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00:00Dear Hortense, my boyfriend snores and I haven't got a good night's game in a month.
00:04Dear Hortense, I've got a problem with my mother-in-law, or should I say...
00:08Dear Hortense, how can I get my son to sleep?
00:10Dear Hortense, dear Hortense, dear Hortense...
00:12Dear Hortense, dear Hortense...
00:14Should I get a tattoo here?
00:15I don't know where...
00:20How many times we're not under attack, you damn thing?
00:31Today's letter's for you, ma'am.
00:36Merci again.
00:43Dear desperate daughter-in-law, may I suggest an alternative course of action?
00:50Divorce your wet husband and kill two birds with one stone.
00:55Dear Peeping Peter, I sense this neighbour is keen for you to notice her.
01:03So bake some chicken colombo and take it over there without delay.
01:09Bonne chance.
01:11Today's letter's for you, ma'am.
01:13Ha-ha, merci again.
01:25tej soak-ng
01:49NOAAA
01:50Commissioner, thanks for coming.
01:54Catherine, what a picture, like a young Grace Kelly.
01:59You do exaggerate, Mr. Boussaint.
02:01Merely appreciative of beauty when I see it.
02:04I've been meaning to thank you.
02:07Without your admirable journalism,
02:09a community initiative wouldn't have happened.
02:13Thanks be to say.
02:15Fort Kent, our guest of honor.
02:19Simply stunning, like a young Grace Kelly.
02:25It all looks wonderful, Anton.
02:27Only what you deserve for your dedicated service to this island.
02:32One last favor, s'il vous plaît.
02:34I want to change my final column to this one.
02:37It's already gone to press, I'm afraid.
02:39Oh, don't be afraid. Just make it happen.
02:43Oh, come on, Bernie.
02:46Do 24 years of marriage count for nothing?
02:49Mm-hmm.
03:01After 30 years solving this island's problems,
03:06our beloved Agony aunt is retiring.
03:10And so, please, put your hands together
03:12to show your gratitude for this wonderful woman.
03:17Oh, dear.
03:19You don't know how to do it.
03:20You don't know how to do it.
03:21You have to do it.
03:22I thank you to all of you, my esteemed readers,
03:26for entrusting me with this precious task for so many years.
03:32But now I'm looking forward to spending more time
03:35with my daughter, Esme.
03:46Let's see if, for the first time in his life,
03:51that embassy was true to his word.
04:09Morning, Esme.
04:10How was the party?
04:12Good item.
04:13Me at hurts.
04:15That's weird.
04:18Maman?
04:22Maman?
04:27Maman?
04:36Maman?
04:37Maman?
04:38Maman?
04:40Maman?
05:05We're done.
05:08Fifteen more minutes.
05:11Right.
05:12Are we going to talk about anything today?
05:22Um...
05:25Nope.
05:27No, thank you, but...
05:29No.
05:38Yes, Thomas.
05:42It's work.
05:48Oh.
05:50So I take it therapy's going well then?
05:54Um...
05:55I mean, sitting in front of a total stranger, talking about feelings, it's just not for
06:01me, you know?
06:02But you were kidnapped by your own brother, sir, almost killed.
06:07Look, I'm here now, aren't I?
06:09The best thing for me to do is just forget it ever happened.
06:12Sounds healthy.
06:13Look, I'm English.
06:15Yeah?
06:16That's what we do.
06:21The deceased is Hortense Leroux.
06:24She writes an agony aunt column for the local paper.
06:27Agony aunt.
06:28That's a blast from the past.
06:31Good morning, boss.
06:33Sarge.
06:34Paramedics say Madame Leroux was poisoned.
06:37Who found her?
06:37Her daughter Esme, who had plans to go on a walk with her mother, and the housekeeper,
06:42Kim Woods, who was just starting her shift.
06:45This way.
06:47So, the victim.
06:49She has a few tiny red spots on her finger.
06:54Which leads me to believe that the poison came from something she touched.
07:00So, she sat down for breakfast, boiled egg and toast, read her column where someone writes
07:10in about a friend's betrayal, and dear Hortense replies with avoiding revenge.
07:18Let sleeping dogs lie.
07:20Sir, if she was retiring, this would be her last column?
07:24Tragic coincidence?
07:26Tragic, certainly.
07:28Coincidence?
07:29Not so much.
07:31Does this look discoloured to you?
07:38You think the poison is on the paper?
07:40Possibly.
07:41Where did this come from?
07:42We'll check with the housekeeper.
07:44Hmm.
