Like Mama.
Papa bear, Papa bear.
Hey, maniac.
Hey, mystery maniac.
Yes, We're back For Father Brown.
Mystery Maniacs is a comedy recap podcast dedicated to mystery TV.
Each week we dig into an episode of the show,
including the murders, the mayhem, the loonies, and everything else we love.
This week, Father Brown.
Season one Episode eight.
The Face of Death, which turns out to be Father Brown's face.
Yeah.
You know, it really expect that to happen if you let your kids go to parties
where they find He got feathers to exchange for candy
from a stranger in the woods where they can listen to.
That's my peacock. Toy. Yeah. Yeah.
It's yet another annoying woodland noise along with the foxes screaming. Yes.
But you got to put up with. Just a reminder.
This is our last full episode of 2023.
I cannot believe how fast December's going.
You're already done work.
I am for two weeks.
I have to work another week.
Well, I will, because I still got to prep my classes.
Starts, like soon as I start back to work.
Yeah, I still got to do that. But we do.
So this is our last full episode, but we do still have too many episodes
to record before the end of the year, so that'll be fine.
I'm looking forward to those.
I hope you guys are enjoying the minis for season 24 of mid-summer so far.
Someone posted on Instagram this morning.
I listened to the Mini this morning and had to double check.
I was listening to the same right episode because you people said
saw things I never saw.
So that's.
The whole. Point.
As we watch like Maniac, we.
Want you to watch like a maniac. That's why it's fun.
So then they said that they were going to watch the episode again.
I'm like, ACORN needs to pay.
Yeah,
just, you know, a quarter for every time somebody watches
the episode the second time.
Yeah, that would be good.
Just saying that would make us more money than YouTube.
yeah.
We finally made enough money to get a check from YouTube.
It's been a year.
It's two years, five years.
Whatever in a year.
And we finally made enough.
And I'm going to take that money, plus the money that we got for our six months.
Of merch, same.
Merch sales and give that all to the women's prenatal hospital in Sierra.
Leone.
It's not even $100 that they make you get to before they'll cut you a check.
Yeah.
We had to reach three digits.
Yeah, for.
You're making the making it rain money.
Yeah. And some people can't see.
it's kind of a an occasional drizzle kind of money.
Well mostly like we could make more money on our YouTube account
if I put non skippable ads, but I make all our ads skippable.
Nobody wants to listen to ads.
Yeah, I don't want to know.
No ads.
It is not.
Again, this is not a moneymaking thing for us.
No, it's.
Better if you say you don't want to make any money off of it and then you don't.
You're doing it right?
Yes, But if you say you want to try to make some money and you don't, yeah,
you're a failure. Yeah.
So it's better to just say we're not going to try to make any money off of it.
And if we do, will donate every dime that we get.
So anyhow, nobody wants to talk about money.
They want to talk about Father Brown.
Father Brown.
The face of Dad.
Is the weirdest party.
I don't know. She's trying to be like queen of heart.
Like I guess.
Welcome to my weird, strange party. But.
But first we have to get to the first death.
Yeah.
Poor dude gets run over by a car. Duh.
He like he is the son who
whose father passes away in bed is the prototypical.
I'm the town drunk. Daniel. Yeah. Yeah.
I wear a rope for a belt.
Yeah, kind of guy. Like, if he.
If the Rag'n'bone man
wasn't in the previous episode, he would have been the rag'n'bone man.
I feel bad for him.
His dad was just out picking up some roadkill and got hit by a car.
Yeah,
it's clearly what he's doing.
He's picking up a dead bird on the side of the road.
And this is where they didn't have. It made beforehand.
But those roads like.
So we've both been to England together and at different times, not together.
Those roads.
You don't drive fast on roads like that unless you want to hit
some old guy picking up road kill.
I definitely remember roads like that when I was a kid where I was growing up and.
It's how you spot a local from a visitor. Yeah, right.
The locals are flyin. Yeah.
Because they know where they're going. So she gets hit.
He gets hit. Whammo.
And the blond lady does call her Lady Margaret naps a lot.
Yeah.
To me, he looks at me and I have to go lay down.
Cook has left.
She's quit. I have to go lay down.
I spent so much time trying to read the numbers on the top.
I'm going to go lay down. You looked at my phone.
