All language subtitles for Midsomer Murders S20E02 Death of the Small Coppers

- Morning.
- Morning.

Hi, there.

- Anika, Grady.

Where's Mahesh?

He's supposed to be here by now.

- His car's here.

I'll check the summer house.

- Aluminum, that's
fine, I know that one.

Tin, tin's fine.

Gold.

Oh!

Hey, you, give me back my gold!

Oh no, not you,
Mrs. Willis, it's...

Hey, you, give me back my gold.

- When was the
Ponte Vechhio built?

- It first appeared in
a document in 996 ad.

- Come on, come on, Leo.

Details, details.

One more.

How small is an atom?

- Very.

Leo, how small?

- Really rather titchy.

- No, every second counts.

How small is an atom?

- .00000001 of a
millimeter in diameter.

- Okay.

We can do some more on a walk.

Time to make your mom proud.

- Victim: Mahesh Sidana.

Head of the local school.

The wife found the body.

He'd been collecting
butterflies.

Circulus?

- It's an IQ society.

A membership club for
people of high intelligence.

It was founded here
in the village.

They use the school
during the holidays.

- Maybe we should join, sir.

I'm a bit of a legend
at pop quizzes.

Unbeatable.

Circulus exams are a
little more demanding

than a pop quiz, Winter.

- Ah.

Well, that's odd.

Someone's lost a butterfly.

- Stunning.

- I think you'll find
the butterfly's quite
attractive, too.

- Hey, you two.

All set?

- I think so.

- You know it's a waste
of time, don't you?

- There are those who thought
who think differently.

- Of course, sir.

- Test me.

- Latin name for small coppers.

- Lycaena phlaeas.

- And one.

- Bye!

- Mary's virgin explanation made

Joseph suspect
upstairs neighbors.

And why wouldn't they?

- Hi.

Oh.

- You're studying
the exam again?

Eddie, will you never learn?

- I just did, I have learned.

I've learned so much my
head's gonna explode.

- Who in their right
mind chooses to be
surrounded by death?

- Popped his clogs.

- An earth auger
drill bit powered

through the pericardial cavity

might have had
something to do with it.

Pre-porridge.

- Paint's still slightly tacky.

Painted pre-porridge presumably.

- There's no sign
of forced entry.

- So, either the
doors were unlocked

or the killer had a key.

Signs of a struggle.

- This might've been useful.

Ethyl acetate.

He was asphyxiated.

- It's used in killing jars.

That's what you
keep butterflies in.

You douse a bit cotton ball
and drop it in there, too.

It kills without marking.

- I had no idea
you were an expert.

- Did it in Biology.

See, it's not just pop quizzes.

Should we call it one

- We did the one

where you take a dead frog,

stick electrodes in it
and make his legs kick.

Weird things, butterflies,
according to my fella.

Nature's proof of reincarnation.

- Why kill someone in the
manner of a caught butterfly?

Notice any thing in particular?

The black edging,
copper orange wings.

It's the butterfly
from the poster.

A Small Copper, I believe.

One

- Welcome to Circulus.

In this, our 20th
anniversary year.

In which time our
community has come far

and you are all
welcome to join us.

Or try to.

General knowledge today,

mathematics and lateral
thinking tomorrow.

- Mahesh went collecting
in the meadows

and I was at an
editorial meeting.

I edit the local newspaper.

We have an office
in Newton Magna.

So what
brought you home?

- Grady Palmerston rang,
he said that Mahesh

hadn't turned up to invigilate.

- Tell me, would your summer
house normally be locked?

- Absolutely.

He kept the key with
him at all times.

- At school in
his desk, I think.

- Your husband wasn't the
only person interested

in butterflies.

We saw a young woman
in the village.

- Penny Kingdom.

Biology teacher.

She runs a lepidoptery group.

Was your
husband a part of that?

- No.

He kept his hobby to himself.

Oh, someone shoved them
through the letterbox.

Any idea who?

- No.

There has been a campaign.

I guess nobody likes a club who
won't have them as a member.

- Yes, a founding member.

- So, if this
campaign escalated,

your husband might
have been a target.

A lot of mint in that room,
strange, don't you think?

- Not really.

Her husband who was
obsessed with butterflies

but kept his collection
in the summer house.

Mint repels insects.

She's not a fan of insects
or maybe her husband.

- Very good, two-one.

We'll need background
checks on Mrs. Sidana

and look into the butterfly
group and Circulus.

- I'll take the lepidopterous.

- I thought you might.

- Local heads.

Who will you get
to replace Mahesh?

- If I knew that I wouldn't

have asked for
the list, Celeste.

Find Luke, it's time he
pulled his finger out.

- I'm meant to be at work.

- I'm not going
to sack you, am I?

- Morning.
- Morning, Luke.

Pint of Grace Ale?

- Quite a detective
finding me here.

- Your directions were good.

- Sorry to hear about Mahesh.

Anika told Grady,
Grady told his wife,

and Grady and Celeste
told the world.

- Mr. Sidana was
your boss, wasn't he?

I gather he wasn't a member
of your butterfly group?

- He liked to trap, kill
and pin butterflies.

We believed butterflies
are better alive than dead.

I gather
some are missing.

- Yeah, some Small Coppers.

They normally
thrive I this area,

but this year none, not one.

I think someone's poisoning
the land with pesticides.

- Because people
in Little Crosby

don't care about
the environment.

They're only interested
in someones like you.

- It's everything I hate.

What it represents.

It's divisive, it's aloof,
it's a clique, it's a cult.

- Yeah, but apart from that.

You wouldn't happen
to know anything

about anti-Circulus
leaflets, would you?

