0:00:27 > 0:00:28Mr Leonard, sir!
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Sahib? Sahib?
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Sahib!
0:00:40 > 0:00:41What is it?
0:00:43 > 0:00:44What do you want?
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I was pruning the hedges in the garden,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49and I saw something terrible.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Mr Leonard, I'm afraid you are going to die today.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26ORGAN PLAYS "Morning Has Broken"
0:01:26 > 0:01:30# Fresh from the word
0:01:31 > 0:01:34# Sweet the rain's new fall
0:01:34 > 0:01:36# Sunlit from heaven... #
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Thank you, Mrs Parfitt!
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Thank you!
0:01:46 > 0:01:50- How many more? - Just a half dozen.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Lady Felicia. You do look a picture.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Father Brown. Mrs McCarthy.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00- I'm not interrupting anything, am I? - Not at all.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Only I wondered if you'd care to accompany me to a poetry recital?
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I know it's short notice, but the host specifically requested your presence.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Indeed, he was quite insistent.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Father Brown is in the middle of auditions.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Which, I'm sure, can wait.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Who, might I ask, is the host?
0:02:16 > 0:02:21One of her highfalutin cronies, I shouldn't wonder.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Mr Quinton.- Mmm.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Not Leonard Quinton?
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Mm-hmm.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I've always enjoyed a nice sonnet.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Especially that Greek one. The one about the vase.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Urn.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51If you will.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Did Mr Quinton say why he wanted me to attend?
0:02:54 > 0:02:58I'm afraid he's a peculiar man of very few words.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02I don't like to gossip, but rumour has it he's lost his marbles.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Have you met the wife? Is it true she never leaves the house?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09And that he keeps an Indian hermit?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Like you, I don't like to gossip.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Hello!
0:03:35 > 0:03:36She's very young.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Welcome.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43It's such an honour to meet you.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46I wanted to go to your finishing school,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48but Papa told me you'd have nothing to teach me.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52On account of my own natural grace. Not your instruction.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Is that Christian Dior?
0:03:54 > 0:03:58His designs are so flattering for mature women, aren't they?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Lady Felicia.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Your husband is a very good client.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06I try not to get involved with my husband's business affairs.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Better to enjoy the spoils. I'm sure you've earned it.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15What a delightful home. Such curious artefacts.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Yes. Lenny will be so pleased you could make it.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22We're very much looking forward to meeting him, aren't we, Mrs McCarthy?
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Yes, and I'm delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs Quinton.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Oh! No, Lenny and I aren't married.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Not yet, anyway.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Come, do follow me.
0:04:35 > 0:04:40Oh, I'm afraid the train from Paddington was cancelled,
0:04:40 > 0:04:44so it's going to be a rather intimate gathering.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49I'm ashamed to say that Violet is Leonard's mistress,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52and almost as insufferable as he is.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54How very French.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Mrs Quinton.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13And the great man himself!
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Namaste. Thank you all so much for coming.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25I realise our domestic arrangements might seem a little odd,
0:05:25 > 0:05:29but I assure you they are mutually agreeable.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Do take a seat.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35May I have a quick word first?
0:05:36 > 0:05:40I must confess I'm intrigued to why you've invited me here today.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I'm not known for my literary prowess.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47And you clearly look East for spiritual guidance.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50She had a smile that used to light up the room.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Mr Quinton, is there something you'd like to share with me?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56CAT MEOWS
0:06:02 > 0:06:05I would like you to look after my wife, Father,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07if anything should happen to me.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09She's one of yours.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11But I'm afraid she's lost her way a little.
0:06:11 > 0:06:16You have my word. I will help her to God's counsel in any way I can.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21But what do you imagine is going to happen to you?
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Let's not waste no more time, shall we?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Violet, my dear. Perhaps you'd like to begin?
0:06:42 > 0:06:47...aadhaaranilayah, adhaataa, pushpahaasah, prajaagarah,
0:06:47 > 0:06:53oordhvagah, satpathaachaarah, praanadah...
0:06:53 > 0:06:59Entwined in the long grass,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02sun freckling buttocks,
0:07:02 > 0:07:09The last thing on our minds are priests in cassocks.
