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00:32Lord, I know the coming days are going to be hard for me.
00:36Yasmin, we've got two less for lunch.
00:38You give me the strength to face them.
00:41And Winston, well, Winston's not feeling...
00:44You're by my side.
00:45I still made as much green fig salad as usual.
00:48Always gets eaten.
00:49Oh, Sylvie sweetheart, I'm so sorry.
00:53We didn't disturb you, did we?
00:55No, just saying a quick prayer.
00:56Oh, please don't tell me you've got the whole church ready on your own.
01:00I don't mind. I enjoy it.
01:02Yeah, but I told him to be here to help.
01:16So, I think I know what you're going to say.
01:18Despite me specifically asking you...
01:21To arrive early and help Mrs. Godwin with the church.
01:24I'm sorry, I promise it will never happen again.
01:28It will.
01:28I mean, yes, it's very probable.
01:30So, are you going to make it to the service?
01:38Um...
01:39I will try my best.
01:42Cha-cha.
02:07Cha-cha.
02:34Let's pray in the morning for you.
02:40I'm going to nip home and grab the food.
02:43Is Seb still not here?
02:45You're going to be okay setting up for lunch?
02:47I'll be fine.
02:49Okay.
02:53Today's collection, Pastor.
02:55I'll go and finish tidy up in here, then I'll head over to your place.
02:59I'll see you soon, Sylvie.
03:17Hello?
03:22Hello?
03:24Is somebody there?
03:36Okay, everybody, come and sit down.
03:41Oh, that boy has a sixth sense.
03:43You can't get him to come to church on time, but dish up some food and there he is.
03:48What a feast.
03:49Looks like a time did just right.
03:51Can't wait to dig in.
03:52I'm dead for hungry.
03:54Miss Celie, mama, you all good?
03:58Nice to see you, sir.
03:59Right, come everybody, sit down.
04:03Wait.
04:04Sylvie's not here.
04:06Don't tell me she's still at the church.
04:10Yes, sir.
04:10You look good?
04:11Yes, sir.
04:40people.
04:57Can't wait.
04:59each day
05:02For
05:03to
05:03to
05:04the
05:06be
05:07to
05:08Good afternoon.
05:11We don't often see you here on your own.
05:14Yeah, well, the commissioner's been encouraging me to put myself out more.
05:19And you've got to do what the big man says, right?
05:21So I thought I'd try my hand with the Domino's crowd.
05:24Good for you. I'll introduce you.
05:29It's a lot noisier than how they play back up.
05:32I mean, back there, it's more sedate.
05:36Less, um... Passionate.
05:37Exactly that.
05:38So off and away with the English.
05:43Everyone, this is Mervyn.
05:45He was looking to play.
05:49Oscar, maybe you could play with me.
05:53Yeah, nice to meet you, Oscar.
05:55Um, be gentle with me, yeah? It's been a while.
06:00Oh, Naomi, you're not working today.
06:03We are now, I'm afraid.
06:06Got an accidental death.
06:08Coroner's away at the moment, so we have to go and sign off on it.
06:11Mervyn's here.
06:12He was just about to play his first Domino's game on the island.
06:16There you go.
06:18What?
06:19Oh.
06:20That's it?
06:21Well.
06:23OK, then.
06:25Nice one, mate.
06:27We should have a rematch sometime.
06:29You know, by the 12th or never.
06:31It's not over already.
06:33The man totally thrashed me.
06:35I was only gone a few moments.
06:37It's like a hurricane.
06:38I've never seen anything like it.
06:42DS Thomas, please tell me we've got a new case to deal with.
06:45Because that does genuinely humiliate him.
06:47We have by St. Vincent's church, which is Seb's mother's church.
06:53He was the one that called it in.
06:58See you, Oscar.
07:01English.
07:04A victim's name is Sylvia Godwin.
07:06She was 85 years old.
07:08God bless her.
07:10I can't believe she's gone just like that.
07:12Did you know her well?
07:13Since I was a kid.
07:15She was like an auntie to me, you know?
07:18Sorry, mate.
07:20So, was she alone when it happened?
07:23She stayed behind after service to tidy up.
07:25Looks like she was dusting the cross and lost her footing and pulled it down with her.
07:30Poor woman.
07:31Paramedics reckon she banged her head when she landed.
07:34Caused an injury to the brain.
07:36And you found her body, Officer Rose?
07:39Mm-hmm.
07:40Me and my mama and Miss Celie.
07:42She's the headmistress at the church primary school down the road.
07:45Miss Godwin!
07:47Something isn't right.
07:49It's not adding up.
07:50This whole scene in front of it, it's just not adding up for me.
07:56It's her shoes.
07:57What's wrong with her shoes?
07:58Well, there's nothing wrong with her shoes, per se.
08:01They're nice enough, Sunday best shoes.
08:04Got a bit of a heel on them.