Who else was a member
of your butterfly group?

You said we.

- Me and Luke Fawcett, mainly.

He's an English teacher.

Well, was.

He lives in a caravan
in the next meadow.

- Oh, he was sacked last year.

- Mahesh.

- Luke!

Luke, are you in there?

Luke!

- I'm looking for
Grady Palmerston.

Detective Chief
Inspector Barnaby.

- I'm Palmerston.

About Mahesh?

- Perhaps we can talk outside.

- I have an exam to invigilate.

- I have a murder
investigation to pursue.

- The word invigilate
comes from vigilare,

to watch over.

I can't do that from outside.

- Of course.

Silly me.

I'll just have to
stop the exam, then.

Do you have any idea
why someone might

want to kill Mr. Sidana?

- Nope.

Mahesh was too ineffectual
to have enemies.

- Perhaps he wasn't
the ultimate target.

I've seen the leaflets.

- Oh, ignorant nonsense.

We're the perfect meritocracy
with a global membership.

The people who wish us to
fail are barely capable

of committing pen to
paper, let alone murder.

- You see murder as a
feat of intelligence,

do you, Mr. Palmerston?
- I see this one

as irrelevant.

I should look closer
to home if I were you.

Why?

- I own the Courier.

I brought Anika out of
premature retirement

Mahesh was spitting about it.

Preferred his wife
at home cooking.

- Are you suggesting Anika
Sidana killed her husband?

- I'm saying Mahesh was dull
enough to drive anyone crazy.

- A minute ago he was too
ineffectual to have enemies.

- There was a man pacing
nervously outside.

- That'll be Carlton.

Leo's father.

- Miss Kingdom didn't see
eye-to-eye with the victim,

neither did English
teacher Luke Fawcett.

According to Penny,
he was sacked

and now lives in a caravan
close to Troy Vale.

- Where the victim
went butterfly
collecting this morning.

Penny?

We should have a word with
Mr. Fawcett, but first

I want to find the
spare summer house key.

If you can crack this code
to Mr. Sidana's office.

Seeing as you're the clever one.

- Well.

- Go ahead.

- 1832.

Oh.

Two-two.

- Window's been broken in.

- And there's no sign of a key.

- Luke, Grady needs you.

Mahesh has been killed.

- Well why does that
mean that Grady needs me?

He's got you.

- But, you're a member, I'm not.

- Right, there is that.

I'm a bit busy.

And if you are
planning a barbecue this weekend

I would hold fire for awhile.

The whole of the region

will be covered in cloud
for the next couple of days.

Same go--

Hello?

Ginny?

- School.

It's Leo's first exam.

- Well, you're meant to be here!

Nothing good ever
came out of Circulus.

- It went really good actually.

Did you answer every question?

- It was fine, yeah.

- Science, maps and hurricanes.

- Yes!

Come on, now, home.

Do you won the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1907?

- No, I don't think it was me.

I thought maybe Rudyard Kipling.

- Hey, Winter, Birgitte Poulsen.

- From the Copenhagen
Police, I've heard a lot.

Nice to meet you.

- I'm flattered.

- But why are you
here in Midsomer?

- To join Circulus, of course.

- Thank you.

- I--

- Well, I looked for him and
he wasn't at the caravan.

I did eventually
find him in the pub.

- Yes.

Why didn't you
get him out of there?

- I know about Circulus
from my father.

I thought I might give it a go.

- You should've let me know,
you could've stayed with us.

- I rather like the sound
of Eddie's Bed and Breakfast

and I didn't want to
impose, you are a busy man.

Has someone else been poisoned?

Mahesh Sidana perhaps?

On the exam documentation
he was named as invigilator,

and yet Mr. Palmerson
stood in for him.

- Inspector Poulsen is
a very find detective.

- Very fine, indeed.

John couldn't stop
talking about you

when he came back
from Copenhagen.

Sarah.

- My wife.

- My pleasure.

So this is a family
affair, is it?

- I didn't think it was, no.

- Grady Palmerston
rang, he needs someone

to invigilate a mark.

Apparently someone
killed Mahesh Sidana.

I can't stop, come
for dinner tonight?

You, too, Jamie.

Eight o'clock.

- Great.

- Lovely.
- Lovely.

- Super.
- See you later.

- See ya.

- Yeah, see you.

- I have absolutely no idea.

We have to speak
with Luke Fawcett.

- I gather he's in the pub.

Three-two.

- Okay, thank you.

Forensics have found
a partial fingerprint

on the broken window.

- Tech team have emailed
through Anika's phone records.

They seem to stack up.

- Oh.

Mr. Fawcett, DCI
Barnaby, DS Winter.

Where were you first
thing this morning?

- Um, um, the caravan
and then here.

Is this about Mahesh?

- Did you see him this morning.

- Yes, first thing,
about sevenish.

We didn't chat.

- Fellow butterfly enthusiasts,

fellow teachers, I woulda
thought you had a lot in common.

- I'm sure you know our history.

Otherwise you wouldn't be here.

- Because he was a slave
to the national curriculum.

I believe in freedom
of expression and
not limiting peoples

to pedantic rules and
out-modish principles.

- You seem to get on okay here.

- Yes, well, times change.

- Can't be easy losing your job.

- I've never been happier.

No, I should thank him.

Did you see
anyone else this morning?

- Only the woman
following Mahesh.

- I've no idea.

I've never seen her before.

About 40, blondish
hair, long green coat.

- Someone's snooping around.

And you're meant to be here!

- I have to focus on Leo.

The boy, he needs air.

Not Circulus.

- Noticeably our money.

Grady's being a pain.

Could I get an advance?

- I may be old, but
do I look stupid?