0:07:09 > 0:07:14My pulse races as he traces his finger
0:07:14 > 0:07:19'cross creamy white skin, with a lovely linger.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22'Twas as if we were otters,
0:07:22 > 0:07:28frolicking as hot as a great ball of fire
0:07:28 > 0:07:31in the wet sand.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Oh, yes!
0:07:36 > 0:07:38YES!
0:07:38 > 0:07:46I cry to the skies with quivering thighs.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51It doesn't seem wise to dwell on the lies.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55But my heart goes cold,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58and I can't help but fidget,
0:07:58 > 0:08:05As the band of gold I spy wrapped around his digit.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Alas! Alack!
0:08:09 > 0:08:12There's no going back.
0:08:14 > 0:08:21Till she loosen the noose and cut him loose.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Forever.
0:08:34 > 0:08:40..paapa-naashanah, samkha-bhrit, nandakee, chakree, shaarnga-dhanvaa,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45gadaadharah, rathaanga-paanih, akshobhyah, sarva-praharanaayudhah.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59It slithers out white,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01sticky.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Lump meets stump.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Blood pumping, thumping.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Bone against bone.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Howls crunching.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Retch.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18If I could.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20If I hadn't.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22If you were.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Hands.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28No, feet.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Clasping air.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Gasp in pain.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Unfurled.
0:09:37 > 0:09:43Horror swaddled in twisted crimson ribbons.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Vomiting love.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Self-pity.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Shame.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Please excuse me.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38- What was that about?- Sssh!- And why were we invited to witness it?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40We weren't all invited.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43You mustn't look.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Lenny hasn't let me see it yet and I sat for him for hours.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49In my birthday suit!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Your father must be very proud.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Forgive me, is Mr Quinton in poor health?
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Not physically.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Only these are academic medical text books.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01He's a man. Ergo a hypochondriac.
0:11:01 > 0:11:07Lenny used to be a Doctor. He had a practice on Harley Street.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10- Please don't mention it to him. He gets very upset.- I can't imagine why.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14It's his behaviour since that brings him into disrepute. The man's a buffoon.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18He's talking about converting the stables into a levitation centre, for goodness sake!
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Meditation centre, based on the teachings of Krishna, Shankara
0:11:22 > 0:11:25and the yoga sutras of Patanjali.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Is he a client of yours, too?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30I don't have to like my clients to do my job.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Though I'd never have taken him on if it weren't for his wife.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Martha and I are old family friends.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- Mrs Quinton!- I'm quite all right, thank you, Father.- You're shaking.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46- I said I'm fine! It's Leonard that's feeling a little out of sorts. - Poor Lenny!
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- Mr Harris, could you take our guests for a stroll round the garden while he takes a nap?- Of course.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54I'll make sure tea arrives promptly upon your return.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- I'll wait here, in case Lenny wakes and calls for me.- Do what you like. - Shouldn't we call a doctor?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01No, that won't be necessary. He's just a little tired.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Perhaps I might speak with Mr Quinton privately?
0:12:03 > 0:12:07No, he explicitly asked to be left alone.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08A walk would be lovely.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12- A breath of fresh air will do us all the world of good.- Do follow me.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16I gather they have an extremely rare collection of tropical plants!
0:12:25 > 0:12:30I wish my Parson's Pink would repeat-flower like that.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33The Quintons have an odd relationship, don't you think?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36It's none of my business.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Who's the Indian gentleman?
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Martha calls him the gardener.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Leonard calls him his spiritual advisor.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45I call him a fake and extortionist.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Oh?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49He brought him back from his trip to the Raj.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Parades him round like an exotic pet.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55No doubt he's brainwashed Leonard out of thousands,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58promising to ward off evil spirits in return for a small fee.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Corruption's endemic in their culture, I'm afraid.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Have you been to India?
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I couldn't care less how Mr Quinton fritters away his money.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11I dare say his wife might have something to say about that.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13His wife seems curiously silent on a number of subjects,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17the sort of woman who does her duty for 20 years and then does something dreadful.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19If she did, could you blame her?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Come, we need to stick together.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Now, what is this one called?