08:06About two inches, I reckon.
08:08The thing is, most people, if they're gonna climb up on a chair to do some dusting,
08:13and they're wearing heels, they're gonna remove them beforehand.
08:16To be more sure-footed.
08:17Safety first and all that.
08:19And at 85 years old, I think Mrs. Godwin here will be even more likely to do that than anyone
08:26younger or more agile.
08:28So what are you suggesting? That she didn't climb up on the chair?
08:34No, she didn't.
08:35And if she didn't climb up on the chair, she didn't fall from the chair.
08:39And if she didn't fall from the chair, she didn't bang her head from falling.
08:42And if she didn't bang her head from falling, then what did actually happen here?
08:46You think it's suspicious?
08:49I think we've been sold a lie.
08:50But that's not possible.
08:52Why not?
08:53Because the church was all locked up from the inside, so nobody could get in or out.
09:00Show me.
09:02So, when we got here, we went to the back entrance.
09:06It's locked.
09:09Flip won't go in.
09:12The key's in on the other side.
09:14So, we came round to the front entrance.
09:17To the same situation.
09:19Let me see.
09:20There's a key in here too.
09:23So, I had to bust the door open.
09:28See?
09:29Whose key's that?
09:30Mrs. Godwin's.
09:31She usually locks the door and she's tidying up, so nobody bothers her.
09:35Show me the back door.
09:40Is this also the victim's key?
09:43No.
09:43That's from the hook over there, sir.
09:45I don't know how it got in this door.
09:47Could someone have been hiding in here while you were in there?
09:51No way.
09:52As soon as I found her, I saw my phone had no juice, I came straight in here and called
09:57the ambulance.
09:58I'm telling you, both doors were locked on the inside.
10:00If someone killed Mrs. Godwin and staged a crime scene, then how did they manage to get out?
10:12No.
10:13That just can't be.
10:14There is no reason anybody would want to do that to Sylvie.
10:17She's right.
10:18It's crazy you think it is suspicious.
10:21Well, can you tell us a little more about her?
10:23Did Mrs. Godwin have any family?
10:25Was she married?
10:26Well, but he passed away.
10:27When was it now?
10:28It was 2017.
10:30I officiated the funeral.
10:32I mean, you want to know about Sylvie's life?
10:34It was this church.
10:36This church was her family.
10:39That's the truth.
10:41She had been coming to St. Vincent since before I was born.
10:45She was christened here.
10:46She got married here.
10:48And she never missed a single Sunday service in all of her life.
10:53Pastor, I came straight over.
10:55Thank you for coming, Hector.
11:00I called Hector and told him the news.
11:03He was very close to Sylvie.
11:05She was his schoolteacher many years ago.
11:07Hector, my eyes.
11:11D.R. Wilson, D.S. Thomas.
11:15So, Mrs. Godwin was a teacher?
11:18St. Vincent Primary School.
11:20I took over from her as headmistress when she retired.
11:24And you kept in touch with her?
11:26Always.
11:26The things she did for me as a kid?
11:29Above and beyond, you know?
11:35In what way?
11:38She kept an eye on me.
11:40Because my parents didn't.
11:42Sylvie and Walter, her husband.
11:44They never had kids themselves.
11:46Hector meant the world to her.
11:48That's why this just can't be true.
11:50That woman had nothing but good in her.
11:57Well, if you think of anything, you let us know, yeah?
12:14You can go and rest your feet, ma'am. I'll clear all this up.
12:18You want me to make your herbal tea?
12:20After a day like today, all I want is for you to pour me a rum.
12:24A large one.
12:25All right. The Christmas rum coming out early this year.
12:28Seb, your inspector.
12:33Is he usually right about this kind of thing?
12:3699.9% of the time.
12:39So someone did murder Sylvie?
12:42But who?
12:44I don't know.
12:46But it couldn't have been anybody at the church, right?
12:49So maybe Sylvie had things going on in her life that we don't know about.
12:56But, Mum, I promise you, whatever it is, we'll figure it out.
13:01All right.
13:06I know this hasn't played out how we expected, but I had to do what I had to do.
13:12No, I'm not coming back yet.
13:14Not until I've got what I came for.
13:32Finish your breakfast.
13:41You're welcome.
13:51Oh!
13:54Commissioner.
13:55You made me jump.
13:57Good morning, Inspector.
13:58Good morning.
13:59This arrived for me in the morning post.
14:05It's from your victim.
14:10Mrs. Godwin saw me on the local news covering the recent police initiative event.
14:16She said she could tell I wanted to put things right,
14:20and that's what she also needed to do, right or wrong.
14:26But she didn't say what that was?
14:27Only that whatever it was, was of a criminal nature and had something to do with St. Vincent's Church.
14:35There is a dark secret that has been buried for too long, and it's time the truth came out.
14:43It was posted on Saturday morning.
14:4824 hours later, she was dead.