- You'd be doing me a favor.

- Giving you a job
was doing you a favor.

- Oh, Eddie!

Is it possible I can have
a cup of tea, please?

- Course.

Follow me.

- Yes.

- How did you find
the general knowledge?

- It was tough.

I really need to shine tomorrow.

Although math has never
been my strong suit.

Well, and neither
has lateral thinking.

I mean, how are you supposed
to prepare for that?

- Practice.

Listen, you're in a room
and there are two ways out.

One is engulfed in flames,
the other one is full of lions

that haven't eaten
for two months.

Which way do you go?

- Engulfed in flames.

- Yes.

Oh, that's
not good, is it?

- No.

- Mind.

Neither are hungry lions.

I know, is there a trap door?

- Oh, I'm afraid not.

- I give up.

- You go towards the
lions because if they

haven't eaten for two
months they're already dead.

- Oh, that is good,
that is very good.

- And if you don't get
in, you might try a bribe.

From what I've heard, it
wouldn't be the first.

- Yeah, I have heard
that some people pay

for advanced knowledge
of the questions.

- Mostly people
who didn't get in.

- Oh.

- Actually, it's one of
your guests we want to see.

Miss Poulsen.

We need to ask some questions.

How exciting.

Is this about butterflies?

When I was out this
morning I saw Mahesh Sidana

collecting them and just
now I've seen that Eddie

here has a room full
of books about them.

- Perhaps you'd like to
have a word with Mister--

- Rowbotham.

With a thhh.

Butterflies.

It's a hobby of mine.

- Yeah.

- I like the blue ones.

- Absolutely.

Yeah, I love that one.

- Golden brown on
a black background

with a hint of yellow
on the underside.

But um, nothing blue.

- Not even when it's cold.

- Look, I'm new
to it, all right?

I wanted to join the local
lebi-what's-it group.

Oh, I was trying to
swaddle by just--

- How well did you
know Mr. Sidana?

- Well, not very.

Not really at all.

I just run my B and B and do
a bit of cabbing on the side.

Oh, our paths never crossed.

- How did you know it was Mr.
Sidana you saw in the woods?

- I'm a detective.

If I want to join
an organization

I want to know
everything about them.

I saw his photograph
several times.

How was he killed?

- I'm not at liberty to say.

- Oh, come on, please.

- Just that following
a phone call from

a Mr. Palmerston
Sidana's wife...

- You'll have to excuse me.

Anika Sidana told us
she was at an editorial

meeting in Newton
Magna when she received

a call from Grady Palmerston.

She went home to find
her husband dead,

at which point she
rang the police.

- Correct.

- Grady rang her at 10:03,

Mrs. Sidana rang the police
at 10:09, six minutes later.

Newton Magna, as you
are about to see,

is at least 15 minutes away.

So she couldn't
have been at work

when she received the call.

- Where was she and
why did she lie?

- Yeah.
- Oh, hello!

- DCI Barnaby, DS Winter.

I do the diary, home and
living, and pets sections.

How can I help?

- Was there an editorial
meeting here this morning?

- Oh no, we had it last week.

- Was Mrs. Sidana
in this morning?

- Well, not first thing.

She got here about
20 minutes ago.

Detective Dooda and
Sergeant Thingy.

- Oh, I had to
get out the house.

It's too many
consoling phone calls.

- Earlier you told
us you were here

when Grady Palmerston rang.

But you weren't, were you?

- Um, I, I, I had
just been for a walk.

- Mahesh and I had a
row and I didn't think

that it sounded good
under the circumstances.

- Work.

He hated me doing this job.

- Sir.

Commissioning an
obituary so soon?

- I didn't.

It just arrived, it
doesn't say who from.

- What it does say is exactly
how your husband was killed.

Hoist onto a wall, drilled
like one of his butterflies.

- Only us, Mrs. Sidana.

And the person who
killed your husband.

Why send an
uncomissioned obituary

flaunting the fact that
you know what happened?

The tech are checking
the IP address.

- Okay.

Wife Anika lied
about her movements

and said she rowed
with her husband.

Then presumably didn't
send herself the obituary.

So.

- Luke Fawcett has
motive against the
boss that sacked him.

Agreed.

Eddie Rowbotham?

- Said that he barely
knew Mr. Sidana

but has recently bought a
load of stuff on butterflies.

- Penny Kingdom knows
a lot about butterflies

and doesn't like Circulus.

What about Grady Palmerston?

I did some digging, by the way.

Used to have
publishing interests

in Germany, France and Denmark.

- He was certainly
keen to distance

the murder from Circulus but
I can't see a motive as yet.

- Another suspect.

There was a serial
number on the drill bit.

Belongs to equipment
purchased by Virginia Welton

of Borrowdale Farm.

Mrs. Welton?

D.S Winter, Causton CID.

Hello?

- The water of life.

Skal.

- Cheers.

That's definitely not water.

Not for you, Paddy.

- Time for my confession.

- I'm a police officer.

Detective Sergeant Winter.

Can I please just reach
for my warrant card?

- Hold it to the side, my
central vision's smashed.

Peripheral, okay?

Oh, why didn't
you just say that?

- Well, you didn't
give me a chance.

Do you normally greet your
visitors with a shotgun?

- I thought you
were an intruder.

Someone keeps trespassing.

- Yes!

It was only a warning shot,
I was aiming at the bucket.

Do you want me to prove it?

- No, no!

No.

- 17 years ago a student
called Anders Nisson

threw himself of Oresund
Bridge in an apparent suicide.

He was a friend of my father,
both Circulus members.

- Anders contacted my father
the night before he died.

He wanted to meet.

