emeralds in its eyes are paste,
00:16:28and the beak is gold-plate.
00:16:30It may look a million dollars,
00:16:31but it's worth less than a real cocoa.
00:16:33OK.
00:16:38Well, the piece of metal attached to the beak is called a dibbler.
00:16:42What's a dibbler when it's at home?
00:16:44If you'd bothered looking after your houseplants, Winter,
00:16:46you would know that a dibbler is a tool that gardeners use.
00:16:50And now murderers, apparently.
00:16:59Sorry, mate.
00:17:00We don't need the extra kegs.
00:17:03Blame the village for boycotting the flower festival.
00:17:06I'm not going to shift a tenth of what I normally do this time of year.
00:17:09Sorry, pal.
00:17:10Mr. Solanke.
00:17:24Were you aware that Brad had gone up to Godley Manor
00:17:27in the early hours of this morning?
00:17:30Did he?
00:17:31I didn't know.
00:17:32When was the last time you saw him?
00:17:34Last night, just before I locked up.
00:17:37Did you notice anything unusual at the engagement party?
00:17:41Not really, no.
00:17:42Not unless you count that moment with Kimony.
00:17:46Kimony?
00:17:47Kimony Bullet.
00:17:49Brad told her not to do the flowers for the wedding
00:17:52and she seemed quite annoyed, but not murderously so.
00:17:56And did you see the clock being hung on the wall?
00:17:59Everyone saw it.
00:18:00It was a work of art.
00:18:02I wish I had skills like that.
00:18:03I can barely put up a shelf.
00:18:04Should have listened to her mother and done a corset.
00:18:06Thank you, Mr. Solanke.
00:18:08My team will obviously need access to Brad's room.
00:18:12Why he wasn't killed here?
00:18:15We need to go through Brad's things.
00:18:17We're still to locate his phone for one thing.
00:18:20I see.
00:18:22Problem?
00:18:23No, no. Not at all.
00:18:34There must have been a sale on at the mirror shop.
00:18:46Well, we've got a charger.
00:18:49But still no sign of a phone.
00:18:51Sounds to me like someone doesn't want it to be found.
00:18:53Dr. Perkins?
00:18:55Hey, Fever.
00:18:57I know the feeling.
00:18:59There you are.
00:19:00Within five yards of a mustard plant.
00:19:02Diamond?
00:19:04Not real this time.
00:19:06That's probably Frankie's.
00:19:08Brad liked to splash out on her.
00:19:10Please remove yourself, Mr. Solanke.
00:19:12I've never seen anything like this.
00:19:16Well, not for real.
00:19:18It's my mum wanting me to do a course in forensics.
00:19:27Will you be done soon?
00:19:29I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person, Mrs. Solanke.
00:19:32Fleur?
00:19:33We're done.
00:19:35For now.
00:19:41We're done.
00:19:43For now.
00:20:03We're done.
00:20:04Well, here we are.
00:20:05For now.
00:20:06How are you?
00:20:24Well, did you lose of your girls?
00:20:30What are you doing, Kimini?
00:20:42It's me.
00:20:43Being you doesn't exonerate you, Sylvia.
00:20:45Brad's just been murdered, for goodness sake.
00:20:47Surely you can be a bit lenient.
00:20:49I'm in shock.
00:20:50Then you shouldn't be out driving in the first place.
00:20:53This isn't just a speeding offence.
00:20:55It's a whole lot more than that.
00:20:57And you know it.
00:21:00Is this you for the rest of your life now?
00:21:04Punishing drivers day and night?
00:21:21I'm closed for the day.
00:21:23Kimini bullet, I take it.
00:21:30The boycott of the flower festival can't be helping business.
00:21:37The village are furious for Sir Alan.
00:21:40He tried to turn a quaint tradition into a corporate cash grab.
00:21:44I heard he doubled the entrance fee.
00:21:45Almost tripled it, if you include having to pay for parking.
00:21:48Oh, which reminds me, I need to make a note of Sylvia's speeding offence.
00:21:53I send them in every Monday, first thing.
00:21:58Noah Connoboy said you took some photos that included the cuckoo clock.
00:22:04Uh...
00:22:05Oh.
00:22:05Well, I'll need you to email that to me.
00:22:15Of course.
00:22:20Usually this time of year, there's a queue all the way from the green to get in here.
00:22:24You can't have been happy with Sir Alan.
00:22:27That's an understatement.
00:22:28Yet still, you went to the engagement party.
00:22:33Myrtle and I have been friends for decades.
00:22:35I could hardly let her down on Frankie's big day.
00:22:38Have you sold any of these lately?
00:22:49Who needs a dibbler when there's no flower festival?
00:22:52Thanks to Sir Alan, I couldn't give them away right now.
00:23:08I know a very good jewellery if you want to sell that ring.
00:23:13How could you be so thoughtless?
00:23:15Well, there's no need to bite my head off.
00:23:17We're all trying to process what happened.
00:23:20It's not just you, Frankie.
00:23:21It's a big loss for us as well.
00:23:23This is my pain.
00:23:25It's not yours.
00:23:27Don't you dare try and hijack it.
00:23:28Look, why don't we try to concentrate on the positives?
00:23:31We've got this wonderful festival of wood, thanks to Noah,
00:23:35and we're going to have tons of people streaming in,
00:23:36and that's mainly down to Brad, God rest his soul.
00:23:39My word, these people.
00:23:41No one's going to pay to see a freak show.
00:23:44Au contraire, my dear.
00:23:45It'll be the height of popularity.
00:23:47We were in the middle of talking.
00:23:49I'm sorry, dear.
00:23:49I thought you'd said your piece.
00:23:52Why did it have to be Brad that got killed
00:23:56and not one of you?
00:23:58Come on.
00:24:06Hello.
00:24:20Oh, hello again.
00:24:23How can I help?
00:24:25I do flowers for all occasions.
00:24:27A good thing, too.
00:24:29Now we've got a funeral coming up.
00:24:30Oh, God.
00:24:32I didn't think.
00:24:34Don't worry.
00:24:34I'm teasing.
00:24:35I'm not here about flowers.
00:24:37A little birdie told me
00:24:38you're the head of the village council.
00:24:41Well, someone's got to keep this place in order.
00:24:43Perfect.
00:24:44Because I need to know about the grounds at Godly Manor.
00:24:47Only we were due to put on a festival of wood
00:24:50at Badger's Drift a few weeks back,
00:24:52but the village voted against it,
00:24:54even though we were holding our event on private land.
00:24:58Well, there are a few archaic laws floating around.
00:25:02Alan got me here so quickly,
00:25:03I did have a chance to check.
00:25:06You're putting on a festival at the manor?
00:25:08He said it was to replace a flower day or something.
00:25:13I see.
00:25:15He thinks it could become a permanent thing
00:25:17if it goes well, which it always does.
00:25:20Noah?
00:25:21Sweetheart.
00:25:24Can we get back now?
00:25:25Yes, yes.
00:25:26Be an angel and find out about those bylaws.
00:25:29Sure.
00:25:36Call me back when you get this.
00:25:39I'm not 100%,
00:25:40but you will not believe who I just saw.
00:25:44Come on.
00:25:44I'm getting bad vibes about this place.
00:25:56I think we should pack up and go.
00:25:58And leave my brother at his lowest ebb.
00:26:02You know why you're really here.
00:26:05He's using you.