14:54Well, this gets more interesting by the minute.
14:56How much is in Mrs. Godwin's bank account?
14:59$2,463,000.
15:04What?
15:05You sure about that?
15:06Like, seriously?
15:08Seriously.
15:09Well, new primary school headteachers earn so much.
15:12I requested statements that go further back.
15:14All I have is the last five years, and the money was already in the account.
15:18The victim's husband, Walter is he? What did he do for a living?
15:21Mr. Walter Godwin.
15:22He was a caretaker at the same school that Mrs. Godwin worked at.
15:26I think that's where they first met.
15:28So it's suddenly to be his money?
15:29Do we know anything about her family?
15:32Yeah. Mrs. Godwin told me once her parents were farmers.
15:34They definitely weren't rich.
15:36So she didn't inherit it?
15:38Could the money have something to do with the crime she talks about in this letter?
15:41The one connected to St. Vincent's?
15:43Officer Rose, give your mum a call, see if it sparks a memory or something, yeah?
15:47Cool. But all of this is a bit odd.
15:50Because it's nothing like Mrs. Godwin.
15:52I mean, $2 million? That's crazy.
15:56She wasn't that kind of person.
15:58Once we're done here, we're gonna go and search Mrs. Godwin's house.
16:01Also, we've emailed everyone on the St. Vincent's weekly newsletter
16:05to see if any of the parishioners saw anything suspicious yesterday.
16:08Okay, thank you.
16:10Sir.
16:11That was the solicitor handling Sylvie Godwin's will.
16:15It seems Mrs. Godwin has left everything
16:19to Hector Moyse.
16:21Wow. So this guy's just become a millionaire?
16:25It appears so, sir.
16:27What do we know about him?
16:28He's a fisherman. Or was.
16:31But he hasn't worked for the last 18 months or so
16:33due to an injury out at sea.
16:36So, if he's had no income for almost two years, then...
16:40Then, two million's gonna come in very handy.
16:48I don't know either. It's all a bit crazy right now.
16:51Mum, I'll speak to you later. I got to go.
16:53I'll leave you to his inspector.
16:55No worries, Commissioner.
16:56Sir! I just got off the phone to my mother
16:59and she has no idea what Sylvie Godwin was talking about in that letter.
17:02Well, if anything else comes to mind, let me know, yeah?
17:05All right.
17:07Where are they going?
17:08To interview Hector Moyse.
17:10He's a possible suspect now.
17:12Hector? A suspect?
17:14He's a good guy. He wouldn't kill anybody, let alone Sylvie Godwin.
17:18She was like a mother to him.
17:19Well, these are the questions we have to ask.
17:21It's what we do, without fear or favour, remember?
17:30That used to be my boat.
17:33There.
17:33Spent more time to get on me and her than anyone else.
17:38And then, some doctor you don't even know
17:43writes a certificate saying you can do it no more.
17:47Well, how are your finances?
17:49Now you're not working.
17:50I'm struggling.
17:51All right.
17:52No one wants to employ a guy who only knows how to do one thing in his life.
17:57Yeah, but that will change us now, doesn't it?
18:00Excuse me? What?
18:01Mr Moyse, you inherit the bulk of Sylvie Godwin's estate
18:05and don't tell us you didn't know.
18:07Her solicitor told us Mrs Godwin informed you
18:10when she made the will a few years back.
18:11Yeah, I knew.
18:12But she got hardly nothing, just her house,
18:15which is a few tens of thousands.
18:17You think I'd kill for that?
18:18You're telling us she didn't let you know what was in her will?
18:20No.
18:22Why?
18:24It's more than just her house.
18:262.4 million dollars more.
18:30I'm sorry, what?
18:33Is this a joke?
18:34Funny how things turn out, eh?
18:36Yeah.
18:36I didn't know she had that kind of money.
18:38I swear to you, she never mentioned a word to me about it.
18:41Look, I get it.
18:43I get how it looks to you.
18:44I need money. Badly, I'm desperate.
18:46But I had no idea Sylvie was loaded like that.
18:52So why would I kill her?
18:59Sarge, found some kind of time machine.
19:02In Mrs Godwin's office.
19:04Oh, it's a computer.
19:08Have you done those yet?
19:10No, not yet.
19:10OK, you do that and I'll do this.
19:12Cool.
19:18Well, it seems to be working.
19:21So, I noticed your dad wasn't around yesterday.
19:24If you don't mind me asking, is he...?
19:27Yeah, he, um...
19:29He passed away.
19:31I'm so sorry.
19:33How old were you?
19:36Eleven.
19:37That's so young.
19:39It must have been hard.
19:42Really hard, you know?
19:44Yeah.
19:46My first lesson in pain.
19:49But seeing my mother rise up every morning after that,
19:53that showed me what true love looks like, you know?
19:57Made us closer.
19:58A team.
19:59You can tell.