0:14:05 > 0:14:11It looks like oleander but I think it's something far more unusual.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13I don't think this is a proper path.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15I think we must have taken a wrong turn.
0:14:15 > 0:14:20And if I am not mistaken, all the plants in this bed are poisonous.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23How horrible. Oh!
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Lady Felicia!
0:14:25 > 0:14:28I tripped over that and I've broken my heel!
0:14:28 > 0:14:30Mangy beast.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32All ears and fleas. Martha always hated that cat.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36What's this?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Poor creature.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43All creation, O Lord, is in your care.
0:14:43 > 0:14:48Give us eyes to see that every living creature speaks to us of your love.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Amen.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53I think I may need some help.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Looks like a bad sprain. I'll go and fetch the first aid kit.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00And what are we supposed to do in the meantime?
0:15:03 > 0:15:08I looked at your painting.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Well?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Say something!
0:15:24 > 0:15:26I gave up everything for you!
0:15:32 > 0:15:36You're never going to leave her, are you?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39I hope you rot to death in hell!
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I thought we'd never find our way back.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Well, if you will wear those ridiculous shoes.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Was it a poem, or an instrument of torture?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56And about time too!
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Sorry I took so long.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Aaaah!
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Stand back.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Is everything OK? I thought I heard... Aaaah!
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Mrs McCarthy.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Lenny!
0:16:44 > 0:16:46SHE CRIES
0:16:51 > 0:16:52It seems he left a note.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Umesh, will you call the police, please?
0:17:23 > 0:17:28Wheresover the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Gospel of Matthew if I'm not mistaken.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33And you're always complaining I'm after your job.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Milk, one sugar.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37That's how Lenny liked it.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Thank you.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43We found this on the conservatory bench, Inspector.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Not the most illuminating final missive.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55Mrs Quinton, can you confirm this is your husband's handwriting?
0:17:57 > 0:18:02- Please accept my condolences. If there's anything...- Nothing.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Death has been certified. Could you show the doctor out?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Shall we join the countess in the study?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18I'm sure Inspector Valentine has everything in hand.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23What a perfectly awful day.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34You think he might have waited till after we'd gone.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38He was worried how his wife would cope by herself.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40She barely seems to have noticed.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43I imagine that was Father Brown's point.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45This is a very fine oolong.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Such a shame the pot wasn't warmed before pouring in water.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Next time you can make it yourself.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Though, of course, that would involve setting foot in a kitchen.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00I wonder what made such a distinguished man of science throw off medicine.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Maybe something happened on his trip to India.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05How long did you say you'd known him?
0:19:05 > 0:19:09I didn't. Truth be told, I only met him a fortnight ago.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12We were introduced at a charity gala in London.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15He was with that Hindu fellow, I think.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I'm afraid I don't remember our conversation quite so well
0:19:18 > 0:19:20as the headache I had the following morning.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Really, you'd think I'd be used to champagne by now.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28I need find Inspector Valentine.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32No, perhaps I should talk to the Hindu gentleman in private first.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Yes. Best to have all the facts.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Mrs McCarthy, would you round everybody up and bring them to the drawing room?
0:19:42 > 0:19:45I have something very important to tell you all.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47I'll explain shortly.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51But no-one must leave. And no-one must be left on their own!
0:19:54 > 0:19:59# Dehino 'smin yatha dehe
0:19:59 > 0:20:04# Kaumaram yauvanam jara
0:20:04 > 0:20:10# Tatha dehantara-praptir
0:20:10 > 0:20:14# Dhiras tatra na muhyati. #
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I don't believe we've been introduced.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21My name is Father Brown.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Umesh Varma.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30I used to be a tour guide at the Botanical Gardens in Cochin.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33It's where I first met Leonard.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36I understand you and Leonard were good friends.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39He was a good man.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41A kind man.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45But I'm afraid his soul was in torment.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Did you discover the cause of his sorrow?
0:20:49 > 0:20:54Mr Leonard was a very private man. I would never betray a confidence.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Did Martha and Leonard lose a child?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03May I ask what business it is of yours?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Leonard asked me to look after his wife.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10By poking round his house and digging up the past?