00:26:06His flower festival isn't happening,
00:26:08and he needed something to take its place.
00:26:10I wasn't born yesterday, Des.
00:26:13You're happy to be you?
00:26:14Credit me with some brains.
00:26:17I want something out of this as well.
00:26:18Look around.
00:26:21I'm owed half of this.
00:26:23Noah, you promised me.
00:26:25You said it will be two or three days at the most.
00:26:28That was before we got here.
00:26:30Well, I'm not staying here a second longer than I have to.
00:26:32What's got into you?
00:26:33There's someone who grew up around here.
00:26:35I thought he'd enjoy being back.
00:26:38I hate it here.
00:26:40What?
00:26:41Why would you say that?
00:26:43After this weekend, we are leaving.
00:26:45We are never coming back.
00:26:47I mean it, Noah.
00:26:48I'm not going to get this.
00:27:07I'm not 100%, but you will not believe who I just saw.
00:27:16Kimberly, I just got your message.
00:27:18Oh, my God.
00:27:24Are you sure it's her?
00:27:27I can't.
00:27:28I just can't.
00:27:30Not while there's breath in my body.
00:27:39You're not working today.
00:27:40I blame Winter for running late.
00:27:43Did you know he got dumped last year
00:27:44because he planted some flowers the wrong way?
00:27:46It's the little things in life, John.
00:27:48You've got to get them just right.
00:27:50But don't worry.
00:27:51You're getting there.
00:27:52So, what do you think so far would Grandad approve?
00:27:55If you don't mind me saying it, it looks a bit lopsided.
00:27:59Very funny.
00:27:59Oh, I see where you've been going wrong.
00:28:04Here, look.
00:28:05You've had this upside down.
00:28:06You tear that and you're in big trouble.
00:28:08Oh, Penny!
00:28:09Oh, Penny!
00:28:10Oh, Penny!
00:28:11Oh, Penny!
00:28:12Oh, Penny!
00:28:13Ow!
00:28:14No!
00:28:15It's all right.
00:28:16I can dry it off.
00:28:17Look, I will finish that off as soon as I get a moment.
00:28:22Did I mention carpenters in my jeans?
00:28:24I'll just grab the first aid box.
00:28:25Tell me what's wrong with this picture, Winter.
00:28:37Cuckoo's the only one that's smiling.
00:28:39Look at the clock.
00:28:43It's not level with the top of the painting.
00:28:46Fleur said it was level with Sir Alan's portrait,
00:28:48but here it's at least four inches lower.
00:28:50So, someone moved it.
00:28:52But look who is level with the portrait.
00:28:55Brad.
00:28:56Which most likely means he was the intended target after all.
00:29:01Well, talking of Brad, sir, here's a strange one.
00:29:03Tech managed to get into his laptop,
00:29:05but as far as they could tell, he wasn't doing anything in Bitcoin.
00:29:08Truth is, he barely had a penny to his name.
00:29:11Then how did he pay for Frankie's engagement rate?
00:29:13There's no sign of it in his accounts or credit card statements.
00:29:16Also, we heard back from his mobile phone provider,
00:29:19and they confirmed that his phone was switched off
00:29:21at the time of the murder.
00:29:22Presumably, they sent over a record of his recent calls and texts.
00:29:26Yeah, nothing unusual out of the ordinary.
00:29:32Also, sir, there is this.
00:29:34This was found under Brad's bed at the pub.
00:29:37Now, I presume that it belongs to Frankie,
00:29:39but I think it's worth checking.
00:29:45Did anything come back on Kim and E. Bullitt?
00:29:47Ah, yes.
00:29:48I found out that her husband was killed in a hit-and-run a year ago.
00:29:52The driver was never traced.
00:29:54Well, that explains the speed gun and her devotion
00:29:56to catching errant drivers.
00:29:58Intriguingly, the hit-and-run happened on the same day
00:30:00that the flower festival was rained off.
00:30:04In almost exactly a year to the day, Brad Furbank is pecked to death,
00:30:09as Fleur so eloquently put it.
00:30:12If he didn't know that the emeralds and gold were fake,
00:30:15imagine what seeing them might mean to him.
00:30:18Someone who's not only penniless, but also a proven liar.
00:30:22You mean he went there to steal it?
00:30:25Why else would he be there at three in the morning?
00:30:27So someone booby-trapped the bird and then rehung the clock,
00:30:30knowing that he would come for it?
00:30:32That's exactly what they did in winter.
00:30:39Now, I'll speak to Frankie.
00:30:41You talk to her sister, Sylvia.
00:30:43I want to find out what they did or didn't know about Brad.
00:30:48And while you're at it, I need a book.
00:30:52A book?
00:30:53On, um, woodwork.
00:30:56My sweet heart, come along.
00:31:01Don't you hear the fond song?
00:31:04The sweet note of the nightingale flow.
00:31:09Don't you hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale?
00:31:14As she sings in those valleys below.
00:31:21As she sings in those valleys below.
00:31:28Oh, sorry.
00:31:29We don't open until tomorrow.
00:31:31I'm not a visitor.
00:31:32All the same.
00:31:34I'm Frankie.
00:31:36Oh, I mean Francesca, Bruce.
00:31:39Myrtle and Alan's daughter.
00:31:43Oh, I'm so sorry about what happened to your fiancé.
00:31:46Oh.
00:31:49That actually means more than you realise.
00:31:52I'm Nessie.
00:31:53Noah's partner.
00:31:54Were you looking for him?
00:31:55No.
00:31:56I just needed to go on a wanderer.
00:32:02How long will you be here for?
00:32:05Oh.
00:32:06Hopefully just for the weekend.
00:32:07If I can convince Noah.
00:32:09Well, he wants to stay longer.
00:32:11He thinks he can make a permanent home here.
00:32:14Has he told my father that?
00:32:16Doesn't matter if he has.
00:32:17I'm going to convince him to up sticks.
00:32:20Couldn't hit me with you.
00:32:21Could you?
00:32:23That was a joke.
00:32:24Well, sort of.
00:32:26Frankie, if you want to get away, then do it.
00:32:30I did the same myself years ago.
00:32:32Left Godly Buzzard and never looked back.
00:32:36And now you're the singing stilts lady.
00:32:38And I could see for miles and miles to the horizon and beyond.
00:32:44I'd love to try that one day.
00:32:48Please?
00:32:53Let's see if you've got a head for heights.
00:32:55You're right, you can see everything.
00:33:15Frankie, you have a moment.
00:33:18Do me a very large favour, Sylvia.
00:33:26Slap these up everywhere.
00:33:28I'm working.
00:33:29Yes, but you also have a civil duty to assist any knight of the realm whenever he should so request.
00:33:35For God's sake, Dad, you're not a sir. Grandad was the sir. You don't inherit that title. You have to have it bestowed.
00:33:41Yes, well, I was a DIY bestowment.
00:33:44Really shot my bloody ear off, actually.
00:33:47Ah, have you found the culprit?
00:33:48The investigation's still ongoing.
00:33:50Well, chop, chop, because the wonderful Noah's Bar is opening tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. sharp.
00:34:00More questions?
00:34:01Yes.
00:34:02Do you mind if I step inside?
00:34:08Miss Bruce.
00:34:09Can you start by telling me what you really thought of Brad?
00:34:12And I already made that clear.
00:34:15I liked him. A lot.
00:34:17Presumably you didn't know that he was a con man and a thief.
