0:00:03 > 0:00:06I have been...angry...
0:00:08 > 0:00:10..jealous.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13I have given in to self-pity.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Do you have any mortal sins to confess?
0:00:20 > 0:00:22I have...
0:00:23 > 0:00:27..loved...outside of marriage.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Violet, many people return to the fold when they face death.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36But they cannot find true salvation
0:00:36 > 0:00:39if they hide their selves from God.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44If you killed your husband, don't you want to confess?
0:00:45 > 0:00:50Tell his family where the body is and clear your conscience?
0:00:50 > 0:00:52LOCKS CLICK
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Violet...
0:00:57 > 0:00:59From the Lord Chief Justice?
0:01:05 > 0:01:07They turned it down?
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Appeal unsuccessful.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16SHE WHIMPERS
0:01:20 > 0:01:23You know now that death is certain.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Confess...
0:01:27 > 0:01:30..so that God can forgive your sin.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35I can't admit what I didn't do, Father.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I'm not guilty, I am innocent.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Help me, please!
0:01:40 > 0:01:44- We have to take you in now. - You can't do this!
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Charlie! Charlie!
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Charlie!
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Wait!
0:02:02 > 0:02:05You can't do this! I'm pregnant!
0:02:47 > 0:02:49The lab will have to run a pregnancy test.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52It'll take a few days to show a response...
0:02:52 > 0:02:54So she has three days' reprieve?
0:02:54 > 0:02:58If it comes back positive the death sentence will be commuted.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02- And if it's negative? - We go through all this again.
0:03:03 > 0:03:0714 weeks since she was arrested - why hasn't she mentioned it before?
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- Father, save me. - How can I help?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14You have to prove me innocent.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17You have to give me something to go on.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21- Peter. He's the key. Find Peter! - Get moving.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26ROOSTER CROWS
0:03:26 > 0:03:28- BELL RINGS - Archie! Wilfred!
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Ma, I don't think you should get up.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37I can't just lie here. Not till I know it's done.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Come on, help me.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46SHE GROANS
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Oi, ready? On my count - one, two, three.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59They say the eyes pop out - is that true?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I'm going to go see the body.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04If I could've watched her dangle, I would've.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07For heaven's sake, Ma! Can't we get on with our lives?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Before your brother's murderer gets her due?
0:04:09 > 0:04:14- My Ivan looked after me for years. - I'm looking after you now.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Why haven't they telephoned?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19They said they'd telephone when it was done.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21PHONE RINGS
0:04:25 > 0:04:273764.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Wh-?
0:04:30 > 0:04:32What?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37BICYCLE BELL SOUNDS
0:04:41 > 0:04:44I know why you're here, Father. I suggest you stop now.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Just picking up something for supper.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49There's no law against that, is there?
0:04:49 > 0:04:52And it's mere happenstance that it's from Fernsley's?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55His sausages are the talk of the town.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Pork and hop. Isn't your mouth watering?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I see you're as susceptible to a charming countenance
0:05:01 > 0:05:02as the rest of mankind.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06- I don't...- We have the right woman, irrespective of what Violet may say.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08I guarantee it.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Guarantee is a strong word. They never even found a body!
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Just because you weren't around to meddle during the investigation...
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- "Meddle"?- If only you went on retreat more often.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22I can just about put up with your pottering before a case is solved,
0:05:22 > 0:05:24but once a murderer's been found guilty,
0:05:24 > 0:05:27it's wasting police time to rake it up again.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29How could I not?
0:05:29 > 0:05:33She's a lost sheep from my flock - defenceless, pregnant.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38- You don't believe it? - I've seen the medical reports.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42She lost a baby at eight months gone after Ivan hit her.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Her system never recovered.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46It's highly unlikely she can have children.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49I knew he was violent, but...
0:05:49 > 0:05:51The point is Violet's lied.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54And if she'd lie about her pregnancy,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57why wouldn't she lie about the killing?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Now then, Father, isn't it time you were on your way?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Right you are.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Peter?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I know about six Peters, like everybody else in Kembleford.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41But none of them had anything to do with Ivan's murder.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Still here, Father?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05You've inherited the tenancy of the pig farm
0:07:05 > 0:07:07now your brother's gone, haven't you?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10That supposed to be a motive?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13I'm doing better with the shop than the farm ever did.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Give it five years, I'll have branches in Broadway and Toddington.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21A man of ambition.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Of course, if anyone knows how to make a body vanish,
0:07:27 > 0:07:29it's a butcher.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33They got the right woman when they sent Violet down.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37And that pregnancy's cobblers. She'll get what's coming to her.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Meantime, I'd stay away from us, Father,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44if you know what's good for you.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52LOCK CLICKS
0:08:01 > 0:08:03- So?- I didn't...
