Midsomer Murders - Season 20, Episode 3 - Drawing Dead - Full Episode

[Music] so isaac brought an arm full of flyers home i know exactly what you'd thought about that he loves being sheriff and he has been good for the village what's happening doctor styling is this it i need to cover it it's all right everything's fine so good thing you are here she's been a wonderful sister-in-law and friend where else would i be [Music] [Music] [Applause] your roommate come on call an uber [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] look isaac timothy proved everyone wrong later on for the day angel waits [Music] yes all right could just rang me from the cemetery do you want to come along you're asking me on a date it is allowed between step brother and step sister right here you're teasing am i tim sorry i'm sorry in ages okay you can do the honestella what you do i can't believe the amount of people out there come on you two let's get changed we're celebrating tim's success i am so so proud of you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] excuse me [Music] so [Music] i'm covering for benedict and i'm at chickenpox now have half the station hence my being here by the grand house lord conrad argo captain of industry and famed philanthropist here someone's not a fan of comics she's anyone over the age of five i'd imagine finally managed to drag yourself over here thank you so much for coming i'm a doctor do you know starling this is my county sheriff isaac starling i'm the law around here i may beg to differ mr starling sheriff it's sheriff assuming you get re-elected you only noticed the break in this morning yes i was getting ready for work and i saw the hole in the kitchen window was anything else stolen or burned not a thing and as any law man worth their salt will tell you that's abnormal behavior i need to go will you be all right oh i'll be fine police have arrived lord argo is it um it should be but that was more my dad's thing everyone called him lord argo but uh tim's fine for me and i assume you didn't hear anything either no sorry though i was the one who brought the comics here so i feel like it's all my fault who else knew they were here and i couldn't honestly tell you stella and i collected them from the cemetery the cemetery it's a long story and who is stella my daughter lives here as well and she'll be working at the lounge cafe am i free to go i run the festival and it's all about hectic right now you'll be alright yeah are you all right dr starling i know that burglaries can be very distressing i have no fear my dear i'm getting a taser the next person who tries to break in here they're getting a thousand votes [Music] winter so i'm on leave remember i've got the day off is that what a darwin chipping's gargles sorry my friend you're sure but i washed 20 cars to buy this ticket well lord sugar didn't make his first million by giving things away yeah hang on a minute sir i've got the right money are you kidding and i've got one left 50 quid 50. darwin's the main reason this festival exists his comeback talk comes at a price enjoy no no no lift not drag please some respect uh problems mr chipping anything i can help with just say i i prayed you come out every time and i can't wait to see what your new creation is and i'm not the only one i'll get cracking on my report all right thank you vote why did you cross the road like i said it's my day off it's from an iquitos sir i'm afraid i'm not up to speed the cult comic book artist and writer publishes 50 copies a year only 50. not exactly a publishing powerhouse well actually sir fewer copies is better it makes more sought after and therefore more valuable not like a first issue superman but they do go for a decent sum especially if one's signed [Music] tell me more about this i quit us uh he or she probably lives locally but that's about all anyone knows ikertas publishes the comics anonymously [Music] are you your arthritis is getting worse you need to see a specialist barrett it's been two years xenia how long can we keep this up you said we'd wait no matter what but there hasn't been one sign that she's gonna wake up take a moment think about what you're saying that's not my mother anymore and if you could see herself lying there i know what she told me to do she's not coming back is she [Music] stella starling that's my favorite darwin shipping character oh mine too obviously sorry it's so hot in here the aircon's been broken for years great in winter not so good in summer we want to talk to you about the burglary i prayed my bedroom's at the back of the house i didn't hear a thing do you know why someone would do something like this it's festival week you've seen the people out there they turn into heroes and villains overnight hopefully there are more heroes than villains i wouldn't count on it [Music] i never knew you had a hobby all right son let's oh gotcha mr starling why are you moving in slow motion and it's sheriff let the lad go this is my caller barnaby two things mr stalin one being appointed sheriff doesn't grant you any judicial power whatsoever and two it's dci barnaby well honeybee that's my teacher's name want you back but i've stopped believing that's gonna happen mom [Music] may where you off to she's awake [Music] question