07:53Egg and soldiers.
07:55In the breakfast hall of fame.
07:57That's right up there.
07:58Dipping a piece of buttered toast into a gooey yellow egg.
08:02Heaven.
08:04You're fine, sir.
08:17This egg's harder than Vinnie Jones.
08:19Dipping a soldier into that would be impossible.
08:28Sir, normally when you spot a detail, I think, go on man, we'll definitely come back to
08:33this.
08:33But right now, I'm kind of struggling how this could possibly be relevant.
08:40Everything's relevant, Officer Rose.
08:53And the paper was delivered every day?
08:56By a boy called Clayton Powell.
08:58Can you get a hold of him, please?
09:00Mm-hmm.
09:01Esme.
09:04It's terrible, terrible news.
09:07Anton Bozet, editor of the San Marie News and Hortense's ex-husband.
09:12D.R.
09:13Wilson.
09:13I've heard a lot about you.
09:16So, what's the latest?
09:18Well, we're working on the theory that Miss Leroux was poisoned.
09:21What?
09:22Deliberately.
09:23How could anyone do that to her?
09:26She was truly adored.
09:28So, how did she seem recently?
09:30Anything out the ordinary?
09:32Well, she had mixed feelings about retiring, naturally.
09:36There was something at the party.
09:39I want to change my final column to this one.
09:43Do you know why?
09:44No.
09:46Can we see the original letter?
09:47They'll be in her study.
09:49Okay.
09:49So, talk me through her morning routine, please.
09:52Well, she was up with the lark, made breakfast.
09:56Boiled egg and soldiers, yeah?
09:58Clayton would deliver the paper.
09:59Then she would like to read her column over breakfast.
10:03And the egg, how long did she cook it for?
10:06Oh, I'm not sure.
10:09Do you know, love?
10:11Dreaming it, Cecil?
10:12She liked it to be perfect.
10:14Yeah.
10:15That's who she was.
10:16Deep breaths, darling.
10:17Deep breaths.
10:19Here you are, Esme.
10:20Look here, Inspector.
10:22Why the focus on eggs?
10:24Can I suggest that you concentrate on what is actually important?
10:28Finding the person who did this.
10:30I'm merely trying to establish the facts, Mr. Bousset.
10:33I mean, as a journalist, it surprises me you don't appreciate that.
10:41I'm sorry, the little man doesn't like strangers.
10:45Sensible chap.
10:52She really liked purple.
11:01So what's with the egg thing?
11:04Look, Hortense was the sort of woman who liked everything just so, right?
11:09Even down to how she set out her breakfast.
11:12People are funny, aren't they?
11:14Yes.
11:15People are.
11:17It's still bothering me why the egg was hard boiled.
11:20Maybe she got distracted.
11:23Overcooked it.
11:24She had an egg timer which she clearly used.
11:26And even if she had overcooked it, she could have made another one.
11:31Now you say it, it is a little odd.
11:35You know, I used to think these letters were fake.
11:37But people actually write in with their problems.
11:41And according to the housekeeper, she replied to every single one.
11:45Felt like it was her duty.
11:49Whoa!
11:53Seems she kept every single letter as well.
11:56This is the letter she wanted to publish last minute.
12:00Dear Hortense, I've suffered a great betrayal by a friend.
12:04Well, that's different.
12:05What is?
12:06Well, all these other letters are signed anonymously.
12:09But this one is signed by Sophie Martin.
12:12So Sophie Martin wanted her friend to know she'd written this letter.
12:18But why?
12:19To send a message?
12:21For a warning.
12:27Yes, Victor.
12:31Okay, so that's Clayton and here's the tea.
12:35He picked up the papers from Mr. Purdy's newsagent at 7am.
12:39There are various papers in the stack, the St. Marie News only being one of them.
12:44All right, thanks.
12:44He then cycled straight here, delivered the newspaper to Madame LaRue at 7.15am.
12:51And did he actually see her pick it up?
12:53He did, just like always.
12:56I mean, now she came inside and sat at the dinner table to read the paper.
13:00Do we know how many St. Marie News were in his stack?
13:03He said six, and none of the other people who get the paper are ill.
13:08But if so, assuming it was a targeted attack, how did he get the one poisoned newspaper to Hortense?
13:15Maybe they intercepted Clayton on the way knowing he'd be coming to Madame LaRue's house first.
13:21Clayton swears he did not meet anyone en route.
13:24The only thing of note, his bike had a bust up with a pothole and all his papers fell out
13:29his back.