00:34:20I'm sorry, he was what?
00:34:22We found antihistamine in Brad's room at the pub.
00:34:26It's for hay fever.
00:34:28What sort on earth was he doing showing up at a flower festival?
00:34:31And that makes him a thief?
00:34:33Well, there's a good chance that he was casing the house with the intention of robbing it later.
00:34:37It's a well-known ploy.
00:34:39Stately homes throw open their doors, but they never truly know who they're inviting inside.
00:34:42Brad did nothing of the sort.
00:34:43All he did was meet my sister and fall madly in love.
00:34:47Or he realized that there was more to gain from seducing Frankie and marrying into the family.
00:34:52Please stop.
00:34:54This is awful.
00:34:55I've never seen it before.
00:34:58I've never seen it before.
00:35:01Where did you find it?
00:35:03It was in Brad's room at the pub.
00:35:09This earring...
00:35:13It doesn't mean he was.
00:35:15No, Brad wouldn't do that to me.
00:35:17How did you meet?
00:35:21How did you meet?
00:35:24It was on the eve of last year's War of the Roses festival.
00:35:28We had a private preview.
00:35:30We ended up talking, so I took him on a tour of the house.
00:35:33He asked to see inside?
00:35:35He seemed really keen.
00:35:37I got the impression he liked me.
00:35:39How much did you know about his Bitcoin business?
00:35:44Only what he told me, but that he was doing great.
00:35:47I'm afraid he was lying to you, Frankie.
00:35:50He didn't have a penny to his name.
00:35:52Of course he did.
00:35:54Have you seen this ring? Why would you say that?
00:35:56He was overdrawn and owed money everywhere.
00:35:59No, he was always splashing out on me.
00:36:01You need to get your facts straight.
00:36:09Please don't let this be true.
00:36:14It's been hard enough trying to convince my parents I'm worthy of their love and...
00:36:20Now this.
00:36:26Is that all you wanted? Only my father's given me a job to do.
00:36:30Were you around when Kim Lee's husband was killed in the hit and run?
00:36:33What's that got to do with what happened to Brad?
00:36:35Well, we're aware that he showed up at Godly Manor the same day that it happened.
00:36:41I remember spotting him with Frankie and wondering who he was.
00:36:44But I didn't give it another thought.
00:36:46Not until she introduced him a few weeks later.
00:36:48I need to get on.
00:36:50Oh, and I need a book.
00:36:53On woodwork.
00:36:54On woodwork.
00:37:04Do you have children?
00:37:06Chief Inspector.
00:37:09A daughter.
00:37:11And you love her, right?
00:37:14You love her with every fibre of your being.
00:37:18Well, can you imagine what it's like when the opposite is true?
00:37:22Can you imagine what that would be like for your daughter?
00:37:26I can't see myself being anything other than in awe of her.
00:37:31That's because you didn't bring her into this world for all the wrong reasons.
00:37:42I had a brother.
00:37:44Chief Inspector.
00:37:46Frances.
00:37:47Well, what I mean when I say I had a brother is he died when he was just over a year old.
00:37:53And I was conceived shortly afterwards, but solely in the hope that my parents could somehow recreate him.
00:38:01Myrtle, it was so long ago. I was probably seeing things.
00:38:10Don't backtrack now.
00:38:13Something made you think you saw Aggie Marlowe. Now what was it?
00:38:17It was the way she wouldn't look at me.
00:38:20Like she didn't want to be recognised.
00:38:23Perhaps you could have her arrested this time around.
00:38:26What are you talking about?
00:38:27The police said Frances' death was due to natural causes. There's no arrest happening here.
00:38:34No. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.
00:38:40You don't mean that, do you?
00:38:43Mattel?
00:38:46You're scaring me.
00:38:51Apparently my parents were out at an afternoon due with my grandfather.
00:38:55And when my mother came back, she found Frances dead on the floor. He'd fallen out of his cot.
00:39:01They'd left him on his own?
00:39:03No, they had a babysitter.
00:39:05Aggie Marlowe, but she vanished into thin air.
00:39:08Sylvia said it broke my parents in half.
00:39:11Until one of them had the desperately sad idea of making another Frances.
00:39:16Hence my name.
00:39:18So they went ahead.
00:39:21And sadly for them, I emerged.
00:39:25And that is when they realised that they couldn't get Frances back.
00:39:30But worse, because they were saddled with someone every day who reminds them that I'm not their precious son.
00:39:37I'm sorry.
00:39:38I'm sorry.
00:39:39I'm sorry.
00:39:40I'm sorry.
00:39:42I'm sorry.
00:39:43I'm sorry.
00:39:49I'm sorry.
00:40:47Best I could do, sir.
00:40:49Is it for Mrs. Bean?
00:40:51Thank you, Winter.
00:40:52Yes, Sarah's struggling a bit with the arbor.
00:40:55She even managed to injure her thumb.
00:40:59Well, I'm sure she'd be glad of this.
00:41:01So, did Frankie recognise the earring?
00:41:04In a word, no.
00:41:07Oh, well, that puts a cat among the pigeons.
00:41:10Brad must have been seeing someone else.
00:41:14Dear, it's Winter.
00:41:16Okay.
00:41:18Yeah, thanks.
00:41:20Sir, we've had an anonymous call from a withheld number.
00:41:24There's a woman saying that she's very worried about an Aggie Marlowe being back in Godly Buzzard.
00:41:30We don't know an Aggie Marlowe, do we?
00:41:32I think we do, Winter.
00:41:35Aggie is short for Agnes, which can also be shortened to Nessie.
00:41:40Perhaps you should go and have a chat with her.
00:41:43Hmm.
00:41:47That's all possible.
00:41:49Okay.
00:41:59Uhehe.
00:42:01Oh.
00:42:01Huh.
00:42:02Uhehe.
00:42:06Did you miss it?
00:42:07I know.
00:42:07Who the hell are you?
00:42:15What are you doing in here?
00:42:17You don't remember.
00:42:21You couldn't keep your hands off me the last time we met.
00:42:25Aggie.
00:42:28This is Frances' room.
00:42:30How dare you?
00:42:32I was looking all over for you, Myrtle.
00:42:35And then I saw Frances' name on the door.
00:42:38And I couldn't help myself.
00:42:40If Myrtle were here, God knows what she would do to you.
00:42:43She's who I came here to see.
00:42:46I'm going to tell her what really happened that day.
00:42:50Noah is dead set on staying here.
00:42:52And the only way I get to stay here with him is if Myrtle and everyone else knows.
00:42:56You are the reason why Frances died.
00:42:59As if anyone's going to believe you.
00:43:01And do you know what the best thing is?
00:43:03You brought Noah back here.
00:43:05Which means you brought me back here too.
00:43:07Everything comes home to roost eventually.
00:43:10That's enough.
00:43:10I'm not having this.
00:43:11Oh.
00:43:12I'm not having this.
00:43:14I'm not having this.
00:43:16What's her name?
00:43:17No!
00:43:29I'm not having this.
00:43:29Oh, my God.
00:43:59You've joined a library.
00:44:08Oh, Winter borrowed it.
00:44:10He said he thought you might need it.
00:44:13That's so nice of him.
00:44:14I thought we could look through it together.
00:44:17Why would we need to do that?
00:44:19When you've got the blood of a master carpenter running through you.
00:44:23You don't need this.
