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00:31Lord, I know the coming days are going to be hard for me.
00:35Yasmin, we've got two less for lunch.
00:37You give me the strength to face them.
00:40And Winston, well, Winston's not feeling...
00:43You're by my side.
00:44I still made as much green fig salad as usual.
00:47Always gets eaten.
00:48Oh, Sylvie sweetheart, I'm so sorry.
00:52We didn't disturb you, did we?
00:54No, just saying a quick prayer.
00:56Oh, please don't tell me you got the whole church ready on your own.
00:59I don't mind. I enjoy it.
01:01Yeah, but I told him to be here to help.
01:15So, I think I know what you're going to say.
01:18Despite me specifically asking you...
01:20To arrive early and help Mrs. Godwin with the church.
01:23Well, I'm sorry. I promise it will never happen again.
01:27It will.
01:27I mean, yes. It's very probable.
01:29So, are you going to make it to the service?
01:37Um...
01:37Well, I will try my best.
01:41Cha-cha.
01:53Cha-cha.
01:54Cha-cha.
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01:55Cha-cha.
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01:58Cha-cha.
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02:00Cha-cha.
02:01Cha-cha.
02:02Cha-cha.
02:03Cha-cha.
02:04Cha-cha.
02:04Cha-cha.
02:05Cha-cha.
02:05Cha-cha.
02:39I'm going to nip home and grab the food.
02:42Is Seb still not here?
02:44You're going to be okay setting up for lunch?
02:46I'll be fine.
02:48Okay.
02:52Today's collection, Pastor.
02:54I'm going to finish tidy up in here, then I'll head over to your place.
02:58I'll see you soon, Sylvie.
03:17Hello?
03:22Hello?
03:23Is somebody dead?
03:35Okay, everybody.
03:37Come and sit down.
03:40Oh, that boy has a six cents.
03:42You can't get him to come to church on time, but dish up some food, and there he is.
03:47What a feast.
03:48Looks like I timed it just right.
03:50Can't wait to dig in.
03:51I'm dead for hungry.
03:53Miss Celie, Mama, you all good?
03:57Nice to see you, sir.
03:58Right, come everybody, sit down.
04:02Wait.
04:04Sylvie's not here.
04:05Don't tell me she's still at the church.
04:09Yes, sir.
04:10You're good?
04:10You're good.
04:23You're good.
05:08Good afternoon.
05:10We don't often see you here, on your own.
05:13Yeah, well, the commissioner's been encouraging me to put myself out more.
05:18And you've got to do what the big man says, right?
05:20So I thought I'd try my hand with the dominoes crowd.
05:23Good for you.
05:24I'll introduce you.
05:28It's a lot noisier than how they play back up.
05:32I mean, back there, it's more sedate.
05:35Less, um...
05:36Passionate.
05:36Exactly that.
05:37So off in the way with the English.
05:42Everyone, this is Mervyn.
05:45He was looking to play.
05:48Oscar, maybe you could play with me.
05:51Sure.
05:52Yeah, nice to meet you, Oscar.
05:54Nice to meet you.
05:55Um, be gentle with me, yeah?
05:57It's been a while.
06:00Oh, Naomi, you're not working today.
06:02We are now, I'm afraid.
06:05Got an accidental death.
06:07Coroner's away at the moment, so we have to go and sign off on it.
06:10Mervyn's here.
06:11He was just about to play his first dominoes game on the island.
06:15Here you go.
06:17What?
06:18Oh.
06:19That's it.
06:20Well.
06:22OK, then, er...
06:24Nice one, mate.
06:26We should, er, have a rematch sometime.
06:29You know, by the 12th or never.
06:30It's not over already.
06:32That man totally thrashed me.
06:34I was only gone a few moments.
06:36It's like a hurricane.
06:37I've never seen anything like it.
06:41DS Thomas, please tell me we've got a new case to deal with.
06:44Because that was genuinely humiliating.
06:46We have, by St. Vincent's Church, which is Seb's mother's church.
06:52He was the one that called it in.
06:57See you, Oscar.
07:00English.
07:04Victim's name is Sylvia Godwin.
07:05She was 85 years old.
07:07God bless her.
07:09I can't believe she's gone just like that.
07:11Did you know her well?
07:12Since I was a kid.
07:14She was like an auntie to me, you know?
07:17Sorry, mate.
07:19So, was she alone when it happened?
07:22She stayed behind after service to tidy up.
07:24Looks like she was dusting the cross and lost her footing and pulled it down with her.
07:29Poor woman.
07:30Paramedics reckon she banged her head when she landed.
07:33Caused an injury to the brain.
07:35And you found her body, Officer Rose?
07:38Mm-hmm.
07:39Me and my mama, Miss Celia, she's the headmistress at the church primary school down the road.
07:44Miss Godwin!
07:46Something isn't right.
07:48It's not adding up.
07:49This whole scene in front of it, it's just not adding up for me.
07:55It's her shoes.
07:56What's wrong with her shoes?
07:58Well, there's nothing wrong with her shoes, per se.
08:00They're nice enough, Sunday best shoes.
08:03Got a bit of a heel on them.
