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Death In Paradise - Season 15 - Episode 07
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00:01Dear Hortense, my boyfriend snores and I haven't got a good night's evening.
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 sleep?
00:12Dear Hortense, dear Hortense...
00:14Dear Hortense, dear Hortense, I don't know where...
00:22How many times were not under attack, you damn thing?
00:32Today'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 husband and kill two birds with one stone.
00:57Dear Peeping Peter, I sense this neighbour 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.
01:17?
01:20Tonya喔
01:21?
01:22?
01:24?
01:39?
01:53Commissioner, thanks for coming.
01:56Catherine, what a picture.
01:59Like 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,
02:11a community initiative wouldn't have happened.
02:14Thanks, Peter.
02:17For tense, 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.
02:36I 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.
02:45Oh, come on, Bernie.
02:48Do 24 years of marriage.
02:51Count for nothing?
03:03After 30 years solving this island's problems,
03:08our beloved agony aunt is retiring.
03:11And so, please, put your hands together
03:14to show your gratitude for this wonderful woman.
03:19Oh, dear.
03:21We don't know again.
03:22We don't know.
03:23I thank you to all of you, my esteemed readers,
03:28for entrusting me with this precious task for so many years.
03:33But now I'm looking forward to spending more time
03:37with my daughter Esme.
03:47Let's see if, for the first time in his life,
03:53that imbecile was true to his word.
04:10Good morning, Esme.
04:12How was the party?
04:14Good item.
04:15Me at her.
04:17That's weird.
04:20Maman?
04:24Maman?
04:28Maman?
04:30Maman?
04:44Maman?
04:48Maman?
04:48Maman?
05:07We're done.
05:10Fifteen more minutes.
05:12Right.
05:14Are we going to talk about anything today?
05:25Um, no, thank you, but, no.
05:40Yes, Thomas?
05:43It's work.
05:50Oh.
05:52So I take it therapy's going well, then?
05:56Um, I mean, sitting in front of a total stranger, talking about feelings, it'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.
06:14Sounds healthy.
06:15Look, I'm English, yeah? That's what we do.
06:23The deceased is Hortense Leroux. She writes an agony aunt column for the local paper.
06:29Agony aunts? That's a blast from the past.
06:33Good morning, boss. Sarge. 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, Kim Woods, who
06:45was just starting her shift.
06:47This wee.
06:49So, the victim, she has a few tiny red spots on her finger, which leads me to believe that the
06:58poison came from something she touched.
07:01So, she sat down for breakfast, boiled egg and toast, read her column where someone writes in about a friend's
07:14betrayal, and dear Hortense replies with avoiding revenge.
07:20Let sleeping dogs lie.
07:22Sir, if she was retiring, this would be her last column? Tragic coincidence?
07:27Tragic, certainly. Coincidence, not so much.
07:33Does this look discoloured to you?
07:39You think the poison is on the paper?
07:42Possibly. Where did this come from?
07:44We'll check with the housekeeper.
07:55Egg and soldiers. In the Breakfast Hall of Fame. That's right up there. Dipping a piece of buttered toast into
08:02a gooey yellow egg. Heaven.
08:05You're fine, sir?
08:18You're fine, sir?
08:19This egg's harder than Vinnie Jones. Dipping a soldier into that would be impossible.
08:30Sir, normally when you spot a detail, I think, go on, man. We will definitely come back to this.
08:35But right now, I'm kind of struggling how this could possibly be relevant.
08:42Everything's relevant, Officer Rouse.
08:55And the paper was delivered every day?
08:58By a boy called Clayton Powell.
09:00Can you get a hold of him, please?
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?
09:24Deliberately.
09:25How could anyone do that to her?
09:28She was truly adored.
09:29So, how did she seem recently? Anything out of 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.
09:50Okay, so, talk me through her morning routine, please.
09:54Well, she was up with a lark, made breakfast.
09:57Boiled egg and soldiers, yeah?
09:59Clayton would deliver the paper, then 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?
10:12Dreaming it, Cecil?
10:14She liked it to be perfect.
10:16Yeah.
10:17That's how she was.
10:18Deep breaths, darling, deep breaths.
10:20Here.
10:21Here 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.
10:53She 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 that egg was hard boiled.
11:22Maybe she got distracted.
11:24Overcooked 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.
12:20Why?
12:21To send a message?
12:23Or a warning.
12:28Yes, Victor.
12:33OK, so that's Clayton and here's 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.
12:46Thanks.
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.
12:56Just 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?
13:16Maybe 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 poisoned paper would get to Madame LaRue.
13:46A one in six chance.
13:49Don't like the sound of those odds, do you?