0:21:10 > 0:21:11I only want to uncover the truth.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14The truth is not always black and white.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17It's over.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Why can't you leave it at that?
0:21:31 > 0:21:36I'm told you have some important information to share.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41I think we'd all agree Mr Quinton was a deeply troubled man.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Married to her? Who can blame him?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45The woman's not human.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49You could cut off her head, she wouldn't bat an eyelid.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Some people are simply able to keep their emotions in check.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Please understand the last thing I want to do
0:21:55 > 0:21:59in these awful circumstances is to cause you further distress.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Get to the point, please, Father.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06I'm afraid Mr Quinton could not have hanged himself.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09But we saw it. He even left a note!
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Go on.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Leonard was left-handed, as evidenced by
0:22:13 > 0:22:16the slope of his handwriting and the arrangement of his desk.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Yes. And?
0:22:18 > 0:22:22The knot of rope around Mr Quinton's neck was tied right over left.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27I don't understand. What are you saying?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30He's saying Leonard was murdered.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40We need a pathologist here as soon as possible.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43I want the conservatory locked and an officer outside both sets of doors.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Search the grounds for anything suspicious.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- No doubt you have theories. - A number of theories...
0:22:50 > 0:22:52And I'm grateful for your insight so far.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54But from now this is a murder investigation,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56so perhaps you could leave the questions to me.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Mrs Quinton,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05did you and your husband have any children?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07No.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09So I assume you're the main beneficiary in your husband's will?
0:23:09 > 0:23:14Murderer! It's obvious it was her. She hated him.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17- She's not the only one.- I'll be interviewing everyone in due course
0:23:17 > 0:23:21so you'll have ample opportunity to express your opinions.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Mrs Quinton, could you answer the question, please?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27I believe he planned to leave me the house.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30And the rest of his fortune?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32I'm afraid Mr Quinton recently altered his will
0:23:32 > 0:23:36and bequeathed the rest of his fortune to Mr Varma.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Our gardener.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Mr Varma, if you'll permit the observation,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47you didn't seem surprised to come upon Leonard's body this morning.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49That's because I knew Leonard was going to die.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55And how could you possibly know that?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58I had a vision.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00A vision?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Well, not a vision exactly.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04It came to me more as a colour,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07when I was pruning the hedges this morning.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09And I saw the othalanga in bloom.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Oh, that's the name of it!
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Also known as the Suicide Tree,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16because its kernels are deadly poisonous.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20As soon as I saw it in flower,
0:24:20 > 0:24:21I knew he was going to die today.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27Just as I know this priest will uncover how and why
0:24:27 > 0:24:30and that the truth will be sadder still.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32You don't believe me?
0:24:32 > 0:24:35I believe there is normally a rational explanation
0:24:35 > 0:24:36for the phenomenal.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39So how do you explain your bible?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Didn't Jesus walk on water?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Feed thousands with a single loaf of bread?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46I also believe the world becomes a very dangerous place
0:24:46 > 0:24:50when we interpret holy scripture too literally.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54But there are so many things that happen which we cannot explain.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58If you'll excuse me, please.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42So you're telling me you have the gift of second sight?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45I wouldn't call it a gift, no. I'm a spiritual man.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Did you know Mr Quinton was planning to bequeath you his fortune?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Yes.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- And what were you planning to do with the money?- Give it to charity. - A likely story.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59KNOCK AT DOOR
0:26:01 > 0:26:03I found this washed up by the lake, sir.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05What is it? Some kind of effigy?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08I was saying Vishnu Sahasranama for Leonard.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11In English?
0:26:11 > 0:26:16It's a prayer to invoke the thousand names of Vishnu.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Leonard was teaching me...
0:26:19 > 0:26:23I believe we all have a thousand names. A thousand guises.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Where were you between 11 and 12 this morning?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33I was in the kitchen making pinda. Rice ball offerings.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35To nourish Leonard's soul on it's onward journey.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39- Before he was actually dead.- Yes.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41While someone next door murdered him?
0:26:41 > 0:26:42So it would seem.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Oh, I've heard it all now!