08:05About two inches, I reckon.
08:07The thing is, most people, if they're going to climb up on a chair to do some dusting,
08:12and they're wearing heels, they're going to remove them beforehand.
08:15To be more sure-footed.
08:17Safety first and all that.
08:18And at 85 years old, I think Mrs. Godwin here will be even more likely to do that than anyone
08:25younger or more agile.
08:26So, what are you suggesting?
08:29That she didn't climb up on the chair?
08:33No, she didn't.
08:35And if she didn't climb up on the chair, she didn't fall from the chair.
08:38And if she didn't fall from the chair, she didn't bang her head from falling.
08:41And if she didn't bang her head from falling, then what did actually happen here?
08:46You think he's suspicious?
08:48I think we've been sold a lie.
08:50What? That's not possible.
08:51Why not?
08:53Because the church was all locked up from the inside.
08:55So, nobody could get in or out.
09:00Show me.
09:01So, when we got here, we went to the back entrance.
09:06It's locked.
09:08Left won't go in.
09:11The key's in on the other side.
09:14So, we came round to the front entrance.
09:16Into the same situation.
09:18Let me see.
09:20There's a key in here too.
09:22So, I had to bust the door open.
09:27See?
09:29Who's key's there?
09:30This is Godwin's.
09:31She usually locks the door and she's tidying up, so nobody bothers her.
09:34Show me the back door.
09:40Is this also the victim's key?
09:42No.
09:43That's from the hook over there, sir.
09:44I don't know how it got in this door.
09:46Could someone have been hiding in here while you were in there?
09:50No way.
09:51As soon as I found her, I saw my phone had no juice, I came straight in here and called
09:56the ambulance.
09:57I'm telling you, both doors were locked on the inside.
09:59If someone killed Mrs. Godwin and staged a crime scene, then how did they manage to
10:07get out?
10:11No, that just can't be.
10:13There is no reason anybody would want to do that to Sylvie.
10:17She's right.
10:18It's crazy you think it is suspicious.
10:20Well, can you tell us a little more about her?
10:22Did Mrs. Godwin have any family?
10:24Was she married?
10:25Was, but he passed away.
10:27When was it now?
10:27It was 2017.
10:29I officiated the funeral.
10:31I mean, you want to know about Sylvie's life?
10:34It was this church.
10:35This church was her family.
10:38That's the truth.
10:40She had been coming to St. Vincent since before I was born.
10:44She was christened here.
10:45She got married here.
10:48And she never missed a single Sunday service in all of her life.
10:52Pastor, I came straight over.
10:54Thank you for coming, Hector.
10:56Oh.
10:59I called Hector and told him the news.
11:02He was very close to Sylvie.
11:04She was his schoolteacher many years ago.
11:06Hector, my eyes.
11:10Dear Wilson, dear Thomas.
11:15So Mrs. Godwin was a teacher?
11:18St. Vincent Primary School.
11:19I took over from her as headmistress when she retired.
11:23And you kept in touch with her?
11:25Always.
11:26The things you did for me as a kid?
11:28Above and beyond, you know?
11:34In what way?
11:37She kept an eye on me.
11:39Because my parents didn't.
11:41Sylvie and Walter, her husband.
11:43They never had kids themselves.
11:45Hector meant the world to her.
11:46That's why this just can't be true.
11:50That woman had nothing but good in her.
11:56Well, if you think of anything, you let us know, yeah?
12:13You can go and rest your feet, man.
12:15I'll clear all this up.
12:17You want me to make your herbal tea?
12:19After a day like today, all I want is for you to pour me a rum.
12:23A large one.
12:24All right.
12:26The Christmas rum coming out early this year.
12:28Seb, your inspector.
12:33Is he usually right about this kind of thing?
12:3599.9% of the time.
12:38So someone did murder Sylvie.
12:42But who?
12:44I don't know.
12:45But it couldn't have been anybody at the church, right?
12:48So maybe Sylvie had things going on in her life that we don't know about.
12:55But, Mom, I promise you, whatever it is, we'll figure it out.
13:00All right.
13:05I know this hasn't played out how we expected, but I had to do what I had to do.
13:11No, I'm not coming back yet.
13:13Not until I've got what I came for.
13:32Finish your breakfast.
13:41You're welcome.
13:54Commissioner, you made me jump.
13:56Good morning, Inspector.
13:57Good morning.
13:59This arrived for me in the morning post.
14:04It's from your victim.
14:09Mrs. Godwin saw me on the local news covering the recent police initiative event.
14:15She said she could tell I wanted to put things right, and that's what she also needed to do, right
14:24or wrong.
14:25But she didn't say what that was?
14:27Only that whatever it was, was of a criminal nature and had something to do with St. Vincent's Church.
14:34There is a dark secret that has been buried for too long, and it's time the truth came out.
14:42It was posted on Saturday morning.
14:47And 24 hours later, she was dead.
14:53Well, this gets more interesting by the minute.
14:56How much is it Mrs. Godwin's bank account?
14:58$2,463,000.
15:03What?
15:04You sure about that?
15:05Like, seriously?
