- 23 hours ago
First broadcast 23rd June 2013.
When old family friend Louisa Oxley visits Miss Marple one stormy night seeking help, Miss Marple decides to send her and her son, Archie, to safety at the labyrinthine estate of Greenshaw's Folly, owned by Miss Marple's good friend Katherine Greenshaw, an eccentric botanist and the last surviving Greenshaw.
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Kimberley Nixon as Louisa Oxley
Bobby Smalldridge as Archie Oxley
Martin Compston as Alfred Pollock
Jim Moir as Walter Cracken
Julia Sawalha as Mrs Cresswell
Fiona Shaw as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
Sam Reid as Nat Fletcher
Rufus Jones as Horace Bindler
Joanna David as Grace Ritchie
Robert Glenister as Father Brophy
Judy Parfitt as Cicely Beauclerk
Candida Gubbins as Minnie Tulliver
John Gordon Sinclair as Inspector Welch
Matt Willis as Sergeant Cayley
Oscar Pearce as Philip Oxley
Duncan Casey as Parsons
When old family friend Louisa Oxley visits Miss Marple one stormy night seeking help, Miss Marple decides to send her and her son, Archie, to safety at the labyrinthine estate of Greenshaw's Folly, owned by Miss Marple's good friend Katherine Greenshaw, an eccentric botanist and the last surviving Greenshaw.
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Kimberley Nixon as Louisa Oxley
Bobby Smalldridge as Archie Oxley
Martin Compston as Alfred Pollock
Jim Moir as Walter Cracken
Julia Sawalha as Mrs Cresswell
Fiona Shaw as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
Sam Reid as Nat Fletcher
Rufus Jones as Horace Bindler
Joanna David as Grace Ritchie
Robert Glenister as Father Brophy
Judy Parfitt as Cicely Beauclerk
Candida Gubbins as Minnie Tulliver
John Gordon Sinclair as Inspector Welch
Matt Willis as Sergeant Cayley
Oscar Pearce as Philip Oxley
Duncan Casey as Parsons
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00:00:00Where are we going, Mummy?
00:00:21Is it Merrymead? Not far.
00:00:25Aunt Jane will look after us.
00:00:30Oh, Louisa!
00:00:52You'll be safe here tonight.
00:00:56Tomorrow we'll go somewhere Philip can't find you.
00:01:00Oh, my God.
00:01:25Here we are.
00:01:55Catherine Greenshaw needs a secretary.
00:02:00You can hide away here.
00:02:15Beware Decimus.
00:02:17He is prone to toppling.
00:02:20Miss Greenshaw's father.
00:02:22And eminent scientist.
00:02:25His laboratory still occupies East Wing.
00:02:27Strictly out of bounds now, mind.
00:02:29Far too dangerous.
00:02:31This is Mrs Cresswell, the housekeeper.
00:02:41Hello.
00:02:42You must be Archie.
00:02:44Archie, this is going to be your mummy's room and that one there's yours.
00:02:48And I'm going to look after you both.
00:02:50I do all the work round here.
00:02:52Hello, Mrs Oxley.
00:02:53It's very decent of you to help us out.
00:02:56We're in a bit of a pickle.
00:02:58Oh, Miss Greenshaw helps everyone out, dear.
00:03:00Isn't that right, Mr Cracken?
00:03:02Oh, it's a nature.
00:03:04If you come to the window, you can see her in person.
00:03:07Hmm?
00:03:08There.
00:03:13She's weird.
00:03:17Don't touch.
00:03:18Oh, let him be, heavens.
00:03:19It's only a harp.
00:03:20If you can play the national anthem on that, I'll give you a toffee.
00:03:25Sit down.
00:03:26Oh, why in heaven's name would you want to sit down?
00:03:29I wouldn't want to sit down if I had to listen to a couple of old biddies dribbling on.
00:03:33Just go and explore, boy.
00:03:34Go.
00:03:35Be careful, darling.
00:03:39Has he got spirit?
00:03:41I like a lad with spirit.
00:03:43He has, Miss Greenshaw.
00:03:45But he's had rather a rum do of late.
00:03:48We're extremely grateful to you for taking us in.
00:03:51Well, it's all Jane's doing, Mrs Oxley.
00:03:54Yes.
00:03:55Aunt Jane has been wonderful.
00:03:56Oh, I didn't know she was your aunt.
00:03:58Oh, she's not really.
00:03:59We just called her that.
00:04:01I'm compiling a codex of medicinal plants.
00:04:04It is my life's work, but I can barely see the wretched books anymore.
00:04:09Right.
00:04:10So tell us your qualifications.
00:04:12Can you read and write?
00:04:15Yes, yes.
00:04:17Typing?
00:04:18Bearable.
00:04:19Bad habits?
00:04:21Men.
00:04:23You'll do.
00:04:26But I warn you, there's no mucking about, no running off into town to play bingo or whatever.
00:04:30We've got 7,000 species to get through.
00:04:33You can stay here as long as you like and I'll pay you the same as that girl the solicitor's at, what's her name?
00:04:38Cynthia.
00:04:39Cynthia.
00:04:40Yes, well, is that all settled?
00:04:42Thank you both so much.
00:04:44I think we'll get on very well, Cynthia.
00:04:47I'm Louisa.
00:04:49Well, who's Cynthia?
00:04:50Creswell?
00:04:51Where the devil's our tea?
00:04:53Are you boiling it leaf by leaf?
00:04:55No, I'm not boiling it leaf by leaf.
00:04:57I'm just waiting until you ask for it, Miss Greenshaw.
00:04:59Oh, well, that just means it's probably cold.
00:05:01Have you brought my drops?
00:05:03How are they, Catherine?
00:05:08They're absolutely awful.
00:05:12Oh, this thing is empty.
00:05:15Oh, God.
00:05:16I've got to brew another batch.
00:05:17Here we go.
00:05:18Here we go.
00:05:19Here we go.
00:05:20Here we go.
00:05:21Here we go.
00:05:22Here we go.
00:05:43Here we go.
00:05:50Are you sure, Jane, you don't mind looking after Archie whilst his mother's working?
00:05:55I'd be delighted.
00:05:56Not far to come.
00:05:58He's a good little chap.
00:06:01Archie, what's the matter?
00:06:03There was a man.
00:06:04What kind of man?
00:06:05He had blood on his hands.
00:06:10Did he have black hair and dark eyes?
00:06:16That's Alfred, our new gardener.
00:06:18He has nothing to be afraid of.
00:06:20But he was cross with me.
00:06:22Oh, gardeners usually are.
00:06:24As a rule, they're rather ill-mannered.
00:06:27Have some cake.
00:06:30Afternoon, folks.
00:06:31Oh, Nat.
00:06:32Have you met my nephew?
00:06:33He's an actor.
00:06:35My first dress rehearsal is tonight.
00:06:37I'm just taking every opportunity to run through my lines.
00:06:40The Tangled Web for one week only at Boreham Theatre.
00:06:45Lucky I found some good digs, eh?
00:06:48Oh.
00:06:49Yeah.
00:06:50Toodle-oo.
00:06:51Toodle-oo.
00:06:52Toodle-oo.
00:06:54Toodle-oo.
00:06:55Toodle-oo.
00:06:56You'll find all my reference books in here.
00:07:15They are hard at work, Mr. Bindler.
00:07:17Oh, I fear my task is endless, Miss Greenshaw.
00:07:20You have a superfluity of treasures.
00:07:22Horace Bindler, architectural historian.
00:07:24How do you do?
00:07:25Mr. Bindler is also staying with us.
00:07:28He is preparing a book on 19th century country houses.
00:07:31That is so.
00:07:32And this one is a prime example of what one might loosely call the catastrophic style.
00:07:37My grandfather designed it himself.
00:07:39Entirely by himself.
00:07:41He has visited the Gothic cathedrals of France and also it seems the minarets of Istanbul at some point.
00:07:47It's not called Greenshaw's folly for nothing.
00:07:50Thank you for tea, Catherine. I really must go.
00:07:52Oh, do you have a pressing appointment?
00:07:54Well, just my knitting circle at the local orphanage, Mr. Bindler.
00:07:58It's an engagement I never miss.
00:08:00Well, then please, allow me to convey you.
00:08:03I have for some time been planning to sample the fleshpots of Borum Lovell.