14:00Hortense LaRue, St. Marie's favourite agony aunt, poisoned 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.
14:19Anton 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. Looks 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. Soon 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.
15:25I'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.
15:48D.I. Wilson?
15:49A word.
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?
16:09What I've heard is directly to the contrary.
16:13You haven't said a word.
16:15I thought that was confidential.
16:18Inspector, take 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.
16:58But I assure you, I am completely, totally, 100% fine.
17:16We've got a situation.
17:18Oh!
17:21Sorry.
17:21No!
17:25No!
17:44Working overtime, mate.
17:46Any leads?
17:47I think it's...
17:51No!
17:52No!
17:54No!
17:58No!
18:02No!
18:11No!
18:12No!
18:12No!
18:14You guys!
18:28morning campers gather round i have a breakthrough
18:37right so this stamp was conveniently hidden beneath this saint marie stamp
18:42the original stamp is from france
18:47hmm so what does that mean that it was posted from somewhere else first maybe sophie meant to post
18:53it from somewhere else but didn't for some reason then brought it to saint marie to post
18:56why who knows my stamp man in kentish town is on the case and he's gonna and three
19:04you all right sir yeah why you seem a little energetic oh that's the coffee i've had three
19:12already that's my fourth bad night uh no i was just uh up looking into this
19:20any update on sophie's whereabouts none on the island and no mention in the victims contacts
19:26either postmortem's in
19:29kortens was poisoned as we thought contact poison cone snail venom in fact
19:36come snail that's new yeah i mean they live in the shallow waters around here i mean you're
19:41warned about them as a kid if it's in a corner leave it alone
19:45the toxin paralyzes the victim first then they die a painful death
19:52nice so whoever did this wanted or tends to suffer it says here that the poison was only on page
19:5935 of the newspaper which means we're looking at one hell of a gambler somehow poison one page in one
20:06paper of a pack of six then pray to the gods of vengeance that that paper is delivered to its
20:12victim
20:12risky as anything it's more than risky it's almost impossible did hortense touch anything else
20:18uh labs still testing they'll get back to us tomorrow in the meantime officer rose and i have been working
20:23on something
20:24yes uh the daughter esme i mean totally bankrupt by mommy she's never had a job she just gets a
20:31big juicy allowance
20:32every month and i mean she's living her life well it seems esme might have disagreed she'd applied for a
20:39job at a
20:39publishers in barbadas then plot twist we find emails from hortense to the managing director saying
20:49esme was not fit to work and that she would sue them if her daughter had a breakdown they took
20:55back
20:55the job offer pretty quickly after that so mommy blew her chances of a promising career
21:10must have been a blow she was right i i wouldn't have coped real life and me somehow never work
21:17so
21:17what made you apply for the job then and ton encouraged me he helps me with all sorts of things
21:25can't help noticing you're wearing the same clothes as yesterday late night was it my mom just died
21:31i'm allowed to grieve of course you are look what do you want from me you're 31 never been anywhere
21:40everything you own all paid for by your mother it's unusual some might say a little controlling
21:47she wasn't she loved me people get away with a lot under that label
21:54papillon papillon come away from there
22:00needs to be careful of those cone snails i hear they're deadly my mom was always paranoid to get
22:06stoned like to keep them close a bit like you then please stop this a bright new future suddenly
22:13snatched no stolen away by your meddling mother that had made me angry but that made you angry ds
22:18thomas definitely maybe the anger got too much maybe one day you just snapped no that's not true
22:29we'll be in touch
22:35never underestimate the quiet ones
22:41all right mate what you got for real
22:54curious and curious as they say
22:56le 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 who can only assume so but if that's the
23:08case
23:08why would sophie martin wait to send us now maybe she knew hortens was retiring and this was her last
23:15chance well look for any sophie martin's who lived in paris 30 years ago yeah keep me posted any news
23:21from
23:21the lad no poison found on anything else she could have touched so this newspaper was definitely the
23:26murder weapon it looks like it something interesting though no fingerprints found on hortens's glasses
23:34wiped clean what would that be right until we know who sophie martin is let's look for anyone with a
23:42motive yeah i found something kind of victim's phone in the trash and i my uncle look at terrence
23:48always says one man's trash is another man's treasure yes we know get on with it officer rose
23:54sir sorry go on some anonymous text going back three weeks ago you'll get what's coming to you
24:03you don't deserve to live and then just before a retirement party wear the amethyst earrings they
24:09bring out your eyes someone was out for blood but who a reader with a grudge maybe maybe clearly
24:17whoever it is was watching the house the other night while hortens was getting ready for a big bash
24:22first thing tomorrow talk to the neighbors maybe they saw someone hanging around
24:34oh
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 something happens