15:07Seriously.
15:08Well, new primary school head teachers earn so much.
15:11I requested statements that go further back.
15:13All I have is the last five years, and the money was already in the account.
15:18The victim's husband, Walter, is it?
15:19What did he do for a living?
15:21Mr. Walter Godwin.
15:22He was a caretaker at the same school that Mrs. Godwin worked at.
15:25I think that's where they first met.
15:27So it's not only to be his money.
15:29Do we know anything about her family?
15:31Yeah.
15:31Mrs. Godwin told me once her parents were farmers.
15:33They definitely weren't rich.
15:35So she didn't inherit it?
15:37Could the money have something to do with the crime she talks about in this letter?
15:40The one connected to St. Vincent's?
15:43Officer Rose, give your mum a call.
15:44See if it sparks a memory or something, yeah?
15:46Cool.
15:47But all of this is a bit odd.
15:49Because it's nothing like Mrs. Godwin.
15:51I mean, $2 million?
15:54That's crazy.
15:55She wasn't that kind of person.
15:57Once we're done here, we're going to go and search Mrs. Godwin's house.
16:00Also, we've emailed everyone on the St. Vincent's weekly newsletter
16:04to see if any of the parishioners saw anything suspicious yesterday.
16:07Okay, thank you.
16:10Sir, that was the solicitor handling Sylvie Godwin's will.
16:14It seems Mrs. Godwin has left everything to Hector Moyse.
16:20Wow.
16:21So this guy's just become a millionaire?
16:24It appears so, sir.
16:26What do we know about him?
16:28He's a fisherman.
16:29Or was.
16:30But he hasn't worked for the last 18 months or so due to an injury out at sea.
16:35So if he's had no income for almost two years,
16:39then $2 million is going to come in very handy.
16:47I don't know either.
16:48It's all a bit crazy right now.
16:50Mum, I'll speak to you later.
16:51I've got to go.
16:52I'll leave you to it, Inspector.
16:54No worries, Commissioner.
16:56Sir!
16:56I just got off the phone to my mother
16:58and she has no idea what Sylvie Godwin was talking about in that letter.
17:01Well, if anything else comes to mind, you'll let me know, yeah?
17:04All right.
17:06Where are they going?
17:07To interview Hector Moyse.
17:09He's a possible suspect now.
17:11Hector?
17:12A suspect?
17:13He's a good guy.
17:14He wouldn't kill anybody, let alone Sylvie Godwin.
17:17She was like a mother to him.
17:18Well, these are the questions we have to ask.
17:20It's what we do without fear or favor, remember?
17:29That used to be my boat.
17:32There.
17:32Spent more time together, Miannard, than anyone else.
17:38And then, some doctor you don't even know
17:41writes a certificate saying you can't do it no more.
17:46Well, how are your finances?
17:48Now you're not working.
17:50I'm struggling.
17:51All right.
17:51No one wants to employ a guy
17:53who only knows how to do one thing in his life.
17:56Yeah, but that will change us now, doesn't it?
17:59Excuse me?
18:00What?
18:00Mr. Moyse, you inherit the bulk of Sylvie Godwin's estate.
18:05And don't tell us you didn't know.
18:06Her solicitor told us Mrs. Godwin informed you
18:09when she made the will a few years back.
18:11Yeah, I knew.
18:11But she got hardly nothing, just her house,
18:14which is a few tens of thousands.
18:16You think I'd kill for that?
18:17You're telling us she didn't let you know what was in her will?
18:19No.
18:21Why?
18:24It's more than just her house.
18:262.4 million dollars more.
18:29I'm sorry, what?
18:32Is this a joke?
18:34Funnier things turn out, eh?
18:35Yeah.
18:36I didn't know she had that kind of money.
18:37I swear to you,
18:38she never mentioned a word to me about it.
18:41Look, I get it.
18:42I get how it looks to you.
18:44I need money.
18:45Badly, I'm desperate.
18:46But I had no idea Sylvie was loaded like that.
18:51So why would I kill her?
18:58Sarge, found some kind of time machine.
19:02In Mrs. Godwin's office.
19:04Oh, it's a computer.
19:08Have you done those yet?
19:09No, not yet.
19:10OK, you do that and I'll do this.
19:11Cool.
19:17Well, it seems to be working.
19:20So, I noticed your dad wasn't around yesterday.
19:23If you don't mind me asking, is he...
19:26Yeah, he, um...
19:29He passed away.
19:30I'm so sorry.
19:32How old were you?
19:35Eleven.
19:36That's so young.
19:38It must have been hard.
19:41Really hard, you know?
19:43Yeah.
19:45My first lesson in pain.
19:48But seeing my mother rise up every morning after that...
19:52That showed me what true love looks like, you know?
19:56Made us closer.
19:57A team.
19:59You can tell.
20:10The Belchard diptych?
20:12You know what a diptych is?
20:14Yeah.
20:15It's, um, used to measure oil in the car.
20:17You know, you dip it in, take it out.
20:19I said diptych.
20:21You're trying to say dipstick, right?
20:23Diptych.
20:24A painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like a book.