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I didn't know how you'd feel.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10If you'd even want a baby with me.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- So it's true? - I think so.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- I can't be sure. - Was this what it was all about, then?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Getting pregnant to escape the gallows?- No!
0:08:23 > 0:08:26I never believed they'd actually...
0:08:26 > 0:08:28I thought the appeal would succeed.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33I thought we'd live the rest of our lives together.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And the baby? Are you sure it's...
0:08:36 > 0:08:39If you're going to ask if it's yours, you can leave now.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51- Why didn't you tell me, Vi? - I told you, I wasn't sure.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55It was bad enough me hoping, praying...
0:08:56 > 0:09:01I couldn't put you through that, too. If you even wanted my baby.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05How could I not want our baby?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10I know it's not much...
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Violet Fernsley.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Will you marry me?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Sid.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Come here often?- Mm-hmm.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Lady Felicia's comforting Mrs Fernsley.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53She takes care of her tenant farms by reading her book to them
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- once a week at least. - Very generous.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Well, you haven't read her book.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Lady Felicia's many things, but...a writer?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Generous of Mrs Fernsley, I mean.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Well, I'm here to see the lady of the house as well, so I'll wait.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15- Both of Ethel's younger sons live out here too, don't they?- Mm-hmm.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17- Seen anyone else?- Nope.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21You snooping, Father?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34You're friends with Officer Denham, aren't you?
0:10:34 > 0:10:38I wouldn't say friend, exactly. Go to the dogs together now and again.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42- So you knew about him and Violet. - What? No. I didn't know nothing.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- Calm down, Sid. I won't tell anyone. - Scout's honour?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48You have my word of honour, as man of God.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Did they meet in prison?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Or could they have known each other before?
0:10:56 > 0:11:00You don't really think Charlie's got anything to do with this, do you?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I'm keeping an open mind.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Hello?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18After all, Ivan might not even be dead.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20He must've got himself a transfusion, then.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Do you have any idea how much blood they found?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25There are other possible killers.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- Like who? - HE GASPS
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Did I scare you? That's gamekeeping, you see.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36My stock-in-trade - stillness and silence.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38One of your catches?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42The fox got this one. Along with three of my hens.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45He kills for fun, just rips their throats out.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47I'll get my revenge.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Enjoy your job, do you? - No law against that, is there?
0:11:52 > 0:11:57- Lonely work. - These beauties keep me company.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08This "Piotr", does he still work here?
0:12:08 > 0:12:12We did have a labourer called Peter, Piotr.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Polish, I think. Bit of a soft spot for Violet.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19Course, Ivan didn't like that, so...think he left.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Sausage roll? Our own produce.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Lovely.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34They say pig tastes most like people.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36HE CHOKES
0:12:36 > 0:12:40"Long pig", that's what the cannibal tribes call human meat.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Gone down the wrong way. Perhaps some water?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48HE SPLUTTERS
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Still think Violet murdered him?
0:12:58 > 0:13:03"Gerald's guttural scream cut the air like a cheese-knife."
0:13:03 > 0:13:05HE GARGLES
0:13:07 > 0:13:11We'll pick up chapter ten on Friday, how does that sound?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Friday it is.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Oh, Father, so good of you to come comfort Ethel...
0:13:16 > 0:13:18But I must warn you, she's tired.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21- We've had a very emotional session. - So I heard.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23She's very good at making suggestions.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Better than you are, anyway. When are you going to give me notes?
0:13:27 > 0:13:28I'm no literary critic.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31I hope you are here just to comfort her.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Ivan's death was almost too much for Ethel.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Dragging it all up won't help.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45KNOCK ON DOOR
0:13:49 > 0:13:52- Father! Oh, I didn't know. - BELL RINGS
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Archie! Archie, I need your help.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Mrs Fernsley. Don't concern yourself.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Archie's already been very hospitable.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05That'll be the first time.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11You'll have seen he's not quite right.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Poor Ivan dropped him on his head when he was small.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Forgive me, I'm loath to ask questions...