He said he had uncovered
a secret about Circulus

but the meeting never happened.

- And your father
thought he was killed?

- Yes.

And he tried to look
into it but he was forced

to leave the group for
voicing his suspicions.

So why
are you here now?

- Two reasons.

I came across my
father's notebooks

and an entry that said the
answer is in Little Crosby.

- No, but I have my suspicions.

Yeah, skal.

- Carlton's here to see you.

G and Ts?

- Just leave us, Celeste.

- I got your text.

I need time.

- You don't have any.

Your tardiness rules Leo out
of contention for membership.

The rules explicitly
state all application fees

have to be cleared through
the Circulus account

before the exams begin.

You know Leo would be an
asset to the organization.

Like Jane was.

Even if you did
stop her from being

in charge of social events.

- She wasn't well.

- I know!

And I'm still paying for that.

I can get you the money.

How much do you want?

- I'm trying to appeal
to your better nature.

Assuming you've got one.

- Why not tell me
all this earlier?

- 'Cause it's not
official police business.

I've taken leave to pursue
the matter privately.

- You know Grady Palmerston
used to have business

interests in Denmark?

- Yes, I know.

- No.

I have a different
surname to my father.

- You said there were two
reasons why you came here.

What's the other one?

- My father died last month.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

- My mother died when
I was quite small,

so me and my father
were very close.

He had been ill for some
time, but grief is strange.

Comes at you from odd angles.

I thought I was fine
about his death,

but then I read his notebooks.

And now I feel
compelled to find out

what happened to Anders.

- I'll need to take your drill
tool for forensic analysis.

It might've been
used in a crime.

- Well, if it was,
someone took it.

Perhaps that's who
I've been hearing.

- Does anyone else
have access to it?

- Carlton.

Carlton Scott.

Works for me.

When he turns up.

- I'll need his details.

What was that?

Wait here.

And put that down!

Who's there?

Police.

Stop!

Oh, perfect.

- Maybe I can help.

After tomorrow's exam I'll be
marking at Grady Palmerston's.

I can be your mole.

- You will be
nothing of the sort!

Palmerston is the suspect
in a murder investigation.

- Yeah, possibly two.

- John is right.

I couldn't possibly
impose on you in any way.

- Birgitte, you can
use Causton's resources

to help with your investigation.

And, of course, your skills
might be useful in ours.

- You're most kind.

Paddy!

Mommy!

- I had problems
getting a bottle.

Mags!

- Okay, thanks.

The earth auger
at Borrowdale Farm

is being confirmed
as the murder weapon.

Ginny Welton's prints are on it.

- So either she's the
culprit or the murderer stole

the equipment and
wiped it on return.

How far is her farm
from the Sidana's house?

- Same side of the village.

The farmland's been in
her family for generations

and includes the meadow.

She employs a land
surveyor Carlton Scott.

- His son's applying
to Circulus.

- And his wife passed away.

Oh, and guess what.

His fingerprints
match the partial one

found at the break-in.

- How come we've got
his fingerprints?

- He's got form six months ago.

Verbal assault at a
school prize giving.

The target of the attack?

Mahesh Sidana.

Are you all right, sir?

- Fine.

I'll speak to him, you
speak to Penny Kingdom.

The motorbike registration
you clocked, it's hers.

Mr. Scott.

D.C.I. Barnaby.

- Sorry, we have to go,
we've gotta be somewhere.

- Indeed you do.

With me.

To explain your verbal
assault on Mahesh Sidana.

- Jane died after
a short illness.

I didn't cope very
well and I thought

the school could've done more.

I objected to their
everyone-deserves-a-prize
principle.

I happen to think the
best people deserve them.

- Meaning Leo.

- He should've won every prize.

But like I say, I wasn't coping.

- Why does Leo's progress
matter so much to you?

- Jane was a clever
one, a brilliant lawyer,

who gave up her career
to start a family.

Leo was pretty much
everything to her.

- She missed the stimulus
of her former life

so she joined Circulus
for the social side.

She was keen for Leo
to become a member.

Look, can we cut to the chase?

I gotta get Leo to this exam.

- Of course.

How did you get on with Mr.
Sidana after your altercation?

- We put the incident
behind us, we moved on.

- So why did you
break into his office?

Cut to the chase enough for you?

- Mahesh was the treasurer.

I've had cashflow issues.

I realized the entrance
fee was gonna bounce.

I figured it might
become a problem.

- I thought Mahesh
kept records there.

I wanted to find proof
they took bribes.

I wanted something over
them in case it got ugly.

- No.

- No.

Miss Kingdom.

- In here.

They like you.

- Whereas you try
to run me over.

- You may begin.

- Congratulations, your
father would've been proud.

The Danish woman,
do you know her?

- No.

- That's odd.

Seeing as like your husband,
she's a senior police officer.

- I know nothing about
drills or meat hooks,

I was looking for pesticides.

- Well, I went earlier but the
old witch nearly caught me.

She's behind the
disappearance of

the Small Coopers,
I'm sure of it.

Don't be fooled by
the blind old bat act,

she's as tough as old boots.

- That I can believe.

- She opposed the
butterfly farm,

didn't want it on her land.

- You still haven't explained
why you tried to run me down.

- If I'd of wanted to
hit you I would've.

- Is that meant
to be reassuring?

Excuse me.

D.S. Winter.

Yeah, onto it.

Sorry, I've gotta go.

So, something's come up.

- 10 seconds.

- If you read this
question before starting

the rest of the exam
just write your name

at the top of the
paper and leave.

You will be given 100%.

- Pens down.

- Congratulations,
the ordeal is over.

Let the party begin.

- Grady knows who Birgitte is.