20:28Oh, you mean diptych?
20:31Yeah, ma'am.
20:31I know about diptych and them things, yeah?
20:33Well, apparently this Belchard diptych is rare.
20:37Priceless kind of rare.
20:38Yeah?
20:40Why was Sylvie interested in this?
20:45Let's check her search history.
20:52Why watch her?
20:53She searched the hell out of it.
20:55This was three days ago.
20:58Friday, the day before she posted that letter to the commissioner.
21:06The Belchard diptych is a rare French panel painting from the Middle Ages.
21:11Each panel measures 50 by 30 centimeters.
21:14Rare?
21:14So it's worth some coinage?
21:16It's worth major coinage.
21:18If anybody could find it, it went missing from France during the Second World War.
21:22And here it is.
21:23It's believed the diptych was taken from a museum in Paris by a young German soldier called Joseph Krauss.
21:30They reckon he brought that same painting over here to the Caribbean.
21:34When the Vichy government sent a new governor to Martigny, Krauss and a couple of other German soldiers accompanied him.
21:42And what happened to it when he came here?
21:44Why, Jan-o, but Joseph Krauss, he fled the region when the war finished and the painting never resurfaced.
21:52And some historians believe that Krauss hid the Belchard diptych on one of the smaller neighboring islands, like St. Marie.
22:00Right, so our victim was looking into this Belchard diptych and the next day sent a letter to the commissioner
22:08saying she wanted to put right a wrong that took place many years before at St. Vincent's church.
22:13And 24 hours later, Sylvie was murdered in the church with both doors locked from the inside.
22:19She also had over $2 million in her bank account and we've no idea how she got that money.
22:25But if she came into possession of this painting, then maybe that could explain why she ended up so rich.
22:35Okay, let's keep digging, yeah?
22:37And DS Thomas, get in touch with the commissioner.
22:39Because if there's any truth in it, this could be a big deal.
22:55Everything all right?
23:00It's just like, first Hector, then Mrs. Godwin.
23:05It's all, it's all a bit much right now.
23:10Sylvie was all about doing the right thing.
23:13You should have said so.
23:15No, because it's like you said, right?
23:17Without fear or favor.
23:19So it's not right me defending her, is it?
23:21Even if I know it's the truth.
23:24Except if this case is too close to home, it's okay to take a step back.
23:29No, it's cool, Sarge.
23:30It's cool.
23:30I really want to help get to the bottom of this.
23:34For Sylvie.
23:35You're sure?
23:36Yeah.
23:37Good.
23:37All right.
23:38Then I'll see you tomorrow morning, yeah?
23:40All right.
23:41Take care of yourself.
23:47All right.
23:48Thanks for letting me know, Mrs. Martin.
23:50You have yourself a good evening.
23:54Sir, that was one of the parishioners from St. Vincent's.
23:58Received the email we sent out asking if anyone saw anything suspicious yesterday.
24:03Mm-hmm.
24:03Says she saw a woman outside the church yesterday morning, parked up in a hire car.
24:08Never seen her at St. Vincent's before.
24:10Description?
24:11It was a silver vehicle with logos for Kariba car hire.
24:16The woman looked in her 50s with shoulder-length blonde hair.
24:20Not much of a tan, apparently.
24:22So, with the hire car, maybe not a local?
24:27Yeah, it's me again.
24:28Sir, who is she?
24:29I'm telling you, the police haven't found it yet.
24:31I watched two officers leaving her house, both of them carrying evidence, and they didn't
24:34have it with them.
24:37So, where's it got to?
24:39I know a little of the history of the Belshow diptyque.
24:43But how or why that connects to Sylvie Godwin, I don't know.
24:49But I shall ask her all.
24:52Evening all.
24:53Um, sorry I'm late.
24:56I had a prior arrangement with a bloke called Barry.
24:59Who, might I ask, is Barry?
25:02It's funny you should ask that.
25:03Well, Barry is a retired expat who's returning to the UK to be with his grandchildren.
25:08So he's selling off a bunch of stuff online.
25:10So I got myself this beauty.
25:13And what is that, sir?
25:16This is the answer to Catherine's prayers.
25:18Not that she knows yet.
25:19What is the answer to my prayers?
25:22Oh, Catherine.
25:23Well, it's the one thing that's missing from your place.
25:35Oh.
25:37It's a dark boy.
25:38I can see that.
25:40You see, the thing is, Domino's is all well and good.
25:42But for a boozer to be a proper boozer...
25:45Pardon, but this is not a boozer.
25:47A pub.
25:49Or a pub.
25:49But whatever this establishment wants to call itself, with this on your wall, it can only enhance the communal vibe.
25:57No, we're not an English-themed sports bar.
26:01It's not going up.
26:03Yeah, but Catherine...
26:04I said no.
26:05Just imagine...
26:05It's not in my final world.
26:07No!
26:09No!
26:10No!
26:20It seems you are now the proud owner of your very own dad board.
26:36I'll have it much to me right now in the moment, you know?
26:39I know it is, my love.
26:40I know.
26:45Whoa, Mum, what's this?
26:47Oh!
26:48What?
26:48Huh?