0:14:19 > 0:14:24..in this time of trail for you, but a woman's life hangs in the balance.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28And I can't let it lie unless I find some answers.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Do your worst, Father. We have nothing to hide.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37You had a labourer called Piotr. Perhaps you knew him as Peter.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41- When did he leave? - Three months ago. Maybe four.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Around the same time of Ivan's disappearance?
0:14:43 > 0:14:45About that time, yes.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Casual labourers are just that - here one day, gone the next.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52You're wasting your time, Father.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56That woman killed my son.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58What makes you so sure?
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Like I told the police,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05the evening Ivan disappeared,
0:15:05 > 0:15:09I heard them arguing and then it suddenly went quiet.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14The next day, I was in the kitchen
0:15:14 > 0:15:19and I saw Violet washing at the water trough in the yard.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26- Is that unusual?- There was blood on her hands, her dress.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28The water was red with it.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Blood that may have come from slaughtering a chicken,
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- skinning a rabbit. - She said she'd been bitten by a sow.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37There we are.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40They examined her when they arrested her.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45If she had been bitten, it didn't break the skin.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Where do you think she hid the body?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57In the river? The marsh? Any number of places on a farm.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02You dig all you want, Father.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04You'll only find out what I already know.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10My son is dead and that woman killed him.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14KNOCK ON WINDOW Hello?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I'm here to make a complaint.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Could you please open this door? I want to make a complaint!
0:16:29 > 0:16:34That mutton you sold Father Brown yesterday - dry as a bone.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37I can't legislate for the cooking process.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40I'll have you know I learnt my culinary skills at my mother's knee,
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- and she was the finest cook in County Cork.- That will explain it.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49I want compensation - some nice, fresh meat,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51none of that offal you're pummelling at.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54These are Gloucester's finest pig's stomachs
0:16:54 > 0:16:57and are used for Gloucestershire's finest sausages.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03And what is that?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- It's a ring. - On a finger, is it?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17- Is that what she did with poor Ivan's body?- Don't count on it.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19I once cut open a cow's stomach
0:17:19 > 0:17:22and found a key that'd been missing for three years.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24This could belong to anyone.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26We'll let the inspector be the judge of that.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32The jewellers have confirmed that it's Ivan Fernsley's.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34So now we know how she disposed of the corpse.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37All this proves is that Ivan Fernsley is dead...
0:17:37 > 0:17:39or missing a finger.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Anyone could have put that body in the pigpen.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44The pregnancy test comes back tomorrow, Father.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46You'll have to do better than vague allegations
0:17:46 > 0:17:49if you truly hope to stall this execution.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Piotr Symanski, the casual labourer
0:17:55 > 0:17:58who worked at the farm at the time of Ivan's death.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00He disappeared.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02So he took a new job, found himself a nice English rose
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- and quietly left his old life behind. - And left no trace.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Isn't that suspicious?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Archie Fernsley says Piotr had a run-in with Ivan about his wife.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Doesn't that make him an alternative suspect?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Father, Piotr came up in the original investigation.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23He left the farm six weeks before Ivan was killed.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Charlie. Any news on the test?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36The Father's here to give you Holy Communion.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40I'm sorry, I didn't...
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Honestly, it doesn't matter that he knows.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Father will keep our secret.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51And when I'm out, he'll marry us! Won't you, Father?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54One thing at a time.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Well, I'm glad, you know.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01I've been wanting to offer my help with your...digging.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Anything I can do to clear Violet's name.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07I'll think about that.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12I'll leave you to it.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23I've pulled all sorts of strings to get in here.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Please tell me you've found something, Father.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Only Ivan's finger bone in a pig's stomach.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34It does not look good for you.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Don't you believe me?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Time is running out!
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Then why send me on a wild goose chase about Peter, Piotr?
0:19:44 > 0:19:47He left the farm before Ivan died.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50I didn't mean he could be a suspect!
0:19:51 > 0:19:54I thought he could've been a victim.
