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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.
01:16Ok, good for now.
01:30Give me some意, too.
01:36I'm gonna have to face this!
01:41Sh verk !
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.
02:11Let's meet you, sir.
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 plaît.
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.
16:48No.
16:52No.
16:53No.
17:08Morning campers, gather round, I have a breakthrough.
17:17Right, so, this stamp was conveniently hidden beneath this St. Marie stamp.
17:22The original stamp is from France.
17:27Hmm, so what does that mean?
17:29That it was posted from somewhere else first?
17:31Maybe Sophie meant to post it from somewhere else but didn't for some reason,
17:34then brought it to St. Marie to post. Why? Who knows?
17:37My stamp man in Kentish Town is on the case.
17:39And three. You alright, sir?
17:44Yeah, why?
17:45You seem a little energetic.
17:47Oh, that's the coffee. I've had three already. That's my fourth.
17:53Bad night?
17:55Uh, no. I was just up, looking into this. Any update on Sophie's whereabouts?
18:01None on the island and no mention in the victim's contacts either.
18:05Post-mortem's in.
18:07Hortens was poisoned, as we thought. Contact poison.
18:11Cone snail venom, in fact.
18:14Cone snail? That's new?
18:16Yeah, I mean, they live in the shallow waters around here.
18:18I mean, you're warned about them as a kid.
18:19If 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 Hortens to suffer.
18:33It says here that the poison was only on page 35 of the newspaper.
18:37Which means we're looking at one hell of a gambler.
18:40Somehow poison one page in one paper of a pack of six.
18:44Then 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.
18:52Did Hortens touch anything else?
18:53Lab's still testing. They'll get back to us tomorrow.
18:56In the meantime, Officer Rose and I have been working on something.
18:59Yes, uh, the daughter.
19:01Esme, eh?
19:01I mean, totally bankrolled by her mommy.
19:04She's never had a job.
19:05She just gets her big juicy allowance every month.
19:07And, I mean, she's living her life.
19:10Well, it seems Esme might have disagreed.
19:12She'd applied for a job at a publisher's inn Barbados.
19:16Then, plot twist, we find emails from Hortens
19:21to the managing director saying Esme was not fit to work
19:24and that she would sue them if her daughter had a breakdown.
19:28They took back the job offer pretty quickly after that.
19:32So, mommy blew her chances of a promising career.
19:43Must have been a blow.
19:44She was right. I wouldn't have coped.
19:48Real life and me somehow never work, so...
19:50What made you apply for the job then?
19:52Anton encouraged me.
19:54He helps me with our start settings.
19:57Can't help noticing you're wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
20:01Late night, was it?
20:01My mom just died. I'm allowed to grieve.
20:05Of course you are.
20:08Look, what do you want from me?
20:10You're 31.
20:11Never been anywhere.
20:12Everything you own.
20:13All paid for by your mother.
20:14It's unusual.
20:15Some might say a little controlling.
20:18She wasn't.
20:19She loved me.
20:21People get away with a lot under that label.
20:24Papillon.
20:25Papillon.
20:26Come away from there.
20:31Needs to be careful of those cone snails.
20:33I hear they're deadly.
20:34My mother's always paranoid he gets stoned.
20:37Like to keep them close.
20:39A bit like you then.
20:40Please stop this.
20:41A bright new future.
20:42Suddenly, snatched.
20:43No.
20:43Stolen away by your meddling mother.
20:45That would have made me angry.
20:46Would that have made you angry, DS Thomas?
20:48Definitely.
20:48Maybe the anger got too much.
20:50Maybe one day you just snapped.
20:52No.
20:53That'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.
21:26Pardon my accent.
21:27Was 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.
21:35Why would Sophie Martin wait to send us now?
21:38Maybe she knew Hortense was retiring and this was her last chance?
21:42Well look for any Sophie Martins who lived in Paris 30 years ago.
21:46Yeah, keep me posted.
21:47Any news from the lad?
21:48No poison found on anything else she 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.
22:05Until we know who Sophie Martin is, let's look for anyone with a motive, yeah?
22:08I found something on the victim's phone.
22:11In the trash.
22:12Like my uncle, little Terence always says.
22:14One 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?
22:40Maybe.
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.
22:50Cool, cool.
23:26You wanna give up, don't you?
23:28I'm here when you're ready.
23:30Look, why don't you just ask me something?
23:33Okay.
23:33Just ask me a question.
23:37Please.
23:38What are your feelings about your brother?
23:42Okay.
23:44Um...
23:47Something akin to anger, I'd say.
23:50You know, every time I'm near that guy, something happens that shouldn't.
23:56And sadness.
23:58In fact, I'd say mainly sadness.
24:01I wanted it to work.
24:03Yeah?