00:44:24Not when it comes so naturally to you.
00:44:26It's not about to get any splinters.
00:44:38Winter.
00:44:39Impeccable timing.
00:44:42You found Nessie.
00:44:42What did she say?
00:44:48I'll be right there.
00:44:49A little bird tells me, not a cuckoo this time, you were looking for Agnes Marlon.
00:45:05The good news is you found her.
00:45:08But the bad news is someone else found her first.
00:45:11Talk us through it, Fleur.
00:45:12Judging from the angle of the attack, I'd say she was approached from behind.
00:45:18And the billhook did the rest.
00:45:21The what?
00:45:22Billhook, Winter.
00:45:23It's a highly versatile cutting tool my grandfather had.
00:45:26Same sort of tool you might find in Noah's bark.
00:45:29You look 10% more handsome when you say something intelligent.
00:45:33I'll have to set you brain teasers up the percentage.
00:45:37Time of death, Fleur?
00:45:40I'd put it somewhere yesterday evening.
00:45:42And the killer just left the weapon lying around?
00:45:44It was stuffed behind that fallen log over there.
00:45:49Let's start with Noah.
00:45:52Before you lope off, she was carrying this.
00:45:56But I wouldn't get too excited.
00:45:58I don't think he's the killer.
00:46:00What the hell?
00:46:07They're not letting the public in.
00:46:09Well, what did you expect?
00:46:11Aggie Marlowe was murdered last night.
00:46:13Yes, that person was a blight on our family.
00:46:16Yes.
00:46:17And, of course, we know who brought her here, don't we?
00:46:19Now, Noah couldn't have possibly known who she was.
00:46:22How do we know that?
00:46:23I don't trust a thing about him.
00:46:25Ever since he arrived, terrible things have happened.
00:46:27Is really that terrible that Aggie's dead?
00:46:29You know full well what I mean.
00:46:31I want him gone, Alan.
00:46:39Missy and I were together for years.
00:46:42Where saw her?
00:46:44I saw her at a folk festival.
00:46:49She was the most beautiful girl I'd ever set eyes on.
00:46:53We started chatting and realized we'd both lived in Godly Buzz at once.
00:46:57From that point on, we never left each other's side.
00:47:03Ended up creating all this.
00:47:07Did you know that Nessie had changed her name from Aggie?
00:47:11Aggie?
00:47:11No.
00:47:12No.
00:47:14She was always Nessie to me.
00:47:15Well, she never mentioned that she used to babysit for the Bruises.
00:47:21She never said a word.
00:47:24How did she react after Brad found you?
00:47:26To be honest, she didn't want me to come here when we pitched up.
00:47:34She got pretty nervy.
00:47:37Even had a nightmare the first night we stayed here.
00:47:39Had to get up and go for a wonder.
00:47:42Nessie said she never went up to the house,
00:47:44but did she encounter any of the Bruises other than Frankie?
00:47:49Not that I know of.
00:47:50Can you tell us where you were yesterday evening, Mr. Connoboy?
00:47:59Don't even go there.
00:48:03Ness was the love of my life.
00:48:07Mr. Connoboy.
00:48:08I was at the pub with Angel.
00:48:16We just finished setting up and deserved a pint or two.
00:48:20Did you say Angel?
00:48:23The Axeman.
00:48:24He looks ferocious, but underneath he's a kitten.
00:48:28We believe that a tool from your troop
00:48:30was used in the attack on Nessie.
00:48:33A, um, a billhook.
00:48:37Is there one missing?
00:48:38I'd have to ask her out.
00:48:42Anyone could come in and take anything.
00:48:46It's not like we'd lock anything away.
00:48:47I'd have to ask her to be.
00:48:48I'd have to ask her to be.
00:48:50Saj, what are you doing?
00:49:16Waiting for you to join me. Here.
00:49:24I don't understand.
00:49:25I want to make a toast to Brad. He lived here for a year and I'm gonna miss him.
00:49:30Saj, you may as well know, the police are saying he was a con man.
00:49:35No way. A con man?
00:49:37Did you know? Or ever get a sense of it? Like you said, he was here a whole year.
00:49:43Me? Nah. Poor Frankie.
00:49:48You sure you didn't know?
00:49:50You sure you didn't?
00:49:51What does that mean?
00:49:52I don't know. I always thought you had a bit of a thing for him.
00:49:56A thing? What thing? Why would you say that?
00:49:59Well, you're always so keen on him, always bigging him up.
00:50:02What says he's number one fan?
00:50:04That wasn't me. No way.
00:50:06You've fawned all over him. In fact, you changed personality whenever he was around.
00:50:11Aye, well. Maybe it's a good thing he's not around anymore, eh?
00:50:15Look at us. This is crazy. None of this matters now. He's gone.
00:50:26I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say any of that.
00:50:31Same.
00:50:33Normal service has resumed.
00:50:36Best make a different toast. Hmm? Hmm?
00:50:46Out with the bad and all that. Ah.
00:50:49Out with the brad, more like.
00:50:55What was Nessie doing out here on her own?
00:50:58Maybe she was meeting someone.
00:50:59What, with a teddy bear?
00:51:01I'll get tech to check out her phone calls and texts.
00:51:05Also, have them chase up the anonymous tip about Aggie Marlow being back in the village.
00:51:12She was killed almost immediately afterwards, so whoever called us was really worried.
00:51:17You think one of the Bruce's found out she was back?
00:51:20I'll go and see.
00:51:26This is the last place I saw Frances alive.
00:51:29I gave him a cuddle before Alan and I took Sir Percival to a party.
00:51:35I'll never forgive myself for leaving him.
00:51:39And when you returned home?
00:51:41Uh, I stayed longer than planned.
00:51:43It was Kimini's fault. She could chat for England.
00:51:46Alan had wandered off ages before.
00:51:49When I got back, there was no sign of Aggie anywhere.
00:51:53And then I found Frances.
00:51:56Lying right there.
00:51:58Not moving.
00:52:05Lady Myrtle, did you know that, um, Aggie Marlow was living on your grounds with Noah?
00:52:12Of course I didn't.
00:52:13You never met or saw her?
00:52:15I just said. I didn't know she was back.
00:52:18And trust me, if I had, Aggie would have been dead a lot sooner.
00:52:24I want that woman's body off our land.
00:52:27You know what she did to Myrtle and I?
00:52:31Where were you last night?
00:52:32Are you listening to me, Barnaby?
00:52:34It's Detective Chief Inspector, Barnaby.
00:52:39I was in my bed getting my beauty sleep in preparation for the grand opening,
00:52:43which actually won't be remotely grand now, thanks to Aggie Marlow.
00:52:48Were you aware that she was part of Noah's bar?
00:52:51What on earth are you talking about?
00:52:52Well, it turns out she was Noah's partner. Had been for years.
00:52:55My God, you couldn't make it up.
00:52:57Brad didn't happen to find that out when he was searching for Noah.
00:53:00Would I have invited him here if he had?
00:53:02Well, if you wanted revenge for Francis, then yes, that's exactly what you would have done.
00:53:07Look, I invited Noah here simply to raise some cash.
00:53:12My father didn't exactly leave a pot of gold in his will,
00:53:14and these stately homes cost a fortune to maintain.
00:53:17On the outside, it looks like we've won the lottery.
00:53:19On the inside, we can barely afford a ticket.
00:53:22Well, there's still the house and grounds, though.