25:34it shouldn't and and sadness in fact i'd say mainly sadness i wanted it to work yeah believe me i
25:45i
25:45wanted us to work but you know what we just don't i do not trust that guy and if you
25:57can't trust family
25:58then who can you trust would it be more helpful to talk to him about what happened i don't know
26:05where i'd even start sometimes if talking's difficult writing it down can help write him a letter
26:17yeah writing him a letter yeah could work
26:25a letter it'd be a waste of time why don't you tell him what kind of brother you wanted
26:32because it's a fantasy he can't be that brother
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 a hortense's party yeah did you know well
26:56not really and and the family that's me and tumble sets oh anton men like him hungry lions looking at
27:08you like your tasty steak at the buffet oh have you two got history he'd like that do you want
27:17another
27:17drink oh no thank you i think i'll have an early night perhaps you should too sir why's that seeing
27:26that you're having trouble sleeping another cold one for me please katherine
27:47i 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
28:40all summer we've chilled but now she's gone quiet i'm confused she keeps watching my stories once
28:46she commented with a tomato emoji what does that mean i just want to know where i stand
28:54you're sebastian rose you know this is supposed to be anonymous i know that no well did hortense write
29:02back she did she said something about allowing space for roots to grow or something and happy
29:10no because she might be waiting for you you know that's a metal emoji couldn't mean this girl's
29:16interested you can't sit back you got to lean in yeah you know maybe all right
29:22the neighbor did tell me something pretty darn spicy yeah
29:33what are you doing a game of probability our killer somehow gets a poisoned copy of the saint
29:40marie news into clayton's stack of newspapers in which there happens to be five other copies of the
29:45saint marie news and from which she pulls one copy of the saint marie news at random and delivers it
29:50to
29:50all tense for one in six charts our only clue is the egg why was it hard-boiled when hortense
30:00likes
30:01it to be perfectly dippable sophie martin is a very popular name there were about a hundred sophie
30:09martins in paris around that time look for any connections with saint marie yeah we have to find
30:14this woman will do sorry it's not you it's me so the beers didn't help then surprisingly now
30:31and fill it up no it's not a good idea no and that's an end of it okay
30:41sergeant fletcher we know who's been sending those messages
30:45the neighbor was taking out the bins on the day of the party when he overheard an argument
30:50between kim and hortense did he hear what was said certainly did it's you isn't it you have been
30:58sending these foul messages who else would know those things and guess what hortense said she'd report
31:06her to the police the next day would never do anything so stupid so why would hortense think it was
31:17you
31:18no clue those texts contain personal details that only someone close to her would know so how long
31:24have you worked with miss larue oh about six months or so was she a good boss madame was a
31:29diamond
31:29it's a tragedy that she's gone from what we've heard she was more dragon than diamond she certainly gave
31:35her daughter a hard time didn't she well she was a mite overprotective but she cared which is more than
31:40most if she was like that with her own flesh and blood it's not a stretch to imagine she'd do
31:45the same
31:45to you perhaps you decided to get your own back frighten her but then she found you out didn't she
31:53you'd have faced criminal charges you'd have lost everything so i killed her
32:00you've got this all wrong officers i've been around the block more times than i care for life's good
32:05here 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
32:25are free as a bird
32:34she does have a point i don't see what she gains from scaring hortense well who else
32:42well i'm not overly thrilled about talking to anton bossette but if it was an angry reader sent those
32:47texts then you're gonna have to sir you're sure you can keep cool as a cucumber
33:07so all tens the room 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 no i'm
33:18all right standing thank you any hate mail sent to the office complaints people calling in to talk to
33:24her you don't give up do you oh this is deceptively heavy is this real gold can you put that
33:30down
33:31i've already said i don't know who was sending these messages and whoever she is won't be easily found
33:38she what you just said whoever she is i misspoke they unusual for a man in your line of work
33:46to
33:46misspeak unusual for a man in your line of work to behave like an amateur excuse me let me be
33:52crystal
33:53clear stop wasting time asking obtuse questions and go about doing your actual job let me be crystal
34:02clear these obtuse questions to find out who murdered your ex-wife sir but the fact that you can't see
34:07that
34:07because your head is so far up your own well that escalated look i get it sir what you went
34:18through
34:18was something no one should ever have to well you can't keep pretending pretending yes pretending like
34:26you're okay and your judgment is clearly off because you're not sleeping and you're not sleeping because
34:32you have this thing with solomon hanging over your head what do you suggest i don't know write the
34:37letter whatever get it off your chest we have a murder to solve all right fine i'll do it thank
34:46you
34:51so what are we going to do about mr busset he obviously suspects who's sending those texts