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I saw the headstone this morning.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Please accept my sincerest condolences.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15It has been 16 months since my last confession.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Mr Varma, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so,
0:27:20 > 0:27:25- but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence.- Wait!
0:27:25 > 0:27:28She died a year ago today.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35Her name was Olivia.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41You have her photograph in your locket?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44A lock of her hair.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51We didn't take any photographs.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03She was handed to me in a blanket, so all I could see was her face.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Her beautiful face.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16But when the midwife brought me a cup of tea a few minutes later,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18I remember her hands shaking.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25And then I looked at Leonard,
0:28:25 > 0:28:29and realised something was terribly, terribly wrong.
0:28:32 > 0:28:37She was born grotesquely deformed.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Some limbs missing,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45others the wrong shape.
0:28:47 > 0:28:51Leonard never said a word.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54Couldn't even look at me.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57He ran off to India before I was discharged from hospital.
0:28:59 > 0:29:05I couldn't bear for her to be gossiped about,
0:29:05 > 0:29:12paraded through medical circles like some monstrous curiosity,
0:29:12 > 0:29:17so I decided to keep her secret.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23I gave up the London flat and I moved here permanently.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29Leonard came back three months afterwards, and she...
0:29:35 > 0:29:40..died a few hours later.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43It was as if she had been waiting for him.
0:29:49 > 0:29:54We buried her in the garden, and then we went our separate ways...
0:29:56 > 0:30:00..albeit under the same roof for appearance's sake.
0:30:03 > 0:30:07We never talked about her again.
0:30:10 > 0:30:15I didn't even know he still thought about her until this morning.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17The poem.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20I thought he was deliberately trying to hurt me.
0:30:20 > 0:30:25I realise now that
0:30:25 > 0:30:27that was the only way he could express himself.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38I thought he was under arrest?
0:30:38 > 0:30:42Lady Felicia has belatedly recalled hearing Mr Varma speak publicly
0:30:42 > 0:30:44about his plans to set up a leprosy charity
0:30:44 > 0:30:46whilst at a gala in London.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48So?
0:30:48 > 0:30:51Whilst it doesn't explain how he predicted Mr Quinton's death
0:30:51 > 0:30:56hours before it occurred, it does cast doubt on his motives.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00Unless he murdered Lenny to save the lepers?
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Does this mean we can't go home?
0:31:06 > 0:31:07I'm afraid so.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14I understand Mr Harris, Father Brown, Mrs McCarthy and Lady Felicia
0:31:14 > 0:31:19were on a tour of the gardens between 11 and 12 this morning.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24Miss Parnassus, where were you?
0:31:24 > 0:31:28- I was in here.- All the time?
0:31:28 > 0:31:31- Yes!- She's lying.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33I heard her in the study.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36She and Leonard were arguing. Very heatedly, in fact.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40She was furious with him for not leaving his wife.
0:31:40 > 0:31:45If I remember correctly, she wanted him to rot to death in hell.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48Oh, dear.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50Miss Parnassus?
0:31:50 > 0:31:53We...
0:31:53 > 0:31:55We had an argument,
0:31:55 > 0:31:59and I said some very silly things.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01I'm a passionate woman!
0:32:06 > 0:32:10And how did you overhear all of this if you were in the garden?
0:32:10 > 0:32:13I came back to fetch the first aid kit when Lady Felicia twisted her ankle.
0:32:13 > 0:32:18In any case, how could I possibly have strung him up like that?
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Mr Quinton wasn't a large man.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23I imagine whoever killed him used the trolley we found
0:32:23 > 0:32:27collapsed at the scene to move his body, climbed the conservatory benches
0:32:27 > 0:32:31and attached one end of the curtain cord to the plant hook in the ceiling,
0:32:31 > 0:32:33tied the other round his neck
0:32:33 > 0:32:36and then pushed the trolley over to make it look like suicide.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38It could have been any one of you.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41Even you, Mr Harris.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- Don't be ridiculous. - You hated him as much as she did.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51It's no secret I never liked the man
0:32:51 > 0:32:54but what could I possibly stand to gain from his death?