13:30But even if the killer had poisoned the first paper in the stack, they're all jumbled up now, right?
13:37Which means they couldn't guarantee that the poisoned paper would get to Madame LaRue.
13:44A one in six chance.
13:47Don't like the sound of those odds, do you?
13:58Hortense LaRue, St. Marie's favourite agony aunt.
14:02Poisoned, apparently, by her own column.
14:04So, who would want to murder her?
14:07All that meddling in people's lives would make you some enemies.
14:10I read that she moved from Paris to St. Marie 30 years ago with her baby daughter, Esme.
14:18Anton Busset, Esme's stepfather.
14:21They met in 1996 when she started her column at the St. Marie News.
14:26Then there's this.
14:28Now, why would Hortense be so keen to publish it?
14:31It was posted on St. Marie, so likely the author lives here.
14:35So, our priority, find Sophie Martin.
14:43Copy that, sir.
14:45There were letters at the host. Looks like she kept them all.
14:48Might be worth checking those too?
14:50Yes, where would you put that on the priority list?
14:53I'm thinking maybe three or four.
14:57We've got it, Sarge. Soon as we check through the victim's form.
15:01Can't help feeling Sophie is key to all of this.
15:04Making progress already?
15:07Oh, Commissioner. Well, you know, it's early days.
15:10Madame LaRue was highly regarded.
15:13Only last night, Catherine and I attended her retirement party.
15:16As such, the island will be watching our investigation keenly.
15:22Ah. Excellent.
15:24I'm assuming you've met Anton Busset.
15:28We've had the pleasure.
15:29He won't miss an opportunity to put pressure on us.
15:34Or rather, me.
15:36Let me know when you're ready to talk.
15:40So, let's keep things as professional as we can.
15:44Of course.
15:46D.I. Wilson.
15:47A word.
15:55How are the counselling sessions going?
15:58Oh, erm...
16:00Extremely useful.
16:02Yeah, we're really getting to the...
16:03the heart of the matter.
16:05Is that so?
16:07What I've heard is directly to the contrary.
16:11You haven't said a word.
16:13I thought that was confidential.
16:16Inspector.
16:17Take it seriously.
16:19Look, I'm just not into the whole going over the past stuff.
16:24The effects of trauma don't just magically go away.
16:28You've got to work through it.
16:31I know.
16:32Because I did.
16:37You had therapy.
16:39And like you, I had dogs.
16:43Men of my age, we tend to crack on with things too.
16:48Give in to it, Inspector.
16:51You may be surprised.
16:54Okay.
16:56But I assure you, I am completely, totally, 100% fine.
17:14We've got a situation.
17:16Oh!
17:19Sorry.
17:23What?
17:42Working overtime, mate.
17:44Any leads?
17:45What?
17:50You can't see.
17:51I'm not...
17:56I'm having a habit.
17:57I need a habit...
17:57There.
17:57No.
17:59No.
18:00No.
18:02No.
18:14No.
18:15No.
18:15No.
18:26Morning, campers. Gather round. I have a breakthrough.
18:35Right, so, this stamp was conveniently hidden beneath this St. Marie stamp.
18:41The original stamp is from France.
18:46Hmm. So what does that mean?
18:48That it was posted from somewhere else first?
18:50Maybe Sophie meant to post it from somewhere else, but didn't for some reason,
18:53then brought it to St. Marie to post. Why? Who knows?
18:56My stamp man in Kentish town is on the case.
18:58And three.
19:02You all right, sir?
19:04Yeah, why?
19:05You seem a little energetic.
19:07Oh, that's the coffee. I've had three already. That's my fourth.
19:13Bad night?
19:15Uh, no. I was just up looking into this. Any update on Sophie's whereabouts?
19:21None on the island and no mention in the victim's contacts either. Postmortem's in.
19:28Cortens was poisoned, as we thought. Contact poison.
19:32Cone snail venom, in fact.
19:35Cone snail? That's new.
19:37Yeah, I mean, they live in the shallow waters around here. I mean, you're worried about them as a kid.
19:43The toxin paralyzes the victim first, then they die a painful death.
19:50Nice.
19:51So, whoever did this wanted Hortense to suffer.
19:55It says here that the poison was only on page 35 of the newspaper, which means we're looking at one
20:01hell of a gambler.
20:02Somehow poison one page in one paper of a pack of six, then pray to the gods of vengeance that
20:09that paper is delivered to its victim.
20:11Risky as anything.
20:12It's more than risky. It's almost impossible. Did Hortense touch anything else?