- What is it this
time, Inspector?

- We wanna talk to you about
Mahesh Sidana's obituary.

- We traced the IP
address, your computer.

- Well, I didn't write it.

It's too well
written for Celeste.

So, I'm afraid I can't help you.

- It describes the exact
manner of Mr. Sidana's death,

information privy
only to the police,

Mrs. Sidana, and--

- The murderer, yes I get that.

Quite a conundrum, isn't it?

Nothing like a
mystery to exercise

the brain cells, is there?

- We need you to explain it.

- I don't need to explain
anything, young man,

that's your job.

I'm disappointed you
haven't made an arrest yet.

I have my suspicions
who the killer might be.

- Yes.

I'll let you puzzle it out.

I think
he's the murderer.

- But as he pointed out,
we have to prove that.

- And I intend to.

- Think of it as
Danish feng shui.

Everything in a place and
a place for everything.

- Everything was in its place.

Here in England we
use the crime board

as a place for evidential
facts not idle speculation.

- We do the same in Denmark.

- But you've moved Anika
Sidana and Luke Fawcett

side-by-side and written
affair between them.

Based on what?

- Your evidence.

Her phone records.

If you look over
the last few weeks

there's the same number
ringing several times

after one o'clock
in the morning.

Fleur told me this
was, what was it?

- A booty call, love.

- The number belongs
to Luke Fawcett.

- The man her husband sacked.

- An affair gives the motive.

- Yes, well, very good,
I'll pay her a visit.

Anything else?

- Yes, the coffee
here is terrible.

What about you?

- One of two things.

Not least Grady Palmerston
knows who you are.

- I know, I have to be careful.

* I may done

- Right, I'm off.

Help yourself to tea,
coffee, gin and tonic.

- Great, thanks.

- I'm doing the
music at the party.

Oh.

Join us, you'll need a
drink after that lot.

- Well, thank you, but I
really should be getting home.

- Well, let yourself whenever.

Have a good night.

- Thanks.

* Roll the dice
blues with me, yeah *

- They've always creeped me out.

- They're very
popular around here.

Your husband, Penny
Kingdom, Luke Fawcett.

How well do you
know Mr. Fawcett?

- Ah.

Bear in mind you've
already lied to me once.

Are the two of you involved?

Is that where you really
were yesterday morning?

With him?

- Nobody likes
admitting to infidelity.

It doesn't sound good, does it?

Where were you when
your husband was killed?

- Did you come straight home
after you left Mr. Fawcett?

- No, no, I went for a walk.

Needed to clear my head.

- After Luke got the sack.

- Do you think he could've
killed your husband

out of revenge?

- Our affair is his revenge.

And you're
okay with that?

- I'm not proud of it, but
Mahesh wasn't a particular

imaginative man and
Luke is the opposite.

- And he was sacked over
his approach to education?

- That's what they
said, but who knows.

Mahesh, Luke, Grady,
they go back a long way.

I'm a Circulus widow
in more ways than one.

- Come in.
- Hi.

Okay.

- Anything that links
him to Anders Nisson.

Okay.

- It's Palmerston.

- Oh.

Okay.

- Birgitte, you've gotta go.

Now!

- Uh, yes, yes, I've
familiarized myself

with the answers
and made a start.

- Good, yes, but one of
your answers is wrong.

- X-rays and photons
that's the right answer.

What did you think it was?

- Good work, Winter.

Much more like it.

Where's Inspector Poulsen?

- I went to get coffee.

What happened?

Winter, really.

- Actually, I think I can
prove that Grady Palmerston

wrote the obituary.

Phrases from his editorials,
phrases from the obituary.

They're the same.

Never quite had the
wherewithal in both.

But there is a sense
in which in both.

And who quotes Plutarch twice?

- Circumstantial, Winter.

- But surely enough
to confront him about.

- Hey, there, pint
of Grace Ale, please.

- Grady Palmerston!

- Big house for a
small publisher.

Mr. Palmerston?

Mr. Palmerston?

We got a partial
on the window balcony.

- Ethyl acetate again.

Cause of death: cardiac
arrest following repeated

and incremental electric shocks.

Overloads the systems,
stops the heart.

And set up, the murderer
didn't even have to be here.

- Murder in absentia.

Clever, or reckless.

- All the questions low brow.

Popular culture,
bands, television.

- Questions Grady Palmerston
wouldn't know the answers to.

A victim of his
lofty intelligence

in the same way
that Mahesh Sidana

was made a victim
of his obsession.

- Eddie was right about bribes.

Palmerston kept a
list of donations.

But years ago there seems
to be much larger amounts.

40,000 pounds.

75,000 euros, dozens of them.

- Explains the house, but
what were the payments for?

Can you go over everything
on the computer?

- Of course.

- Any link to Anders
Nisson's death yet?

- No.

Perhaps we'll never know.

- Celeste Palmerston's here.

- Uh, no, thank you.

- Be a darling, I don't
want to ruin my nails.

- Can you talk me through
your movements this evening?

- Sure.

I left your wife here
and I went to the party.

Do you think she did it?

- No, I don't.

- Well, Grady was going
to come along later,

make a speech.

He came home to write it.

- Your husband's
computer was on.

Seems he was looking over
financial transactions

relating to Circulus.

Do you know about them?

- Haven't a clue.

- Did you husband know
that Eddie Rowbotham

thought bribes had been taken?

- Of course, he just
told Eddie to shut up

and concentrate
on his tutorials.

- With Mahesh.

- Mr. Rowbotham
said that he rarely

crossed paths with Mr. Sidana.

- Rubbish, he'd been
cramming with him for months.

- Anyone had odd
or unusual dealings

with your husband recently?