00:53:24And surely you knew that finding Noah could result in you having to hand over half of everything you'd inherited.
00:53:30You've met him? He's a hippie.
00:53:33They don't belong in houses like this. Anyway, he'll drift away soon enough.
00:53:37Did Brad know you were struggling financially?
00:53:41I admit, I was a little too keen to get Noah here, and someone like Brad might have noted that.
00:53:47Someone like Brad?
00:53:49He was a parasite. I didn't realize at first, but he was a tapeworm eating his way into our family.
00:53:55Sir?
00:54:01I called Saj Solanki, and he said that he remembers seeing Noah and the Axeman in the pub.
00:54:09It seems the Bruce's both had a strong motive for killing Nessie,
00:54:13and Sir Alan had an inkling that Brad wasn't the person he claimed to be.
00:54:20Talking of Brad, we know that he was desperate for money to keep up his lies and lifestyle,
00:54:26so all it would take is for his killer to know that as well.
00:54:29What about the person the diamond earring belongs to? It could be some kind of love rat thing.
00:54:36Elegantly put, Winter?
00:54:38Or Frankie found out that Brad was cheating on her and killed him in a fit of jealousy.
00:54:41I'm sure that's possible in your love rat world.
00:54:44She was also the only member of the Bruce family that we know for certain met Nessie.
00:54:47Ah, and you were doing so well, Winter.
00:54:50But Frankie hadn't been born when Nessie was babysitting for the Bruce's.
00:54:55It's doubtful she'd know her on-site.
00:54:57Now, here's a question for you.
00:54:59How does a penniless man rent a room in a pub for an entire year?
00:55:17Look, Kemeny won't report you for speeding.
00:55:21There are mitigating circumstances just like you told her.
00:55:24You know what she's like.
00:55:26She takes her misery out on anyone she can find.
00:55:28I can't have points on my licence. I could lose my job.
00:55:32Well, come work here then.
00:55:34You'd probably earn more.
00:55:36If this world of woodenness takes off, this place will be packed.
00:55:39It's not the money.
00:55:41I happen to love that job.
00:55:43Mr Solanke, a word if you don't mind.
00:55:48I thought you were all done here.
00:55:50How did Brad pay for his room and board?
00:55:53Like anyone else?
00:55:54He was penniless, Mr Solanke.
00:55:56We can just go through your books.
00:55:59Right, well, the thing is, hindsight's a great thing.
00:56:04But I kind of let Brad run up a tab.
00:56:08For an entire year?
00:56:10He was a nice guy.
00:56:12I totally trusted him.
00:56:14Tell them, Sylvia, you were always urging Frankie to marry him.
00:56:17You'll need on that.
00:56:19Well, we have you.
00:56:21We found this.
00:56:23In Brad's room.
00:56:24Have you seen that before?
00:56:26No. Sorry.
00:56:28Did Brad ever have anyone other than Frankie back to his room?
00:56:30No, not that I ever saw.
00:56:32Fleur?
00:56:35Believe it or not, we're at the pub right now.
00:56:41We are going to need access to Brad's room again.
00:56:44It'll be fine. Don't worry.
00:56:47It'll be fine. Don't worry.
00:56:48It'll be fine.
00:57:05Noah.
00:57:07I'm so sorry.
00:57:08I just heard about Aggie.
00:57:11Aggie?
00:57:13I meant Nessie.
00:57:14You must be devastated.
00:57:18That answers everything.
00:57:20She called herself Nessie, yet you just called her Aggie.
00:57:26I know your big pals with Myrtle, my charming sister-in-law.
00:57:30Did you do the family a favor and tell them who Nessie really was?
00:57:35I think you should leave.
00:57:37I think.
00:57:39I should go to the police, don't you?
00:57:41What is it called?
00:57:43Accessory to murder?
00:57:45Go on, then.
00:57:47I've done nothing wrong.
00:57:49I'll tell them you clearly recognized her,
00:57:51and they'll realize you're the only one who knew who she was.
00:57:55Why are you here?
00:57:59What do you want from me?
00:58:01That's better.
00:58:03I know I got permission to put on my festival,
00:58:05but what if I wanted to set up home there permanently,
00:58:11with all my people?
00:58:12That's something else entirely.
00:58:14You're the head of the council.
00:58:15I'm sure you could make it happen.
00:58:17I already hate Sir Alan.
00:58:19I doubt they'd be too fond of you for riding to his rescue.
00:58:21We're talking about my home.
00:58:24A home I've been denied for far too long,
00:58:26so make it happen.
00:58:30What if I can't?
00:58:33This is my birthright.
00:58:35And I'm not gonna let anyone
00:58:38stand in the way of that.
00:58:51What-what are you doing?
00:58:56What's that for?
00:58:57Care to explain, Mr. Slunkey?
00:59:00No idea.
00:59:02I was already there when I started running the police.
00:59:05Shall I keep going?
00:59:07Where is this leading flow?
00:59:08I worked on a similar case once.
00:59:10There were mirrors all over the walls in that place as well.
00:59:12Clearly the idea took off.
00:59:14When I first encountered this sort of thing,
00:59:16my boss told me to touch the mirrors.
00:59:19With my fingernail.
00:59:20And my fingernail touched its reflection.
00:59:23What else would it touch?
00:59:25Index finger, please, Winton.
00:59:30I promise not to buy it.
00:59:33If it were a normal mirror,
00:59:35your fingernail and its reflection would never meet.
00:59:38There'll always be a gap, like so.
00:59:40But with a two-way mirror.
00:59:44Finger.
00:59:45Not his finger.
00:59:47And they're in every room, aren't they, Mr. Slunkey?
01:00:01There's four security purposes.
01:00:04Try again, Mr. Slunkey.
01:00:06Look.
01:00:08A lot of people book into hotels and not just to sleep.
01:00:13They meet up with lovers.
01:00:15Some of them do secret deals.
01:00:17I've heard them on the phone lying about their whereabouts.
01:00:20The list goes on.
01:00:22Half the people that come in here are up to no good.
01:00:25So you thought you'd make some money out of it?
01:00:28When did Brad find out you were doing this?
01:00:31First night he stayed.
01:00:32He accidentally knocked over the mirror onto the floor and he saw the camera behind it.
01:00:37But he didn't report you?
01:00:39He told me to lose the cameras in his room and keep the rest in the other rooms.
01:00:43He wanted in on it.
01:00:45In fact, he took over.
01:00:47He made me blackmail everyone that I could.
01:00:49And for the last year he's lived here rent-free in exchange for his silence.
01:00:54He's bled me dry in every way you can imagine.
01:00:56Including forcing you to buy Frankie's engagement ring.
01:01:00Well, how do you know that?
01:01:03We didn't until now.
01:01:05We'll need to look into Mr. Solanki's finances.
01:01:09Am I going to prison for this?
01:01:12At the moment I'm more interested in who Brad was seeing behind Frankie's back.
01:01:16Well, he wasn't seeing anyone.
01:01:19You're in enough trouble as it is, Mr. Solanki.
01:01:22I couldn't see anything before because then you'd come back and ask for proof and then you'd...
01:01:27Find out what you've been doing.
01:01:30She used to come in the back way.
01:01:32Obviously didn't know I had a hidden camera outside.
01:01:35But it was...
01:01:36Sylvia Bruce.
01:01:38Sylvia? No.
01:01:40It was her mom.
01:01:41My turn.