00:08:09The life of Decimus Greenshaw is unaccountably surrounded in mystery.
00:08:13Do you know anything about him?
00:08:16I believe he was a scientist.
00:08:18He had a laboratory here, but they won't let me in it.
00:08:22It would make a nice detail for my book.
00:08:25Do you happen to know where they keep the key?
00:08:28Why don't you ask Miss Greenshaw, Mr. Bindler.
00:08:31Decimus was her father after all.
00:08:33Oh, I have, but she just pulls her face.
00:08:36Perhaps someone in the village knows something.
00:08:38Oh, perhaps they do.
00:08:39If you spend enough money in the fleshpots of Borum Lovell,
00:08:42I dare say they'll offer it up.
00:08:44Oh.
00:09:01Do you know what this is?
00:09:05Deadly nightshade.
00:09:08That's poisonous.
00:09:09Quite right.
00:09:10But plants are awfully like people.
00:09:16Even the bad ones have a good side.
00:09:19You see, I use these roots to distill a chemical called atrophin.
00:09:27Which soothes sore eyes like mine.
00:09:35Thank you, Craig.
00:09:36Craig, can we look after you for a little bit?
00:09:42Very good, ma'am.
00:09:51After you, Mrs. Cicely.
00:09:53Ladies.
00:09:54Why didn't you invite your friend in?
00:09:56Hardly a friend, Chris.
00:09:58They made his acquaintance an hour ago.
00:10:00He just drove me back from Greenshaw's Folly, where he's writing a book.
00:10:04What were you doing up there?
00:10:06Oh, I just went to visit Catherine Greenshaw, Cicely.
00:10:10I can't tell you how grateful we at St Faith's are for all your support, ladies.
00:10:15Your scarves and matching mittens always go down a storm at our bazaars.
00:10:18How many do you have in the orphanage at present, Father Brophy?
00:10:23Thirty-two, Miss Beauclark.
00:10:25How we managed to feed them all, I don't know.
00:10:28Now then, you old man.
00:10:38Have you heard about the Greenshaw ghost?
00:10:41Just little lad he was, not much older than you.
00:10:44They say he met a terrible end,
00:10:47and that his ghost, his spirit, still roams the folly,
00:10:53looking for folk to lure to the doom.
00:10:56I've only seen him there once.
00:10:59Just out there on the landing.
00:11:01But he was as pale as that milk of yours, Archie.
00:11:05As pale as milk.
00:11:11Archie Oxley, I'm sure Mr Craggan has better things to do.
00:11:21Are we needing the long ladder?
00:11:23Surely it can wait until tomorrow.
00:11:24No, it can't wait.
00:11:25It's dark.
00:11:27Someone will have an accident, and we don't want that, Mrs Cresswell.
00:11:54It went bloody well, actually.
00:12:00The director says he's got me in mind for a lead.
00:12:05What are you hoping for?
00:12:08Hamlet, of course.
00:12:09Hamlet, of course.
00:12:10To be continued.
00:12:11To be continued..
00:12:12Yes.
00:12:13To be continued..
00:12:14...
00:12:16...
00:12:18To be continued.
00:12:20From the beginning..
00:12:26I'm a very proud for you...
00:12:28Of course.
00:12:29I've never imagined.
00:12:31Do not continue.
00:12:33To be continued...
00:12:34Come here, you little blighter.
00:13:04Did Mr. Kraken tell you that the house was haunted?
00:13:34Well, I wonder who the ghost he is coming for next?
00:13:40Me perhaps.
00:13:45You.
00:13:50So he was found at midnight?
00:13:56Well, um, there was rather a mighty crash.
00:14:01I always jumped out of my skin.
00:14:05I thought the old place was finally falling down.
00:14:08And did Mr. Kraken have any health issues that you were aware of?
00:14:16Well, he believed he conquered his demons.
00:14:20Well, that was four yesterday afternoon.
00:14:29I'd say his demons got the better of our Walter Kraken.
00:14:34Accidents will happen, one supposes.
00:14:38Especially if we are single malts involved.
00:14:40Yes, it's all easy as he hasn't touched a drop.
00:14:43I just don't believe my butler was a drunk.
00:14:45Oh, Jane, um, do you know Miss Marple, Inspector Worf?
00:14:49Miss Marple?
00:14:50Yes, of course, I know Miss Marple.
00:14:52Miss Marple.
00:14:53How do you do, Inspector?
00:14:54Sergeant Carey.
00:14:55Oh.
00:14:56Good.
00:14:57Yes, well, thank you.
00:14:58Miss Greenshaw, you've been most helpful.
00:14:59Come on, Ronnie.
00:15:00Keep up.
00:15:01Hiya.
00:15:02I'll be okay.
00:15:03I'll be okay.
00:15:04I'll be okay.
00:15:05I'll be okay.
00:15:32I'll be okay.
00:15:33I'll be okay.
00:15:34I'll be okay.
00:15:35I'll be okay.
00:15:36I'll be okay.
00:15:37I'll be okay.
00:15:44He's clammed up.
00:15:45Doesn't trust anyone.
00:15:47How are you happy to stay here, Louisa?
00:15:50Given what's happened.
00:15:52Surely Kraken's death was nothing but a dreadful accident.
00:15:57We've nowhere else to go, Aunt Jane.
00:16:01I have to be somewhere no one would think to look, especially Archie's father.
00:16:06And he has your address, you know.
00:16:13Aunt Catherine was wondering if you could come down for some dictation.
00:16:16She wants to work, take her mind off things.
00:16:18It's understandable.
00:16:19She's had a shock.
00:16:20I'll look after Archie.
00:16:32When's your first night, Mr. Fletcher?
00:16:34Mr. Max.
00:16:35Oh, oh.
00:16:36Break your leg.
00:16:37Isn't that what they say?
00:16:38Poor old Kraken.
00:16:39Must have fallen a fair distance.
00:16:40I ought to go and offer my condolences to Miss Greenshaw.
00:16:43The coppers probably think I'd done it.
00:16:44Must be your face.
00:16:45What?
00:16:46What is your face?
00:16:47What is your face?
00:16:48What?
00:16:49What?
00:16:50What is your face?
00:16:51Old woman is a fucking villain.
00:16:52Poor old Kraken.
00:17:01Must have fallen a fair distance.
00:17:04I ought to go and offer my condolences to Miss Greenshaw.
00:17:09Coppers probably think I'd done it.
00:17:11Must be your face.
00:17:15It's a very large house, isn't it?
00:17:18Sometimes when I'm alone in my house,
00:17:20I get scared of all the creaks and groans.
00:17:24Really?
00:17:25That's a secret. Don't tell anyone.
00:17:28I don't want them to think I'm completely bonkers.
00:17:30No, miss.
00:17:32Has anything funny ever happened to you?
00:17:34I promise to keep it a secret if it did.
00:17:38I saw a ghost.
00:17:40Did you?
00:17:41Yes.
00:17:42Where was that?
00:17:43Here.
00:17:44Here?
00:17:45On the landing.
00:17:46Just like Mr Kraken said, as pale as milk.
00:17:49Mr Kraken was spinning a yarn, Archie.
00:17:53No.
00:17:53I did see the ghost.
00:17:55When was that?
00:17:56Last night.
00:17:57I was going to...
00:17:57Ah!
00:17:59You intrepid explorers.
00:18:01Where are you going?
00:18:02Oh, Archie and I have been viewing the splendours of the house.
00:18:06We've just seen the crockets on the East Tower.
00:18:10Remarkable, aren't they?
00:18:14Indeed they are.
00:18:16That's what sakura was.
00:18:43I don't think I could be as brave as you if I'd just seen a ghost.
00:18:56In fact, I think you could do with a reward for being so courageous.
00:19:01How would you like to go and see Mr. Fletcher in his play tomorrow, hmm?
00:19:06Oh!
00:19:09Afternoon, mess.
00:19:10Archie, isn't her?
00:19:12Have I heard one of these?
00:19:14Go on.
00:19:20There you go.
00:19:21Get your hands on that.
00:19:24Archie the archery.
00:19:30How did you get those bruises?
00:19:32I got into trouble.
00:19:36All right.
00:19:38Here we are.
00:19:40One finger above, two below, right?
00:19:42Eye on the target.
00:19:45Go as hard as you can.
00:19:48That's the one.