she's out on a call would you like to make an appointment tell us to come to the cottage two weeks thursday's looking good not funny ruth i'll phone him myself [Music] jerome mrs b you were quick i hope you haven't broken any speed limits hardly there's people in costumes everywhere i had to get out and walk tell miss what you told me i wanted to take it to darwin shipping's lecture a man's alleged i had to be there and stealing a ticket seemed perfectly reasonable they jacked the prices up the thing is we can't always get what we want jerome john i'll handle this the thing is jerome we can't always get what we want he's rolling out a new character it's the first one in years i can't miss that jerome writes and draws comics all day long he's got real talent oh i'll turn him loose then he can carry on stealing with my blessing look it's the first time he's ever done anything like that come on we could get him a ticket couldn't we he's a great kid [Music] um [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Applause] you keep a spare suit at the station always be prepared blur anything only starling burglary no unexpected fingerprints no one saw or heard anyone coming all going i think the term is sweet all right i get the picture i did some research and it turns out that two years ago lord conrad argo was murdered trying to prevent a burglary which explains why dr starling looked shaken earlier was the intruder caught still an open case you said two years ago would that mean that it happened during the festival actually so it was on the eve of the festival starting and it looks like it was a bad night all round old argo's sister francesca was also attacked that night she was outside his house when someone put her in a coma i'll get archives to have all the case files sent over question cid okay we'll be right there sorry but i i i don't think that's very appropriate first rule of creativity never turn your back on inspiration [Music] this is was francesca lanz 69 years young church death while in a coma it's definitely murder her airway was blocked by the comic until she was suffocated but this is turned off it was like then when soccer arrived yet the killer still felt the need to choke the victim as well where do we have an exact time of death giving me strength i've only just got here maybe an hour maybe more we were in the village then how to put yourselves on the incident board these probably belong to the family but best to make sure sir this is the latest iqritus issue looks like the thief didn't burn every copy after all i was in mum's room and and what mr lance i was talking to her and then it was a miracle she moved i was out taking in the sights since it has changed its name the festival seems to be getting bigger every year so you didn't see anything out of the ordinary anyone lurking about saying i'm just silly people in silly costumes i presume if you returned here alone that you didn't find dr starling she was in the next village on a house call so i i rang her and left the message then i know this is very difficult mr learns then i came home and i couldn't hear the life support machine then i saw mum how was your relationship with your mother-in-law it wasn't ideal not after the great francesca's son married her brother's cleaning lady you worked for conradargo a good man himself he gave me a golf membership as a living gift he was very kind like that francesca wasn't as generous as her brother i learned to live with her though it was a lot easier after she ended up in a coma do you uh recognize these they were found under your mother's bed uh yeah they're ours i noticed the old iquitos issues i bred them to mum and how did you come to be in possession of the latest issue i didn't one was used to murder your mother i just grabbed the phone and called the police this is lambs your husband said that francesca was waking up that she moved she was always moving well in the first few months she came here barrett was convinced she'd sit up one day and demand a dry martini and how about more recently honestly it was getting too barrett he really hasn't been himself for about six months now in fact he was talking about letting francesca go only this morning stella do you see anyone going into the lounge cottage in the last hour or so uh no or not that i noticed what about customers anyone look suspicious they were people from the festival most of them in costume what did you think of francesca if she was one of the original supermodels but i'm not sure she ever quite stepped down off the catwalk if you know i mean and you didn't like that about her that came out wrong tim renamed the festival after her so she was all right i guess frank on fran for his aunt francesca and con for conrad his father he wanted to do one of them both the thing i don't get is how the killer knew that francesca was coming out of her coma barrett had to cross to the other side of the green to get to dr starling's surgery someone might have guessed why he was so excited one murder weapon marinated in saliva lovely when fleur's finished processing it have a read winter it may not be a coincidence that the killer used this particular issue true identity by iquitos it's latin it means justice [Music] eric the police were asking questions it's a