0:19:55 > 0:20:01- What?- He was kind, he saw how Ivan treated me.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03He said he could help me get away.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07He found someone to take me in.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10The plan was to drive me over there when Ivan was in bed
0:20:10 > 0:20:14but the night he'd planned to do it...he was gone.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20So two men have disappeared without trace from the farm,
0:20:20 > 0:20:22within weeks of each other?
0:20:24 > 0:20:27We have wasted two whole days.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31If you are right we are looking for someone who has killed twice.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Two deaths, now?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Yes, and the pregnancy test comes back today.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Well, if it wasn't her we'll soon find out who it was.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Archie Fernsley's not clever enough to have hidden all trace.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06- I'm not convinced it's Archie we're after.- Hey, isn't that...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Charlie, yes. What's he doing here?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Mrs Fernsley?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Archie?
0:21:21 > 0:21:25- What you doing? - As we're here, might as well.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31HE COUGHS
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Well, come on then.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Well, lookee here.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Looks like Wilf took Ivan to court over the inheritance.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57And lost.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59So much for Wilf not being interested
0:21:59 > 0:22:00in running the family farm.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Maybe you were right about it not being Archie.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07What's going on?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Ah, Archie. We were hoping we'd catch you.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Are you searching our house? Put that stuff down.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Hey, Archie, look, look, there's no need to...
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Hey, hey!
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Take a breath.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- All right, you're not listening! - POT SHATTERS
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Look what you've done!
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Archie, I'm sorry. We didn't mean to...
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Archie.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50The rings and watches that you've put on your animals,
0:22:50 > 0:22:53where did you find them?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Just bits of old rubbish. Finders keepers.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02- This belongs to Peter. - So? I was cleaning the slurry tank.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05They were all in there. Pigs will eat anything.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07This is engraved.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11It isn't something you'd throw away or leave behind.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Archie, did you find anything else in the slurry tank?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19No.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22This "treasure"...
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Father, it's teeth...
0:23:32 > 0:23:37This belonged to Piotr Symanski, as did this.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39But this is someone else's wedding ring.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Am I supposed to read something into these?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45And look at all these teeth. Ivan wasn't the only victim.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Whoever killed him has killed before,
0:23:47 > 0:23:49more than once.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- Does that sound like Violet to you? - I see.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Yesterday Piotr was the murderer. Today he's now the victim.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- What will he be tomorrow, I wonder? - This is no time for levity.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01OK, if Piotr and Violet are out of the picture,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04who's your current potential mass-murderer?
0:24:05 > 0:24:07ANIMALS GRUNT AND SQUEAL
0:24:49 > 0:24:51What are you doing?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53- Was it you?- What?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55That flue's been stuffed with rags.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58If the stove's belching out fumes into the hut, it will take, what,
0:24:58 > 0:25:0120 minutes, less, till they're out cold?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Who?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05You kill them yourself?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Or do you let the pigs do the rest?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09You think I'm a murderer?
0:25:09 > 0:25:10I'm your brother!
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I know that better than anyone.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16You think I've forgot what you used to do?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19I found that litter of collie pups when you finished with them.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Why do you want to put this on me?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25I should never have given you an alibi for Ivan's disappearance.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26That goes both ways.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28You're the one who hated him.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30You're the one who lost out on the farm.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Why would I kill my own brother?
0:25:32 > 0:25:34I don't know.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Why would you kill your own dogs?
0:25:39 > 0:25:40I didn't do it!
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Yeah, we'll let the police be the judge of that!
0:25:44 > 0:25:46They both have alibis?
0:25:46 > 0:25:49They were wildfowling that evening.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Together?- Yes!
0:25:52 > 0:25:55So Archie and Wilf provided each other with alibis?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Don't you see, Inspector...
0:25:57 > 0:25:58No, don't YOU see?!
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Even if I accept that these trinkets prove that
0:26:00 > 0:26:03other murders were committed, it's only putting
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Violet in the picture there, too.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07You're making things worse for her, Father, not better.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Now, I'd like you to leave. I have genuine police work to do!
0:26:15 > 0:26:16CAR ENGINE STARTS
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Hey! Hey!
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Aargh! Aargh!
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Sir, Ethel Fernsley, reporting screams.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47'I heard him crying out.'
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Please, help. I can't move, I'm trapped here!
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Mrs Fernsley, do you know how...