- Carlton Scott
came by last night,

I don't know what
that was about.

Did your husband
seem troubled at all?

- No.

Oh, he went to school
early to meet someone.

Who?

- He didn't' say.

I'm gonna have a swim.

Hold this!

Oh!

Oh, Geronimo!

- People respond to grief
in different ways, Winter.

- Celebration not normally
being one of them.

Are we going to announce
Grady Palmerston's death?

- No, I think a stealth approach
might be more productive.

- Crosby Courier.

- I think your Miss Kingdom
wasn't a fan of Circulus.

- She's not mine or a fan.

How was maths and
lateral thinking?

- Well, it's hard
to tell, really.

I got the riddle
one right, though,

you know the one about
the fork in the road.

Did you wanna hear it?

- No.

No, I can't stand riddles.

Apart from why you told me
that you didn't know Mr. Sidana

when you had tutorials with him.

- Because it stopped.

- Mahesh lost patience with me

and he refused to
tutor me anymore.

Said I'd never pass
in a month of Sundays.

And how did
that make you feel?

- Ashamed.

- No, just ashamed.

- Not really my thing.

- You mentioned earlier doing
the break-in so you could

have something over Grady
if things turned ugly.

- I told you I
didn't find anything.

You went to see Grady
Palmerston last night.

What about?

- An administrative confusion.

It's resolved now, we moved on.

- Like you said you
did with Mahesh Sidana?

- Exactly.

- Didn't expect to see
you in the enemy camp.

- This is my local.

I'm not gonna sit at
home because of that lot.

Though I doubt I'll
stay for the duration.

Unless you are.

- Yeah, I might do.

- Looks that way.

- Tell me, Grady, chairman,
Mahesh, treasurer.

What do you do?

- Crosswords.

- It's her local.

- Crawling with people
she disapproves of?

Strange, don't you think.

- Not as strange as you doing

a crossword when you're working.

- Baby ran in circles around

clueless inspectors,
seven letters.

- Baby ran, clueless inspector.

Barnaby?

- Doesn't count,
I've already got it.

It's three all.

Grady said he'd leave
us to puzzle it out.

He's true to his word.

Something's been bothering me
about the obituary, though.

We thought Grady
Palmerston wrote it

and we thought he was the
murderer as a result, but--

- And he's clearly not.

So the obituary's
meant to frame him.

- Which it did.

So whoever wrote it studied
his language like you

in order to point the
finger in his direction

knowing that we would
trace the IP address.

- So why frame someone
and then kill them?

Exactly.

- No idea.

- Oh.

I think I'll stick
around for a bit.

- Be careful, Winter.

- Draft.
- No, you.

- Come on, once.

That's twice!

- I should probably go.

- I'll say goodbye.
- I won that

so I should slap you.

- I'll close my
eyes while you go.

- I enjoyed tonight.

More than I have for awhile.

- Me, too.

- I don't.

That's the rest of us
done for, isn't it?

- That, I shouldn't.

Because of work and--

- Of course.

I'm sorry.

Friends?

- Sure.

Friends.

Goodnight.

Try this.

Murderer, a prodigal Samaritan
on the road to Emmaus.

I'm better if I get the letters.

- Four.

Biblical.

- Cain.

Abel.

Esau.

- Hi, hello, thank you.

I think I found a
link to Denmark.

But also something else.

Look.

I was going through
all the exam papers,

dozens of them, with this.

The right answer.

And then this.

You're not gonna
get any marks for that one.

- Exactly.

I've checked the internet,
an engineer who worked

for one Europe's leading
car manufactures.

- So this isn't the
answer to that question.

- No, it's the chemical
composition of an engine oil.

I think they use the
exams to trade on secrets.

- Industrial espionage.

Question is, who knew about it?

- Luke.

The prodigal son,
the good Samaritan

and Jesus on the road to Emmaus

only appeared in
one gospel: Luke.

- It's Grady's idea
of a joke presumably.

We checked the constitution.

- In the even of the
death of chairman

the running Circulus
passes to the next

surviving founding member.

- Luke did business
Circulus of which

there was originally four.

- Recently three.

Mahesh Sidana.
- Dead.

- Grady Palmerston.
- Dead.

And you.

May we come in?

We'd like to search
your caravan.

- Their summer house
key or anything

that might link you
to a murder weapon

taken from Borrowdale Farm.

- Or electrical equipment
used to, yes, we did,

kill Grady Palmerston.

- No, you can't come in.

- I think we can.

What's in there?

- Junk.

It's just full of junk.

No, you've no right.

Any differences I had with Grady

were ideological and
not psychopathic.

I wouldn't kill over it.

- Grady Palmerston
thought you would.

He knew of your affair
with Anika Sidana

and thought you wanted
revenge for your sacking.

- Well, the great
Grady thought wrong.

- Mr. Fawcett, in
the past 36 hours

your lover's husband
and the only obstacle

to you taking over Circulus
have both been killed.

- Maybe that just
means I'm next.

Wouldn't have
anything to do with

trading secrets
internationally, would it?

- That was nothing
to do with me.

- You knew about it.

- And disapproved.

- He banked the money.

- Did you fall out
with him as well?

- We had our issues.

- Can you account for your
movements yesterday evening?

- I was here until
I went to the pub.

- Much like the day before.

- I'm a creature of habit.

- Like seeing Mrs. Sidana.

She didn't go
straight to her house

after your latest tryst.

Perhaps you did.

You followed Mahesh
into his summer house.

You could've done the same
with Grady Palmerston.

- Trust me, I didn't.

- You're a hard man to trust.