24:03Believe me.
24:04I wanted us to work.
24:08But you know what?
24:12We just don't.
24:13I do not trust that guy.
24:16And if you can't trust family, then who can you trust?
24:19Would it be more helpful to talk to him about what happened?
24:23I don't know where I'd even start.
24:26Sometimes, if talking's difficult, writing it down can help.
24:30Write him a letter.
24:35Yeah, writing him a letter.
24:37Yeah.
24:38Could work.
24:42A letter.
24:43It'd be a waste of time.
24:46Why don't you tell him what kind of brother you wanted?
24:50Because it's a fantasy.
24:52He can't be that brother.
24:56So I need to just accept it and move on.
25:01And, sir, how will you do that unless you're honest with him?
25:04And even more so, with yourself?
25:07Catherine, you were at Hortense's party.
25:11Yeah.
25:11Did you know I will?
25:13Not really.
25:14And the family.
25:15It's me.
25:17Anton Busset.
25:18Oh, Anton.
25:20Men like him.
25:22Hungry lions.
25:23Looking at you like your tasty steak at a buffet.
25:27Oh, have you two got history?
25:30He'd like that.
25:31Do you want another drink?
25:33Oh, no thank you.
25:35I think I'll have an early night.
25:37Perhaps you should too, sir.
25:39Why's that?
25:40Seeing that you're having trouble sleeping.
25:43Another cold one for me please, Catherine.
26:01I'll speak to him, and you take the house over there.
26:04Then we'll get to those letters.
26:05Sound good?
26:05Cool.
26:06See you later, alligator.
26:23Oh, come on, come on, come on.
26:33What are you doing?
26:34Nothing.
26:35What's behind your back?
26:36Hi, cupboard.
26:37Don't lie to me, there's a mirror right behind you.
26:41I just promise you won't laugh, alright?
26:44I promise.
26:46Dear Hortense, there's this girl I like.
26:48If she were a chicken wing, she'd be extra hot.
26:51All summer we've chilled, but now she's gone quiet.
26:54I'm confused.
26:55She keeps watching my stories.
26:57Once she commented with a tomato emoji, what does that mean?
27:01I just want to know where I stand.
27:05You're Sebastian Rose.
27:08You know this is supposed to be anonymous.
27:10I know that now.
27:11Well, did Hortense write back?
27:13She did.
27:13She said something about allowing space for roots to grow or something.
27:18And happy?
27:19No.
27:21Cause she might be waiting for you, you know.
27:23That tomato emoji couldn't mean this girl's interested.
27:26You can't sit back, you've got to lean in.
27:29Yeah, it may be alright.
27:32The neighbor did tell me something pretty darn spicy.
27:34Yeah?
27:34Mm.
27:42What are you doing?
27:44A game of probability.
27:46Acula somehow gets a poisoned copy of the Saint Marie News into Clayton's stack of newspapers,
27:51in 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.
27:59A one in six charts.
28:03Our only clue is the egg.
28:06Why was it hard boiled when Hortense likes it to be perfectly dippable?
28:11Sophie Martin is a very popular name.
28:14There were about a hundred Sophie Martins in Paris around that time.
28:17Look, for any connections with Saint Marie, yeah?
28:20We have to find this woman.
28:22Will do.
28:27Sorry, it's not you, it's me.
28:29So the beers didn't help then?
28:32Surprisingly, no.
28:36And...
28:37a little?
28:40No, it's not a good idea.
28:42No, and that's an end of it.
28:43Okay?
28:47Sergeant Fletcher?
28:48We know who's been sending those messages.
28:51The neighbour was taking out the bins on the day of the party when he overheard an argument between Kim
28:56and Hortense.
28:57Did he hear what was said?
29:00Certainly did.
29:01It's you, isn't it?
29:02You have been sending these foul messages.
29:05Who else would know those things?
29:07And guess what?
29:09Hortense said she'd report her to the police the next day.
29:17I would never do anything so stupid.
29:20So why would Hortense think it was you?
29:22No clue.
29:23Those texts contain personal details that only someone close to her would know.
29:26So how long have you worked with Ms. LaRue?
29:29Oh, about six months or so.
29:30Was she a good boss?
29:32Madame was a diamond.
29:33It's a tragedy that she's got.
29:35From what we've heard, she was more dragon than diamond.
29:37She certainly gave her daughter a hard time, didn't she?
29:40Well, she was a mite overprotective.
29:42But she cared, which is more than most.
29:44But if she was like that with her own flesh and blood, it's not a stretch to imagine she'd do
29:47the same to you.
29:49Perhaps you decided to get your own back.
29:52Frighten her.
29:53But then she found you out, didn't she?
29:55You'd have faced criminal charges.
29:57You'd have lost everything.