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Mrs Fernsley?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02PIGS GRUNT AND SQUEAL
0:27:02 > 0:27:04You can collect me in an hour.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11PIGS GRUNT
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Hello?
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Hello?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27SHE SCREAMS
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Thank the Lord you're here.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Do you want to tell me what happened?- Mm!
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Weren't you just saying you thought Wilfred might be the killer?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Time to strike him off your suspect list.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Wilf is dead?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43WOMAN SOBS
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Lady Felicia, I don't have a WPC at my disposal.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Thank you, I'll be quite all right without one.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51No, I mean, would you mind attempting to comfort Mrs Fernsley?
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Thank you.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02MRS FERNSLEY SOBS
0:28:02 > 0:28:04POLICEMAN RETCHES
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Another murder.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Another corpse disposed of in the same way as Ivan's.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10How many more people have to die before you will listen to me?
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I presume you believe this proves it's the same killer
0:28:13 > 0:28:15and Violet's innocent?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17It is a possibility.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Another is that it's just a copycat.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21A third is that there is a second killer who's working with Violet.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23That prison officer.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Who is he, her beau?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28He was here earlier, sniffing about.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Bullying Ma and saying it was me or Wilf that killed Ivan.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34What officer is this?
0:28:34 > 0:28:36What's happening out there?
0:28:36 > 0:28:38What have they said?
0:28:38 > 0:28:39They're doing everything they can.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42That's what they said about Ivan.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Someone's out to get us!
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Don't worry. The police are going to get whoever did this.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50I can't just lie here. Get someone.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52I have to get up!
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Oh... Sid! Sid!
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Pregnancy test results just came through.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Negative.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05The whole thing was a delaying tactic,
0:29:05 > 0:29:08while her boyfriend tried to concoct new "evidence".
0:29:08 > 0:29:12Wilfred Fernsley probably caught him at it and that's why he had to die.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14Speculation.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16She's played you like a fiddle, Father.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18But in under an hour she'll hang.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Guv, Charlie Denham's been spotted.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Just down the road.
0:29:22 > 0:29:23HE BLOWS WHISTLE
0:29:23 > 0:29:26And, in due course, I fully expect her lover to follow her.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Maybe you're right. Maybe Charlie was in on it with Violet.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35CAR ENGINE STARTS
0:29:39 > 0:29:40Go home, Father.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52That's how they died.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06What does that look like?
0:30:06 > 0:30:08A dress.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Ethel's dress.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Well, it could be. You can ask her yourself.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15She's in the kitchen...
0:30:26 > 0:30:27Where?
0:30:27 > 0:30:28She's in there, trust me.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30I had to push her in there myself.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Good morning.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51What's he doing?
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Ethel, your evidence about Violet.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Take it back.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58What?
0:30:58 > 0:31:00An innocent woman is about to hang.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Your evidence about the water trough, take it back.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06She's not innocent!
0:31:06 > 0:31:08No?
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Well, from where I'm sitting, which is the level at which you sit,
0:31:12 > 0:31:15there is no way that you could see the water trough across the yard.
0:31:15 > 0:31:16I don't understand.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21You're lying, take it back.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23There was blood on her hands.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25I swear it!
0:31:29 > 0:31:30Then, in that case,
0:31:30 > 0:31:34the only possible explanation is that you...
0:31:35 > 0:31:36..can stand unaided.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39Pfff! And people say I'M daft!
0:31:42 > 0:31:46I wanted to ask you who would have access to your old clothes,
0:31:46 > 0:31:50who could've stuffed the flue and poisoned the workers.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54But, of course, the most obvious answer...
0:31:54 > 0:31:55is you.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57What? Father!
0:31:57 > 0:31:59This is poppycock!
0:31:59 > 0:32:01And if you stuffed the flue
0:32:01 > 0:32:04and asphyxiated the workers,
0:32:04 > 0:32:06then you
0:32:06 > 0:32:09killed your son Wilf
0:32:09 > 0:32:13before he could take the evidence to Inspector Sullivan.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15Ma, tell him, that's ridiculous!
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Well, we'll see how ridiculous it is
0:32:19 > 0:32:22when I ask the Inspector
0:32:22 > 0:32:26to compare the fingerprints in the van with yours.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28The ones on the steering wheel.
0:32:32 > 0:32:33Aaargh!