- Penny Kingdom
thinks that you share

her concern for the plight
of the Small Coppers,

when, in fact, you're
hoarding them here.

What's she gonna say
when we tell her?

- She'll be gutted.

It was her idea to hide them
here in the first place.

Any Small Coppers in there?

- You know there aren't.

- Because they're all in
Luke Fawcett's caravan

where you lured, trapped
and captured them.

- To protect them.

It's no different
to Mehesh Sidana.

- A world of difference.

We're trying to protect
their longterm future.

Ginny Welton has plans
to use the meadowlands

for crops, that's why she's
hired Carlton to oversee it.

- It's her land, she
can do what she wants.

- If she does, she'll wipe
out Small Coppers and others.

- You care an awful lot
about butterflies, don't you?

Nature's proof of reincarnation?

- Absolutely.

Symbolic of rebirth that
life goes on, it's important.

- You weren't looking
for pesticides on
her farm, were you?

You were planting them.

Your posters spread the word
that a species has disappeared

and then you were gonna
mysteriously locate

the pesticides on Mrs. Welton's

farm that mighta killed them.

- Creating a public outcry.

Quite the campaigner,
aren't you?

You said you
were putting up posters

the morning Mahesh
Sidana was killed.

- That's right.

- We've driven round the
village, we found five.

Not very many, is it?

- Grady ripped the others down.

Tit-for-tat for me
leafleting about Circulus.

- Grady Palmerston is dead.

And...

He recently paid you a visit.

When and what did he want?

- Yesterday.

It was private.

- At some point yesterday
Grady Palmerston

went from being someone to
frame to someone to kill.

Something changed,
perhaps in your meeting.

- I don't know what
you're talking about.

He wasn't happy
about me leafleting,

he was flexing his
muscles, that's all.

- You teach Set One Biology

and the brilliant
Leo Scott is down

in Set Two with a
different teacher.

Why?

- Biology's not his forte.

- According to the original
Circulus membership list,

the four founding
members were M. Sidana,

G. Palmerston, L. Fawcett
and the V. Astergaard.

V for Virginia, married
name, Astergaard.

Grady's boss in Denmark.

She divorced,
returned to the U.K.

And reverted to her
family name, Welton.

- So she could be
your link, not Grady.

- With your permission I
would like to visit her.

- Of course.

And take Winter, I gather
she can get trigger-happy.

- Penny Kingdom said
Grady Palmerston

was trying to flex his muscles.

She's not a member of
Circulus so he couldn't

get at her that way, but
he did own a newspaper.

I can go on my own if you want.

- Yeah, maybe that'd be good.

I'll ring Mrs. Welton, let
her know that you're coming.

Thank you.

- Yes, it's absolutely fine.

I'll be waiting.

- Grady Palmerston penned
crosswords and editorials,

did he write anything else?

- Well he owned the newspaper,

he could write what he wanted.

- Did he have anything
over Penny Kingdom?

- Something to do
with a student.

He's not in her class
and his father told me

the school could've done more.

- Oh, the school did
loads after Jane died.

The school asked Penny
to be there for Leo.

She spent a lot
of time with him.

Organized a grief
counselor, all of that.

- It was more what went right.

Carlton was grieving, he
was lonely and vulnerable.

Penny felt for him, he
was attracted to her.

- They started a relationship.

- Until Carlton's
grief turned to guilt

and he ended it.

- Was this relationship
public knowledge?

- Mahesh was the
only one that knew.

- So, Penny becomes a
thorn in Circulus's side.

- She organized a
petition putting pressure

on Mahesh not to let the school
be used for Circulus exams.

- Nearly did.

Close enough for Grady
to want vengeance.

He twisted Mahesh's
arm to let her

go by the end of the term.

- And your husband told
Grady about Penny's

affair with Carlton Scott.

How did you find out?

- Grady could be vindictive.

- Treacherous teacher
abused position

to seduce grieving father.

Was this going to run?

- Possibly next week.

Grady wanted to
speak to her first.

- Not around here.

It's gossip.

It's gold dust.

Professionally that could
ruin her reputation.

- You have your father's eyes.

- And his notebooks.

- Come inside.

I have something for you.

- You don't seem
surprised to see me.

- Grady followed your
father's obsession with a,

with an interest that
bordered on paranoia.

We all knew he wasn't
gonna let it go.

- You mean the four
original founding members.

What happened to Anders Nisson?

- Your father was right.

In the light of Grady's death

there's no need
to hide the truth.

Anders uncovered that Grady
was using Circulus as a front

for introducing
contacts and exchanging

information all over Europe.

- Did Grady Palmerston
kill Anders?

- Grady arranged
for them to meet.

They rowed and he pushed
him off the bridge.

He admitted it and we all
agreed to cover it up.

- Oh, we were all implicated,

we all know about the espionage.

He said he'd take us
all down with him.

When your father suspected, I
gave up Circulus altogether.

Mahesh took a backseat and Luke

disappeared into his own world.

Other things ended as well.

Your father talked
about you such a lot.

I want you to have this.

He always hoped the two
halves might rejoin.

Perhaps now.

- I have to take you
to the police station.

And you'll have to
make a statement about
your involvement.

- Of course.

That's what your
father would've wanted.

- Yes.

I know why Grady came
to see you yesterday,

I've seen his article.

Was he going to publish it or
just use it to silence you?

- Publish it if I
contested the sacking

that was coming my way.

The old charmer.

- But now your job is safe

and the article
won't be published.

- I'm a Biology teacher, I
believe in life, not death.

- Two people you were in
conflict with have been killed.

I was going to leave anyway.

- I've already been
applying for jobs.

Grady was always banging on
about how I don't fit in here.