26:49Seb, sweetheart, this isn't...
26:52Seb, you weren't supposed to...
26:54Good evening, Sebastian.
26:57You all right?
26:58Me?
26:58Are you all right?
26:59What's this?
27:00Huh?
27:01What's going on?
27:01Because it look like...
27:02Are you...
27:03I...
27:05I guess you could say we've been getting close, the two of us.
27:08Right.
27:09Since when?
27:10Well, um...
27:12Since...
27:13I suppose...
27:14Since, um...
27:16What would you say, Lorette?
27:18How long's it been?
27:19I suppose we could say, um...
27:20It's been...
27:22A year.
27:23A year?
27:25A year, Ma?
27:26And you never once thought to mention it to me.
27:28Oh, Hector.
27:29I'm so sorry.
27:30Could you...
27:31Could you give us a moment, please?
27:32Actually, I need to be getting home anyway, sir.
27:36Sorry you had to find out like this, Sebastian.
27:39I should have...
27:40We should have to...
27:45Sorry.
27:46Sorry.
27:57I wanted to tell you, but I...
28:00I was too scared.
28:02Of how I'd react?
28:03No.
28:03So then what?
28:07See?
28:08It is because of that.
28:10No, no, really.
28:11It's not that.
28:12A whole year, Ma.
28:14A whole year you've been lying to me.
28:18You know, in the last 24 hours, it turns out not one person is who I thought they were.
28:30But I never thought you would be one of them.
28:36I need some air.
28:55Good morning, Inspector.
28:57Good morning, Inspector.
28:57Here's Thomas.
28:58Inheritance.
28:58Inheritance?
28:59Oh.
29:00Well...
29:00I mean...
29:01Okay.
29:02That's interesting.
29:04All right.
29:05Well, thanks.
29:05And also, I wanted to know...
29:07So...
29:08When was...
29:09What the...
29:10One second, sir.
29:13Good morning, Inspector.
29:15Sarge.
29:16Sarge.
29:16What's going on, sir?
29:18Well, I went on a walk last night and I ended up here.
29:21So I thought I'd come and start on the case.
29:24Can we...
29:24Oh, yes.
29:25Sure.
29:25Sorry.
29:26Sorry.
29:28Sorry.
29:29Oh.
29:30Sorry.
29:31No.
29:32Sorry.
29:33Yes.
29:33Yes.
29:33Come on.
29:34Yes.
29:34So, I'm just on the phone with Sylvie Godwin's bank manager.
29:38And interestingly, the 2.4 million in her account, she inherited it from her husband, Walter Godwin.
29:44The bank manager says she don't know where he got it from or how Walter got so rich.
29:49It was Walter's money.
29:50Yeah.
29:50And unfortunately, the liar who was handling Walter's will is no longer around.
29:55So, that's all I got.
29:57Why is there a post-it with post-mortem exclamation mark written on it?
30:00Oh.
30:01The post-mortem just came in.
30:02It's here somewhere.
30:03Got it.
30:04Under the takeaway.
30:06I will clear that up for you as soon as possible, Sarge.
30:08Sorry about that.
30:09Why is there a pack of toilet roll on my desk?
30:11That's why I went for the walk in the first place.
30:14My new host mate was that...
30:15Don't forget the toilet roll.
30:18PM says the victim became unconscious and died of hypoxia and reckoned she was hit with
30:23something with a sharp edge rather than banging her head on the floor.
30:28So we're right.
30:29It was murder.
30:30What are all these printouts on the floor, Sarge?
30:33Oh.
30:33That's from Kariba car hire.
30:35It's in the details of the woman who was seen outside St. Vincent Church, the morning
30:39of the murder.
30:40Selina Bascombe, 54 years old, from the UK, Berkshire.
30:44Arrived here Friday and is staying at the Golden Bay Hotel.
30:48Yeah, yeah.
30:48I think she's just a tourist.
30:50There's nothing interesting about her yet.
30:51Well, then you didn't look properly, Seb.
30:54Because on her passport, she uses her maiden name.
30:59Godwin.
31:01As in Sylvie and Walter Godwin.
31:03How did I miss that, sir?
31:05We need to talk to her right away.
31:07So I can Fletcher.
31:10Yeah, sorry about that.
31:11Hello?
31:13Hello?
31:14Hello?
31:16Hello?
31:16Psst.
31:29Seb, this is cool.
31:31You trying to move the case on.
31:32But your head is pinging around all over the place.
31:35It's close to chaos in there.
31:37I understand what it looks like, Sarge.
31:39But I've been up all night doing a lot of work.
31:41And I feel like I'm very close to...
31:42I think you should go home.
31:44Okay?
31:45Have a shower.
31:46Get yourself straight.
31:46But, Sarge, I need to finish...
31:47I know, I know.
31:49But you're not helping right now.
31:51We can't work like this.
31:56Alright, Sarge.
31:58Cool.
32:07Thanks for coming in, Miss Bascombe.
32:08Please, take a seat.
32:09Walter Godwin was my grandfather.
32:13He was stationed on St. Marie during the Second World War.