20:16Lab's still testing. They'll get back to us tomorrow.
20:19In the meantime, Officer Rose and I have been working on something.
20:22Yes, the daughter. Esme, eh?
20:25I mean, totally bankrupt by her mummy.
20:27She's never had a job.
20:29She just gets her big juice yellow ones every month and, I mean, she's living her life.
20:33Well, it seems Esme might have disagreed. She'd applied for a job at a publisher's in Barbados.
20:39Then, plot twist, we find emails from Hortense to the managing director saying Esme was not fit to work
20:49and that she would sue them if her daughter had a breakdown.
20:53They took back the job offer pretty quickly after that.
20:57So, mummy blew her chances of a promising career.
21:08Must have been a blow.
21:10She was right. I... I wouldn't have coped.
21:13Real life and me somehow never work, so...
21:16What made you apply for the job, then?
21:18Anton encouraged me. He helps me with all sorts of things.
21:23Can't help noticing you're wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
21:27Late night, was it?
21:28My mum just died. I'm allowed to grieve.
21:32Of course you are.
21:35Look, what do you want from me?
21:36You're 31. Never been anywhere. Everything you own. All paid for by your mother. It's unusual.
21:43Some might say a little controlling.
21:46She wasn't. She loved me.
21:48People get away with a lot under that label.
21:53Papillon. Papillon.
21:54Come away from there.
21:58Needs to be careful of those cone snails.
22:01I hear they're deadly.
22:02My mum was always paranoid. He gets stoned.
22:05Like to keep him close.
22:07A bit like you, then.
22:08Please stop this.
22:09A bright new future.
22:11Suddenly snatched. No.
22:12Stolen away by your meddling mother.
22:14That'd have made me angry.
22:15But that made you angry, DS Thomas.
22:17Definitely.
22:17Maybe the anger got too much.
22:19Maybe one day you just snapped.
22:20No.
22:21That's not true.
22:27We'll be in touch.
22:33Never underestimate the quiet ones.
22:40All right, mate.
22:41What have you got?
22:43For real?
22:52Curious and curious, as they say.
22:55Le Cloche de Saint-Azure, pardon my accent, was printed in Paris 30 years ago.
23:00Does that mean that this letter is also 30 years old?
23:04We can only assume so.
23:05But if that's the case, why would Sophie Martin wait to send us now?
23:10Maybe she knew Hortense was retiring and this was her last chance?
23:14Well, look for any Sophie Martins who lived in Paris 30 years ago.
23:17Yeah, keep me posted.
23:18Any news from the lad?
23:20No poison found on anything else she could have touched.
23:23So this newspaper was definitely the murder weapon?
23:25It looks like it.
23:27Something interesting, though.
23:29No fingerprints found on Hortense's glasses.
23:32Wiped clean.
23:34Hmm.
23:34What would that be?
23:37Right.
23:38Until we know who Sophie Martin is, let's look for anyone with a motive, yeah?
23:41I found something on the victim's phone, in the trash.
23:45And like my uncle, little Terrence always says, one man's trash is a...
23:49It's another man's treasure, yes we know.
23:50Get on with it, Officer Rose.
23:52Sir!
23:53Sorry.
23:55Go on.
23:57Some anonymous text going back three weeks ago.
23:59You'll get what's coming to you.
24:01You don't deserve to live.
24:03And then just before a retirement party, wear the amethyst earrings.
24:07They bring out your eyes.
24:09Someone was out for blood.
24:11But who?
24:12A reader with a grudge, maybe?
24:14Maybe.
24:15Clearly whoever it is, was watching the house the other night, while Hortense was getting
24:19ready for a big bash.
24:20First thing tomorrow, talk to the neighbours.
24:23Maybe they saw someone hanging around.
24:25Mm-hmm.
24:25Oh, God.
24:30Oh, God.
24:32Hey, Josh.
24:33Oh, God.
24:40Have you, folks?
24:44Nobody's leaving me.
24:46Oh, God.
24:51This thing aiS companys!