I blew it up.
Huge to see if I could see the numbers.
That's a beautiful Bakelite phone.
It is, but it's dirty.
It is.
It has a little tray underneath it that you can keep phone numbers.
And pull it out and you put your.
Phone number when people only have like eight phone numbers to remember.
And people actually remembered phone.
Numbers well, because they were like Butterfield nine, 12 or 15 or something,
and they were more like bingo calling than phone numbers. Yes.
How did they don't her sleeping.
She's always sleeping and she's
sleeping in this big canopy bed where they put the camera.
Okay, there's a problem with the camera, but there's a bigger problem.
This woman is fully clothed, napping in the middle of the bed.
Okay, But you don't know how hard it is to get in and out of one of those dresses.
The zip is impossible.
But just.
Getting into that position, you. Just lay down.
To some awkward position.
Now you just roll out of bed again.
It's like, you know, those little tight the tight dresses back
then that kind of kept your knees together.
You just kind of flop out and flop back in again.
Okay. Okay. So it's a canopy bed. Yeah.
And you said that they didn't remove the canopy because it's an antique bed.
This is filmed at through lunch court,
which is initially a Tudor home with apparently in the grounds
there is an old even earlier manor house with a square smoked square moat.
a moat and Bailey moat.
Martin Bailey. Martin.
So I'm sorry.
So we'll get to pronunciation.
But you can tell that it's a tutor era house
just by the way that it's constructed.
But yeah, it's a historic home.
It's on the registry and all that good stuff and all the furniture
that's in the house that you see in
the episode is furniture that's actually in the house.
So I don't think they did a lot of set dressing.
I think they just used it the way that it is because it's beautiful.
So yeah, it's the master bed of the nine beds that are in the house
proper and it has a big ivory satin canopy above it.
Okay, so to film this, they would have rigged it
so that Mission Impossible style, there was a cameraman
hanging above her with a GoPro on his forehead.
okay. So he's like, hovering
and they have to, like,
lower him down to get closer to her closeups.
Something then crank him back up.
Yeah, like a little winch. Will.
Pull the rope. Well, it goes right through the top of the cabinet.
Can come in a.
Man and pan p or maybe a cameraman to be.
Cameraman. Cameraman.
Now there's the name of the.
Cameraman, AP and Mr.
Gillespie, the crime solving dog.
Or maybe they just put a camera on a stick.
Or lady snaps a lot.
Yes, it's likely a camera on a stick, usually called a crane.
On a stick.
Well, not on a.
Stick on Steve.
Meanwhile, Daniels asleep in the cemetery.
She's taking a nap in her bed and he's asleep in the cemetery.
Well, Father Brown, you got me.
He's got an invitation to a party.
And I saw the letter.
I saw the number, and I was like,
okay, first of all, who numbers there gasps like that?
Yeah, no pressure.
How many people are invited? 20.
I'm guess two. 20.
I was the last person you thought I was great.
I appreciate that.
So, Daniels to sleep in the cemetery and Father Brown finds him.
He's clearly drunk.
So there's two. Men has died.
There's Daniel whose dad died, and then there's the Galloway's.
The Galloway's or Naps a lot.
And it is the typical family.
So we have the stereotype Lady naps a lot.
Who is?
Margaret wants to have a big, important party.
And once they all do go off. She's raising money for charity.
Raising money for charity.
The local bird sanctuary.
And then the second trope we have is the intellectual, academic husband.
Yeah. And the Swedes, professor.
And then we have the daughter who's just hell on wheels.
She's a misfit. Yeah. What did we do wrong?
She must have been adopted or found in a ditch somewhere.
Later, she formed Siouxsie and the Banshees.
I was thinking she was gone a little bit more.
Audrey Hepburn.
A little Louise Brooks. Actually.
Yeah. Yeah. Bob.
But that Bob is, at this point, 30 years out of style.
Yeah. Isn't it? Kind of.
Maybe it's coming back. Yes.
She's bringing it. Back.
Bringing it back, bringing the Bob back.
They live in this giant Tudor house.
Did you see the big millstone in the courtyard?
Yeah.
That's kind of cool.
Yeah, that was cool. And then Claire shows up.
Well, you know, it's the manor house when there's a lot of gravel.