01:01:52Look at these idiots, sir.
01:02:07Just come and get me a ticket.
01:02:10This is official police business.
01:02:12So's this.
01:02:13Just so you know, you can pass on my information, but it'll be up to the police if they decide to prosecute or not.
01:02:18And, well, I am the police.
01:02:21Well, we'll find out on Monday when I send in my data whether that helps or not.
01:02:31When will you ever learn, Cordelia, it's not 30 miles an hour through the village.
01:02:36And don't think you can get away with this at night, either.
01:02:40I'm on guard.
01:02:4124-7.
01:02:42Sorry, Kemeny.
01:02:45Look at how I was on the final leg.
01:02:49Someone needs to take that speed gun off her.
01:02:51Drive on, Winter.
01:02:53Slowly.
01:02:54Would you like to know where we found this?
01:03:11You should know that Brad never loved Frankie.
01:03:14I mean, how could he?
01:03:16She's quite unlovable.
01:03:18Alan and I tried for years.
01:03:21When did you and Brad start seeing each other?
01:03:24Months ago.
01:03:26I rather felt for him, all that pretending he had to do.
01:03:28So the affair was still going on even at the engagement party.
01:03:32Did Sir Alan know?
01:03:33Doesn't matter if he did or he didn't.
01:03:35He disappeared the night Francis died.
01:03:38There's more life in his portrait.
01:03:41When did you last see Brad?
01:03:43When he was lying dead in our hallway.
01:03:45Lady Myrtle?
01:03:47At the engagement party.
01:03:49And you were never worried that Saj would see you at the pub and tell Frankie?
01:03:52I didn't go there often and Brad seemed to have some hold over Saj.
01:03:57He said he wouldn't say a word if he knew what was good for him.
01:04:01Sadly for you, he can say whatever he wants now.
01:04:04What are you talking about?
01:04:05Saj has CCTV footage of you two arguing outside his pub the day before Brad died.
01:04:11What was the argument about?
01:04:13He'd found out that Alan and I aren't exactly wealthy.
01:04:17He was furious. He said I'd been leading him on.
01:04:20Did he break up with you?
01:04:21He threatened to.
01:04:22How did you feel about that?
01:04:23How do you think?
01:04:25Did you get the dibbler from Kim and his shop?
01:04:28Call in to see her and slip one into your pocket?
01:04:31I wouldn't know a dibbler from a punch on the nose.
01:04:33And then you rigged the clock.
01:04:34Oh this is ridiculous.
01:04:35Murder very often is.
01:04:37Lady Myrtle.
01:04:41You're not going to bring Lady Myrtle in sir?
01:04:43Sir Alan has already given her an alibi for the night Brad was killed.
01:04:47We need something concrete.
01:04:49T.S. Winter.
01:04:51Oh okay that was quick.
01:04:53Thanks.
01:04:55Sir.
01:04:56Tech have managed to trace the anonymous call regarding Aggie Marlow.
01:05:00It was from Kimeny Bullet.
01:05:03Oh of course it was.
01:05:05We already know she likes to share her findings with the police.
01:05:09Hop over to her shop and find out if she told anyone else.
01:05:12She was obviously worried about what might happen.
01:05:14What might happen.
01:05:15Hello?
01:05:40Hello?
01:05:41We could have picked somewhere more accessible.
01:05:42I don't even like that hill.
01:05:43Oh.
01:05:44Oh.
01:05:45Oh.
01:05:46Oh.
01:05:47Oh.
01:05:48Oh.
01:05:49Oh.
01:05:50Oh.
01:05:51Oh.
01:05:52Oh.
01:05:53Oh.
01:05:54Oh.
01:05:55Oh.
01:05:56Oh.
01:05:57Oh.
01:05:58Oh.
01:05:59Oh.
01:06:00Oh.
01:06:01Oh.
01:06:02Oh.
01:06:03Oh.
01:06:04Oh.
01:06:05Oh.
01:06:06Oh.
01:06:07Oh.
01:06:08Oh.
01:06:10Hey.
01:06:11Oh.
01:06:12Oh...
01:06:15There you are.
01:06:17Let me just catch my brain.
01:06:20Oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:06:22Oh, go.
01:06:24Oh, oh, oh.
01:06:26Oh, no, ah, oh.
01:06:28Oh, oh, oh.
01:06:30Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:06:34Oh, my God.
01:07:04How's your thumb?
01:07:09Throbbing.
01:07:13Do you really think you can put that arbor together?
01:07:16Only I don't want it suddenly collapsing on Betty or her friends or on me, for that matter.
01:07:22That arbor will still be standing a hundred years from now.
01:07:25A monument to the inherited skills of a master craftsman.
01:07:31Right.
01:07:34Winter.
01:07:47Winter.
01:07:49What's that around her mouth?
01:08:02Fleur thinks it's some kind of industrial wood glue.
01:08:04Super strong.
01:08:05I'm afraid her lips are sealed, so I'll have to talk for her.
01:08:09It looks like someone stuck it to the chair,
01:08:11and then, if I'm right,
01:08:13they force-fed her with whatever was left in the glue gun.
01:08:17That's also covered in glue.
01:08:19Whoever it was, tried to make it cosy and inviting.
01:08:23If only.
01:08:25Any idea where the chairs came from?
01:08:27Judging from the finish, I'd say a craftsman, may that.
01:08:31Would you like a ticket?
01:09:01I'm afraid Kiminy Bullitt was killed sometime last night.
01:09:11My God.
01:09:13I was wondering what had happened.
01:09:16Were you at the house?
01:09:18No.
01:09:19I stayed here last night.
01:09:21No, he's a bit lost right now, obviously,
01:09:23so I thought I could be there for him.
01:09:25You didn't see or hear anything?
01:09:29No.
01:09:30Sorry.
01:09:32This is awful.
01:09:34I've known Kiminy my whole life.
01:09:39Excuse me.
01:09:40Wood is so much more than we think it is.
01:10:02It has sheltered us,
01:10:04defended us,
01:10:06given up its body to us.
01:10:08Yes, she came up with that.
01:10:12All of this was her idea.
01:10:15Show people how much they can learn and benefit from nature.
01:10:19And turn it into furniture.
01:10:22Namely, a pair of chairs.
01:10:25If you're looking to pin this on me,
01:10:28anyone could have come in here.
01:10:29You really shouldn't try locking things away, Mr. Connoboy.
01:10:32Someone needs to go and tell the crowds
01:10:34we won't be opening any time soon.
01:10:36They'll have to come back next year.
01:10:38You're planning on returning?
01:10:41I'm not actually planning on leaving.
01:10:43I was born here.
01:10:45Nessie was born here.
01:10:47I belong here.
01:10:49Hi, sir.
01:11:03Yeah, I'm in Kiminy's shop.
01:11:04Someone's been in here and...
01:11:07Looks like they've smashed up her laptop.
01:11:11Yeah.
01:11:11Is there anyone Kiminy might have upset recently?
01:11:21If there was, she didn't tell me.
01:11:24We know she left an anonymous tip-off
01:11:26about Aggie Marlow being back in Godly Buzzard.
01:11:30Did she happen to tell you as well?
01:11:32As I've already said,
01:11:33that wouldn't have gone well for Aggie.
01:11:36Is that why Kiminy decided to contact us?
01:11:38You met her.
01:11:40She spent half her life contacting the police.