He was right, maybe
I'm the problem.

Trying to change people that
don't want to be changed.

- It might matter very much.

How strong were your
feelings for each other?

- My feelings were very strong.

- According to Leo they were.

He said it was nice to do stuff

and see his father smile again.

- Reborn, even.

Grief comes at people
from all angles.

Did you tell Carlton
about Grady's article?

- I left him a message, I
had to warn him in case.

What are
you looking for?

- My phone.

Must've lost it last night.

Penny!

Oh, come on, come on.

- Who else was in
the pub late on?

- Leo, Luke, Eddie, Jamie.

Anything that
could've upset anyone?

- I kissed Jamie.

- Anyone who happened
to be looking.

Who's there?

- I think someone has
targeted, is targeting,

people connected to you.

Hello?

- I think because
they care for you

and your relationship
with someone else.

And they want to
be a family again.

Where is he?

- I dunno.

Out.

A favorite place, think!

- I know.

You think you're
clever, don't you?

Stealing Penny from my dad?

- I haven't!

Try this one.

This what?

- Riddle!

- I hate riddles.
- Tough.

If you get right within
five minutes, you live.

If not, lover boy
gets cupid's arrow.

You come to a fork in the road.

Two people stand
there, one is an angel

that will always tell the truth,

one is a devil that
will always lie.

One road leads to life, and
one road leads to death.

You have to ask one
of them a question

that would determine
the way to life.

Only you don't know
which one you're asking.

The angel or the devil?

What is the only
question you can ask

to determine the correct answer?

Five minutes.

- Meet me at Frampton Woods.

There's a clearing
in the middle.

- I don't understand,
what's going on?

- You ask the angel, no,
no, wait, wait, wait,

hang on a sec.

You ask the devil--

- I told you, you don't know
which one you're asking.

- I think he went to the
school and stole a key.

- What, you're saying Leo has
something to do with this?

- Did it not occur to
you what your actions

were doing to him?

What are
you talking about?

- Your son suffered the
trauma of losing his mother,

but in the fallout
from that there

was a support system
there for him.

Someone who eased not
just his pain, but yours.

- You ask either one which way,
no, no, no, no, no, no wait.

- Two minutes.

Come on, every second counts.

- I was Leo's
friend, that's all.

- You were more than that,
you were part of a family.

And then you two were taken away

and replaced by Circulus
and intelligence.

- I thought that's what
his mother would've wanted.

- She might've wanted an
outlet for her son's emotions,

too, don't you think?

But you blocked that,
you sent Leo down

a different route entirely.

Some butterfly effect.

What happens to a caterpillar
that can't be reborn?

- It eats itself and dies.

- Leo!
- No, no, no, stay there!

You stay!

This fires the crossbow!

- Let him down, Leo.

- Leo, please.
- Please don't do this.

- It's a bit late.

- It's not!
- It is!

What took you so long, Dad?

Why couldn't you see that
Penny was the answer?

Why does everyone I
love always leave me?

- I did what I thought was best.

- I did what I was told.

I stuck to the rules,
I did what you wanted.

I was biding my time hoping
you'd see Penny again.

- And protecting
that possibility.

- I don't understand.

Mahesh, Grady?

- I heard Mahesh warning
you about Circulus.

Threatening you.

Breaking into his
office was easy.

I saw the email to Grady.

Plotting he was gonna sack,
you would've had to leave.

- I turned him into one
of his dead butterflies.

- And then you tried
to pin it on Grady,

but what changed?

- I saw the article
on Grady's computer.

About them.

It was so unfair.

You wouldn't of stood a chance.

I just want you to
be happy again, Dad.

And no one, no one is gonna
take that away from me.

- Leo, please, you
gotta stop this.

- No, I can't!

Rules are rules, remember?

Rules are rules!

He has to answer the
question, he has 30 seconds.

- You see, you come
to a fork in the road,

two people are standing there.

One is an angel that will
always tell the truth,

and one is a devil
that will always lie.

One road leads to life,
one road leads to death.

You have to ask one of them
a question to determine

the routes to life.

You don't know which one
you're asking, though.

Well, what is the
only question you can

to ascertain the correct answer?

- I really don't mind if
you take this one, sir.

Not a problem.

- Leo, don't do this.

- 10!

- No, please don't!

- If I was to ask the
other one which way to go,

what would they say?

And then you do the opposite.

Yes?

- That's that.

It has to be him that
to answer details.

Details!

Five!

- Okay, if I was to ask
the other one which way

to go what would they say.

And then you do the opposite!

- You're too late.

No, Jamie!

- Don't take me!

No!
- It's okay.

It's okay.

It's all right.

- I stood by and did nothing
when one life was lost.

I wasn't gonna let
that happen again.

- I'm so proud, I did
it for you, I was.

I did it for you, I did.

- Oh, hello.

Oh.

Come on, better
get a wiggle on it

if you're gonna
beat the traffic.

- Charge this one to us, Eddie.

- Only 10%.

- Oh, come on, John, 15!

Eddie's a bonafide Circulus
member now, you passed.

- Hey.

Oh, sorry!

So, it is.

- Well done, Eddie.

Thank you for everything.

I learned more about my
family than I ever dreamt.

- Thank you.

- Let me know how
everyone gets on.

Thank you for letting
me stay last night.

- You're welcome.

- And you must come
to Copenhagen soon

so you can bring
some more aperitifs.

- I'll start lining my
stomach immediately.

- Bye.

- I wonder if they've got
pop quizzes in Denmark.

Just saying.

- Question one, what happens
next time you go AWOL?

- Well, there's no answer
to that question, sir,

because it won't happen again.

- Correct.

10 points.