strange world stella we must be careful what we wish for it was definitely choked to death airway was blocked and she suffocated within two minutes two minutes that would have felt like a lifetime to the killer quite a risk considering the sun could have burst back in at any moment assuming it wasn't barrett himself any fingerprints on the plug of the life support machine quite clean which implies the killer came in with the intention of turning it off but then realized that francesca was coming out of her coma so grab the nearest comic and bob's your dead auntie just can't take it in anything you need just say anything [Music] there are fans and there are fanatics winter it's a thin line actually sir and past ikrata's issues are usually ironic slices of village life now they highlight local characters but usually in regard to neighborly disputes council politics the color of someone's front door but in this latest comic the murder weapon iketus has clearly changed tack show me six prominent villagers have been totally named and shamed one certain ruth crane has been drawn as a witch casting dark magic over the village darwin chipping the legendary comic book writer and according to i quit as a plagiarist a thief of someone else's talents we keep encountering thieves is that timothy argo something's got him spooked murrayek beer he runs a brickaround store dressed as a superhero it takes all sorts but this sort according to ikritis is one humiliated and impetiable man sheriff isaac stalin a vampire draining the life out of his victims and wait to see his next page sir [Applause] well it would appear that iquitos knows exactly who put francesca into a coma [Music] fleur talk me through francesca lanza's original head injury [Applause] [Music] uh um the village is packed there must be someone who saw you did you go into your mother-in-law's room no i didn't touch fran i swear this is a murder inquiry mrs lawns i was at the printers wondering why they hadn't delivered my flyers yet you're running for sheriff why did you not just tell us this you do realize the stakes here i wanted to surprise barrett i told you he rarely notices me but if you're sheriff i'm going to make everyone notice me i'm not the cleaning lady anymore and people need to stop treating me as if i am are these your drawings i hired stella she's very talented not to mention cheap how long have you had your current set of golf clubs three years why mrs lyons did you attack francesca two years ago no what is this and where did iquitas get this idea from it's fiction it's made up it means nothing this is unfair but you said yourself francesca was becoming a bird it's a lot of pressure on any couple no matter how well-meaning they are okay okay i i called my sister once i was in here closing up and i told her that sometimes i wish i could kill fran i know how it sounds but you have no idea how bad things were between barrett and me mrs lowndes we're gonna need to take your golf clubs for forensic testing with the printer see if xenia did indeed go there i'm going to talk to dr starling we need to know more about francesca blizzani's got motive and temperament and i don't see how francesca could have made any new enemies while she was lying in a coma for two years exactly my thought winter i can always strengthen the medication i thought i wanted this convinced myself it would be better for everyone if mum just slipped away but not like this i know how terrible it is i've been there [Music] but there is a way through this barrett i promise i'm afraid we don't take walk-in patients good because i'm right as rain oh take a seat i'll buzz dr sterling were you on reception when barrett lands came in this morning i was indeed how did he seem extremely excited did he mention wine maybe he'd finally caught a fish it's his big passion wasting the day staring at water i must have driven past her cottage when i know this is very difficult but i'm afraid i have a few questions you and your sister-in-law francesca i take it you were close yes yes very so you would know if she had any enemies she was in a coma chief inspector how could she have upset anyone which leads me to my next question i read the police report on your husband's murder and i know that you were the one who found him but i was wondering how francesca came to be involved do i have to do this [Music] yes uh police please um and ambulance uh yes um argo court carver valley as quick as you can yes fran fran fran oh god all right just oh hold on knowing francesca she was probably trying to stop the burglar i couldn't believe it when i saw her jewelry had been stolen the burglar robbed her she was coming for dinner so she would have been glittering with gold never leave home looking ordinary my sister-in-law used to say can you tell me about the blow to francesca's head it fractured her skull was it to the back or front the front for it it'll be in the police report so she would have been facing her attacker which means as every chance she saw who killed your husband that he's just sitting there won't say a word can we talk to him may i listen it's just a stupid fishing fly i saw it the other day in murray i thought francesca look at the colors they dazzle careful zen can you give us a moment you'll talk to them