0:32:55 > 0:32:58When I confronted Leonard after the recital,
0:32:58 > 0:33:03he told me that Olivia's condition was his fault.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14It took us a long time to conceive.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17And I suffered very badly with morning sickness.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21I was terrified I was going to miscarry, so he prescribed me
0:33:21 > 0:33:24a new drug he'd heard about on a trip to Germany.
0:33:24 > 0:33:29He wasn't able to prove anything, but he was convinced that's what caused her birth defects.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32Which is why he gave up medicine.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35Must have made you very angry.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Worse than that.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47I felt relieved.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52Because if it was his fault...
0:33:52 > 0:33:55Then perhaps it wasn't mine.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08Beginner's luck.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Oh, is that what you call it?
0:34:10 > 0:34:13One doesn't need extrasensory perception to predict your moves.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17You're always on the defence and you've got too many men round the edges.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19We'll need to take formal statements from everyone
0:34:19 > 0:34:22while we wait for the pathologist's report.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Perhaps we might use the study?
0:34:26 > 0:34:30How is she?
0:34:30 > 0:34:34Mrs McCarthy, what's the botanical name of the Suicide Tree?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Cerbera Odollam.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46Inspector, would it be possible to have another look at the body?
0:35:19 > 0:35:25Yes, very likely. Thank you, sergeant.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36The pathologist will need to confirm, of course,
0:35:36 > 0:35:39but I think I've spotted traces of toxic white sap
0:35:39 > 0:35:41on Mr Quinton's clothes,
0:35:41 > 0:35:44which, I'm almost certain we'll discover,
0:35:44 > 0:35:46is from the othalanga tree.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50And didn't the dead cat have something white and sticky on its paws?
0:35:50 > 0:35:53- Didn't you say Mrs Quinton hated that cat?- That's hearsay.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57- Nevertheless... - I knew it was her! I knew it!
0:35:57 > 0:36:00She has no alibi and an established motive.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04- I'd like to examine her clothes. - She'll hang for this!
0:36:04 > 0:36:06It had nothing to do with her!
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Or with toxic sap.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13How can you be so certain?
0:36:13 > 0:36:14Because it was me.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18I murdered Leonard Quinton.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Are you sure?
0:36:21 > 0:36:24After I left you in the garden, I went back to the house
0:36:24 > 0:36:28and waited till Violet left the study and Leonard fell asleep.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33Then I came up behind him and strangled him with a curtain cord.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37The rest happened exactly as you surmised.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39You forged the suicide note?
0:36:39 > 0:36:42The study was littered with his scrawlings.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44He'd fallen asleep near a notebook.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48I simply tore out a sheet of paper and copied his hand.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Inspector, as far as I'm aware,
0:36:52 > 0:36:56it is impossible to arrest a man for killing a corpse.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00I beg your pardon?
0:37:00 > 0:37:03Mr Harris, I'm afraid when you returned to the house,
0:37:03 > 0:37:05you were in such a hurry to kill Mr Quinton,
0:37:05 > 0:37:08you failed to notice that he was already dead.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10What?
0:37:10 > 0:37:14The notebook you mentioned, you took it with you, I presume?
0:37:16 > 0:37:19If you hadn't been in such a hurry to forge a suicide note,
0:37:19 > 0:37:22you might have found the one he'd already written.
0:37:22 > 0:37:27It's my belief that Mr Leonard Quinton poisoned himself
0:37:27 > 0:37:31by ingesting kernels from the Suicide Tree.
0:37:31 > 0:37:36Possibly after experimenting with the correct dosage on his pet cat.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42"I deeply regret the pain and suffering I have caused my wife
0:37:42 > 0:37:45"and no longer wish to punish her with my presence.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49"Please forgive my cowardice and help her to a better life."
0:37:49 > 0:37:52I thought he loved me!
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Darling, men are duplicitous and fickle.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57Better you learn that now, while there's still time.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02Until the post mortem, we can't be certain that Mr Quinton was already dead when he strangled him.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07Therefore, Mr Harris, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so,
0:38:10 > 0:38:16but whatever you do say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18If you hated him this much,
0:38:18 > 0:38:23why were you always making excuses to come round?
0:38:23 > 0:38:26Am I the only one who noticed how often he looked at Martha?