34:59well we need a tactical rethink
35:05i have an idea
35:16who knew saint marie was so high tech
35:19found it in the back of the evidence store don't think it's been used for a while you surprised me
35:26it's from 1986. can't beat quality thanks for doing this miss baudet a pleasure i feel like one of
35:34charlie's angels now remember you're there to find out who anton thinks is behind the text messages but
35:41don't go straight in for the kill act natural reincheck is your code word if anything goes wrong it
35:47can't be taught trust me
35:57we're good
36:04the golden goose has landed
36:11anton how lovely to see you likewise i was surprised when you called me
36:18pleasantly surprised of course 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
36:35oh like a dog without a bow what is she after so sweet she knows what she's doing did the
36:42police
36:43have a theory today oh they were bothered about for these nasty messages hortense was receiving
36:50thank you you seem like a woman of good sense and judgment i like to think so this stays between
36:59us a few years ago hortense told me something esme isn't her child she took her from paris when she
37:07was
37:14i'm assuming she agreed to this the way hortense told it sounded like she was too out of it
37:20to notice hortense couldn't have children but the authorities did they not realize she came here
37:28forged her papers she was esme's mother in all but flesh and blood and esme has no idea no and
37:37i wanted
37:37to stay to stay that way this would break her so you suspect it's esme's birth mother sending those messages
37:46who 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
37:59no reason i doubt that very much come on sorry i must rain check
38:10we've lost her sergeant fletcher
38:16why do you keep saying rain check
38:30sorry mattie i tried this won't be the last you hear of me i'll be calling your commissioner
38:37kiss kissy i 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 sophie is esme's real mother and finally explains
38:59why hortense was so desperate to publish the letter she knew it was sophie coming for her her response
39:06back off esme's mine but why wait 30 years to send this don't know yet but we will and if
39:14miss martin
39:15is also behind the text messages as anton suspects you'll get what's coming to you you don't deserve
39:20to live she's here on 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 for a while
40:13but i haven't managed to find the right words
40:16just like a mirror
40:24so it seems to show
40:28heaven i'm afraid
40:34morning morning sir that was the paris police
40:39my thinking was addicts are more likely to have criminal charges and
40:44there are three sophie martins on file two for possession one for aggravated robbery i've asked
40:51them to send over the records good work what's that sir oh um this is it
40:59my letter to solomon i've got it off my chest did it help
41:07uh yeah it did actually you know what i realized
41:11i 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 you that's all
41:28where is everyone following a lead if sophie martin was outside madame ruru's house that night
41:35is 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
41:51an uninvited guest the waiter said she got into a green vw camper van and luckily matty knows the one
41:59garage that fixes them
42:04yeah talk with the devil we think we found sophie so someone matching her description came into the garage last
42:12week goes by the name of calypso
42:14said she normally parks up by coral beach
42:16we need to get there pronto you already here sir you got an eyeball
42:25i hearing you good you think that i'm that shy girl's mother you're mad i don't even know this
42:32woman you're talking about then why did you sneak into the party that night just passing felt thirsty
42:41it's not a crime no the stalking is see our theory is you are sophie martin you assumed a new
42:49identity
42:49to come to saint marie and enact revenge on hortense larue starting with phil's threatening text messages
42:56i just like to stay off grid that's all we should be free to roam as the birds do you
43:04know we can trace
43:05the sim to the shop you bought it in check their cctv okay here's the truth that woman you're talking
43:14about sophie martin that ain't me but those texts
43:23i sent them 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 my mother out of my life toxic mothers shouldn't be allowed to act that way
43:40she said a hypocritical coming from her i did what she said know what my mother died alone in her
43:50bed
43:51if i hadn't listened to that loud-mouthed 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
44:17miss jones but 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 still haven't a scooby how the killer pulled off this murder a stack of six papers and
44:52they managed 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
45:19um 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 thank you now can we talk
45:36a little more
45:36about your life here oh how long have you got about half an hour no i meant
45:50she timed it when did she take it out and the egg how long did she cook it for dreaming
45:57it social
45:58he then cycled straight here delivered the newspaper to madame larue at 7 15 am sorry the little man
46:05doesn't like strangers there were no fingerprints found on hortense's glasses
46:10i wanted to scare her i wanted 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
46:26thanks to your patience i know who the killer is i know how they did it those photos from the
46:33paris police have they come through justin right we need a search warrant and then we can have a little