Yes, it's got to be a ton of gravel.
And then.
A crunch along in to drive through to whip your car out of
so that it flies up and hits the historical boom glass windows
that cost a gazillion dollars to replace, you know, imported.
Car driven by a misogynistic pornographer.
Clarence.
I have to say, when he dies, I'm like, good, it's Clarence.
Could not die fast enough.
He's gross. He is, indeed. GROSS.
Maybe you'll let me photograph you in some French lingerie.
And then she's like, okay.
Like like I'll get.
Around later to measure you for your costume.
What is his mask?
I hate his.
Mask. You have to measure Emperor's mask.
I hate that he.
Because that's what he's wearing.
Gives her a modicum of attention and she wilts instantly.
She she puts up a little wall, initially, a little, and then it quickly falls down.
And she keeps looking at her picture of her daughter.
It was weird.
But she's sketching a bird.
Yeah.
Because she's into birds.
Tropical bird. Now, local. Bird.
Who measure you for the cost.
You your mask that I bought already.
Yeah.
Because surely he has his own tux.
I would think so.
Captain Clarence already has a tux.
He drives an AMG though His car is sweet.
So what is AMG Stanford?
Did you look that up?
It stands for Morris Garages, not Mechagodzilla.
No, it should be. Mechagodzilla, it should.
That would be so much better if the car transformed into Godzilla.
That would make that little engine even cooler.
Yeah, but since Clarence is driving it, it's more like massively gross.
Yeah, he's kind of massively gross, misogynistic.
Get there you go. Like.
that's perfect.
That's what that M.G. stands for. Yeah. Yeah.
They were invented by a guy named Cecil Kimba,
but he worked for a manufacturer named Morris.
Okay.
So he called them MDGs out of respect for his boss.
I liked the art deco of that logo.
So beautiful. And images are just cool.
They're just super cool.
Unfortunately, it's driven by a gift.
Yes, he's. Well, he just.
It's like he has a camera.
Always ready to take pictures of girls. Yes.
You know, because you never know when you're going to see a girl
and you want to take her picture without her permission.
The next scene is the most problematic thing in the entire episode for me.
Okay.
It is between the daughter.
What's her name? Is Lucia.
Lucia and her father.
She is clearly has a passion for making clothes.
Yeah.
And the clothes she makes are beautiful.
And he derides her. See, I did that.
Is that foreshadowing.
Saying that it his at her age,
which I assume is 30 years in the in the past.
Right. Yeah.
I mean he's got to be 50 and I think she's like 17.
That he was reading Rousseau and Derrida.
No you mean Derrida. Derrida.
Okay. Okay.
There are two ways to pronounce this name.
There is what the Anglicized world says,
which is Derrida, which is absolutely cool.
I've heard him introduced as Derrida.
It's absolutely fine.
This is Jacques Derrida, famous deconstructionist philosopher.
We'll get to the data in a second.
And French people are allowed to call him Derrida
because that's how his name is actually pronounced, right?
I don't know what he says.
He says Doritos.
Yeah, Basically.
He calls him nacho cheese. Yes.
Rousseau in nacho cheese.
That's what I was reading when I was rutabagas.
And Nacho cheese. Yes,
Yes. But he's also a time traveler.
Yeah.
And he was reading Derrida when he was 17.
Derrida was born in 1930,
which would mean that he was a child when he was in high school.
Yeah. I mean, Derrida was gifted. Yes.
He wrote a lot of things that are really important.
Yes, but I don't think he started when he was a baby. No.
And at this point in time, this is supposed to be 1953.
He is just entering grad school.
Yes, I did a couple of papers on Derrida, so.
Right. It's okay.
They're done. Borges were my baby. Yeah.
When I was an undergrad.
Jacques Derrida in his deconstruction group.
Which leads me to the second problem.
The third problem of the scene, the EPAs, the
She's reading Practical Householder.
Did you see what was on the cover of that particular episode issue? No.
They're building a concrete block garage on the cover of it.
Okay.
I found the exact issue January 1956.
she's a time traveler. She's also a time.
She has magazines from the.
Future. Magazines from the future.
That wasn't even the
I mean, I didn't notice the magazine, but I noticed a Derrida problem.
But that wasn't the biggest problem
I had, was she's cutting fabric on a blanket in the yard.