20:11The Belchia diptyque?
20:13You know what a diptyque is?
20:15Yeah.
20:16It's, um, used to measure oil in the car.
20:18You know?
20:18You dip it in, take it out.
20:20I said diptyque.
20:21You're trying to say dipstick, right?
20:24Diptyque?
20:24The painting or carving on two panels usually hinge like a book.
20:29Oh, you mean diptyque?
20:31Yeah, madme know about diptyque and them thing, yeah?
20:34Well, I probably don't know.
20:34Apparently, this Belchia diptyque is rare.
20:37Priceless kind of rare.
20:39Yeah?
20:41Why was Sylvie interested in this?
20:46Let's check her search history.
20:52Why watch her?
20:54She searched the hell out a bit.
20:56This was three days ago.
20:58Friday, the day before she posted that lesson to the commissioner.
21:07The Belchia diptyque is a rare French panel painting from the Middle Ages.
21:11Each panel measures 50 by 30 centimeters.
21:15Rare?
21:15So it's worth some coinage?
21:17It's worth major coinage.
21:19If anybody could find it, it went missing from France during the Second World War.
21:23And here it is.
21:24It's believed the diptyque was taken from a museum in Paris by a young German soldier called Joseph Krauss.
21:30Krauss.
21:31They reckon he brought that same painting over here to the Caribbean.
21:35When the Vichy government sends a new governor to Martigny, Krauss and a couple of other German soldiers accompanied him.
21:43And what happened to it when he came here?
21:45Why, I don't know.
21:47But Joseph Krauss, he fled the region when the war finished and the painting never resurfaced.
21:52And some historians believe that Krauss hid the Belchia diptyque on one of the smaller neighboring islands, like St. Marie.
22:01Right, so our victim was looking into this Belchia diptyque and the next day sent a letter to the commissioner
22:08saying she wanted to put right a wrong that took place many years before at St. Vincent's Church.
22:13And 24 hours later, Sylvie was murdered in the church with both doors locked from the inside.
22:20She also had over $2 million in her bank account and we've no idea how she got that money.
22:26But if she came into possession of this painting, then maybe that could explain why she ended up so rich.
22:36OK, let's keep digging, yeah? And DS Thomas, get in touch with the commissioner. Because if there's any truth in
22:42it, this could be a big deal.
22:56Everything all right?
23:00It's just like, first Hector, then Mrs. Godwin. It's all, it's all a bit much right now.
23:11Sylvie was all about doing the right thing.
23:14You should have said so.
23:16No, because it's like you said, right? Without fear or favor.
23:19So it's not right me defending her, is it? Even if I know it's the truth.
23:25Except if this case is too close to home, it's OK to take a step back.
23:29No, it's cool, Sarge. It's cool. I really want to help get to the bottom of this.
23:34For Sylvie.
23:36Yeah, sure.
23:37Yeah, I would.
23:39All right, then I'll see you tomorrow morning, yeah?
23:41All right. Take care of yourself.
23:47All right, thanks for letting me know, Mrs. Martin. You have yourself a good evening.
23:55Sir, that was one of the parishioners from St. Vincent's, received the email we sent out asking if anyone saw
24:02anything suspicious yesterday.
24:03Mm-hmm.
24:04Says she saw a woman outside the church yesterday morning, parked up in a hire car.
24:09Never seen her at St. Vincent's before.
24:11Description?
24:11It was a silver vehicle with logos for Kariba car hire. The woman looked in her 50s with shoulder-length
24:20blonde hair. Not much of a tan, apparently. So with the hire car, maybe not a local.
24:27Yeah, it's me again.
24:29So who is she?
24:30I'm telling you, the police haven't found it yet. I watched two officers leaving her house, both of them carrying
24:34evidence, and they didn't have it with them.
24:38So where's it got to?
24:40I know a little of the history of the Belshow diptyque, but how or why that connects to Sylvie Godwin,
24:47I don't know. But I shall ask her own.
24:53Evening all. Um, sorry I'm late. I had a prior arrangement with a bloke called Barry.
25:00Who, might I ask, is Barry?
25:03It's funny you should ask that. Well, Barry is a retired expat who's returning to the UK to be with
25:08his grandchildren. So he's selling off a bunch of stuff online.
25:11So I got myself this beauty.
25:14And what is that, sir?
25:16This is the answer to Catherine's prayers, not that she knows yet.
25:20What is the answer to my prayers?
25:22Oh, Catherine, well, it's the one thing that's missing from your place.
25:27Hmm.
25:36Oh.
25:38It's a dartboard.
25:39I can see that.
25:41You see, the thing is, Domino's is all well and good, but for a boozer to be a proper boozer...
25:45Pardon, but this is not a boozer.
25:48A pub.
25:49Or a pub.
25:50But whatever this establishment wants to call itself, with this on your wall, it can only enhance the communal vibe.