00:19:50Good lad.
00:19:51Polio trials.
00:20:02Polio trials.
00:20:04The sap of betula lenta, more commonly known as sweet birch, is a source of methyl salicylate.
00:20:25M-E-T-H-Y-L.
00:20:28What is it, Louisa?
00:20:31Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Greenjoy.
00:20:33It's getting late.
00:20:33I really ought to fetch him my son.
00:20:36Archie!
00:20:37Aunt Jane!
00:20:40Archie, it's getting dark!
00:20:42Ill met by moonlight, Proud Titania.
00:20:49I know where they are.
00:20:50Come with me.
00:20:52What were you doing in the bushes?
00:20:54Audition speech.
00:20:55Shakespeare sounds better in situ.
00:20:57He's playing bows and arrows.
00:20:58Steady.
00:20:59Arms straight.
00:21:00Keep your eye on the child.
00:21:00Are you out of your mind?
00:21:02You don't give a weapon to a child.
00:21:04It's just a game, Louisa.
00:21:06He's perfectly safe.
00:21:08Oh.
00:21:11Sorry.
00:21:14Your hands are filthy.
00:21:15We're going inside.
00:21:21Nice when you make a good impression, isn't it?
00:21:24Right.
00:21:28I just love you.
00:21:58A toast.
00:22:02To a fine butler, a true gentleman, and...
00:22:06Please, Father Brophy, I think that's quite enough.
00:22:10Ah, Mr Binler. Mulled wine?
00:22:13Mulled wine before dinner.
00:22:15How exquisitely rural.
00:22:16Yes, please.
00:22:18Are your investigations bearing fruit?
00:22:21Well, the Greenshaws are a fascinating family.
00:22:24The fruit hangs low on the bough.
00:22:26Well, all one has to do is picket.
00:22:35So?
00:22:37When is everyone coming to Boreham Theatre?
00:22:40Oh, think what it would be like when I'm famous
00:22:41to say you saw me in an early role.
00:22:44Those film stars own good money, don't they?
00:22:46I'm a classical actor, sir. I have no ambition to be a film star.
00:22:49Can one make a living on the stage, Mr Fletcher?
00:22:52Well, not on a number two tour, no.
00:22:54No. The rewards are so meagre that I've often considered setting up a charity.
00:22:58Like yours, Father.
00:23:00Just to make ends meet.
00:23:02Oh, I say, steady on. There's no...
00:23:04No, I didn't mean that.
00:23:06Just that actors and orphans have a lot in common, that's all.
00:23:09Yes, but I rather think that orphans are more deserving of our generosity than actors.
00:23:14Well, since I am both Aunt Catherine, I stand to profit either way.
00:23:18What is it?
00:23:30The ghost! The ghost!
00:23:34Where?
00:23:35It's all right, darling.
00:23:57I thought you could both do with a nice cup of cocoa.
00:24:04Oh, thank you.
00:24:07Ah, that's Mr Bindler's bedtime snack.
00:24:13Ah, not yet. It's too hot.
00:24:18Oh, my God!
00:24:19But where is Mr Bindler?
00:24:33Good morning.
00:24:54I wish it was, Miss Marple, but Horace Bindler has vanished in the night,
00:24:57leaving me with a shocking, awful mess to clear up.
00:24:59I saw the ghost again last night.
00:25:06Oh, but the same one.
00:25:08Pale and cloaked.
00:25:11I do think you're brave, aren't you?
00:25:15So you really have no idea who they're from?
00:25:18Oh, beautiful lilies.
00:25:20Mm, lilium rubellum, to be precise.
00:25:23Louisa has a secret admirer.
00:25:25And it looks like there are presents for everyone today, Archie.
00:25:34From the nursery, unopened.
00:25:38An archery set.
00:25:40Take it out and shoot something.
00:25:43Right.
00:25:46Stay near the house.
00:25:48Well, he can't do any harm.
00:25:49The cup of the chews?
00:26:02Cheers.
00:26:13It's fine, hasn't it, Bindler?
00:26:14Well, I tried to light it last night, but Mr. Bindler threw me out on my ear.
00:26:20Said he was perfectly warm.
00:26:21But it was such a cold night.
00:26:31Oughtn't you to answer that, Mrs. Craswell?
00:26:33Yes, well, that used to be Mr. Kraken's duty.
00:26:39I suppose I ought to get used to that now.
00:26:43Just one more ruddy thing to think about.
00:26:45Yes.
00:27:03The production of this organic compound
00:27:32is thought to be a natural defence against...
00:27:37That is odd.
00:27:41Did you move the paperweight, Louisa?
00:27:43Uh, no.
00:27:48Excuse me, Miss Greenshaw.
00:27:49Father Brophy is here to see you.
00:27:51Oh.
00:27:56No, she'll let you out then.
00:27:57That's unusual.
00:27:58Father Brophy.
00:28:04Oh.
00:28:04Come to rattle his collecting tin.
00:28:07A rather large one, I'd say.
00:28:11Rubbish!
00:28:12It's regarding St. Faith.
00:28:15Your remark to Mr. Fletcher last night
00:28:17that an orphan's hand might be more deserving than...
00:28:24Remember the children.
00:28:26I will.
00:28:27Along with your gambling debts and bar bills.
00:28:30Every penny will go to those that most need it.
00:28:32You promised me that the last time.
00:28:34St. Faith's will be taken care of
00:28:36after I'm gone.
00:28:38But if you could release some funds now...
00:28:40The answer is no, Father Brophy.
00:28:46In you go.
00:28:49You're off, Father.
00:28:52Just heading for the bus stop.
00:28:54Hop in with us.
00:28:55Archie and I going to the theatre.
00:28:56You.
00:29:15How did you find me?
00:29:17Damn your eyes, Parsons.
00:29:19You've double-crossed me.
00:29:20I'll see you in hell for this.
00:29:22You'll be waiting a long time, Lambert.
00:29:25I'll see you in hell for this.
00:29:26Come on!
00:29:32Aha!
00:29:34Aроh!
00:29:36Aroh!
00:29:42Aroh!
00:29:43Aroh!
00:29:46Aroh!
00:29:48Aroh!
00:29:48Aroh!
00:29:49Aroh!
00:29:50Aroh!
00:29:51Aroh!
00:29:52Aroh!
00:29:52Aroh!
00:29:53Aroh!
00:29:53Aroh!
00:29:54There's Mr. Fletcher.
00:29:56Hello, hello. Yes, I wonder, do you have a reporter called Horace Bindler working at the Clarion?
00:30:02No, I've found his notebook. I'm trying to return it to him.
00:30:07Oh, you have Horace Lethbridge.
00:30:11Well, yes, dapper, certainly. Does he wear a bow tie?
00:30:16Well, could I speak to him, please?
00:30:19Well, you haven't seen him at all, but he was due to file a copy yesterday.
00:30:28Yes, thank you so much.
00:30:36We've been running a sweepstake, Miss Marple.
00:30:39The boys have been taking bets on how long it would be before you put in an appearance here.
00:30:43Oh, that is a pity. Why?
00:30:46Well, bookmaking for cash is, as you know, illegal.
00:30:51I would hate to think that the trouble your officers would be in when the authorities find out.
00:30:55Yeah, now, hang on just a minute.
00:30:57I'd like you to do something for me.
00:30:59And what would that be?
00:31:00A post-mortem.
00:31:02But you're still alive, Miss Marple.
00:31:05We generally reserve post-mortems for dead people.
00:31:08Very good.
00:31:09But you can order a post-mortem if the death is held to be suspicious.
00:31:14And whose death is held to be suspicious?
00:31:17Walter Crackham's.
00:31:19A heavily drunk man falling from a ladder isn't what we regard as suspicious circumstances.
00:31:24But can we be sure he was drunk?
00:31:27A post-mortem would prove it.
00:31:29A known alcoholic up a ladder at midnight with a decanter of whiskey inside him.
00:31:34We'd be laughed out of the coroner's office.
00:31:37Well, I'm sure you know your business.
00:31:39Um...
00:31:40Good day.
00:31:45Sir.
00:31:46Something's come up.
00:31:55We'll only be here for a little while, Archie.
00:31:57Then we'll go to a new house.
00:31:59Start a new life.
00:32:00Where?
00:32:01I don't know.
00:32:02Another country, maybe?