There is no place to make clothing.
No, no.
Anybody who's ever sewn anything knows you at least need a frickin table.
You weigh things out on a flat table.
It is difficult to cut out a pattern.
Never mind if you're just doing it in your lap.
She's not.
She can't be that talented.
Physics still applies, and this is a perfect example of the trope
of I'm going to ignore your passion because I don't share them.
I, I don't know.
I think I think he's actually trying now.
I know he's a psychopath killer.
I know that.
But as a father, I think he's actually trying
because he he he admits that he misspeaks.
What he wants is for her to do the most that she can
with the gifts that she's been given and not underestimate herself.
Well, not sell herself sort short, unfortunately.
She has a dark, deadly secret.
Which is she likes jazz.
She's also dyslexic.
I don't know why do what.
Do I put on the spell?
Well, we. Got to talk about that later. You got to save it.
The best part of this scene is Mr.
Gillespie.
Mr. Gillespie. The best dog.
He's almost as good as Bob.
And here is Bob and Mr.
Gillespie.
Need a book series to take.
It, hang out and solve crimes.
You guys might not remember.
Bob, he's a little white Shetland terrier.
I think it's a Shetland here we call him Scotty's.
He's white.
Yeah, he.
He plays with the ball and he gets accused of murder.
He goes. He gets accused of killing the old lady.
It was not Bob.
Wasn't Bob Bob, Go to bed.
Anyway, Mr.
Gillespie has a way cooler name.
Yes. He's probably named after Dizzy Gillespie.
Yes, I like that.
I like the jazz parts of this.
I like that he's Mr.. Yes. He's very regal.
Anyway, don't try to sell on a blanket.
Father Brown is going to skip his celibacy class to go to the party.
I think he's got it down.
I think he. Does by his age.
I think he's got it down.
Nowhere in the entirety of ten seasons.
Is there any indication that.
So he's remotely tempted by a woman?
It is now.
It is understood that Father Brown may have served
in the First World War, certainly served in the Second World War.
In the Second World War. He's a priest.
They show scenes of it later on.
So so.
From his young adulthood, he's been a priest.
Unlike Mrs.
Marple, who dates married men.
When she's younger.
Yes, when she's younger.
She's not as varied, though.
Indicate that Father Brown sees women as anything but parishioners.
Yeah.
Yeah. His flock.
Yeah. Felicia raises an eyebrow at him.
But it's not because she's like, yeah, No, no.
It's because she would like. She'd never know.
She's, she'd, she would get in the car with Sid to tour the celebrities
so the celebrity celibacy thing
to go and, and basically try to turn those people from.
Celibacy think she'd do it like a hoochie dance outside the window
of the celibacy class. Mary
Ooh la la.
She's the final exam.
Yes, they have to resist.
Lady Felicia She wiggles her eyebrows and winks at them.
I think I would rather go to even this weird party than go to the celibacy class.
Yes, I would much rather go to this party.
Even though Dr.
Egghead and Captain Birdbrain are at it.
I was like, What is this, Batman 66 with all these puns?
Now, here is, I think, the best theme of the episode with Valentine
and Father Brown show character
and knowledge of each other and have fun.
And Mrs.
M and Lady F are just like, not buy it.
No, when they're like, I, I couldn't possibly compete.
I need to give other people a chance.
Yes. Though I really, really like
when Lady Felicia takes away, said Glass, and then just keeps both of them.
Yeah.
So she can't applaud because she's got wine in each hand.
But then Mrs. M takes one of them from her.
This episode, did you notice the father Brown drinks more in this episode
than any episode we've seen so far?
He has a little bit of red wine.
And does he have he.
Drinks out when he's outside with the character who I shall speak of soon
outside the bar with that character.
He drinks a beer or two, said No, he has a suddenly Thomas O.
Father Brown has a pint outside the pub all the time.
He and said, Have pints together all the time.
Like Lucia never mentions Thomas.
No one ever mentions Thomas.
Now suddenly she is lip locked with a.
Guy who does not like her.
Who does not like her.
He needs jobs, he needs to work.
He needs to make money to pay his way.
And she is a wealthy, snotty girl
who's yeah, like making him get fired and getting him in trouble.
He doesn't mind having to do with her.