25:58No, we're not an English-themed sports bar. It's not going up.
26:04Yeah, but, Catherine...
26:04I said no.
26:05Just imagine...
26:06Mervyn, my final word. No! No!
26:21It seems you are now the proud owner of your very own dartboard.
26:37I'll have it much to me right now in the moment, you know?
26:40I know it is, my love. I know.
26:46Whoa! Mum, what's this?
26:48Oh!
26:48What?
26:50Seb, sweetheart, this isn't, um...
26:53Seb, you weren't supposed to...
26:55Good evening, Sebastian.
26:57You all right?
26:58Me?
26:59Are you all right?
27:00What's this?
27:01Huh?
27:01What's going on?
27:02Because they look like...
27:03Are you...
27:04I...
27:06I guess you could say we've been getting close, the two of us.
27:09Right.
27:10Since when?
27:11Well, um...
27:13Since...
27:14I suppose...
27:15Since, um...
27:17What would you say, Lorette?
27:18How long's it been?
27:19Well, I suppose we could say, um...
27:21It's been...
27:22A year.
27:24A year?
27:26A year, ma!
27:27And you never once thought to mention it to me.
27:30Hector, I'm so sorry.
27:31Could you...
27:31Could you give us a moment, please?
27:33Actually, I need to be getting home anyway, sir.
27:37Sorry you had to find out like this, Sebastian.
27:40I should have...
27:42We...
27:42Should have too.
27:45Sorry.
27:58I wanted to tell you, but I...
28:01I was too scared.
28:03Of how I'd react?
28:04No.
28:05So then what?
28:08See?
28:09It is because of that.
28:10No, no, really.
28:11It's not that.
28:12A whole year, ma.
28:15A whole year you've been lying to me.
28:19You know...
28:21In the last 24 hours...
28:23It turns out...
28:25Not one person...
28:27Is who I thought they were.
28:31But I never thought you would be one of them.
28:36I need some air.
28:56I need some air.
29:02Good.
29:03That's interesting.
29:05All right.
29:05Well, thanks.
29:06And also, I wanted to know...
29:08So...
29:08When was...
29:10What the...
29:10Oh...
29:11One second, sir.
29:14Good morning, Inspector.
29:16Sarge.
29:16Sarge.
29:17What's going on, sir?
29:18Well, I went on a walk last night and I ended up here.
29:22So I thought I'd come and start on the case.
29:24Can we...
29:25Oh, yes.
29:26Sure.
29:26Sorry.
29:27Sorry.
29:28Sorry.
29:30Oh, sorry.
29:31Oh, sorry.
29:32No, sorry.
29:33Oh, sorry.
29:34Yes, yes.
29:34Come on, yes.
29:35So, um, I'm just on the phone with Sylvie Godwin's bank manager.
29:39And interestingly, the 2.4 million in her account, she inherited it from her husband, Walter Godwin.
29:45The bank manager says she don't know where he got it from or how Walter got so rich.
29:50It was Walter's money.
29:51Yeah.
29:51And unfortunately, the liar who was handling Walter's will is no longer her own.
29:56So, that's all I got.
29:58Why is there a post-it with post-mortem exclamation mark written on it?
30:01Oh.
30:01The post-mortem just came in.
30:03It's here somewhere.
30:04Got it.
30:05Under the takeaway.
30:06I will clear that up for you as soon as possible, Sarge.
30:09Sorry about that.
30:10Why is there a pack of toilet roll on my desk?
30:12That's why I went for the walk in the first place.
30:14My new host mate was that.
30:16Don't forget the toilet roll.
30:18PM says the victim became unconscious and died of hypoxia.
30:22And reckoned she was hit with something with a sharp edge rather than banging her head on the floor.
30:29So, we're right.
30:30It was murder.
30:31What are all these printouts on the floor, Seth?
30:33Oh, that's from, uh, Kariba car hire.
30:36It's in the details of the woman who was seen outside St. Vincent Church the morning of the murder.
30:41Selina Bascombe, 54 years old, from the UK Berkshire.
30:45Arrived here Friday and is staying at the Golden Bay Hotel.
30:49Yeah, yeah.
30:49I think she's just a tourist.
30:51There's nothing interesting about her yet.
30:53Well, then you didn't look properly, Seb.
30:54Because on her passport, she uses her maiden name.
31:00Godwin.
31:02As in Sylvie and Walter Godwin.
31:04How did I miss that, sir?
31:06We need to talk to her right away.
31:08Hmm.
31:08So I can fletcher.
31:09Hmm.
31:11Yeah, sorry about that. Hello?
31:14Hello?
31:15Hello?
31:17Hello?
31:17Hello?
31:34Well, that's our guest is hanging around all over the place.
31:36It's close to chaos in there.
31:38I understand what it looks like, Sarge.
31:40But I've been up all night doing a lot of work.
31:42And I feel like I'm very close to...