00:32:04I don't want to go to another country.
00:32:07I want to stay here with Alfred.
00:32:11What's the matter, Mummy?
00:32:13Is it the ghost?
00:32:15It can't be.
00:32:20Mummy, I don't want to leave!
00:32:22No, stop the car!
00:32:24Stop the car!
00:32:25Please stop the car!
00:32:27No!
00:32:35Are you all right, darling?
00:32:37Don't worry.
00:32:38Everything's gonna be all right.
00:32:39Do you hear me?
00:32:40Everything's gonna be all right.
00:32:47Are you all right?
00:32:49Yeah.
00:32:51Yeah, come with me.
00:32:54I'm as jumpy as Archie.
00:33:09I was so sure I saw his face at the window.
00:33:11I...
00:33:12It seems so silly now.
00:33:13I...
00:33:22I was very young when I met my husband.
00:33:26Philip was the debonair doctor.
00:33:28But a sadist...
00:33:30Each one of these came with the promise that he'd never hurt me again.
00:33:42He's killed my belief that a person can change.
00:33:47You don't think a person can change?
00:33:49No.
00:33:51I don't.
00:33:55I should've left him a long time ago, but...
00:33:58But...
00:33:59Every time I tried, he'd...
00:34:01Convince me that a child needs a father.
00:34:05A father who'd beat his own son.
00:34:09Well, that was the last straw.
00:34:12I got out.
00:34:14But now I'm terrified that it was him who sent me those flowers.
00:34:20Just to let me know he's coming for me.
00:34:23I've met quite a few thugs like him.
00:34:26Once the others tumbled them, they...
00:34:28Didn't stand a chance.
00:34:30The others...
00:34:31Inside...
00:34:34They'd get the bastards in an empty cell and...
00:34:40Teach them a lesson.
00:34:46I moved around a lot when I was a boy.
00:34:49Just one...
00:34:51Horrible situation to the next.
00:34:55Prison was just the next step.
00:35:01It's Nat.
00:35:03Nat Fletcher.
00:35:07Who's there?
00:35:08It's Nat. Nat Fletcher.
00:35:18Oh.
00:35:22Oh.
00:35:23I was coming back from the theatre and I...
00:35:25Noticed...
00:35:26Your...
00:35:27Car was in the trees and when I saw that it was empty, the alarm bells sounded.
00:35:30Thought you and I could form a search party.
00:35:33No need, it seems.
00:35:36You've been out and searched already.
00:35:38Yes.
00:35:40Here's a wet patch of leaves, that's all.
00:35:42Just a silly skit.
00:35:44Well, you can't stay here in this dump.
00:35:46Hot baths and your own beds are what you need.
00:35:48I'll take you back.
00:35:49Come on.
00:35:51Come on, little chap.
00:35:52Wakey, wakey.
00:35:53Yes.
00:35:56Archie.
00:35:57Good morning, Alfred.
00:35:58Lovely day.
00:35:59Hmm?
00:36:00Is it?
00:36:01Quite nice.
00:36:02Father Brophy tells me you've become quite the regular up at Greenshaw's Folly.
00:36:04Well, it is a fascinating place.
00:36:05Uh, in fact, I...
00:36:06I've been wondering if...
00:36:07If you might be able to shed some light on some of the old people like that.
00:36:08I'm sure you've got a good home.
00:36:09You've got a good home, you've got a good home, you know?
00:36:10What are you doing, dear?
00:36:12Uh, dear.
00:36:13Oh, dear.
00:36:14Oh, dear.
00:36:15Oh, dear.
00:36:16Oh, dear.
00:36:17Oh, dear.
00:36:18Oh, dear.
00:36:19Oh, dear.
00:36:20Oh, dear.
00:36:21Oh, dear.
00:36:22Oh, dear.
00:36:23Oh, dear.
00:36:24he tells me you've become quite the regular up at Greenshaw's Folly.
00:36:28Well, it is a fascinating place.
00:36:31In fact, I've been wondering if you might be able to shed some light
00:36:37on some of Mr. Bindler's notes that have come my way,
00:36:40since you've lived in Borham your whole life.
00:36:43Now, there's something about St. Faith, St. Decimus, Greenshaw.
00:36:49The old professor?
00:36:50Well, he was no philanthropist, as far as I'm aware, anyway.
00:36:55What was his connection with the orphanage?
00:36:58What is the great race?
00:37:02I'm sorry.
00:37:04I suddenly feel rather faint.
00:37:06Mrs. Sire?
00:37:08I haven't been feeling myself recently.
00:37:10Oh, I'm sorry. I'll get you some water.
00:37:20Oh, thank you.
00:37:31Good morning.
00:37:45Oh, you've, um...
00:37:49You've caught me before I'm properly up and about, Miss Marple.
00:37:53Your commitment puts me to shame.
00:37:56Can I, um...
00:37:58Can I help with preparations for the bazaar?
00:38:01Oh, no, thank you.
00:38:02I'd like to see the orphanage records, if I may.
00:38:06If you're up to showing me, that is.
00:38:13That's odd.
00:38:25There's a gap.
00:38:26The years between 1900 and 1910 are missing.
00:38:30That's before my time, I'm afraid.
00:38:32Alfred.
00:38:44What the devil's going on?
00:38:50Are you stealing from me?
00:38:54I think we ought to have a talk.
00:38:55I think we ought to have a talk.
00:39:02You're right.
00:39:17People can't change.
00:39:19At least they've still got a job.
00:39:20Who's there?
00:39:30Oh, Jane.
00:39:44Have you heard about Mr. Bindle?
00:39:46The police have found his car in the Bottlenborough Lake.
00:39:49Yes, I heard.
00:39:51And Mr. Bindle himself?
00:39:52Any sign?
00:39:54Ah, strange business.
00:39:56Mrs. Cresnell asked me to give you that.
00:39:58It was on the mat.
00:40:04Oh, dear.
00:40:08Remember the children.
00:40:11St. Faith's Orphanage.
00:40:151899.
00:40:17Sent anonymously, I take it?
00:40:18From a summer with some connection to my late father's work, I fear.
00:40:29I had no idea the orphanage was tangled up in it all.
00:40:38Hmm.
00:40:42You want to tell me about it, Catherine?
00:40:45What did he do?
00:40:46What was the great race?
00:40:51Well, uh...
00:40:53They were trying to find a cure for polio.
00:40:57It was all very urgent.
00:41:01I was too young to understand what went on in his laboratory,
00:41:04but there were rumours.
00:41:10I recall hearing ambulances coming and going,
00:41:14and raised voices in the night.
00:41:20And these recent uncertainties have brought back those memories.
00:41:25These thefts and accidents and objects mysteriously moved.
00:41:31And have these incidents continued since Mr. Bindle's disappearance?
00:41:36Yes.
00:41:37What is going on, Jane?
00:41:43I think I ought to get around to making my will just in case I'm next.
00:41:59Sicily.
00:42:00The candlesticks were a gift from my father when I graduated from Oxford.
00:42:19I took a double first in chemistry, you know.
00:42:21But it didn't teach me a lot about people.
00:42:28I was convinced that if I took that young man under my wing,
00:42:32that he would mend his ways.
00:42:35You may still be right.
00:42:37No.
00:42:38When he came here, Alfred had just served three months in Barlini prison for theft.
00:42:45Old habits, it seems, die hard.
00:42:48He's certainly approving a tonic to Archie and Louisa.
00:42:54Thou art thy mother's glass.
00:43:00And she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime.
00:43:06Shakespeare's sonnet.
00:43:07Number...
00:43:08Three.
00:43:10I say, Alfred,
00:43:22Aunty wants you to turn over the compost heap.
00:43:25Now, if you don't mind.
00:43:26Tittlepip.
00:43:29Yes, well, I should be getting back to work, too.
00:43:32No rest for the wicked, eh?
00:43:33What makes you think I'm wicked?
00:43:35Everybody is.
00:43:36All right.
00:43:37Can I give you a ride into Bora, Miss Marple?
00:43:39Oh, are you going that way, Mr. Fletcher?
00:43:41Half-hour calls at 2.30.
00:43:43In fact, you can hear my lines on the way.
00:43:45Oh.
00:43:46I'll bring the motor around.
00:44:09If you need anything else, Mrs. Oxley, I'll be in my quarters, itemising the accounts.