25:02you want to give up don't you i'm here when you're ready look why don't you just ask me something
25:11just ask me a question please what are your feelings about your brother
25:20okay um something akin to anger i'd say you know every time i'm near that guy something happens it
25:33shouldn't and and sadness in fact i'd say mainly sadness i wanted it to work yeah believe me i i
25:43wanted us to work but you know what
25:51we just don't i do not trust that guy and if you can't trust family then who can you trust
25:58would it be more helpful to talk to him about what happened i don't know where i'd even start
26:05sometimes if talking's difficult writing it down can help write him a letter
26:15yeah writing him a letter yeah could work
26:23a letter it'd be a waste of time why don't you tell him what kind of brother you wanted
26:30it because it's a fantasy he can't be that brother
26:37so i need to just accept it and move on and sir how will you do that unless you're honest
26:45with him
26:45and even more so with yourself katherine you're at uh hortense's party yeah did you know well
26:55not really and and the family it's me and tombless sets oh anton men like him hungry lions looking at
27:06you
27:07like your tasty steak at a buffet oh have you two got history he'd like that do you want another
27:15drink
27:16oh no thank you i think i'll have an early night perhaps you should too sir why's that seeing that
27:25you're having trouble sleeping another cold one for me please katherine
27:45i speak to him and you take the house over there then we'll get to those letters sound good cool
27:50see
27:51you later alligator
28:09oh come on come on come on
28:18what are you doing nothing what's behind your back hi cupboard don't lie to me there's a mirror
28:25right behind you i just promise you won't laugh all right i promise
28:32dear hortense there's this girl i like if she were a chicken wing she'd be extra hot all summer we've
28:39chilled but now she's gone quiet i'm confused she keeps watching my stories once she commented with
28:45a tomato emoji what does that mean i just want to know where i stand you're sebastian rose
28:56you know this is supposed to be i know that no well did hortense write back she did she said
29:02something about allowing space for roots to grow or something and have they no because she might be
29:10waiting for you you know that tomato emoji couldn't mean this girl's interested you can't sit back you
29:16got to lean in yeah you know maybe all right the neighbor did tell me something pretty darn spicy yeah
29:32what are you doing a game of probability a killer somehow gets a poison copy of the saint marie news
29:39into clayton's stack of newspapers in which there happens to be five other copies of the saint marie
29:44news and from which he pulls one copy of the saint marie news at random and delivers it to hortense
29:49a one in six charts our only clue is the egg why was it hard-boiled when hortense likes it
29:59to be
29:59perfectly dippable sophie martin is a very popular name there were about a hundred sophie martin's in
30:08paris around that time look for any connections with saint marie yeah we have to find this woman will do
30:18sorry it's not you it's me so the beers didn't help then surprisingly no
30:29and the little no it's not a good idea and that's an end of it okay
30:39sergeant fletcher we know who's been sending those messages the neighbor was taking out the bins on the
30:46day of the party when he overheard an argument between kim and hortense did he hear what was said
30:52certainly did it's you isn't it you have been sending these foul messages who else would know those
31:00things and guess what hortense said she'd report her to the police the next day
31:11would never do anything so stupid so why would hortense think it was you no clue those texts contain
31:18personal details that only someone close to her would know so how long have you worked with miss
31:23larue oh about six months or so was she a good boss madame was a diamond it's a tragedy that
31:29she's
31:29gone from what we've heard she was more dragon than diamond she certainly gave her daughter a hard
31:34time didn't she well she was a mite overprotective but she cared which is more than most if she was
31:40like that with her own flesh and blood it's not a stretch to imagine she'd do the same to you
31:44perhaps you decided to get your own back
31:48frighten her but then she found you out didn't she you'd have faced criminal charges you'd have
31:53lost everything so i killed her you've got this all our officers i've been around the block more
32:02times than i care for life's good here better than i hoped why would i risk losing that
32:10you know what i said to her go ahead report me any decent investigation team would discover that
32:16i didn't send those texts convenient what is well she never got the chance did she and now here you
32:23are free as a bird she does have a point i don't see what she gains from scaring hortense well
32:38who else
32:40well i'm not overly thrilled about talking to anton busset but if it was an angry reader sent those
32:45texts then we're gonna have to huh sir you're sure you can keep cool as a cucumber
33:05so all tens larue didn't mention anything to you about these text messages
33:10ever since the divorce we didn't have the same intimacy you understand please sit down no i'm