31:43I think you should go home.
31:44Okay?
31:45Have a shower.
31:46Get yourself straight.
31:47But Sarge, I need to finish...
31:49I know.
31:49I know, but you're not helping right now.
31:52We can't work like this.
31:57all right sarge
32:07thanks for coming in miss bascom please take a seat walter godwin was my grandfather
32:13he was stationed on saint marie during the second world war when the war ended he wrote to my
32:21grandmother who was pregnant with my father at the time saying that he wasn't coming home that it was
32:27over between them and he knew she was pregnant yes except i don't think it was him who wrote
32:34that letter i think it was someone else um i found this on the st vincent's church website
32:42it's the day that walter godwin got married to sylvie well that's sylvie but that's
32:50not walter godwin that that's not my grandfather see that's not the same man
33:02so you realized that someone might have stolen your grandfather's identity i know they did
33:10and you came here to saint marie to find out who this other walter godwin was
33:15that's why you're at the church sunday morning to speak with sylvie godwin
33:23mrs godwin
33:28so how did she react when you suggested that the man who she'd been married to for 60 odd years
33:33may not
33:34be who she thought he was she already knew she said that she'd only just found out herself that week
33:43how well her her plumber had found a box hidden under the floorboards when he was fixing a pipe
33:50i'll find out which plumber sylvie said it had the true identity of her husband in it all his personal
33:57documents making clear what happened to my grandfather which was what she wouldn't tell me
34:06she said that she wasn't ready yet and that she wanted to do it in her own time
34:11and in her own way whatever that meant i think it meant she wanted to go to the police first
34:20about it
34:20which must have frustrated you coming all this way to be denied the truth
34:24it is my family you have no right to keep this to yourself sorry i can't help you
34:33and in that moment caught up in it all that's when you must have decided
34:37no i wouldn't really i wouldn't i just left i was angry but i didn't want to hurt her
34:45i just wanted to know what was in that box and now she's dead and i don't know where it
34:50is
35:00so if sylvie had this box she talked about where is it because it wasn't at the crime scene
35:07and it wasn't at her house and if someone did steal water godwin's identity who and what happened to the
35:14real water godwin i just got off the phone with a plumber who was over at the victim's house last
35:18friday said sylvie looked haunted after she looked inside that box
35:27about an hour later she was getting inside a taxi saying she needed to go to st vincent's primary school
35:36she went to see yasmin seeley
35:43okay i'm gonna lay it out miss seeley i believe it's you who has the missing box
35:49sylvie's we could get a search warrant or
36:08it's a german passport
36:11from the second world war looks like belong to joseph krauss
36:16it's believed the diptych was taken from a museum in paris by a young german soldier called joseph
36:23krauss the last visa stamp show he left martinique at the end of the war and came to saint marie
36:31saint marie times september 27th 1945 it's a report about an unnamed british soldier getting into a fight
36:41with a group of german naval officers and left for dead near saint vincent's church his body was never
36:48found i believe that soldier was walter godwin and i think joseph krauss came across his body
36:56joseph realized he could steal his identity if he could dispose of the body without it being found
37:04a map of the saint vincent churchyard that must be where the real walter godwin was buried he took
37:12walter's uniform and papers and buried him there in this grave so no one would ever find it from that
37:19moment on joseph krauss was walter godwin i guess he softened his accent as much as he could and by
37:26the
37:26time he and sylvie met about 15 years later and he seemed like the englishman she thought he was we
37:32need to get a forensic victim over from godaloo
37:39i'm assuming mr krauss went to all these lengths because of this
37:44the belshaw diptych i mean if the authorities worked out he stole it and came looking for him
37:50then with a new identity they wouldn't find him from what i know he lived a simple life
37:55working as a caretaker for this school and when he and sylvie met everyone always said they truly
38:02loved each other that was the day she retired handed the baton over to me
38:12why have you got this box miss sylvie so we brought it with her when she came here on friday
38:19i asked her if i could keep it so i could look into it some more that's all it's entirely
38:23innocent
38:23not if you didn't tell us about it it isn't actually that's suspicious why did you choose to keep it
38:30to
38:30yourself
38:35this school is everything to me
38:39and i can't risk his reputation being damaged it's struggling enough as it is financially all we have to keep
38:48going is donations people's goodwill and if it ever got
38:51out that we had a caretaker working here that wasn't who we thought he was was a a nazi soldier
38:58who covered up a murder
39:02so you killed miss godwin to stop all this no no no i'm very sorry i should have told you
39:08about it i know but
39:11i didn't kill her
39:20so if joseph kraus sold the belshar diptych and had all that money then why he never do nothing with
39:28it
39:28never spend it nothing perhaps he kept it just in case i mean if the truth ever caught up with
39:34him
39:34then he had the means to change his identity again afternoon sergeant thomas
39:44the trouble is we're still no closer to working out who murdered sylvie godwin
39:49and then managed to exit the building when both the front and back door were locked from the inside