but not to me it's a nice thought murray when i saw you i was imagining you coming out of a coma party you were seriously not helping it's fine blue it's good to talk at least you and zenni are you well you're free now you can find each other again paddy stay any luck getting a ticket for darwin's lecture goodbye i asked around but it appears to be sold out jerome drew this it's fantastic no i don't really get comics sorry maybe i can track down a ticket online what about dinner yeah lovely give us a shout when you've made it patty good boy this is the new issue the burned one we need to speak to iquitos this is amusingly because no one has a clue i couldn't see it you must have your suspicions you've been promoting this comic since the start of the festival it must be six years now seven let's start with how iquitos delivers the comics to you you said something about a cemetery mr chipping sorry no photos that's that's the last thing i'd want you know i've i've got all these these thoughts swirling around i keep coming back to this one thing my mum was never keen on you it's a little brusque you came to see her a couple of years ago it ended in shouting i really don't recall it was about a week before someone put her into a coma barrett i do hope you find some peace but it won't be for me i'm telling the police they'll want to talk to you [Music] how did i could just contact you by phone he or she uses a voice changer but before you ask the number was withheld so iqrtus was in this cemetery went to get socco down here let's see if they can find any trace of our mystery comic creator remind me who else was singled out in that comic it was sheriff starling murray eckbeer darwin chipping start with them see how they react to the comic and check francesca's past maybe there's someone she upset and the killer got in and out without being seen how yes yes of course sir this will take me days you have somewhere else to be it's just a i had hope that i could uh nip out for a few hours tomorrow to go to the lecture well this is a murder inquiry winter might as well bin this then well let's not be too hasty i hate to see things going to waste oh cost me 50 quid sir i need to ask you a few questions it was me gav you got me back to riots why would i curtis draw you like that well that's not me no way we're telling blue is it true francesca was waking up we believe she was yes how long have you had this store ever since the festival started mind you it almost died two years back why was that no idea there were strong rumors that it might not go ahead and this was around the time that lord argo was murdered [Music] thing is francesca was also robbed of all her jewellery i knew this was coming the cops asked me all this back then with me being in the buy and sell business that julie never came our way did it love we'd have said if it had [Music] i know what you did [Music] sir [Music] um winter soccer found a sim card from a pre-paid phone it was registered to one barrett lounge barrett is icarus wow [Music] [Applause] barrett's gone fishing where the river of course sir barrett solista just told me that the account his mother's will is to be paid into isn't the one that he shares with his wife he's got a secret bank account mrs lambs have you and your husband discussed his inheritance she's not even in the ground yet interestingly enough he has discussed it with his solicitor and any money's due may not be coming your way what i don't understand what are you talking about he has arranged to have them deposited into another account was this caught by barrett yes where exactly does he fish er there's a weird he's always there close by pollock sir they're a saltwater fish not fresh water your husband hasn't been fishing mrs lambs are we looking at the same killer fire first the mother now the sun both surrounded by comics as a betting woman i always raise the stakes with a high pair from what i can tell the killer grabbed the victim from behind hold him back by the head exposing the jugular and then it all got a bit marry antoinette and again we were close by maybe you should arrest each other looks like he was printing a fresh copy barrett's arthritis must have made it incredibly painful to write and draw a comic and i've dabbled gave up i've got rsi in my hand after an hour go over every square inch of the lounge cottage if you could lie about a secret identity in a bank account who knows what else he was hiding so aren't you forgetting someone come on bird boy we can take my car i don't know how you can do that of course he's terrifying me i'm pretty sure you terrify them in that getup i'm after a favor isaac well the name of a good tailor i want you to help me become the new sheriff you do know i'm running for a second term yes but didn't you learn your lesson after your last effort no one wants you as sheriff i had a winning strategy last time it's just that i had to back out don't waste your time murray stick to selling second-hand tat isaac you are hilarious just just listen there's things i know isaac things that can ruin everything for you you need to start taking me seriously so how long have you been a pathologist and it must get to you cutting our body after body our country can't get enough of it the company more than anything