00:44:33Thank you, Mrs. Cresswell.
00:44:35Now the job the butler's meant to do.
00:44:37I'm still in.
00:45:07Help!
00:45:08Help!
00:45:09Help!
00:45:10Help!
00:45:12Help!
00:45:13Help!
00:45:14Help!
00:45:15Help!
00:45:16Help!
00:45:17Help!
00:45:18Help!
00:45:19Help!
00:45:20Help!
00:45:21Help!
00:45:22Help!
00:45:24Help!
00:45:25Help!
00:45:26Help!
00:45:27Help!
00:45:28Help!
00:45:29Help!
00:45:30Help!
00:45:31Help!
00:45:32Help!
00:45:33Help!
00:45:34Help!
00:45:35Help!
00:46:06He shot me!
00:46:17Miss Greenshaw!
00:46:18Mrs. Breswell!
00:46:20Get help!
00:46:22Help!
00:46:24Help!
00:46:25Help!
00:46:26You take the bus from Holborn Station and it stops right outside Somerset House.
00:46:31Now, your instructions are in there.
00:46:33Oh, permission to London!
00:46:35Cicely and Grace will be green with envy.
00:46:37Yes, no.
00:46:38Give it to ourselves.
00:46:39I suppose I should really take a message for Father Brophy.
00:46:43He's most likely visiting some needy parishioner.
00:46:47Yes, most likely, dear.
00:46:49St. Faith's Orphanage, can I...
00:46:52What?
00:46:53Your voice is very faint.
00:47:00Yes, she's here.
00:47:02Miss Greenshaw.
00:47:04Are you there?
00:47:06Hello?
00:47:07Catherine?
00:47:09Catherine?
00:47:10The line's gone dead.
00:47:11She sounded most peculiar.
00:47:16Sort of garbled, drowsy.
00:47:19What did she want?
00:47:20Fish.
00:47:21Fish?
00:47:23Yes.
00:47:24A mound of cod.
00:47:25Or a pile of carp.
00:47:29No.
00:47:30A heap of haddock.
00:47:31I think that's what she said.
00:47:35Well, surely it can wait.
00:47:37No, I don't think so, Minnie.
00:47:40I fear it can't.
00:47:47Can you hear me, Miss Greenshaw?
00:47:50I've called the police.
00:47:53They're on their way.
00:47:54Oh, come and let me out.
00:47:55I can't.
00:47:56I'm locked in, too.
00:47:58Oh, God.
00:48:00Archie.
00:48:02Help!
00:48:03Help!
00:48:03Don't be afraid.
00:48:06I won't let them hurt you again.
00:48:10Greenshaw's not going to get away with it this time, Edwin.
00:48:16It's no good.
00:48:17I can't climb down from here.
00:48:19Do be careful, Mrs. Opsley.
00:48:22Oh.
00:48:22Oh, thank goodness.
00:48:24Please.
00:48:24Please hurry.
00:48:25Miss Greenshaw's been attacked.
00:48:26She's in the house.
00:48:28Ma'am.
00:48:28Please hurry.
00:48:29She's been badly hurt.
00:48:34Oh, please, Edwin.
00:48:36Do as I say.
00:48:37It's for the best.
00:48:39My name's Archie.
00:48:40Who are you?
00:48:42Here's a stroke of luck.
00:48:44Please.
00:48:45Can you help, dear Edwin?
00:48:46The Greenshaw's are trying to kill him.
00:48:50Oh, you'd better hop in then, Archie.
00:48:53No, Daddy!
00:48:54Archie.
00:48:54Archie.
00:48:56Archie.
00:48:58Archie.
00:48:59Come here.
00:49:01Archie.
00:49:03Constable.
00:49:03Oh, what's he doing down there?
00:49:08Archie.
00:49:16Alfie.
00:49:17Let's see if we can get into the back.
00:49:45Oh, thank heavens.
00:49:46Please, Inspector.
00:49:47Miss Greenshaw's been shot with an arrow.
00:49:51She stumbled into the house.
00:49:53And we're locked in.
00:50:01One whole place searched.
00:50:03Seal it off.
00:50:03Nobody leaves.
00:50:04Archie, where are you, darling?
00:50:16I want to go down there, miss.
00:50:17I have to find my son.
00:50:18I need you to stay calm.
00:50:43You must find him.
00:50:44Right now, my primary concern is the murder of Catherine Greenshaw.
00:50:48Catherine.
00:50:49Murder.
00:50:52Mrs. Oxley, there is a murder scene.
00:50:54I don't want you disturbing the evidence.
00:50:56Let's get everyone into the library.
00:50:57I expect the works will have my guts for garters, Mark.
00:51:20Could you please, sister, please do as I ask.
00:51:23Come and wait in the library.
00:51:33I asked you to remain in the library, Miss Marple.
00:51:37Hmm?
00:51:38Yes.
00:51:39Yes.
00:51:40It's just that I have some information I thought you might be interested in.
00:51:43At two minutes past four, I had a very odd phone call from Miss Greenshaw asking for a heap of haddock or some such thing.
00:51:53Miss Marple, at two minutes past four, Miss Greenshaw had just been shot in the neck.
00:51:58You'd think she might have mentioned that before she asked you to go to the fishmongers.
00:52:03All I'm interested in at the moment is establishing who might have been here at the time.
00:52:07Now, go and wait in the library.
00:52:13What the hell's going on?
00:52:29Nathaniel Fletcher.
00:52:30Yeah?
00:52:30We'd be grateful if you'd go and wait with the others, please, sir.
00:52:32Others?
00:52:33What others?
00:52:35Follow me.
00:52:37Where on the back?
00:52:39Cut the library, sir.
00:52:43Let's take a place.
00:52:49Mummy!
00:52:50Oh, my darling, thank God.
00:52:52I've been so worried.
00:52:53Where have you been?
00:52:54It was an old lady.
00:52:55Then Daddy came and tried to take me away.
00:52:58But Alfred wouldn't let him.
00:52:59He punched him on the nose.
00:53:01Daddy was bleeding.
00:53:02Where's Daddy now?
00:53:04He gave us the slip, I'm afraid, Mrs Oxley.
00:53:07We couldn't catch him.
00:53:08So, as an alternative, you've arrested the man who protected my son?
00:53:12We haven't arrested him.
00:53:14We've asked him in for questioning.
00:53:18Pollock, sir.
00:53:19Found it in his cottage.
00:53:20Seems he was all packed and ready to scarper.
00:53:27If you would care to have a seat, Miss Marple.
00:53:29I did.
00:53:59Father Brophy, he was hurrying towards the bus stop.
00:54:02Brophy?
00:54:04Bring him in.
00:54:06But, sir, he's a man of the cloth.
00:54:07Bring him in.
00:54:09And your mistress definitely shouted, he shot me.
00:54:13Loud and clear, Inspector.
00:54:16Mrs Oxley and I both heard her.
00:54:20And then what happened?
00:54:22Then she pointed across the lawn.
00:54:25In which direction?
00:54:29Towards the cottage where Alfred Pollock lives.
00:54:35And you say he always finishes at four o'clock exactly.
00:54:42It's my fault.
00:54:43I saw him stealing.
00:54:51Do you think he did this to keep her quiet?
00:54:58One of yours.
00:55:04And you had your eye on these as well.
00:55:07So I hear.
00:55:08Where were you at four o'clock this afternoon, Mr Pollock?
00:55:16On the grounds.
00:55:18Digging the compost heap.
00:55:21Want to come dust it for print?
00:55:24Was anyone with you?
00:55:25No.
00:55:26No alibi.
00:55:28A motive to silence the victim.
00:55:29A rucksack packed ready for a quick departure.
00:55:32Oh, and a criminal record.
00:55:35Nearly forgot.
00:55:37Who would do a thing like that?
00:55:39We're pretty close to establishing that, Mr Fletcher.
00:55:42Are you?
00:55:43Good.
00:55:45I mean, it's unbelievable.
00:55:48You understand that in the absence of a will,
00:55:51you would be named sole beneficiary of your aunt's estate?
00:55:54Uh, I don't think so.
00:55:57My understanding is that she's left everything to St Faith's orphanage.
00:56:03Alfred Pollock was one of your charges at St Faith's, I believe.
00:56:08Did he ever get himself in any trouble?