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Oh!
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Archie, you stay with Lady Felicia, here.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Sid, come with me.
0:32:49 > 0:32:50Ow!
0:32:56 > 0:32:58There she is!
0:33:25 > 0:33:27PIGS SQUEAL
0:33:31 > 0:33:33PIGS GRUNT AND SQUEAL
0:33:41 > 0:33:42Go on, go on!
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Well, we can't just stay clinging here
0:33:48 > 0:33:50waiting for someone to save our bacon.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52Violet hasn't got time for this.
0:33:52 > 0:33:53All right, here goes nothing.
0:33:58 > 0:33:59Explain to me, Father,
0:33:59 > 0:34:01in case I should fall to my death.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04If Ethel could walk, why would she pretend
0:34:04 > 0:34:05for so many years that she can't?
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Some people fake chronic illness.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Why?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13It's a psychological condition.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15It's an illness itself.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19They crave attention from doctors, hospitals, their family.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21But why would you kill your own son?
0:34:21 > 0:34:22And that Piotr?
0:34:22 > 0:34:24Because they were threatening her facade.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26SID YELLS
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Piotr was helping Violet to escape from her marriage,
0:34:28 > 0:34:31which meant Ethel would've lost her household slave.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34And Wilf was going to the police with evidence
0:34:34 > 0:34:36that the workers had been killed.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38And what about the workers? Why kill them?
0:34:38 > 0:34:41They saw her out of bed. They would have told her sons.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43SID YELLS
0:34:44 > 0:34:45Oh!
0:34:49 > 0:34:50Come on, piggies!
0:34:52 > 0:34:53- Come on!- It's not going to work.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55What you doing?
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Argh... Err...
0:34:57 > 0:34:59PIGS GRUNT AND SQUEAL
0:35:06 > 0:35:07CLATTERING
0:35:07 > 0:35:09PIG SQUEALS
0:35:17 > 0:35:18I hate pigs!
0:35:29 > 0:35:30Take a statement from Mrs Fernsley.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33But be gentle, she's in shock.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35I'll be questioning Officer Denham.
0:35:35 > 0:35:36Inspector!
0:35:36 > 0:35:39- You have to find Ethel Fernsley. - She's the killer..
0:35:39 > 0:35:41If this is a stunt...
0:35:41 > 0:35:44You have to find her now. You have to stop the execution.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47I'm leaving now, Father. No more diversions!
0:35:48 > 0:35:51If Ethel's the murderer, then I'm the next pope!
0:35:59 > 0:36:00Stay where you are!
0:36:00 > 0:36:02No! Get off me!
0:36:02 > 0:36:04You brute! She did it!
0:36:04 > 0:36:07She killed my Ivan!
0:36:07 > 0:36:10Ethel Fernsley, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12You are not obliged to say anything, unless you wish to do so.
0:36:12 > 0:36:13Get off me!
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Get your filthy hands off me!
0:36:19 > 0:36:21If you ever need me...
0:36:21 > 0:36:22SHE SPITS
0:36:24 > 0:36:28You dirty lie... Don't you touch me, you pig!
0:36:28 > 0:36:29I hope you rot in hell!
0:36:29 > 0:36:31Thank you.
0:36:31 > 0:36:36Well. It would be ungracious of me not to offer my congratulations.
0:36:36 > 0:36:37I imagine you'll be celebrating.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43Well, I'm pleased that Violet and Charlie will be released.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46But Ethel is facing a death sentence.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48So, nothing to celebrate there.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Even for a self-confessed mass murderer?
0:36:50 > 0:36:53- Has she admitted everything? - She's admitted enough.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55We only needed one to send her down.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02So, which ones hasn't she confessed to?
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Father?
0:37:12 > 0:37:13Father?
0:37:18 > 0:37:21I told you you were going to marry us.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24We're here to set the date. The sooner the better.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Well, I'll get Mrs McCarthy to consult the parish diary.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33Violet, before you marry, you should make your confession.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Actually, I've been meaning to.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Are you free now?
0:37:38 > 0:37:40Now is as good a time as any.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43I'll leave you alone.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50This marriage.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52Is it what you really want?
0:37:52 > 0:37:53Of course.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57You're not doing it out of gratitude or guilt, you do truly love him?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59More than anything.