they're great listeners i mean there must be a shelf life yeah when you've seen too much don't worry about me winter i drink embalming fluid i'm going to be around for a long long time how's your arabic i'm a woman of many surprising skills winter but being fluent in arabic isn't one of them that's barrett's name and signature and i can see dates could be some sort of rental agreement if it is it's a three-year lease looks like he's planning on leaving the country [Music] i can't find a ticket anywhere phoned texted emailed nothing to me why this lad why him especially put it down to the mum in me i guess couldn't pass the butter could you you got a ticket how i'm a man of great import when i ask i get anything found at the scene not a sausage wait what is that screensaver i've been there my very own hero one does one's best you look to be in a hurry winter where are we going egypt sir all roads lead to egypt barrett's paid a deposit for a three-year lease on a flat in cairo it must be nice the rent's pretty steep the inheritance wouldn't come in handy for that although barrett didn't know that his mother was going to get murdered so he must have had some other way to make the money or he had help i went to egypt once on a school trip and guess what i saw someone with the same currency right here in this village it's not what you think i'm sure it's exactly what we think barrett and i found each other at the wrong time we should have met when we were both single it just it didn't fall that way your pillow talk must have been interesting what does that mean with barrett being iketus knowing so much about everyone in this village how did he come by this information mrs eckbeer there are some things that we didn't share he was particularly remorseless in the latest issue any idea what triggered that look all i know and i promise this is all i know is that barrett drew the latest comic to help buy a new life for us so he kept one comic back while he stole and burned all of the others one remaining issue would make the comic worth a small fortune he was going to auction it privately and then we would leave which wouldn't work now that we have the only copy so he had to go back and print another one mummy doesn't need to know does he that's assuming he doesn't already so now we've got bluebell in the mix shunned lover who would no longer have been running away to egypt because barrett would never leave his mother if she'd just woken up but then again i keep coming back to barrett's comic murderer could be any one of them but why use it as a murder weapon it draws attention to exactly that thought maybe they didn't realize what was in it ruth the receptionist apparently a witch but i can't see a connection same with darwin though he was drawn as a thief maybe he stole the jewelry to fund his comeback you think he was behind the attack two years ago what's timothy scared of everything seems to be ideal the festival is thriving though it did nearly fold two years ago where did he get the money to turn it around and there's our old friend the sheriff a vampire and look here he is sinking his teeth into this character's neck a character who appears twice see here he is again humiliating murray ekbie we should find out who this mystery character is i'm still leaning towards xenia that put upon daughter-in-law and now wronged wife what if she lied and didn't know about barrett's secret bank account she'd inherit every penny now how did barrett know so much about people where did he get his information from coulson cid mr starling what can we do for you uh stella darling have you got a moment um it's just people are talking about you and timothy what do you mean making comments how nothing's going on between us it's for your dad more than anything you know how desperate he is to be sheriff again and the last thing he needs are whisperings about his family i know how fond timothy is of you so maybe keep him at arm's length for now this is mad mr starling how many more times it's darling at least it will be the next few weeks then i'll be mr so unedifying mr mr sorry about that i got a little emotional hurts it's just that i'll be stepping down next month um letting someone else take over i was under the impression that being sheriff meant a great deal to you it does did this village it's really going to miss me only ask me what i've been doing while you've been stumbling around making very little progress i made extensive inquiries and eventually i found someone who filmed this at the time of francesca's murder that's your wife's receptionist i think i should be in on the bust don't you care to explain i may have called round the door was wide open and that was after barrett came in looking for dr stalin a delivery of election leaflets had been packaged with my name on them by mistake thought i'd take them over to zenya and when you got there was was anyone in not that i noticed did you go into francesca's room no i did not what do you make of this is this supposed to be me i'll sue defamation of character you said the uh election leaflets were put into the wrong package that would imply that you had ordered something of your own yes my leaflets i'm running for sheriff as well it sounds like quite a few people are keen on the post forgive me