00:56:11Oh, you know, the, uh, usual rough and tumble.
00:56:15Yeah, it was a bit more than the usual rough and tumble
00:56:18that landed them in Berlin, though.
00:56:20Resisting arrest.
00:56:22Theft.
00:56:22Well, he was a good lad when he left me.
00:56:26But he fell in with a bad crowd.
00:56:28Scottish.
00:56:32But you stayed in touch with him.
00:56:34Became friends, even.
00:56:37And you say you saw him this afternoon?
00:56:42Yes, I often come for a stroll around the folly.
00:56:45I saw him gardening from across the field.
00:56:49At what time?
00:56:50Oh, um, about four o'clock, I should say.
00:57:03I'd like to thank you all for your cooperation.
00:57:06We don't expect this will take very long.
00:57:08I would like you to remain in the house until I return.
00:57:10Is that clear?
00:57:11We have an officer stationed outside.
00:57:14Do not attempt to leave without permission.
00:57:21Let's head back by a boring theatre,
00:57:22make sure Mr Fletcher was on stage when he says he was.
00:57:26Stay put, Jenkins.
00:57:27Oh, let's go.
00:57:27Let's go.
00:57:39Let's go.
00:57:42I'm rather envious of you, old sport.
00:58:00Envious of Archie?
00:58:02Why?
00:58:03Well, because he has a mother who would stand between him and any danger.
00:58:08Someone to smooth his way in life.
00:58:12Didn't you have anyone to smooth your way in life?
00:58:16My mother died in childbirth.
00:58:20I killed her.
00:58:23I've had to live with that.
00:58:25I'm so sorry.
00:58:28But I'm sure she's proud of all you've achieved.
00:58:31One does hope so.
00:58:42You told Mummy that an old lady took you away this afternoon?
00:58:51The police thought I meant the ghost, but it wasn't him.
00:58:55It was a live woman.
00:58:58She was in a science place.
00:59:01Oh, you found the lab.
00:59:03Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.
00:59:05What did she look like?
00:59:07Well, old.
00:59:09Like me?
00:59:10Yes, miss.
00:59:11But she was scary.
00:59:12She kept on saying,
00:59:14Greenshaw won't get away with it this time.
00:59:18And did you mention this to the police inspector when he spoke to you?
00:59:22And she kept calling me Edwin.
00:59:26Everyone here's a bit weird, aren't they?
00:59:29Let's have some music.
00:59:38This is my auntie's favourite song.
00:59:40Really?
00:59:41I thought she liked Schubert.
00:59:43Oh.
00:59:43There's so many things I don't know about her, Miss Marple.
00:59:49Aunt Catherine and I were just starting to get acquainted.
00:59:52My mother, Nettie, married beneath herself, you see.
00:59:57The Greenshaw's where they weren't too impressed.
01:00:00Kicked her out.
01:00:02I'm a bit like the black sheep returning to the fold.
01:00:05That's a very luxurious fold, Mr. Fletcher.
01:00:09I dare say you won't go short of straw.
01:00:11To me, art is more important than money.
01:00:22I'm glad you stayed.
01:00:25Must be the only one who has.
01:00:29No.
01:00:30There's someone else.
01:00:32Who?
01:00:35Archie.
01:00:41Is it him?
01:00:44I don't know.
01:00:46Stay here.
01:00:59You shouldn't have let him go.
01:01:01It's dangerous.
01:01:02What the hell is he doing?
01:01:03Oh!
01:01:06Go up me, you prude!
01:01:08Jane!
01:01:10It's all right, Alfred.
01:01:11You can let her go.
01:01:12She's a friend of mine.
01:01:13Then what was she doing in the lab?
01:01:14Sicily.
01:01:16Come with me.
01:01:18Into the kitchen.
01:01:25So, what were you doing in Greenshaw's laboratory?
01:01:28Jane, Jane, the things I've been doing, living in the past, I'm haunted by the thought that I killed him.
01:01:42That I killed my old brother.
01:01:47So, you were both at St. Faith's?
01:01:49Yes.
01:01:49And when they came to take Edwin away, there was nothing I could do but stand and watch.
01:01:58And then, today, in the lab, when I saw the little boy, Archie, something in my mind seemed to say,
01:02:07Rescue him!
01:02:09I thought the professor's experiments were starting up again.
01:02:15Sister, listen to me.
01:02:17You and Edwin were children.
01:02:19You could not have stood up against Decimus Greenshaw.
01:02:23He was a monster.
01:02:24Yes, he was.
01:02:29This is his journal?
01:02:31Yes.
01:02:33I needed to see it.
01:02:37Jane, am I going mad?
01:02:41Oh, no.
01:02:42Court solved.
01:02:43Is everything all right?
01:02:44Yes.
01:02:45Absolutely fine.
01:02:46Thank you, Mrs. Cresswell.
01:02:47Good.
01:02:48Well, I said I'd make tea for everybody.
01:02:52What's that book?
01:02:54I was just looking at it.
01:02:56We were putting it back.
01:03:05Jane?
01:03:08Are you all right?
01:03:09Oh, dear God, Mr. Windler.
01:03:33What's that he's holding?
01:03:34He's out.
01:03:34He's out.
01:03:40It's only a power cut.
01:03:41Stay calm and I'll fetch some torches.
01:03:43Help!
01:03:48Isn't there supposed to be a policeman here?
01:03:51Let's try the telephone.
01:03:57There's no line.
01:03:58We're trapped.
01:04:00We're trapped.
01:04:02No!
01:04:03Archie!
01:04:04Take it!
01:04:08Kill him!
01:04:08Don't hurt him!
01:04:10No!
01:04:16Archie!
01:04:21Let me out!
01:04:24Let me out!
01:04:24I've got nothing wrong!
01:04:27I want to see my son!
01:04:28Get me out of here!
01:04:38You can't get out, can you?
01:04:39No.
01:04:39He's going nowhere.
01:04:41Archie, don't be scared.
01:04:44I promise you, as long as I'm around nobody,
01:04:45it's going to hurt you.
01:04:47Nobody.
01:04:48All right?
01:04:49A little early for that, I would have thought, Father.
01:04:52Early?
01:04:54I've been up all night.
01:04:56I'm sure Inspector Welch will return soon, Father.
01:05:00And once the facts are established,
01:05:02we can all go home, can't we?
01:05:08Where's Jenkins?
01:05:10I left him.
01:05:11God!
01:05:11God!
01:05:11God!
01:05:11What's that on his hand?
01:05:28A button?
01:05:30Looks like his soft Pollock's jacket.
01:05:32The one we found in his rucksack.
01:05:35Yeah.
01:05:36Get it checked.
01:05:36Careful now, Father.
01:05:44We don't want you to end up like Mr. Kraken.
01:05:48Walter Kraken didn't touch a drop for ten years or more.
01:05:52Not since his wife passed.
01:05:54House fire.
01:05:56Folks thought he caused it because he was drunk.
01:06:01It's amazing the things people tell you when you're a priest.
01:06:07Right.
01:06:09I asked you all to stay put and keep calm for a few hours.
01:06:12And what do I find in my return?
01:06:14A constable is missing, a telephone line cut,
01:06:17and a decomposing corpse outside the kitchen.
01:06:21Greenshaw's Folly.
01:06:22What a place.
01:06:23Come on, let me out of here!
01:06:25Let me out!
01:06:26Let me out!
01:06:29What's that?
01:06:30That's the bloke I locked in the cupboard.
01:06:32Archie's dad.
01:06:33You, over there.
01:06:38Sir!
01:06:46Over here!
01:06:48You seriously assaulted a police officer,
01:06:51fought with a gardener,
01:06:53kidnapped your son whilst brandishing a knife?
01:06:55You'd do the same to get your boy back.
01:06:57Did you also remove the lady who stood in the way of your plans?
01:06:59What's Catherine Greenshaw, the owner of this house?
01:07:02Did you kill her?
01:07:04No.
01:07:04Why'd you say that?
01:07:05We know you're a violent man, Dr Oxley.
01:07:07That's why they locked you in a cupboard.
01:07:09What about that thug who cursed me?
01:07:11You should be handcuffing him!
01:07:13Oh, we're lucky to have been let out for a breath of fresh air, Archie.
01:07:23The police inspector thought my idea was very sensible.
01:07:26Yes, he did, didn't he?