29:59So, I killed her?
30:02You've got this all wrong, officers.
30:04I've been around the block more times than I care for.
30:06Life's good here.
30:07Better than I hoped.
30:08Why would I risk losing that?
30:14You know what I said to her?
30:15Go ahead.
30:16Report me.
30:17Any decent investigation team would discover that I didn't send those texts.
30:21Convenient.
30:22What is?
30:23Well, she never got the chance, did she?
30:25And now here you are, free as a bird.
30:34She does have a point.
30:36I don't see what she gains from scaring Hortense.
30:39Well, who else?
30:41Well, I'm not overly thrilled about talking to Anton Busset.
30:45But if it was an angry reader who sent those texts, then you're gonna have to.
30:49Huh?
30:49Sir, are you sure you can keep cool?
30:55As a cucumber.
31:06So, all Tens 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?
31:15Please, sit down.
31:16No, I'm all right standing, thank you.
31:18Any hate mail sent to the office?
31:20Complaints?
31:21People calling in to talk to her?
31:23You don't give up, do you?
31:24Oh, she's deceptively heavy.
31:26Is this real gold?
31:27Can you put that down?
31:29I've already said I don't know who was sending these messages.
31:32And whoever she is won't be easily found.
31:35She?
31:36What?
31:37You just said whoever she is.
31:39I misspoke.
31:40They.
31:41Unusual for a man in your line of work to misspeak.
31:44Unusual for a man in your line of work.
31:45To behave like an amateur.
31:47Excuse me?
31:48Let me be crystal clear.
31:50Stop wasting time asking obtuse questions.
31:53And go about doing your actual job.
31:57Let me be crystal clear.
31:58These obtuse questions are to find out who murdered your ex-wife.
32:02Sir?
32:02But the fact that you can't see that is because your head is so far up your own b-
32:08Well that escalated.
32:10Look.
32:11I get it.
32:12Sir, what you went through was something no one should ever have to.
32:17Well you can't keep pretending.
32:19Pretending?
32:20Yes.
32:20Pretending like you're okay.
32:22I am okay.
32:22Your judgement is clearly off because you're not sleeping.
32:25And you're not sleeping because you have this thing with Solomon hanging over your head.
32:29What do you suggest?
32:29I don't know.
32:31Write the letter.
32:32Whatever.
32:33Get it off your chest.
32:34We have a murder to solve.
32:36Right.
32:38Fine.
32:39I'll do it.
32:44So what are we going to do about Mr. Vercet?
32:47He obviously suspects who's sending those texts.
32:52Well, we need a tactical rethink.
32:58I have an idea.
33:08Who knew St. Marie was so high tech?
33:11Found it in the back of the evidence store.
33:14Don't think it's been used for a while.
33:16You surprised me.
33:18It's from 1986.
33:20Can't beat quality.
33:22Thanks for doing this Ms. Baudet.
33:23A pleasure.
33:24I feel like one of Charlie's angels.
33:27Now, remember, you're there to find out who Anton thinks is behind the text messages.
33:32But don't go straight in for the kill.
33:34Act natural.
33:35Re-in-check is your code word if anything goes wrong.
33:38It won't.
33:39Trust me.
33:48We good?
33:54The Golden Goose has landed.
34:00Anton!
34:02How lovely to see you.
34:03Likewise.
34:04I was surprised when you called me.
34:07Pleasantly surprised, of course.
34:10Thought a drink would help take your mind off things.
34:13Much appreciated.
34:17That clown inspector was at the office today.
34:21Poking his nose in where it's not wanted.
34:24Oh, like a dog without a bow.
34:26What is she after?
34:27Wait!
34:28She knows what she's doing.
34:30Did the police have a theory today?
34:33Oh, they were bothered about for these nasty messages Hortense was receiving.
34:40You seem like a woman of good sense and judgment.
34:43I like to think so.
34:45This stays between us.
34:47A few years ago, Hortense told me something.
34:51Esme isn't her child.
34:53She took her from Paris when she was a baby.
34:55This is big!
34:56Sadly, the mother wasn't able to take care of her.
34:59A drug addict.
35:01I'm assuming she agreed to this.
35:03The way Hortense told it sounded like she was too out of it to notice.
35:08Hortense couldn't have children.
35:10But the authorities, did they not realize?
35:13She came here, forged her papers.
35:16She was Esme's mother in all but flesh and blood.
35:19And Esme has no idea?
35:22No. And they wanted to stay that way.
35:24This would break her.
35:26So, you suspect it's Esme's birth mother sending those messages?
35:32Who else?
35:36Enough doom and gloom.
35:38Would you do me the honor of a dance?
35:40Oh, well, um...
35:42It might be better.
35:43If I rain check.
35:45No reason.