but it is just a title and little else have you met the other candidates lord argo will be spinning in his grave he was the best sheriff this village ever had it is my mission to reinstate his values do you leave flowers for conrad argo every week miss crane well i i'm the only one who does juvenile moved on far too quickly if you ask me lord argo was barely cold before isa came trotting into her life he took over his wife moved into his house he even took over lord argos position as sheriff lord argo was sheriff at the time of his murder i lost one heck of a good man that night the sheriff business has got several people hot under the collar you said it was a little more than a title someone really killed for it look at everyone walking around in their costumes winter they all want to be someone else you know yourself how that feels i suppose it does make you feel different better in some ways and the thing that surprises me though is isaac suddenly stepping down he had flyers printouts he'd rather die than give it up or kill yes fleur i took another look at francesca's original head injury two years ago we didn't have the technology to scan as deeply as we can now so tell me have you ever heard of stockholm tar i can't say i have then luckily i know a man who has i'll also text you the dimensions of the injury easy boy easy boy come on come on come on that's it if if he kicks me sir come on get on big fella come on that's it yep yep go on that's it that's that's really really good [Music] okay i gave you ruth why aren't you locking her up where were you the night that francesca was knocked unconscious and mugged what on earth has that got to do with ruth crane our pathologist re-examined francesca's head injury what does stockholm tar mean to you mr starling it's for around it's for applying to horses hooves it covers the soul protecting it from bacteria microscopic traces of the tar were found on francesca and just to make sure we measured your horse's hooves they match the outline of her skull fracture mr starling talk us through the night conrad argo was murdered isaac do you know i'm so very very sorry it was an accident i swear on my life i'd had feelings for juno for months it got to the point where i sometimes trotted by her house hoping i might just bump into it you are ridiculous i'll tell my brother and he'll take great delight in ruining i panicked i had to get out of there but you still stopped to remove francesca's jewelry yes yes i did but you just told us you panicked and bolted from the scene oh i was hardly going to admit to thieving but you're admitting to it now absolutely yeah i uh yes i i wanted to make it look like a robbery you left fran to die and you still went ahead and married me i love you that hasn't changed it never will i need to know where you were when francesca and barrett were murdered i can provide alibis i swear you will be charged regardless for the injuries to francesca and for the theft take mr starling away [Music] yes i told you it was good all i can tell is it's a story about a boy who wants to fly i haven't heard that one a thousand times before philistine [Music] have you seen stella huh she's not answering her phone no darling sorry i haven't just give us some time it's a lot to take in parents arthritis long story short he couldn't possibly have drawn the last iquitos comic he wouldn't have had full motor control not to the extent of drawing what we saw in the comics all things considered could barrett have broken into the argo house the burglar used a sophisticated glass cutter chances are barrett would have had great difficulty wielding you with any precision so he would have needed an accomplice stanley had jack kirby you've got me [Music] [Applause] sir thank you it's been a while i have been locked away not criminally but working [Applause] a new chapter a chapter i often worried i would never draw forbidden supermodel by day the bravest of sinners by night all right all right all right take it easy jerome you're right in there what five minutes couldn't help it she was beautiful who was beautiful forbidden darwin's new character i had to get a photo that's francesca lound mrs lawrence did barrett ever invite darwin chipping around or talk to him or even meet with him not that i know of how about two years ago before francesca's coma oh wait he came to the cafe but he met with francesca not barrett do you know what they talked about from what i heard he wanted to make a comic book out of francesca's life and she said no i am not a comic book that's what she said and when i'm still glorious flesh and blood the sheriff dream is over i take it i only wanted to make barrett notice me again me sounds like darwin didn't listen to francesca and now here he is putting himself back on the comic book map and all thanks to a murdered woman i don't believe you were given permission to use francesca's likeness it's not her where did you get that idea from it clearly is mr chipping i doubt there's a soul in this village would dispute that half of whom were at your lecture oh and uh by the way i'm a big fan just thought i'd get out of the way five years in the creative wilderness you must have been at your wit's end inspiration is its own master what was it about francesca's past that