46:45family 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
47:15boiled egg not this again we finally cracked it
47:22you kim kim it was you who murdered hortense
47:26me no i told you i was telling the truth as miss larue's housekeeper
47:32you knew her morning routine that she liked to read her column whilst having her breakfast you also
47:39knew that clayton drops the paper on the porch at 7 15 a.m and papillon barks to alert hortense
47:46as
47:47he always does when someone's at the door so earlier that morning you went to another news agent
47:54and bought a copy of the saint marie news let's call this paper a you then laced the problem page
48:01with
48:01cone snail poison something you knew about from hortense's fear of her dog getting stung by one
48:07mama was always baron i'd get stung then you dropped paper a onto the porch sometime before clayton
48:15usually arrived hortense must have been in the middle of preparing her breakfast
48:21papillon parked as normal so she went outside to collect the newspaper she thought had just been
48:28delivered she went back into the kitchen eager to see if her request to change her final column had
48:37been carried out in doing so she came into contact with the poison and subsequently died a painful death by
48:45all
48:48lookouts you 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
49:06glasses as usual at 7 15 clayton delivered the newspaper paper b and papillon barked kim now dressed
49:17as hortense opened the door and waved to him as clayton cycled away he wouldn't have known that it was
49:23in fact you waving at him and not hortense you then came back into the kitchen and returned mr who's
49:30glasses
49:32wiping away any prints first now we come to the egg and your ultimate downfall you see in your haste
49:41to
49:41stage the scene before esmy arrived you almost forgot miss larue's egg was still boiling away on the stove
49:48you needed everything to look exactly as it should to fit the timeline of hortense making breakfast then
49:55reading her column so you hurriedly took the now hard boiled egg out of the pan and clumsily put it
50:02in the egg cup then you left the house through the back the same way you came got into your
50:09car that was
50:09parked around the corner and drove around the front to time perfectly with esme's arrival
50:17you later disposed of paper b and the wig at your home we found these in the bin on your
50:26street
50:27an audacious yet brilliant plan but why go to such lengths
50:36kim woods isn't your real name is it you are in fact sophie martin 30 years ago sophie martin moved
50:49to
50:49paris from the uk with her boyfriend who was escaping some trouble back home she was living in a commune
50:56a moment and 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
51:34that baby was you esme
51:38you're my mother
51:42hortense was my friend and she offered to look after you
51:48and yes i was struggling but i loved you so much and then one morning i woke up and you
51:55was gone
51:56and i didn't sleep the day searching for you but then you found out hortense was here
52:03didn't you through her column so all those years ago you wrote this letter to dear hortense the same
52:14letter hortense wanted to publish at the very last minute for her final issue i wanted her to know i
52:23was
52:23coming for her then you were arrested the guy i was going out with at the time he told the
52:29police that i was
52:30involved in an armed robbery and someone got really badly hurt and it was all lies i had nothing to
52:37do
52:37with it he was not a good man and i didn't get chance to send the letter it put me
52:44away for years
52:46time after time my parole was refused
52:49and i lost all hope until one day i finally got myself together got myself clean
52:56that day came and i knew what i had to do
53:01i had to find you and hurt hortense for what she'd done
53:06i came to saint marie first place i went was a news agent and i saw the ad
53:11for her housekeeper it felt like fate come in you bided your time working out the perfect murder
53:21plan but when hortense received your letter she must have known you were gunning for her
53:28you read her response she didn't regret it nor one bit
53:37it's me i don't expect you to forgive me but i would really like you to understand that what she
53:43did
53:44destroyed me killing her was the only way i could ever have a relationship with you officer rose
53:56so for martin i'm arresting you for the murder of hortense larue you don't need to say anything but it
54:03may harm your defense if you do not mention in question something which you later rely on in
54:07cars i think you do see it may be given evidence so my whole life been alive
54:16hortense hortense's love for you that was real
54:20so
54:36so
54:37so
55:21Hey.
55:26Can I help you?
55:29Mervyn, yeah?
55:32Yeah?
55:33Didn't you hear me, Nack?
55:35No, 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.
55:54And all he's got is a pair of sixes.
55:57Amateur.
55:58Sure.
55:59Is that a gamble, Nack?
56:01I 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, but I guess that comes with a jab, right?
56:10Okay, stop.
56:11Yeah?
56:12Now, you tell me right now who you are, who your dad is, and what you're doing on my property,
56:17or I'm arresting you for trespass.
56:19And you being a detective, it's me, Eloise, your niece.
56:26Sorry, what?
56:27Your niece, Eloise, did 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.
56:44Lots on his plate.
56:49So, 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 more.
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.
57:40The Lusker?
57:42Matty!
58:09Let's go!
58:10You
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