0:38:26 > 0:38:28How quick he was to defend her?
0:38:28 > 0:38:32I thought if I didn't kill him, she would.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36At least I'd have the sense to cover it up. Or try.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42And then after a decent interval I could tell her how I felt and...
0:38:42 > 0:38:45What made you think she was capable of murder?
0:38:45 > 0:38:49She pathologically hated her husband.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Shuddered when he so much as looked at her.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Then there was the dead cat.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56And when I thought about how fiercely she insisted
0:38:56 > 0:39:00Leonard needed a nap, and the medication she'd been hoarding...
0:39:00 > 0:39:02What medication?
0:39:02 > 0:39:05I discovered this morning.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08She'd been stock-piling her sleeping pills.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20May we have a moment alone, please, Inspector?
0:39:35 > 0:39:41Every time I looked at him, I saw her face.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44I can't tell you how often
0:39:44 > 0:39:48I wished I'd never have to set eyes upon him again.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51And yet now he's gone...
0:39:53 > 0:39:56..it's like losing her all over again.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00Because, despite everything, you still loved him.
0:40:00 > 0:40:05If you've got all the answers, give me one good reason why I shouldn't swallow these pills.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07The fact you asked the question must stand for something.
0:40:07 > 0:40:13So you're not going to try and tell me everything happens for a reason? That this is God's will?
0:40:13 > 0:40:15I don't know why your daughter died.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18And I don't know why God let it happen.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22Then what do you know?!
0:40:22 > 0:40:26I know that God knows what it is to lose a child.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29And that he is standing next to you.
0:40:29 > 0:40:34And that he can't stop you suffering, but that he loves you
0:40:34 > 0:40:37and he loves your daughter.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41And if you let him into your heart you will see Olivia again.
0:40:47 > 0:40:56I've never heard anyone say her name out loud before.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58- Olivia.- Again.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04- Olivia.- Again.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Olivia.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14SHE CRIES
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Mr Varma.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28I'm sorry I misjudged you.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32Leonard told you about his daughter's condition, didn't he?
0:41:46 > 0:41:50You can stay with me until you've had a chance to talk to your parents.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54Natural grace, indeed.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04You fixed it!
0:42:04 > 0:42:07You obviously were never in the girl guides.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10Always fancied the boy scouts myself.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12Hop in. We'll give you a lift home.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Thank you, that's kind, but Father Brown...
0:42:15 > 0:42:18The inspector's already offered to give him a lift home in his.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21- Erm... I'm not sure... - You'd rather walk?
0:42:21 > 0:42:23THUNDERCLAP
0:42:23 > 0:42:27I suppose it wouldn't hurt to take the weight off my bunions.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35And your chauffeur must be crying out
0:42:35 > 0:42:37for some intelligent conversation.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40ENGINE STARTS
0:42:43 > 0:42:45How is she?
0:42:45 > 0:42:50Upstairs, sleeping. Umesh will take good care of her.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53If the post mortem confirms Mr Quinton was poisoned,
0:42:53 > 0:42:56we'll have to let him go.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59Mr Harris will always be a prisoner of his conscience.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01For a few weeks, maybe.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04Then he'll have forgotten the whole thing, or edited and refined
0:43:04 > 0:43:07what happened till his conduct is no longer in question.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09God created man in his own image.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13It's my vocation to remind people of that.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Even the atheists?
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Especially the atheists.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28"Play, smile.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32"Think of me, pray for me.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35"Let my name be spoken without effort,
0:43:35 > 0:43:39"without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42"Life means all that it ever meant.
0:43:42 > 0:43:48"It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
0:43:48 > 0:43:53"Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
0:43:53 > 0:43:56"I am but waiting for you.
0:43:56 > 0:44:01"For an interval, somewhere very near,
0:44:01 > 0:44:03"just round the corner.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06"All is well."
0:44:20 > 0:44:23De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25Domine, exaudi vocem meam.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29Fiant aures tuae intendentes, in vocem deprecationis meae.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31Goodbye.
0:44:31 > 0:44:37Si iniquitates observabis Domine, Domine quis sustinebit.
0:44:37 > 0:44:44Quia apud te propitiatio est propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.
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