0:38:03 > 0:38:07Only you still seem to carry a shadow with you.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11I'm finally happy, Father.
0:38:13 > 0:38:14Trouble is,
0:38:14 > 0:38:16I don't deserve it.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19God has given me happiness.
0:38:21 > 0:38:22Is it wrong to enjoy it?
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Pray, Father, give your blessing, for I have sinned.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38It's been three days since my last confession.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Go on, my child.
0:38:41 > 0:38:42I have...
0:38:44 > 0:38:46..made false representation.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50You have lied?
0:38:50 > 0:38:51To you, Father.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55I have broken a commandment.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58Tell me.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02I killed my husband, Father.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04I know.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08But it needed to be said,
0:39:08 > 0:39:10for God's ears, not mine.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12How did you know?
0:39:12 > 0:39:15Ethel's evidence against you.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19She'd refused to back down, even when it proved that
0:39:19 > 0:39:21she wasn't handicapped.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24And then, when I found out that
0:39:24 > 0:39:26Ivan's death was the only one
0:39:26 > 0:39:27she didn't confess to.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29Why didn't you hand me in?
0:39:31 > 0:39:36Facing death did not convince you to seek peace with God.
0:39:37 > 0:39:41But looking forward to a life of...
0:39:41 > 0:39:44perhaps undeserved happiness
0:39:44 > 0:39:46has brought you closer to him.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49I did a terrible thing.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53But Ivan was a terrible man.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55I didn't deserve to die for it.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59I know how savagely he beat you.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05When I said I was innocent, Father, I meant it.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07And Charlie?
0:40:08 > 0:40:09Does he know the truth?
0:40:10 > 0:40:12- SOBBING:- No.
0:40:15 > 0:40:19If you think that Charlie wouldn't marry you
0:40:19 > 0:40:21if he knew what you'd done...
0:40:22 > 0:40:26..how can you marry him while keeping him in the dark?
0:40:27 > 0:40:31Father, God has given me back my life back for a reason.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33I agree.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Father, I love him.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You have to marry us, please!
0:40:40 > 0:40:41Of course I'll marry you!
0:40:42 > 0:40:46I'll do whatever you think is the right thing.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59Father Brown, do the honours!
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Ta-da!
0:41:07 > 0:41:10See, I caught him in the end, Father. Hunted him down.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14I don't know what to say.
0:41:14 > 0:41:15I do.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17It's you, can't you see?
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Cunning, wily.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21More wily than my mother, anyhow.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23There's not a lot of people who can say that.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Thank you, Father.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31Tell him to take that thing with him!
0:41:31 > 0:41:34I'm not going to look a gift fox in the mouth.
0:41:34 > 0:41:35Was that...
0:41:36 > 0:41:40Oh! That's actually a good likeness.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42I must dash. I'm just dropping this by.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45- Would you?- Oh...- Thank you.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48A first edition of my published novella.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Well, I'm flattered.
0:41:53 > 0:41:54I shall look forward to reading
0:41:54 > 0:41:57the investigations of Reverend Green.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59I got the telephone call just after Ethel's story
0:41:59 > 0:42:01appeared in the paper.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04My blow to the head in the pursuit of justice
0:42:04 > 0:42:06was the icing on the cake.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08They offered me a publishing deal.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Only cost £100!
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Would it be very unchristian of me
0:42:15 > 0:42:18to mention that they are supposed to pay her?
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Oh! Now, Father, if I'm not mistaken,
0:42:22 > 0:42:23there's somewhere you need to be.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25Would you?
0:42:25 > 0:42:26Father.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Shouldn't you be...dressed, or something?
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Come inside.
0:42:35 > 0:42:41ORGAN PLAYS
0:42:48 > 0:42:50I don't understand.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52I'm sorry. She's not coming.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55But she has to, she promised.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57- She loves me.- I know.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Charlie, she must have her reasons.
0:43:00 > 0:43:03Where is she? I'll talk her round.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05Get your things on, you're going to marry us.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07Maybe later than we thought, but you will.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09That might be difficult.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Why?
0:43:12 > 0:43:13Where is she?
0:43:15 > 0:43:18Violet has asked me to tell you...
0:43:19 > 0:43:23..that God has given her her life back for a reason.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25ORGAN PLAYS