01:11:44Talking of which,
01:11:46did she ever mention the hit and run?
01:11:47Only to the point of boredom.
01:11:49More recently, I mean,
01:11:50as in had she found out who killed her husband?
01:11:53No, she'd have said.
01:11:55In fact, she'd have screamed it from the rooftops.
01:12:00We know that Brad checked into Saj's pub
01:12:03on the same night that Kiminy's husband was killed.
01:12:05Before you fall down that rabbit hole,
01:12:08Brad got a puncture up at the house
01:12:10and walked down to the village.
01:12:12He couldn't have run anyone over,
01:12:14let alone Kim and his husband.
01:12:20I don't suppose I could have Francis's teddy.
01:12:23Only Kiminy bought that for him.
01:12:25It feels so wrong that Aggie took it.
01:12:30How did you know about the teddy bear?
01:12:33We deliberately withheld that information.
01:12:35Alan told me he must have let it slip,
01:12:39Chief Inspector.
01:12:52Charles, how good of you to call.
01:12:54Now, I may need you to sue the police
01:12:57for loss of earnings.
01:12:58Yes, that's right, the police.
01:13:02I'll send you an email with all the details.
01:13:04Speak soon.
01:13:05Well, that should shrink your annual budget.
01:13:09How did you know about Aggie Marlowe
01:13:12taking Francis's teddy bear?
01:13:15You told your wife, remember?
01:13:17Well, I probably picked it up off of one of you lot.
01:13:20Aggie must have gone up to Francis's room.
01:13:24I think you saw her.
01:13:26You're an absolute balderdash.
01:13:27Why would she go up there?
01:13:29I didn't know she had.
01:13:30It seems a strange place to return to,
01:13:33considering the circumstances.
01:13:35Or was she coming to see you and Lady Myrtle?
01:13:37I very much doubt it.
01:13:40She'd been avoiding being seen,
01:13:42yet she felt confident enough to come to the house,
01:13:46the place where she'd apparently left a child to die.
01:13:49I'm afraid I can't answer for her actions.
01:13:52I happen to think you can.
01:13:55What really happened on the day your son died?
01:13:57I'd really rather not go back there.
01:13:59It's still exceedingly raw, even after all these years.
01:14:04I know that you and your wife went to a party with your father.
01:14:09She said that she came back alone,
01:14:11which implies that either you were still at the party,
01:14:14or you'd already left.
01:14:16I stayed till the bitter end.
01:14:17Then you would have seen both Lady Myrtle and Kimmy,
01:14:21because they stayed late as well.
01:14:26You've spent a long time living with this, Sir Alan.
01:14:36She was extremely attractive back then,
01:14:39and I was only a little older than her.
01:14:42In your eyes, perhaps?
01:14:46And I've been drinking.
01:14:48And you know, sometimes on those odd occasions
01:14:50when you have a romantic thought,
01:14:53and then that thought becomes a possibility,
01:14:55and then before you know where you are,
01:14:56it's a cast-iron certainty.
01:14:58And I was Sir Percival's son.
01:15:00How could she not be impressed?
01:15:02But Aggie wasn't impressed, was she?
01:15:04Well, she tried to be polite,
01:15:06and I went along with it at first,
01:15:08but then I said we hadn't got much time,
01:15:10and perhaps we should move things forward.
01:15:12Well, she was appalled.
01:15:15Said she wanted to go and check on Francis.
01:15:18He was crying, and, uh...
01:15:20I-I stopped her.
01:15:22I didn't let her see him.
01:15:25For how long?
01:15:27Well, I thought I heard a thump,
01:15:29or a thud, or something,
01:15:31but I-I just ignored it,
01:15:33because I had other things on my mind.
01:15:35And Aggie heard it, too,
01:15:38and told me to open the door.
01:15:40She said it over and over again,
01:15:41and when I refused,
01:15:42she slapped me, and then she dodged by me,
01:15:44and her first thought was to go and check on Francis.
01:15:48And that's when I heard her scream.
01:15:52And by the time you got there...
01:15:55Well, to my eternal shame, I blamed her.
01:15:59I-I said it was all her fault,
01:16:01and that I would see her locked up for life.
01:16:06So she ran,
01:16:08knowing that no one would believe her word against yours,
01:16:11the son of Sir Percival Bruce.
01:16:14She came to see me a few nights ago.
01:16:18She told me she was going to tell Myrtle the truth.
01:16:20Well, everybody, in fact.
01:16:22Why now, after all this time?
01:16:24Well, Noah wants to set up permanent residence on the grounds,
01:16:27but I didn't kill her, I swear.
01:16:29I didn't even try to get that damn teddy back.
01:16:32I just stood there, frozen,
01:16:37in this pathetic excuse that I call my life.
01:16:41Winter.
01:16:50Winter.
01:17:00Sir, I looked into Saj's financials, like you said,
01:17:04and the odd thing was that Sylvia paid for Brad's room
01:17:07the night he turned up in Godly Buzzard.
01:17:09But she said that she didn't meet him that day.
01:17:11I think we'd better talk to her.
01:17:13Also, Fleur's tech team found a smudge of blue ink
01:17:16on Kim and E's laptop.
01:17:18It was only tiny, but she's going to run it.
01:17:19I tell her there's no need.
01:17:21Yeah, I already have, sir.
01:17:23Because it's probably from the stamp
01:17:24that Sylvia uses in her library.
01:17:26You won't jump ahead of me, Winter.
01:17:28There is a first time for everything, sir.
01:17:30You should get a bonus for all the things you've taught me.
01:17:34Didn't tech have any luck with Kim and E's laptop?
01:17:37Uh, they managed to retrieve most of the data,
01:17:38but it was just the speeding reports that she'd been filing.
01:17:41And I see.
01:17:42Hmm.
01:17:46I should go and talk to her before she heads off.
01:17:47Sylvia, I wanted to ask,
01:17:57why did you pay for Brad's room
01:17:59the night that the flower festival was rained off?
01:18:02You said that you hadn't met him that day.
01:18:06Sylvia!
01:18:09Sylvia!
01:18:15Put your foot down, Winter.
01:18:17I can't get around her, sir.
01:18:34Seems like there's somewhere to pass up her head.
01:18:36Oh, following me!
01:18:38What's she doing?
01:18:39Where's she going?
01:18:39She's on her way to godly manor.
01:18:44You can't go and live with that excuse for an uncle.
01:18:47I can do what the hell I like.
01:18:49Noah's going to try and take all of this from us.
01:18:51It's not just the grounds he wants.
01:18:53He'll come for his share of the house.
01:18:55And you think I'm on your side?
01:18:56I hope he gets the lot.
01:18:59Frankie.
01:18:59Oh.
01:19:00Frankie!
01:19:01Frankie!
01:19:01She's heading for the gate, sir.
01:19:10She's going to go straight through them, sir.
01:19:15Frankie!
01:19:16Frankie!
01:19:16Sylvia!
01:19:30What are you doing?
01:19:31They know.
01:19:32Know what?
01:19:33What I did.
01:19:34Pull yourself together, Sylvia.
01:19:35I killed him, Mother.
01:19:37I killed him.
01:19:39What the hell is going on?
01:19:46He's shaking like a leaf.
01:19:51Sylvia, I don't understand.
01:19:53Ask them.
01:19:55They know.
01:19:56Stop saying that.
01:19:57Will somebody talk to me?
01:19:59Well, tell them, then.