She keeps coming on to him. He's like, Go away.
Lucia is clearly hampered with her
unbelievable educational disability.
but being sarcastic, by the way.
But but her.
We're not saying that dyslexia isn't a serious difficulty for people,
but at this time.
Well, at least in this episode, they're treating it
like half of your brain is gone.
Yeah, and not like it's something that you can learn to live with and work with.
And it's still challenging, but that you can do.
It and doesn't make you a killer the moment you step in the. Car.
Maybe if they weren't women, if you were male and dyslexic,
maybe you could overcome it.
But women, I mean, come on, they have enough problems already.
So this is Lucia's privilege showing because she doesn't
even understand that Thomas needs the job and stuff like that.
But it's suddenly Thomas.
Yeah, he is.
He is the adverbial phrase.
Suddenly where does he show up like?
And then he looks
like a main character for 5 minutes, and then everybody forgets him.
And then he's gone.
It's just chopping wood, breaking up, making her go away, drinking a beer.
Then he's gone.
And he's horrible to her.
I know she's horrible to him, but when he says you're
stupid, like your mother says so, like, Wow.
Yeah.
Like you're not coming to my Siouxsie and the Banshees concert after that.
He's true.
He's clearly
trying to say something bad enough that she will go away and stay away.
Yeah. Like how?
How hard do I have to theoretically kick you for you to go away?
Clarence is dead next to a little shack.
Did you see the little shack?
No. He's sitting on like a stump next to a little shack.
Yes, And the little.
Shack looks just like the house.
It's a Tudor shack.
It's Tudor on the outside, the white with the black wood.
Of that. Shack.
There is like a garden shed.
Yeah, like a little garden.
And it looks like the house. It's.
It's like the fanciest little wooden shack.
There's a crime we get to before the murder, though.
Father Brown, cheating cheater, said.
I don't think he cheats.
I think he just finds an alternative way to the end to finding Lady
naps a lot, sitting on a cushion surrounded by treasure chests of candy.
Mom, Mom, I got a part.
What's your part, son?
I'm Valentine's goon that finds him better.
Yeah.
Why don't we all kind of bunch of goon?
Jesus, this whole thing is Batman 66.
My bigger question is, why is he such an aggressive smoker in this house?
my God.
Like, it's like he's got one in each hand.
It's like blowing smoke in Father Brown's face.
And, like, just like, by the way, I'm smoking.
Did you notice I'm smoking? I'm smoking.
It's the fifties.
I'm smoking, smoking, smoking, smoking.
Everybody should be. Smoking Bout time.
Smokey Bear.
We already told us about that. Yes.
Then there's a touching scene with Father Brown and Lucia in her bedroom.
Which is way up in the attic of the house.
But he claims he got lost. No, you didn't.
She's just up there being a hip kid.
Listen to the smooth jazz,
which is so much better than the jazz is playing at the party.
yeah.
The jazz is playing at the party is one drunk trumpeter and like Mama.
Bear, Papa Boo River.
She's always listening to music.
And I like how Father Brown's open to jazz.
He's open. He's cool.
Yeah, he's a cool dude.
Yeah.
So Clarence is dead next to the little shack.
With an ax or a sword.
Yeah, those are two very different worlds.
They're both cut.
Yeah.
To the neck region
focus.
That's what Patrick likes to do.
He's like a golfer, you know, But with a sword.
We'd like everybody to congregate in the drawing room.
Have you not seen any murder mysteries?
That's at the end of the episode.
You don't even know who did it. Yeah.
You can't get everybody together yet.
It's not how it works.
Margaret slaps Lucia. Yeah.
And doesn't even check to see which hand it is for.
We're not making fun of dyslexia.
We're making fun of the way it's portrayed in this.
Character, which is horrible.
Which is really bad.
All I know what I should think is, my gosh, she slapped her child.
That's so wrong.
She's so out of control. What is up with her?
And all I could think was if you get slapped
by somebody wearing gloves, does it even hurt? Yeah.
Because she's got on those blue gloves, like, well, whatever.
Like you still did try to hit me, Mom.
Yeah, how dare you?
Yeah, but it wouldn't even leave a mark.
I don't think now she punched you.
It was still hurt. But Lady Knapp's lots. Not a puncher.