32:16When the war ended, he wrote to my grandmother,
32:21who was pregnant with my father at the time,
32:24saying that he wasn't coming home,
32:26that it was over between them.
32:28And he knew she was pregnant?
32:30Yes, except I don't think it was him who wrote that letter.
32:34I think it was someone else.
32:36Um, I found this on the St. Vincent's Church website.
32:41It's the day that Walter Godwin got married.
32:45To Sylvie.
32:46Well, that's Sylvie.
32:48But that's not Walter Godwin.
32:51That's not my grandfather, see?
32:53That's not the same man.
33:00So, you realised that someone might have stolen your grandfather's identity?
33:07I know they did.
33:09And you came here to St. Marie to find out who this other Walter Godwin was.
33:14That's why you were at the church Sunday morning.
33:16To speak with Sylvie Godwin.
33:22Mrs. Godwin.
33:27So, how did she react when you suggested that the man who she'd been married to for 60-odd years
33:32may not be who she thought he was?
33:34She already knew.
33:38She said that she'd only just found out herself that week.
33:43How?
33:43Well, her plumber had found a box hidden under the floorboards when he was fixing a pipe.
33:49I'll find out which plumber.
33:51Sylvie said it had the true identity of her husband in it.
33:56All his personal documents.
33:57Making clear what happened to my grandfather.
34:01Which was what?
34:03She wouldn't tell me.
34:05She said that she wasn't ready yet and that she wanted to do it in her own time.
34:10And in her own way, whatever that meant.
34:16I think it meant she wanted to go to the police first about it.
34:20Which must have frustrated you.
34:22Coming all this way to be denied the truth.
34:24It is my family!
34:25You have no right to keep this to yourself!
34:28I'm sorry.
34:29I can't help you.
34:33And in that moment, caught up in it all, that's when you must have decided...
34:36No, no.
34:37No.
34:37I wouldn't, really.
34:39I wouldn't.
34:40I just left.
34:41I was angry, but I didn't want to hurt her.
34:44I just wanted to know what was in that box.
34:47And now she's dead and I don't know where it is.
34:59So if Sylvie had this box she talked about, where is it?
35:04Because it wasn't at the crime scene and it wasn't at her house.
35:08And if someone did steal Water Godwin's identity, who?
35:12And what happened to the real Water Godwin?
35:14I just got off the phone with the plumber who was over at the victim's house last Friday.
35:18Said Sylvie looked haunted after she looked inside that box.
35:26About an hour later, she was getting inside a taxi saying she needed to go to St. Vincent's Primary School.
35:35She went to see Yasmin Seeley.
35:42Okay, I'm gonna lay it out, Miss Seeley.
35:44I believe it's you who has the missing box.
35:47Sylvie's.
35:48We could get a search warrant or...
36:07It's a German passport.
36:11From the Second World War it looks like.
36:13Belong to...
36:14Joseph Krauss.
36:15It's believed the diptych was taken from a museum in Paris by a young German soldier called Joseph Krauss.
36:22The last visa stamp showed he left Martinique at the end of the war and came to St. Marie.
36:31St. Marie Times, September 27th, 1945.
36:36It's a report about an unnamed British soldier getting into a fight with a group of German naval officers and
36:43left for dead near St. Vincent's Church.
36:46His body was never found.
36:48I believe that soldier was Walter Godwin.
36:50And I think Joseph Krauss came across his body.
36:55Joseph realized he could steal his identity if he could dispose of the body without it being found.
37:03A map of the St. Vincent churchyard.
37:06That must be where the real Walter Godwin was buried.
37:10He took Walter's uniform and papers and buried him there.
37:15In this grave.
37:16So no one would ever find it.
37:18From that moment on, Joseph Krauss was...
37:21Walter Godwin.
37:21I guess he softened his accent as much as he could.
37:24And by the time he and Sylvie met, about 15 years later, and he seemed like the Englishman she thought
37:30he was.
37:31We need to get a forensic victim over from Guadalupe.
37:38I'm assuming Mr Krauss went to all these lengths because of this?
37:44The Berkshire Diptych.
37:45I mean, if the authorities worked out he stole it and came looking for him, then with a new identity,
37:51they wouldn't find him.
37:52From what I know, he lived a simple life, working as a caretaker for this school.
37:57And when he and Sylvie met, everyone always said they truly loved each other.
38:04That was the day she retired.
38:07Handed the baton over to me.
38:11Why have you got this box, Miss Sylvie?
38:15Sylvie brought it with her when she came here on Friday.
38:18I asked her if I could keep it so I could look into it some more, that's all.
38:21It's entirely innocent.
38:23Not if you didn't tell us about it, it isn't.
38:25Actually, that's suspicious.
38:28Why did you choose to keep it to yourself?
38:34This school is everything to me.
38:38And I can't risk his reputation being damaged.
38:42It's struggling enough as it is, financially.
38:46All we have to keep going is donations, people's goodwill.
38:49And if it ever got out that we had a caretaker working here that wasn't who we thought he was.
38:55It was a Nazi soldier who covered up a murder.
39:01So you killed Miss Godwin to stop all this?
39:04No, no, no.