33:16all right standing thank you any hate mail sent to the office complaints people calling in to talk to
33:22her you don't give up do you oh she's deceptively heavy is this real gold can you put that down
33:30i've already said i don't know who was sending these messages and whoever she is won't be easily
33:35found she but you just said whoever she is i misspoke they unusual for a man in your line of
33:44work to
33:44misspeak unusual for a man in your line of work to behave like an amateur excuse me let me be
33:50crystal
33:51clear stop wasting time asking obtuse questions and go about doing your actual job let me be crystal clear
34:00these obtuse questions to find out who murdered your ex-wife sir but the fact that you can't see
34:05that because your head is so far up your own well that escalated look i get it sir what you
34:16went through
34:17was something no one should ever have to well you can't keep pretending pretending yes pretending like
34:24you're okay your judgment is clearly off because you're not sleeping and you're not sleeping because
34:30you have this thing with solomon hanging over your head what do you suggest i don't know write the
34:35letter whatever get it off your chest we have a murder to solve but all right fine i'll do it
34:44thank you
34:49so what are we going to do about mr verset we obviously suspects who's sending those texts well we need
34:58a
34:59tactical rethink
35:03i have an idea
35:14who knew saint marie was so high tech found it in the back of the evidence store don't think it's
35:21been used for a while you surprise me
35:25it's from 1986 can't beat quality thanks for doing this miss baudet a pleasure i feel like one of charlie's
35:33essentials now remember you're there to find out who anton thinks is behind the text messages but
35:39don't go straight in for the kill act natural rain check is your code word if anything goes wrong
35:45he taught trust me
35:47don't go straight in for the kill act natural rain check is your code word if anything goes wrong
35:55we're good
36:02the golden goose has landed
36:09anton how lovely to see you likewise i was surprised when you called me
36:16pleasantly surprised of course thought a drink would help take your mind off things much appreciated
36:27that clown inspector was at the office today
36:30poking his nose in where it's not wanted oh like a dog without a bow
36:36what is she after
36:37just wait she knows what she's doing did the police have a theory today
36:43oh they were bothered about with these nasty messages hortense was receiving
36:48thank you
36:50you seem like a woman of good sense and judgment
36:54i like to think so
36:56this stays between us
36:58a few years ago hortense told me something
37:01esme isn't her child she took her from paris when she was a baby
37:06this is big
37:07sadly the mother wasn't able to take care of her
37:10a drug addict
37:11i'm assuming she agreed to this
37:14the way hortense told it sounded like she was too out of it
37:18to notice hortense couldn't have children
37:21but the authorities did they not realize
37:25she came here forged her papers
37:28she was esme's mother in all but flesh and blood
37:32and esme has no idea no and i wanted to stay that way
37:37this would break her
37:39so you suspect it's esme's birth mother sending those messages who else
37:49enough doom and gloom would you do me the honor of a dance
37:53so well um it might be better if i rain check
37:59i doubt that very much come on sorry anton i must rain check
38:08we've lost her sergeant fletcher
38:14why do you keep saying rain check
38:28sorry mattie i tried this won't be the last to hear of me i'll be calling your commissioner
38:36i was saying the code well it was a technical age i am so sorry
38:44we can now assume that the friend's betrayal written about in sophie martin's letter is referring to
38:49hortense stealing sophie's baby 30 years ago
38:52which means sophie is esme's real mother and finally explains why hortense was so desperate to
38:59publish the letter she knew it was sophie coming for her her response back off esme's mine but why
39:06wait 30 years to send this don't know yet but we will and if miss martin is also behind the
39:14text
39:14messages as anton suspects you'll get what's coming to you you don't deserve to live she's here on this
39:20island with one hell of a motive but we're
39:35i hope you don't mind angel oh no not at all such a great loss
39:41if you ever need someone to talk to i'm here you're kind
40:08i've been thinking about what to say for a while but i haven't managed to find the right words
40:14the street across the way it flows
40:20just like a mirror it seems to show
40:28yes
40:33morning morning sir that was the paris police my thinking was addicts are more likely to have
40:40criminal charges and there are three sophie martins on file two for possession one for aggravated
40:48robbery i've asked them to send over the records good work what's that sir oh um this is it my
40:58letter to
40:58solomon i've got it off my chest did it help uh yeah it did actually you know what i realized
41:09i want
41:11no i need my space for him
41:17i'm so sorry sir no no no it's all good it's for the best i just needed a little time
41:22to accept you that's all
41:26where is everyone following a lead if sophie martin was outside madame roux's house that night
41:33it's possible she followed her to the party so we went through the photos online and look at this one
41:46yes she does look about the right age that sophie will be