01:20:00Tell them what I did.
01:20:01I'd rather hear it from you, Sylvia.
01:20:06I didn't see him.
01:20:09The road was empty one minute the next.
01:20:11He was just standing there right in front of me.
01:20:14Who is she talking about?
01:20:16Kimi Bullitt's husband, Lawrence.
01:20:18What?
01:20:19Sylvia?
01:20:20Right.
01:20:20Don't say another word.
01:20:22Alan, call your solicitor.
01:20:23Tell us what happened, Sylvia.
01:20:25Leave my daughter alone.
01:20:27Alan, call Charles now.
01:20:29Josh!
01:20:30I didn't think anyone had seen me.
01:20:32So I drove off, not knowing what to do.
01:20:36I was in such a state, though.
01:20:38I had to pull over, thought I was going to be sick.
01:20:41A few minutes later, there was a tap on the side of the library.
01:20:44Brad had seen what you'd done.
01:20:47He made me pay for his room at Sash's pub.
01:20:50He was really after something else.
01:20:52I'm so sorry.
01:20:55I'm so sorry.
01:20:55I'm so sorry.
01:20:59He wanted to be in the manor.
01:21:01He wanted a portrait of his own.
01:21:02He wanted it all.
01:21:04So he told me I had to make sure you married him.
01:21:07Doesn't anyone want me for who I am?
01:21:11I know.
01:21:13I know, and I hated him so much for it.
01:21:15I wanted to rescue you, Frankie.
01:21:17I wanted so many things.
01:21:18Winter?
01:21:19As I learned at great cost last year,
01:21:21there are certain perennials that shouldn't be planted next to each other.
01:21:24Kimony would know that better than anyone.
01:21:27I think we found Brad's phone.
01:21:30And on it, no doubt, we'll find out why it had to be buried.
01:21:32Am I right, Frankie?
01:21:39I have no idea what you're talking about.
01:21:41I know it was you who smashed up Kimony's laptop.
01:21:44Me?
01:21:45I had no idea that even happened.
01:21:47I saw a list of number plates on a document that Kimony was putting together.
01:21:52Your friend Cordelia's number plate was on it, along with a date and time.
01:21:56Then talk to Cordelia, not me.
01:21:58Ironically, that was actually the very thing you were trying to prevent.
01:22:02When will you ever learn, Cordelia?
01:22:05It's not 30 miles an hour through the village.
01:22:08And don't think you can get away with this at night, either.
01:22:10I'm on guard, 24-7.
01:22:13You took Cordelia's car after everyone had passed out, after your celebrations.
01:22:18You drove it up here, not thinking for a minute
01:22:20that Kimony would still be out monitoring the roads.
01:22:24She was going to post her findings on Monday,
01:22:26and the moment Cordelia received her speeding notice,
01:22:30she would have questioned it.
01:22:31You couldn't have that happen, Frankie.
01:22:36Is this true?
01:22:38Not a word of it.
01:22:39And who stays up half the night looking for speeders?
01:22:42Kimony did.
01:22:43She was heartbroken after Lawrence.
01:22:45She couldn't sleep or find peace anywhere.
01:22:47We know that the cuckoo clock had been moved high enough to kill Brad.
01:22:52And who would have known Brad's height better than you?
01:22:55Try my mother.
01:22:57She seemed to have spent a lot of time with him.
01:22:59Yes, mother.
01:23:00I knew that earring was yours.
01:23:03Would you like to tell us what's on the phone, Frankie?
01:23:07It won't take us long to access it.
01:23:09Well, when you put it like that, Frankie.
01:23:23It was the look on his face that did it.
01:23:32It was this look of pure and utter greed.
01:23:37I knew what he was thinking.
01:23:39So I sent him a message.
01:23:40Why don't we steal the clock and run away together?
01:23:45He agreed.
01:23:47Said we should do it after things had died down.
01:23:49But you came up here and rigged the clock.
01:23:51Because I knew he was lying.
01:23:53He wanted it all for himself.
01:23:57I hoped I was wrong.
01:23:59But sometimes you just know.
01:24:01It was horrible to watch.
01:24:10How did you know that Brad would be there at the right time?
01:24:25I didn't matter what time it was.
01:24:29Frankie knew Brad would turn the hour hands
01:24:32to get the cuckoo to come out regardless.
01:24:36Tell me about Ness.
01:24:38Presumably you saw her up at the house.
01:24:41Kimberly, I just got your message.
01:24:44Oh my God.
01:24:47Are you sure it's her?
01:24:50I can't.
01:24:51I just can't.
01:24:52Not while there's breath in my body.
01:24:54I hadn't a clue who my mother was talking about.
01:24:57Until you realised there was only one person
01:24:59your mother could hate that much.
01:25:01Aggie Marlowe.
01:25:03And there she was.
01:25:05Carrying Francis' teddy.
01:25:08So you took revenge for your brother.
01:25:09How could I not?
01:25:11She's responsible for this nightmare
01:25:14I call my life.
01:25:16Only she wasn't.
01:25:18What?
01:25:19I suggest you speak to Sir Alan about that.
01:25:22I'm curious about the blue ink on Kim and his laptop.
01:25:27Presumably you wanted to throw us off the trail.
01:25:33Sorry, sis.
01:25:35You all but forced me into loving Brad.
01:25:37It was his doing, not mine.
01:25:39But I didn't know that, did I?
01:25:41I believed every word he said.
01:25:43I'm your sister.
01:25:44I was put in a horrible position.
01:25:45You want to know about horrible positions?
01:25:48Try killing three people.
01:25:50Most people would have just called off the engagement.
01:25:53Blame them.
01:25:54They made me that way.
01:25:55I grew up being rejected
01:25:57for not being what they desperately wanted.
01:25:59And there I was again.
01:26:01Not being what Brad wanted.
01:26:03What's a girl to do?
01:26:11Though I rather hoped
01:26:12I was always one step ahead of you.
01:26:14If it's any consolation,
01:26:17you were.
01:26:20But you always saw the wood despite the trees.
01:26:22Oh, how ironic.
01:26:30I don't understand you, Frankie.
01:26:33How about you saying all these things
01:26:34as if you didn't have a care in the world?
01:26:37Because I learned from the worst.
01:26:38If only you and father had wanted me.
01:26:41It's just a simple little thing,
01:26:44like loving a child.
01:26:46But it was beyond both of you.
01:26:52I hope your daughter turns out
01:26:56to be everything you could hope for.
01:27:20That's it.
01:27:21Almost there.
01:27:22He's doing a grand job.
01:27:26He is.
01:27:28And I have to say,
01:27:29I am deeply impressed.
01:27:31Did you know pergolas and derbors
01:27:34date back to early Egyptian times?
01:27:36Really? That far?
01:27:37In some societies,
01:27:38there were actually status symbols.
01:27:40Well, the Barnabys are going up in the world.
01:27:45I'd have had that up an hour ago.
01:27:47You'd be moaning about having
01:27:48a strained back by now.
01:27:50I'm just saying,
01:27:50it would have taken me half the time.
01:27:52Don't listen to them, Winter.
01:27:54You're doing a fine job.
01:27:59A very fine job, indeed.
01:28:00Hey.
01:28:04Hmm.
01:28:07Hmm.
01:28:13Hmm.
01:28:16Hmm.
01:28:17Hmm.
01:28:20Mmm.
01:28:22Hmm.
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