01:07:28How did you find out about this place?
01:07:30Miss Greenshaw showed me.
01:07:31She showed me her plants.
01:07:33There.
01:07:35Deadly nightshade.
01:07:36Don't eat the berries.
01:07:40No.
01:07:43Atropa belladonna.
01:07:45It's for her eyes.
01:07:52Oh.
01:07:53How could I have been so absurdly slow?
01:07:57Not a heap of haddock, Archie.
01:08:00A pile of carp.
01:08:02A pile of haddock, Archie.
01:08:07Oh.
01:08:08Oh.
01:08:21So who would want to kill Horace Lethbridge?
01:08:24He told us his name was Bindler.
01:08:26Probably not enough reason to push him down a lift shaft, Mrs Creswell, but interesting nonetheless.
01:08:34So why would anyone kill Horace Bindler?
01:08:37Well, I think I can tell you that.
01:08:39And I've put Archie to bed.
01:08:41He's exhausted.
01:08:44I'm afraid this will make painful listening for Miss Bopock.
01:08:47Well, Horace Lethbridge, Horace Bindler, was actually a reporter working for the Clarion newspaper.
01:09:00So he wasn't an expert on historic buildings?
01:09:04Certainly not.
01:09:06Remarkable, aren't they?
01:09:07Anyone with the slightest interest in architecture would have known that Greenshaw's folly doesn't have any crockets on its east tower.
01:09:15Not a one.
01:09:16So, after he vanished, I visited his room.
01:09:21I discovered that he had been working here undercover, pursuing a scoop which would expose the late Professor Greenshaw and his barbaric polio trials.
01:09:34Trials which involved injecting orphaned children with the polio virus in order to develop a vaccine.
01:09:44Many were left paralysed, even more left dead.
01:09:51Now, this was sent to Miss Greenshaw yesterday, anonymously.
01:09:59Remember the children?
01:10:01My brother and some of our friends.
01:10:04I wanted Miss Greenshaw to see it.
01:10:06And did you cross out the faces as well, Miss O'Clark?
01:10:09Those are some of the children that disappeared here at Greenshaw's folly, with no family to miss them.
01:10:16This can prove it.
01:10:18Greenshaw won't get away with it this time.
01:10:20Your words, I believe, Miss O'Clark.
01:10:23Are they?
01:10:25Well, I...
01:10:25I was very upset.
01:10:28Upset enough to kill?
01:10:30No!
01:10:32I wanted the killing to stop.
01:10:34Inspector, Cecily is over 70 years old.
01:10:38I can't really see her pushing an arrow through someone's particular vein.
01:10:42Now, searching through the records at St Faith's orphanage, I discovered that the period from 1900 to 1910, as mentioned in Horace Bindler's notebook, had disappeared, no doubt destroyed.
01:11:00On whose orders?
01:11:02Professor Greenshaw, I expect.
01:11:05So it's possible that someone might have killed Horace Bindler to keep the secret safe.
01:11:10Yes, it is possible, Inspector.
01:11:13Miss Greenshaw herself, perhaps?
01:11:14I wouldn't think that for her at all.
01:11:18That Catherine was as troubled by her father's past as anyone.
01:11:23No, I suspect that Horace Bindler may have stumbled upon something quite unexpected, something quite new.
01:11:31A piece of information that someone would be prepared to kill for.
01:11:39Sir, this is Mr. Forlice here, Miss Greenshaw's solicitor.
01:11:43He's asking to speak to Mr. Fletcher.
01:11:50Did you give any further thought to my request, Inspector, regarding Mr. Kraken's post-mortem?
01:12:01Look, I'm really quite busy right now, Miss Marple.
01:12:04I appreciate that, but if you could indulge me for a moment.
01:12:07You see, Mr. Kraken had not touched alcohol for ten years.
01:12:12Says who?
01:12:13His priest, Father Brophy.
01:12:15Well, I know the butler's behaviour may have seemed odd and irrational.
01:12:19Yes, well, I'd agree with you there.
01:12:21But I believe it was the behaviour of a person under the influence of a drug, not alcohol.
01:12:28Go on.
01:12:29Atropine.
01:12:29It's a chemical derivative of a deadly nightshed.
01:12:34It was grown by Miss Greenshaw in order to produce her own eye drops.
01:12:38But if ingested, it can promote the symptoms of drunkenness.
01:12:44Dilated pupils, a flushed appearance.
01:12:47And with two death scents, I might suggest a post-mortem be conducted on Miss Greenshaw, too.
01:12:54Now, wait just a minute, Miss Marple.
01:12:57Well, I'll admit that the information you've just given me seems plausible.
01:13:02But the medical officer has confirmed that Miss Greenshaw's jugular vein was severed by an arrow through her neck.
01:13:09Yes, but when?
01:13:10Tell the coroner's office I'm authorising a post-mortem on Walter Kraken.
01:13:21Blimey.
01:13:28Do you know what that solicitor chapter said?
01:13:30That this is all mine.
01:13:33Do you think it's a joke?
01:13:34I mean, why ever wouldn't have Aunt Catherine have left a will?
01:13:38I don't understand.
01:13:39Father?
01:13:40She promised that the orphanage will be taken care of.
01:13:44She promised to remember them.
01:13:46Yes, well, it seems like she didn't.
01:13:48Sorry to bother you, sir.
01:13:49There's another old lady here.
01:13:50Not another one, no.
01:13:51Minnie Tulliver, such as some information from Somerset House.
01:13:54Oh, oh, uh, I've got three for me, sir.
01:13:56I don't know.
01:14:00Right.
01:14:00The button found in Bindler's hand matches those on Pollock's jacket.
01:14:07What?
01:14:08The fingerprint tests have come back, too.
01:14:11I didn't kill anyone.
01:14:12Alfred Pollock, I am arresting you for a murder...
01:14:14He is not your murderer, Inspector.
01:14:16Miss Marple, I am in the middle of...
01:14:18Before you go any further, I must tell you that I am in possession of evidence which will prove Alfred's innocence
01:14:23and change the entire complexion of this case.
01:14:30Now, I promised I had new evidence for you, Inspector.
01:14:40All right.
01:14:40Let's hear it.
01:14:41I will come to that later.
01:14:44We need to begin at the beginning.
01:14:47Both Walter Cracken and Catherine Greenshaw were poisoned before they were killed.
01:14:52Just a minute.
01:14:55Poisoned?
01:14:56My art was found with an arrow through her neck.
01:14:58Have none of you considered that Catherine's murder somehow seems a little too perfect?
01:15:04We have a clear-cut suspect to my mind.
01:15:07Yes, exactly.
01:15:08Too clear-cut.
01:15:09The only crime of which Alfred Pollock is guilty is misplaced loyalty.
01:15:15Mrs. Creswell saw him stealing.
01:15:18Did she?
01:15:20You see, I believe it was Father Brophy who sold the candlesticks.
01:15:28Whilst Alfred, in fact, reclaimed them, eager to return them safely to the folly.
01:15:38Unfortunately, he was seen doing so, and it was assumed he was a thief.
01:15:43I don't imagine Alfred was ever a very successful thief.
01:15:47Whereas you, Father?
01:15:53I, um, I thought the silverware would raise a good sum for the orphanage.
01:15:59Or perhaps pay off your debts.
01:16:03Can you explain why Miss Marple saw you leaving the folly just half an hour after Miss Greenshaw had been murdered?
01:16:10Yes, yes, I'd, um, I'd come back to confess to the theft.
01:16:13I couldn't let Alfred take the blame for me.
01:16:16He's a decent lad.
01:16:18I'm, um, I'm afraid I rather lost my nerve.
01:16:20But you said you saw Pollock at the time of Miss Greenshaw's murder.
01:16:25Yes, yes, I did say that.
01:16:26Um, I wanted to repay Alfred somehow.
01:16:29Look, we have a motive.
01:16:35A packed rucksack.
01:16:36Fingerprint evidence and no alibi.
01:16:39Short of a signed confession, it couldn't really be more conclusive.
01:16:43Yes.
01:16:44So much so that it could almost have been stage managed.
01:16:48Ah, a ghastly melodrama played out for Louisa and Mrs Cresswell up in the dress circle.
01:16:55Yes, but it isn't a play, Miss Marple.
01:16:57Miss Greenshaw is dead.