41:49an uninvited guest the waiter said she got into a green vw camper van and luckily mattie knows the
41:57one garage that fixes them
42:02yeah talk with the devil we think we found sophie so someone matching her description came into the
42:09garage last week goes by the name of calypso said she normally pipes up by coral beach
42:14we need to get there pronto you're already here sir you got an eyeball
42:23i hearing you good you think that i'm that shy girl's mother you're mad i don't even know this
42:30woman you're talking about then why did you sneak into the party that night just passing felt thirsty
42:40it's not a crime no but stalking is see our theory is you are sophie martin you assumed a new
42:47identity
42:48to come to saint marie and enact revenge on hortense larue starting with phil's threatening text messages
42:55i just like to stay off grid that's all we should be free to roam as the birds do you
43:02know we can trace
43:03the sim to the shop you brought it in check their cctv okay here's the truth that woman you're talking
43:12about sophie mattan that ain't me but those texts
43:21i sent him not for the reason you think though why then two months ago i sent dear hortense a
43:30letter hortense told me to cut the mother out of my life toxic mothers shouldn't be allowed to act
43:38that way she said the hypocritical coming from her i did what she said know what my mother died
43:47alone in her bed if i hadn't listened to that loud-mouthed woman i would have been there
43:52that must have made you angry not enough to kill her i wanted to scare her make her suffer the
44:00same
44:00where i've been suffering walking about this perfect life little care for the people whose life she ruins
44:15miss jones no disrespect but it kind of seems like you're more angry at yourself
44:25look i'm no expert but it doesn't help to hold on to things
44:45so we're still having a scooby how the killer pulled off this murder a stack of six papers and
44:50managed to poison one and have it delivered practically straight into hortense larue's hands
44:54and let's not forget about the egg what happened that morning to make her ruin a perfectly good
44:59breakfast sir hold that thought i'm late i'll be back
45:14how do you feel um better definitely better i mean everything here is just um
45:26you know gone all i need to do now is post it well done
45:30oh okay now can we talk a little more about your life here oh how long have you got about
45:39half an
45:39hour no i meant
45:48she timed it why did she take it out and the egg how long did she cook it for dreaming
45:56it social he then
45:57cycle straight here delivered the newspaper to madame larue at 7 15 a.m i'm sorry the little
46:03man doesn't like strangers there were no fingerprints found on her tenses glasses i wanted to scare her
46:10i wanted her to suffer the same way i've been suffering of course that's the reason why why what the
46:17egg
46:17was hard boiled i can see everything clearly now thanks for your patience i know who the killer is
46:28i know how they did it those photos from the paris police have they come through just in right we
46:34need
46:34a search warrant and then we can have a little family reunion
46:44agony arts are known for giving advice to help solve difficult problems however i doubt they've
46:51ever been asked to advise on a problem as difficult as this one hortense larue was poisoned effectively
46:58by her own column but we had no idea how the killer managed to poison the newspaper and get it
47:04delivered straight to her when the paper boy took one at random from his stack but with the help of
47:13a
47:13hard-boiled egg not this again we finally cracked it
47:20you kim it was you who murdered hortense me no i told you i was telling the truth
47:29as miss larue's housekeeper you knew her morning routine that she liked to read her column whilst
47:35having her breakfast you also knew that clayton drops the paper on the porch at 7 15 a.m and
47:42papillon
47:43barks to alert hortense as he always does when someone's at the door so earlier that morning
47:49you went to another news agent and bought a copy of the saint marie news let's call this paper a
47:57you
47:58then laced the problem page with cone snail poison something you knew about from hortense's fear of her
48:04dog getting stung by one my mom was always paranoid he gets stoned then you dropped paper a onto the
48:11porch
48:11sometime before clayton usually arrived hortense must have been in the middle of preparing her
48:18breakfast papillon parked as normal so she went outside to collect the newspaper she thought had
48:25just been delivered
48:30she went back into the kitchen eager to see if her request to change her final column had been carried
48:35out in doing so she came into contact with the poison and subsequently died a painful death by all
48:44accounts
48:47you then came into the house through the back
48:51and put on hortense's purple gown a wig matching her hair with a purple headband
48:57and finally the item that was unmistakably hortense her statement purple glasses as usual at 7 15
49:08clayton delivered the newspaper paper b and papillon barked kim now dressed as hortense opened the door
49:17and waved to him as clayton cycled away he wouldn't have known that it was in fact you waving at
49:23him and not
49:24hortense you then came back into the kitchen and returned miss larue's glasses wiping away any prints