39:05I'm very sorry.
39:06I should have told you about it, I know, but...
39:11I didn't kill her.
39:19So if Joseph Krauss sold the Belshazz diptych and had all that money, then why he never do nothing with
39:27it?
39:28Never spend it, nothing.
39:30Perhaps he kept it just in case.
39:32I mean, if the truth ever caught up with him, then he had the means to change his identity.
39:37Again.
39:39Afternoon, Sergeant Thomas.
39:43The trouble is we're still no closer to working out who murdered Sylvie Godwin.
39:48And then managed to exit the building when both the front and back door were locked from the inside with
39:54keys inside the lock.
39:58He's buried here.
40:00My grandfather.
40:02We believe so, yes.
40:21Officer Rhodes.
40:23Inspector.
40:25Hey.
40:28Sorry, I'll just take a moment, you know.
40:33I'll give you some space.
40:34No, no, no.
40:34You're all right.
40:36I was just coming in to see if I could make any more sense of it all.
40:40Me too, I guess.
40:42And?
40:44Not much.
40:47Usually, I find it levels me out.
40:52Because I can feel peace here.
40:57Sorry I haven't been much use in this investigation.
40:59It's just been a lot for me, you know.
41:01I mean, look.
41:01We all have cases that throw us off balance from time to time.
41:05When I've had more than my fair share, trust me.
41:08Right.
41:09See, when I'm thrown by a kiss, my brain just starts jumping around like some itchy footed grasshopper, you know?
41:23Well, maybe that is your unique selling point.
41:27So I'd say, embrace it.
41:31Own it.
41:32Don't let it own you.
41:34In fact, you know what?
41:37Let's try it.
41:37Let's try it right now, yeah?
41:39How?
41:40We visualize it.
41:41Only this time, you are taking the lead.
41:44Okay, come on.
41:45Up you get.
41:46That's it.
41:49Okay.
41:51This is the crime scene.
41:53The murder of Sylvie Godwin.
41:55That door, the front door, is locked from the inside.
41:59The key's in the door.
42:04Sylvie's body is here.
42:08This big wooden cross is on top of her.
42:13Now, come on.
42:15Just freestyle it, yeah?
42:17Just say whatever your brain wants to say.
42:20I'm thinking about when I busted the door open.
42:24When I hurt mom, you know?
42:26When I got home, it was all bruised up.
42:27So I drank some rum to numb the pain.
42:33But that also means it was definitely locked.
42:40Okay.
42:41Okay.
42:41What else?
42:42Well then, if you were the killer, you'd probably prefer to leave the scene at the back.
42:49Yeah, yeah.
42:49Keep going.
42:50Keep going.
42:50So that way you're less likely to be seen by others.
42:52So, um, maybe we're in the wrong room.
42:57The back room.
42:59Come on.
42:59Come on.
42:59Come on.
43:02Come on.
43:03Come on.
43:06Come on.
43:07Come on.
43:07Come on.
43:07So what's she saying to you?
43:10This room, what's it telling you?
43:15Hmm.
43:16What?
43:16collection box it's just usually it sits right there under the shelf no it looks
43:24like he's been pulled out a little bit
43:32he's a kind in it and that's odd because because miss Godwin empties the
43:37collection box every Sunday after the service today's collection pasta and she
43:43gives the money to my mom so this must have been put in there after she was
43:52murder which means but then the killer must have put it there that won't go in
44:01the keys in on the other side
44:06p.m. says the victim became unconscious and reckoned she was hit by something with
44:12a sharp edge diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like
44:17a book local art historians generally leave it was brought to Saint Marie
44:31bingo have you solved the case it was actually officer Rose in his itchy footy
44:36grass up a brain that solved it I did that coin explains everything okay let's move people there's
44:44still some things we need to do like get hold of a search warrant and we need the
44:48luminol oh and we need a tape measure why do we need a tape measure to measure
45:01something
45:02way back in 1945 a young British soldier by the name of Walter Godwin was killed here on
45:08Saint Marie his identity was stolen and his body was hidden in someone else's grave now
45:16finally thanks to Sylvie Godwin and the discovery of this box that young man can get the proper
45:25burial he deserves thank you which brings us to the crime in the present Sylvie Godwin's murder at
45:33St Vincent's Church on Sunday and although it occurred many years after Walter Godwin's murder this
45:39little wooden box in its contents helped solve this murder as well we know from the post-mortem
45:46that Sylvie was hit with a sharp object this spray luminal it takes traces of blood and this proves
45:53that there was blood on the box recently as you can see here now we have another time to carry
46:03out
46:03the relevant tests but when our lab compares this blood with Sylvie's I'm confident they'll match and
46:10as this box has only been in one person's possession since the murder it has led me to believe that
46:15Sylvie Godwin's
46:16killer was Yasmin Seeley what have you done that's not true someone else must have taken it on them don't
46:32worry miss
46:33Seeley we'll be coming to this in a minute throughout this case we've worked on the assumption that Sylvie Godwin's
46:42husband real name Joseph Krauss had sold the painting he had stolen which explains why he had so
46:49much money in his bank account well it's half the truth because the unique defining thing about a
46:56diptych is that there are two halves to it diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge
47:03like a book and we now know that Joseph Krauss sold only one half of the Belshaw diptych
47:11and he kept the other half
47:20goodness me now we'll never fully know why Joseph separated the two panels my sense is that he was someone
47:29who liked to hedge his bets
47:31be prepared for all eventualities I think that's partly why he never spent any of the money plus