35:46I doubt that very much. Come on.
35:48Sorry Anton.
35:50I must rain check.
35:54We've lost her.
35:55Sergeant Fletcher.
36:00Why do you keep saying rain check?
36:13Sorry Matt, I tried.
36:16This won't be the last to hear of me.
36:18I'll be calling your commissioner.
36:20What happened?
36:21I was saying the code well.
36:23It was a technical hitch. I am so sorry.
36:28We can now assume that the Friends betrayal written about in Sophie Martin's letter is referring to Hortense stealing Sophie's
36:35baby 30 years ago.
36:36Which means Sophie is Esme's real mother and finally explains why Hortense was so desperate to publish the letter.
36:44She knew it was Sophie coming for her.
36:47Her response? Back off. Esme's mine.
36:49But why wait 30 years to send this?
36:52Don't know yet. But we will.
36:54And if Miss Martin is also behind the text messages, as Anton suspects...
36:59You'll get what's coming to you. You don't deserve to live.
37:02She's here on this island. With one hell of a motive.
37:06But where?
37:17I hope we don't mind Angel.
37:19No, not at all.
37:21Such a great loss.
37:23If you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here.
37:26You're kind.
37:54You're kind.
37:56You're kind.
37:59You're kind.
38:00You're kind.
38:01You're kind.
38:01I'm here.
38:06I'm here.
38:09I'm here.
38:10Good morning.
38:13Good morning, sir.
38:14That was the Paris police.
38:16My thinking was addicts are more likely to have criminal charges and there are three Sophie Martons
38:24on file two for possession one for aggravated robbery i've asked them to send over the records
38:29good work what's that sir oh um this is it my letter to solomon i've got it off my chest
38:39did it help uh yeah it did actually you know what i realized i want no i need my space
38:51from it
38:54i'm so sorry sir no no no it's all good it's for the best i just needed a little time
38:59to accept it that's
39:00all where is everyone following a lead if sophie martin was outside madame lou'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
39:22yes she does look about the right age that sophie will be an uninvited guest the waiter said she got
39:28into a green vw camper van and luckily marty knows the one garage that fixes them
39:37yeah talk with the devil we think we found sophie so someone matching her description came into the
39:44garage last week goes by the name of calypso that she normally parks up by coral beach we need to
39:49get there pronto you're already here sir we've got an eyeball
39:57are you hearing you good you think that i'm that shy girl's mother
40:02you're mad i don't even notice when you're talking about
40:06then why did you sneak into the party that night
40:10just passing but thirsty it's not a crime no the stalking is see our theory is you are sophie martin
40:19you assumed a new identity to come to saint marie and enact revenge on hortense larue starting with
40:25those threatening text messages ah i just like to stay off grid that's all we should be free to roam
40:32as the
40:33birds do you know we can trace the sim to the shop you bought it in check their cctv
40:40okay here's the truth that woman you're talking about 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
41:52look 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 and
42:17they 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 sir hold that thought i'm late i'll be back
42:40how do you feel uh yeah definitely better i mean everything here is just um
42:51you know gone what i need to do now is post it well done thank you now can we talk
42:59a little
42:59more about your life here oh how long have you got about half an hour no i meant
43:12she timed it why did she take it out and the egg how long did she cook it for dreaming
43:19it social he
43:21then cycled straight here delivered the newspaper to madame larue at 7 15 am sorry the little man
43:27doesn't like strangers there were no fingerprints found on her tenses glasses i wanted to scare her
43:33i wanted to suffer the same way i've been suffering of course well that's the reason why why what
43:39the egg was hard boiled i can see everything clearly now
43:47thanks for your patience i know who the killer is i know how they did it those photos from the
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 with
44:32the 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
51:37so
51:48so
51:49so
52:15Hey.
52:20Can I help you?
52:24Mervyn, yeah?
52:26Yeah?
52:27Didn't you hear me knock?
52:29No, I was sleeping, actually. Deeply.
52:33You're older than I imagined.
52:35Sorry, who are you?
52:37Just one second. Come on. Just give it up, man.
52:44Finally! Stupid boy's been holding out, and all he's got is a pair of sixes.
52:50And my chair.
52:52Is that a gambling app? I don't think you should be playing that.
52:56Don't sweat it. It's cool. Dad said you were a goody-goody.
53:00But I guess that comes with a jab, right?
53:03Okay. Stop. Yeah?
53:05Now you tell me right now who you are, who your dad is, and what you're doing on my property,
53:09or am I arresting you for trespass?
53:11And you being a detective? It'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. He's a busy guy, you know. Locked on his plate.
53:40So, what would you prefer when I call you? Uncle Marvin? Uncle Marv? Just Marv?
53:58Hey, don't touch anything.
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