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