47:38having to explain to his wife-to-be how he came into such major coinage would mean admitting to the
47:45theft of this famous piece of art and also being an imposter so Joseph held on to the money and
47:53the picture so
47:54where has it been the last 80 odd years and so hanging on the wall of the headmistress's office at
48:02the St. Vincent's primary school which is now your office Miss Seeley
48:12Joseph Krauss must have put it there during his years as caretaker and no one ever thought anything
48:18of it this faded religious icon hanging on the wall of a church school surrounded by other religious
48:26images earlier today Miss Seeley when we talked in your office that was the day she retired I saw that
48:34framed photo on the wall of Sylvie and Walter and I happened to notice the outline of a larger rectangle
48:40around that frame where the paint hadn't faded clearly another picture had previously hung there
48:46for some time I didn't think much of it at first but I had it measured and guess what it
48:54was 50
48:55centimeters by 30 centimeters the exact same dimensions as one half of the Belshaw diptyk each panel measures 50
49:04by 30 centimeters that's why mrs. Godwin came to see you when she found the box and realized what
49:12was hanging on her old office wall we can't keep it I go and let the police know but you
49:20didn't agree
49:21did you you told us your school was struggling for money but we had a bit of a dig and
49:28it's it's worse
49:29than that you've not drawn a salary in the last six months to keep it going you said yourself the
49:37place meant so much to you and so the prospect of getting millions of dollars just landing in your lap
49:45well you just weren't willing to give that up and so after driving home to pick up food for
49:53lorette's lunch gathering you return to the church to plead with sylvie one more time please don't do
50:00it that money it could help the school so much could help me so he wasn't for turning was she
50:07I'm
50:08desperate as officer Rose said she always tried to do good in life and she wasn't about to stop now
50:16sorry so in that moment desire for the money got the better of you and you decided you were gonna
50:21stop her I assumed Sylvie had that box with her in the church that day and this box was your
50:28weapon
50:29of choice and once she used it to kill her you made it look like there'd been some tragic accident
50:44how could you
50:48now knowing that the front door of the church had already been locked by mrs. Godwin you made your
50:54escape via the rear using the church's spare backdoor key that you took from the back room
51:00to lock the door from the outside and placing this little coin in the lock
51:14it's locked so that when you returned with officer Rose and lorette that won't go in and with a little
51:20play acting it would seem like the door was locked from the inside the keys in on the other side
51:27then
51:27when officer Rose and his mom headed round to the front you lingered briefly and proceeded to open
51:33the door with the church's spare key pushing this coin out in the process and then inserting that key
51:43inside all you had to do was find a moment to actually lock it okay thank you I'm gonna
51:51listen to this honestly seeing the coin on the floor you picked it up and without your bag or purse
52:03you disposed of it in the collection box and then actually locked the back door with the key it was
52:15very clever of you making it look like sylvie was on her own in the church when she had that
52:21fatal fall
52:22one might say devilishly so but you see sylvie was so determined that the truth would come out
52:30that even after her death her desire to put right a decades old wrong finally won out
52:36this arrived for me in the morning post
52:44officer Rose I think mr. rest has your name on it
52:53get up
52:56he has my silly I'm arresting you for the murder of silly
53:00the government no need to say anything
53:02the
53:04the
53:05the
53:05the
53:20mom
53:27all right can't believe what that woman's dog poor Sylvie and just for money I'm sorry for
53:40getting it wrong no you haven't seen me at my best on this case that's not what your inspector told
53:47me he said it was because of you that it all got solved which is even more impressive considering
53:55you had other things to deal with like your mother keeping secrets and honestly mom I think it's
54:03helping you moving on I don't think you should be getting old and lonely and just focusing on me
54:10and the church you know you deserve happiness too yes I so you like him then I'm pleased for you
54:29but you do know that all that money he inherited from the stolen painting you won't be getting none
54:35of that you know I'm not asking for his money well seriously though I mean he seems like a good
54:42guy with him shiny head see you Sunday won't be late this time I'm the best hmm love you
55:11all right that's the hockey this is where you throw from you get three throws each and then
55:18it's the next player's turn all right let's get it started game on round one
55:30shut ya I thought you were supposed to hit the board yeah yeah I think there's something off with
55:35the flyer it's all right not to worry we got this sir sir you are really bad at this it's
55:45not me
55:45honestly it's the dust you know you're giving off some real bad loser vibes right now maybe you should
55:51let the commissioner take the last straw it's not his turn yet with respect now if you just stop
55:57talking then I can throw properly all right there you go so so that's two points is it
56:20just two points for our team just a bit rusty that's all you want to join our team commissioner
56:28I mean I don't think any of us are going to be
56:55you
56:56you
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