drew you to her the partying with rock and film stars the countless arrests there must be enough material there for a hundred issues francesca was different she was larger than life imposing dynamic she oozed stardust how could i not be inspired but she had said no to you and yet here you are revealing a new character based on her you have to understand i have worked for two solid years on this i gave it my all besides now she'll live on i'm not convinced that will be much comfort to her i fell in love with my new creation that is not a crime if we can place you at francesca's bedside or in barrett's studio then that definitely is a crime well i admit i saw him leave his cottage but i saw him return 30 minutes later but that is all i did you and i have one thing in common chief inspector we observe the world while keeping it a good arms length away it's the only way to fully understand any of it 30 minutes why did it take barrett that long even ruth the receptionist got there before i stopped to call dr starling who didn't answer if he leaves the surgery he has to walk across the green and past murray stall where blue bell would have been what if you stopped to tell her that his mother was waking up meaning their egyptian dream was over she goes straight to lamb's cottage to kill francesca because barrett's mother is the one thing standing in their way blue bell had motive and opportunity and then she murdered barret because he still refused to run away with her he'll have no fury winter [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] mrs ekbie going somewhere [Music] i don't know what's worse blue's affair with my best friend or her sending me out to you your wife has an alibi for francesca's death she was working on the stall and she also states it was you who bought francesca's jewelry i pay big bucks still kick myself money we will be charging you with receiving stolen goods we've also arrested isaac who will corroborate this isaac you're going to do me for blackmail as well blackmail i couldn't think of any other way to get him to help me become sheriff you used the stolen jewelry as leverage to get isa to back out of the election look it was a mistake to buy the jewelry from her but then i realized i had something over isaac when you say her stella she took france jewelry [Music] hello [Music] oh if it's any consolation your father tried his best to hide what you did stella please don't say it not out loud i've spent two years hating myself all the same i need to know exactly how you ended up with francesca's jewelry [Music] she's dead help me stop i told dad to disappear i'd do what i could because praying should be concussed maybe not even remember what really happened i heard glass smashing so i had to because i swear that's all i did it was a lot more than that stella you robbed a woman and left her to die but why sell the jewelry in the village that was asking for trouble surely i was going to throw it in the river but then yes tim needed money for the festival it was dying on its feet surely conrad argo had plenty of money he was never keen on the comic thing i said it was for freaks sir i could hear everything you're saying it's a bit muffled but um i bet it's not muffled now so this is how barrett got all of his ideas for his comics no wonder he never got the air confix when he could come down here and eavesdrop when did he ask you to help him finish his latest comic was going to run away with bluebell but he just couldn't finish his last issue which he needed because he was going to sell it only after i'd burned all but one of them so you even burgled your own house for barrett i'm intrigued stella what do you get out of this bart was leaving for cairo i would become the new iquitos can you imagine what that means i think i can considering you drew your own father as a life-sucking vampire i wasn't proud of that i even made tim look awful but there was only ever going to be one copy sold to a private collector it would hardly be seen by anyone why did he settle so many scores with this comic he was drawing what he truly believed people were he was finally unmasking them one last question there's one character in the comic that we don't recognize the one that appears twice it wasn't my best effort but that's lord conor madaga careful sir they're addictive murray told us he wanted to make up for what lord argo did to him the previous time he ran for sheriff argo's a village hero he's adored not according to this comic perhaps two years ago murray took his revenge [Music] ah [Music] hi hey [Music] i said i wanted to do that wait there's things i need to tell you let me first i you don't really know who you just [Music] guessed [Music] all right i'm just not anyone's hero am i murray you have motives for murdering both lord argo and barrett my best friend who stole your wife but what did lord argo actually do to you do you know who i was once better than this that's for sure had a beautiful wife a great business plan but then i went around for sheriff and he he destroyed me he got all my investors to back out i lost my future and i probably lost blueberry as well you must have thought you were a credible rival not really he did it because he could but this doesn't tally with the man that we've heard about i