39:54with keys inside the lock
39:59he's buried here my grandfather we believe so yes
40:23officer rose inspector hey um sorry i'll just uh take in a moment you know
40:33i'll give you some space no no no no you're all right i was just coming in to see if
40:38i could
40:39make any more sense of it all me too i guess and not much
40:48usually i find it levels me out i can feel peace here
40:57no sorry i haven't been much use in this investigation it's just been a lot for me you
41:01know i mean look we all have cases that um throw us off balance from time to time
41:06when i've had more than my first year trust me right see when i'm thrown by a case my brain
41:13just
41:16starts jumping around like some
41:20itchy footed grasshopper you know
41:24well maybe that is your unique selling point so i'd say embrace it own it don't let it own you
41:35in fact you know what let's try it let's try it right now yeah oh we visualize it only this
41:42time
41:43you are taking the lead okay come on up you get that's it
41:51okay this is the crime scene the murder of sylvie godwin that door the front door is locked
41:58from the inside the keys in the door
42:05sylvie's body is here
42:09this big wooden cross is on top of her
42:15come on just freestyle it yeah just say whatever your brain wants to say
42:21um i'm thinking about when i busted the door open
42:25i hurt my arm you know when i got home it was all bruised up so i drank some rum
42:30to numb the pain
42:34what that also means it was definitely locked
42:41okay okay what else well then if you were the killer you'll probably prefer to leave the scene
42:49at the back yeah yeah keep going keep going so that way you're less likely to be seen by others
42:53so um
42:54maybe we're in the wrong room the back room come on
43:08so what's she saying to you this room what was it telling you
43:17what collection box it's just usually it sits right there under the shelf no it looks like it's
43:25been pulled out a little bit
43:32there's a kind in it and that's odd because because miss godwin empties the collection box every sunday
43:40after the service today's collection passed down and she gives the money to my mom
43:49so this must have been put in there after she was murdered which means well then the killer must have
43:56put it there that won't go in the keys in on the other side
44:07p.m says the victim became unconscious and reckoned she was hit by something with a sharp edge
44:13diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like a book
44:19local art historians generally believe it was brought to saint marie
44:30bingo
44:32have you solved the case it was actually officer rose and his itchy footy grass upper brain that
44:38solved it i did that coin explains everything okay let's move people there's still some things we
44:46need to do like get hold of a search warrant and we need the luminol oh and we need a
44:51tape measure
44:52why do we need a tape measure to measure something
45:03way back in 1945 a young british soldier by the name of walter godwin was killed here on saint marie
45:11his identity was stolen and his body was hidden in someone else's grave now finally thanks to sylvie
45:20godwin and the discovery of this box that young man can get the proper burial he deserves thank you
45:29which brings us to the crime in the present sylvie godwin's murder at st vincent's church on sunday
45:35and although it occurred many years after walter godwin's murder this little wooden box in its
45:41contents helped solve this murder as well we know from the post-mortem that sylvie was hit with a
45:48sharp object this spray luminal detects traces of blood and this proves that there was blood on the box
45:55recently as you can see here
46:02now we have another time to carry out the relevant tests but when our lab compares this blood
46:07with sylvie's i'm confident they'll match and as this box has only been in one person's possession
46:13since the murder it has led me to believe that sylvie godwin's killer was yasmin seeley
46:24what have you done that that's not true someone else must have taken it on them
46:33don't worry miss seeley we'll be coming to this in a minute
46:38throughout this case we've worked on the assumption that sylvie godwin's husband real name joseph
46:45krauss had sold the painting he had stolen which explains why he had so much money in his bank
46:51account well it's half the truth because the unique defining thing about a diptych is that there are
46:58two halves to it diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like a book and we
47:05now know
47:06that joseph krauss sold only one half of the belshaw diptych
47:12and he kept the other half
47:21witness me now we'll never fully know why joseph separated the two panels my sense is that he was
47:30someone who liked to hedge his bets be prepared for all eventualities i think that's partly why
47:36he never spent any of the money plus having to explain to his wife to be how he came into
47:42such
47:43major coinage would mean admitting to the theft of this famous piece of art and also being an imposter
47:50so joseph held on to the money and the picture so where has it been the last 80 odd years
47:59or so
47:59hanging on the wall of the headmistress's office at the saint vincent's primary school which is now
48:06your office miss sealy
48:13joseph cross must have put it there during his years as caretaker and no one ever thought anything of it
48:19this faded religious icon hanging on the wall of a church school surrounded by other religious images
48:28earlier today miss seeley when we talked in your office that was the day she retired i saw that
48:34framed photo on the wall of sylvie and walter and i happened to notice the outline of a larger rectangle
48:41around that frame where the paint hadn't faded clearly another picture had previously hung there
