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