01:16:58And whoever killed her sedated her first with atropine.
01:17:03The same as poor Mr Crackham.
01:17:06Atropine is a derivative of deadly nightshade often found in, in eyedrops.
01:17:14Catherine was drugged using her own medicine.
01:17:21Miss Greenshaw called you just after four o'clock.
01:17:25Asking for pilocarpine.
01:17:27Not a pile of carp, pilocarpine.
01:17:31The antidote to atropine poisoning.
01:17:34She knew she'd been drugged.
01:17:36But at four o'clock we saw her weeding.
01:17:38Just before...
01:17:41The arrow.
01:17:41Lucotha.
01:17:42Thimble campanula.
01:17:46The real Miss Greenshaw would never have mistaken those lovely plants for weeds.
01:17:51It was Archie's ghost which really made me start to think.
01:17:59Ghosts don't exist.
01:18:01People do.
01:18:02Yes, I am aware of that fact.
01:18:05Thank you, Miss Marple.
01:18:06And people's appearances are surprisingly easy to alter.
01:18:10In Mr Fletcher's business, for example, costume and make-up can produce astounding transformations.
01:18:17Isn't that so, Mrs Creswell?
01:18:20Hmm?
01:18:21In a certain outfit, for example, a housekeeper might be mistaken for a ghost, whilst a different hairpiece and dress could give her the look of, say, an eccentric lady gardener.
01:18:34Well, this proves nothing.
01:18:39Nothing at all.
01:18:42Let me remind you that Mrs Oxley and I were each locked in our bedrooms at the time of the murder.
01:18:47Apparently so.
01:18:49Enter police constable, state right.
01:18:52Police constable?
01:18:54Sergeant Kayleigh and I were the first officers on the scene, having received Miss Creswell's call at a quarter past four.
01:19:00A whole quarter of an hour after the murder? How interesting.
01:19:04Oh, no, Inspector. This officer had nothing to do with the Downshire Constabulary.
01:19:09Another actor?
01:19:11In costume?
01:19:12Borrowed from Boreham Theatre.
01:19:17At four o'clock, I was halfway through a masonry.
01:19:19Oh, yes, your play. Such a pity you only appeared in the first act.
01:19:25Make your point, Miss Marple.
01:19:28You leave the stage at three-third here, quickly changing into a policeman's uniform.
01:19:34You come from the costume rail and speeding back here to play the conscientious constable.
01:19:40But you also stabbed the sedated Miss Greenshaw before locking your accomplice, Mrs Creswell, in her room,
01:19:48as she had earlier locked up both Archie and Louisa.
01:19:52I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'd never miss a curtain call.
01:19:57And you didn't. You speeded back there to take your well-deserved bow.
01:20:02Well, it's only 15 minutes and a fast car, and your theatre manager was happy to confirm.
01:20:10Couldn't drag him off the stage, I think his words were.
01:20:12This is insane. Why would I be in cahoots with Miss Creswell? I barely know each other.
01:20:18Not according to these records from Somerset House.
01:20:23Finally.
01:20:24Yeah.
01:20:26Miss Greenshaw's sister, Nettie, married the Follies' stableman, Harry Fletcher.
01:20:31And they had a child together. That much is true.
01:20:35But because she'd married a servant, her father, Decimus, cut them off completely.
01:20:40So the Greenshaw's would never have known that Nettie died in childbirth,
01:20:46nor that the child also died just a year later.
01:20:50Neither would they have known that Harry Fletcher married again,
01:20:55a Miss Mary Creswell,
01:20:57and that shortly afterwards they too had a son, Nathaniel Fletcher.
01:21:03It's not true.
01:21:05I have a copy of the birth certificate.
01:21:10So Fletcher isn't even a Greenshaw.
01:21:17He's Mrs. Creswell's son.
01:21:19And the love his mother has for him knows no bounds.
01:21:24Mr. Kraken's discovery that you were mother and son
01:21:27obviously jeopardised the plan for Nett to inherit the Greenshaw fortune.
01:21:32You had no choice but to get rid of him.
01:21:35Come here, you little blighter.
01:21:36And that left Horace Bindlop,
01:21:49whose prying unearthed an horrific fact
01:21:52that Catherine Greenshaw had an illegitimate son,
01:21:56a rightful heir,
01:21:58one who could easily usurp Nett Fletcher's claim.
01:22:00It was obvious in the way Catherine looked at you.
01:22:04She refused to lose faith even when she thought you'd stolen from her.
01:22:10Suspecting that someone had been interfering with her property,
01:22:14Catherine checked Alfred's precious birth certificate
01:22:17to find that it had indeed been torn by someone.
01:22:20She removed it from the laboratory,
01:22:22hiding it instead
01:22:23in Shakespeare's sonnets.
01:22:28Bookmarking.
01:22:30Sonnet number three.
01:22:32Thou art thy mother's glass,
01:22:34and she in thee calls back
01:22:37the lovely April of her prime.
01:22:39You both searched high and low
01:22:56for that birth certificate, didn't you?
01:22:59After you dealt with Mr. Bindler.
01:23:01It wasn't where he said it was, was it?
01:23:03And without destroying it,
01:23:05you could never ensure that your son
01:23:07would inherit the Greenshaw fortune.
01:23:10I knew I couldn't trust him.
01:23:12Ten thousand in cash hold fruit, Catherine.
01:23:14You can't be serious.
01:23:16For the photograph as well as the original.
01:23:19A bargain, I'd say.
01:23:22I can think of a cheaper alternative.
01:23:33A murder committed with brute strength
01:23:38by the son
01:23:39and expertly managed by the mother.
01:23:51The old witch hid it in a book
01:23:52that is ridiculous.
01:23:54Well, she always was a ridiculous woman.
01:23:56That's for abandoning her own son.
01:23:58You can only call that heartless.
01:24:00On the contrary,
01:24:01Catherine had always lived in fear
01:24:04of her father and his hideous experiments.
01:24:07So when she had Alfred out of wedlock,
01:24:10her only thought was to hide him away
01:24:12as quickly as possible.
01:24:15So she entrusted her son
01:24:16to St. Faith's orphanage,
01:24:19where Catherine could keep
01:24:21the closest eye on him.
01:24:23No one knew then
01:24:25that Decimus used the children
01:24:26from St. Faith's.
01:24:28It was his favourite hunting ground.
01:24:32Nat didn't kill Miss Greenshaw.
01:24:36I did.
01:24:38She would have died anyway
01:24:40the amount of atropine I gave her.
01:24:41Please, Mother.
01:24:58When I found Miss Greenshaw,
01:25:04she was very much alive.
01:25:06I'm sorry.
01:25:09Oh, God.
01:25:12Hello?
01:25:13Hello.
01:25:16Hello.
01:25:29Hello.
01:25:29Hello.
01:25:30So as long as Miss Greenshaw
01:25:31hadn't made a will,
01:25:33Fletcher could have masqueraded as her blood nephew,
01:25:36safe in the knowledge that he would inherit everything.
01:25:38Yes.
01:25:40They realised it would be a long time before they saw any reward.
01:25:45And seeing Catherine's own son hanged for her murder
01:25:48must have seemed like a very neat way of killing two birds with one stone.
01:25:52And they framed him beautifully, I have to admit,
01:25:54even down to squeezing his button into Mr. Bindler's dead hand.
01:25:58A perfect plan.
01:26:01Almost, yes.
01:26:02There, another family.
01:26:29What am I going to do with all this?
01:26:30Not a hard one of money.
01:26:35Father Rofey could use a helping hand.
01:26:38The orphanage roof for starters.
01:26:42It's what your mother would have wanted.
01:26:44We'll be off first thing in the morning.
01:26:55You can't go.
01:26:58This is your house. There's no place for me here.
01:27:01Stay. Please.
01:27:02Why, Alfred?
01:27:06Because.
01:27:10Well, I'll be needing my own secretary now I've got this place to manage.
01:27:17Where are you?
01:27:18Mummy.
01:27:19Can we stay?
01:27:20Okay.
01:27:20Can we not?
01:27:35See you.
01:27:37Come on.
01:27:39Bye.
01:27:39Bye.
01:27:39Bye.
01:27:41Bye.
01:27:42Bye.
01:27:42Bye.
01:27:43Bye.
01:27:44Bye.
01:27:44Bye.
01:27:44Bye.
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