49:31first now we come to the egg and your ultimate downfall you see in your haste to stage the scene
49:40before esme arrived you almost forgot miss larue's egg was still boiling away on the stove you needed
49:46everything to look exactly as it should to fit the timeline of hortense making breakfast then reading
49:53her column so you hurriedly took the now hard-boiled egg out of the pan and clumsily put it in
50:01the
50:01egg cup then you left the house through the back the same way you came got into your car that
50:07was
50:07parked around the corner and drove around the front to time perfectly with esme's arrival
50:15you later disposed of paper b and the wig at your home we found these in the bin on your
50:24street
50:26an audacious yet brilliant plan but why go to such lengths kim woods isn't your real name is it
50:38you are in fact sophie martin 30 years ago sophie martin moved to paris from the uk with her boyfriend
50:50who was escaping some trouble back home she was living in a commune in montmartre and it's there she
50:56met hortense an ambitious writer sophie was a drug addict with a newborn baby you were doing your best
51:10no doubt but from what we now know about miss larue she had a savior complex through our undercover
51:18investigation we discovered her secret hortense stole your baby in the night
51:25and went as far away as she could to saint marie
51:32that baby was you esme you're my mother
51:40hortense was my friend and she offered to look after you and yes i was struggling but i loved you
51:50so much and then one morning i woke up and you was gone and i didn't sleep today searching for
51:57you
51:59but then you found out hortense was here didn't you through her column so all those years ago
52:07you wrote this letter to dear hortense the same letter hortense wanted to publish at the very last
52:17minute for her final issue i wanted her to know i was coming for her then you were arrested the
52:25guy i
52:25was going out with at the time he told the police that i was involved in an armed robbery and
52:30someone
52:30got really badly hurt and it was all lies i had nothing to do with it he was not a
52:37good man and i
52:38didn't get a chance to send the letter it put me away for years time after time my parole was
52:46refused
52:47and i lost all hope until one day i finally got myself together got myself clean
52:54that day came and i knew what i had to do i had to find you and hurt hortense for
53:03what she'd done
53:04i came to saint marie first place i went was a newsagent and i saw the ad for her housekeeper
53:11it felt
53:12like fate come in you bided your time working out the perfect murder plan but when hortense received
53:22your letter she must have known you were gunning for her you read her response she didn't regret it
53:31nor one bit
53:35esme i don't expect you to forgive me but i would really like you to understand that what she did
53:42destroyed me killing her was the only way i could ever have a relationship with you officer rose
53:54so for martin i'm arresting you for the murder of hortense larue you don't need to say anything
54:01but it may harm your defense if you do not mention in question something which you later
54:04rely on in cards i think you do see it may be given evidence so my whole life been alive
54:13i think you do see it may be given to you for the murder of hortense's love for you that
54:17was real
54:22so
54:32ORCHESTRA PLAYS
55:04ORCHESTRA PLAYS
55:24Can I help you?
55:27Mervyn, yeah?
55:30Yeah?
55:31Didn't you hear me, nak?
55:33No, I was sleeping, actually.
55:36Deeply.
55:37You're older than I imagined.
55:39Sorry, who are you?
55:42Just one second.
55:43Come on.
55:44Just give it up, man.
55:48Finally.
55:50Stupid boy's been holding out.
55:52And Arlie's got his appear of sixes.
55:55Amateur.
55:57Is that a gambling app?
55:59I don't think you should be playing there.
56:01Don't sweat it.
56:02It's cool.
56:04Dad said you were a goody-goody.
56:06But I guess that comes with a jab, right?
56:08Okay, stop, yeah?
56:10Now you tell me right now who you are,
56:13who your dad is,
56:13and what you're doing on my property,
56:15or I'm arresting you for trespass.
56:17And you being a detective?
56:19It's me, Eloise, Yanice.
56:24Sorry, what?
56:25Yanice, Eloise,
56:28did Dad not mention me to you?
56:31No, no one mentioned you.
56:37Well, I'm sure he was going to.
56:40He's a busy guy, you know.
56:42Lot on his plate.
56:46So,
56:47what would you prefer when I call you?
56:50Uncle Marvin?
56:52Uncle Merv?
56:54Just Merv?
56:59What's for breakfast?
57:07Hey, don't touch anything.
57:11This is the closest I've come to actually seeing it.
57:14The Lusker.
57:15Sorry, what?
57:15It's a sea monster.
57:17Some people are saying that's what killed him.
57:19I would like to do my bit
57:20to try and solve this case now.
57:22We need to work out a plan, Uncle Merv,
57:24to find evidence that proves he's innocent.
57:26I should just tell her the truth.
57:28Giles was convinced
57:29the Lusker took their son.
57:31That's why he stayed on here.
57:32To try and prove the Lusker exists.
57:35I can't believe we're going on a monster hunt.
57:38The Lusker?
57:40Matty!
57:45Cracking cold cases.
57:46They were the very best.
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58:05The Lusker.
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58:08The Lusker.
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