48:47for some time i didn't think much of it at first but i had it measured and guess what it
48:54was 50 centimeters
48:57by 30 centimeters the exact same dimensions as one half of the belshaw dipped in each panel measures 50
49:05by 30 centimeters that's why mrs godwin came to see you when she found the box and realized what was
49:13hanging on her old office wall we can't keep it i'll go and let the police know but you didn't
49:21agree
49:22did you you told us your school was struggling for money but we had a bit of a dig and
49:29it's it's worse
49:30than that you've not drawn a salary in the last six months to keep it going you said yourself the
49:38place
49:38meant so much to you and so the prospect of getting millions of dollars just landing in your lap
49:46you well you just weren't willing to give that up and so after driving home to pick up food for
49:54lorette's lunch gathering you returned to the church to plead with sylvie one more time please don't do it
50:02that money it could help the school so much could help me but sylvie wasn't for turning was she i'm
50:09desperate
50:10as officer rose said she always tried to do good in life and she wasn't about to stop now
50:17sorry so in that moment desire for the money got the better of you and you decided you were going
50:22to stop her i assume sylvie had that box with her in the church that day
50:27and this box was your weapon of choice
50:32and once you used it to kill her you made it look like there'd been some tragic accident
50:45how could you
50:49now knowing that the front door of the church had already been locked by mrs godwin
50:54you made your escape via the rear using the church's spare back door key that you took from
51:00the back room to lock the door from the outside and placing this little coin in the lock
51:15it's locked so that when you returned with officer rose and lorette that won't go in and with the
51:21little play acting it would seem like the door was locked from the inside the keys in on the other
51:27side then when officer rose and his mom headed round to the front you lingered briefly and proceeded to
51:34open the door with the church's spare key pushing this coin out in the process and then inserting that key
51:44inside all you had to do was find the moment to actually lock it okay thank you
51:51i'm going to turn it to me
51:54i'm going to turn it to me
51:55seeing the coin on the floor you picked it up
51:59and without your bag or purse you disposed of it in the collection box
52:09and then actually locked the back door with the key
52:16it was very clever of you making it look like sylvie was on her own in the church when she
52:21had that
52:22fatal fall one might say devilishly so but you see sylvie was so determined that the truth would come out
52:31that even after her death her desire to put right a decades old wrong finally won out this
52:38arrived for me in the morning post
52:45officer rose i think mr rest has your name on it
52:53get up
52:57it has my ceiling i'm arresting you for the murder of sylvie godwin
53:02you don't need to see anything
53:12excuse me sarge i'll be a second
53:19mama
53:28you all right i can't believe what that woman's done
53:34poor sylvie
53:37and just for money
53:40i'm sorry for getting it wrong no you haven't seen me at my best on this case
53:46that's not what your inspector told me he said it was because of you that it all got solved
53:54which is even more impressive considering you had other things to deal with
53:59like your mother keeping secrets
54:02and honestly mom i think it's helping
54:04you moving on you moving on i don't think you should be getting old and lonely and just focusing on
54:10me and the church you know
54:11you deserve happiness too
54:18you all right
54:19you all right yes i
54:24so you like him
54:28then i'm pleased for you
54:30but you do know that all that money he inherited from the stolen painting you won't be getting none of
54:36that you know
54:36i'm not after him for his money
54:39well seriously though i mean he seems like a good guy with him shiny head
54:49see you
54:49see you sunday
54:51won't be late this time
54:54well i'm the best
54:58love you
54:59love you too
55:12all right that's the hockey
55:15this is where you throw from
55:17you get three throws each
55:18and then it's the next player's turn
55:20all right
55:21let's get it started
55:24game on
55:25round one
55:30shut you
55:31i thought you were supposed to hit the board
55:33inspector
55:34yeah yeah i think there's something off with the flyer it's all right not to worry
55:37we got this sir
55:43sir you are really bad at this
55:45no it's not me honestly it's it's the dance
55:48you know you're giving up some real bad loser vibes right now
55:50maybe you should let the commissioner take the last straw
55:53it's not his turn yet
55:55with respect now if you just stop talking then i can throw properly all right
56:06there you go so
56:12so that's two points is it
56:21just two points for our team wow just a bit rusty that's all
56:27you want to join our team commissioner i mean i don't think any of us are going to be
56:31as bad as that
56:32all right
56:45well come on then officer rose you reckon you can do better
56:48show us what you got
57:00ladies and gentlemen of the tempest company this is your 15 minute call
57:03this was their final performance it suddenly collapsed halfway through the second night
57:07the poison was in the bottle that our victim and the other two actors drank from on stage but
57:11only michael farrah dies would you like to go for a drink with me that's inappropriate mr
57:15gorman a complaint has been made accusing you of unprofessional conduct still haven't heard from
57:21your brother i think he's actually ignoring my calls then maybe you should go visit him in
57:26your brother i think he's going to be a secret somebody's giving the inspector some help
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