mean timothy partially renamed the festival in his father's honor you say honor i say he was mocking comrade that man hated the festival uh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] mr barnaby your wife said you read my comic uh yes i did but not right now jerome but you liked it right very much you wouldn't want to be able to fly well you think that's all it was about that would totally suck if it was i'm actually working now jerome this boy wants to be a superhero to make his father proud of him and that's why he tries to fly he's just about to land in a broken heap when his dad swoops through the air and catches him [Music] his dad he was trying to protect him and that's why he hid his superpowers because he was scared that it might make his son feel even more worthless [Music] mrs barnaby is right you do have a lot of talent excuse me winter meet me at the marquis there are two things i need you to bring the answer is in the comic [Music] uh timothy we've heard three versions of what happened on the night lord argo died but you've never been mentioned in any of them and yet you were living at home at the time i just wasn't there that night so where were you miles away on the eve of the festival starting especially as it was struggling my goodness is this what murray did and dr starling i was just asking your son where he was when lord argo was killed only uh things don't quite make sense francesca was in the wrong place at the wrong time while you inside had just discovered her murdered brother [Applause] isaac's horse startled at the screams he panics but stella tells him to go she'll fix it and then stella heard glass breaking i really don't follow the window was broken after the burglary i told you i found conrad i raced outside i phoned 999. but you're a doctor and surely you would stay with your husband doing everything you could to keep him alive until help arrived so why abandon him and go outside you could just as easily have made the call from inside there's something missing from your story or should i say [Music] someone [Music] [Music] no i'm sorry this is absolute rubbish timothy was not there but you would have seen stella outside the house but you were still inside dealing with timothy your only thought was how to get him as far away from the scene of the murder as possible run before your aunt knows you were here and then you had to make it look like a [Applause] burglary yes uh please please um and ambulance uh yes just let it go mum i can't carry this around any longer i originally thought that renaming the festival was in honour of conrad's memory he hated it with a passion and i worked so hard to keep the festival going he just laughed at me he was always mocking me the poker was in my hand before i even realized but i didn't hurt anyone else i swear not my aunt not barrett i know you didn't timothy dr starling barrett called you when his mother woke i didn't take the call but you saw him crossing the green excited pushing through the crowd no and your only thought was if francesca had seen timothy on the night he killed his father would she remember now you couldn't let your secret come out barrett said that this handkerchief was his but he was shaken he wasn't really looking in fact it was your late husband's mum was always going around there she could have dropped at any time mum tell them you had a small window of opportunity you had to go to the cottage mum was on a house call your mother said she drove to her appointment obviously it was in the next village during the comic first of all it's impossible to drive anywhere in or out we checked with your patient you didn't turn up martin the plug of the life support machine had been wiped did you drop the handkerchief when you heard francesca suddenly waking up you've got to say something you can't even do this to you you have to understand what it was like [Music] everyone thought conrad was a hero she wasn't he was a he was a bully okay just as easily have been me holding that poker i wish it had been i could never be sure what francesca had seen i i wasn't sure if she'd seen timothy fleeing from the house then she was in a coma and and i thought his secret was safe when i heard she was waking up it was my worst nightmare come true i hated myself but i thought it would end there and then and then barrett called and he said he knew he said that he did remember the hank chief you showed him and he said he didn't want to believe it but he knew it was me mama i don't i understand why would you do that because it's what all parents do timothy they protect their children at all costs to keep you safe even if it meant silencing everyone else mum where's stella mom dr starling stella stop stop come on i got you bro i'm got you it's okay it's okay it's okay [Music] [Music] yes i've taken a leap from your book chief inspector to not give up to carry on till you win you know i feel rather inspired i'd like to talk to you further if i may i'm not sure that a man picture it so well put upon badgered sidekick by day avenging superhero by night [Music] fiction winter it's becoming harder to tell what's real and what isn't which i guess is where we come in sir [Music] you

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Published: Wed Sep 02 2020