I haven't a note near here that says.
Does she have nothing proper to sleep in?
Don't change out of your clothes to take a nap.
Yeah, you do.
Okay. You do. Okay. Most people don't.
They just lay down and take a nap.
They take their shoes off and lay down and take a nap half the time.
Well, I'm only ever taking, like, three naps in my whole life.
I don't even take my glasses off. Just lay down.
by the way, one of the highlights of the broadcast
channel on Instagram lately is a picture of me and the dog out.
You are not just asleep, you are both out.
The dog looks like her neck is broken.
She's so out now.
Kimble Third is not a place of big, big crime.
Big organized crime.
No. Right. There's no mafia in Camelford.
But I tell you what, if there was and you came there looking to investigate
and you wanted to figure out what the front was
for the mafia or for the organized crime, there's only one place it could be.
The Kimble Fur Mask Shop.
The Costume Emporium.
Yeah, because there is no way they stay in business.
They stay in intimate way selling three masks a year.
Yeah.
Now, that devil, that papier maché devil mask in the window is kind of cool.
It was. I just thought I can make.
That is like, nice little Father Brown seen looking at the devil mask.
Is he looking at the face of death there Now?
Only if it's his reflection in the window.
Yes, but they don't show. I'm going inside.
There's no scene inside because.
No, there isn't inside.
It's just Guido counting money. Yeah.
Yo, Father Brown, what you doing?
Don't tell anybody about our business.
We. Got going on in here.
Is that racist?
no, man.
Okay, okay, now we have the next death, which is the point where I was like, I.
Well, they think they see Daniel outside.
Yes, Right.
So they have a little freak out and lay naps.
A lot has to go way down a little bit.
And Patrick is like, I can't protect you.
I can't go to I don't know what I go.
And all of a sudden I was struck
like, okay, so the actor who plays Professor Patrick Galloway.
Yes. Stephen Boxer. Yeah.
He has been a midsummer.
Yes, he was in Midsummer Rhapsody.
Yes, he was.
Lady naps a lot was in Sins of Commission. Yes.
The one with the literary festival. Yes.
But so I knew I recognized him.
But at this point, when he's really like slapping around, being a wimpy guy
is when it suddenly struck me who he reminds me of.
Who's remind you, Don? Not. Yeah.
He has a lot of Don Knotts. He's Mr. Chicken.
He is. He has a lot of Don Knotts.
In that suit, slapping around, acting like, I don't know what to do.
I make jokes just like Don Knotts.
Yeah, it that.
Which I'm not old enough to know who did. This.
But I know who. Is in the room together.
I don't think so. I don't think so.
We know he can time travel, so,
you know, could be you
guys can look up, not Don Knotts and see if you don't know who he is.
It's Lady sleeps.
A lady naps a lot. And sir, not Don Knotts.
Yeah, Don Knotts and Sir and sir.
Not Don.
That's Professor, sir, not.
Professors, sir. Not Don. Knotts.
Which is why the P.
Irks at Don.
Which is why the P that she draws in the pillow
still refers to him because he's professor, not Don.
It's the P for Professor.
or Patrick.
But she dip her finger in her own blood.
Yeah, Yeah.
She like Doug inside like this
because she's got a bunch of little tabbies,
so she had to find one that was big enough for a finger.
No, no, no. that one.
And you probably have to dip a few times, too.
I know it is.
Now, she has better clothes.
Now she's got pajamas.
Now she has pajamas.
I'm surprised you even count those as pajamas because she's got a night
dress and a robe over it like she's got two layers of pajamas.
You know what I we watched too many of these shows.
We've talked about this before, but. It breaks you a little bit.
I really, really felt for Sid here.
Sid would be incredibly upset. Yeah.
Because it was his job to keep her safe. Yeah.
And she did take that seriously. Yeah, I think so too.
Even if he didn't like her now because that's like.
He does have some honor.
He slathered on her but he has on her and.
He's got to make the connection
that if I can't protect her, can I protect Lady Felicia?
And if something happened to Lady Felicia.
he'll be devastated.
Would be. So devastated. Yeah.
It doesn't help that they make him stand outside.
Well, that's so that he's not plot by the plot armor
that runs through the house.
But all the other doors are locked, Mark,
in this giant house that goes on and on.
So they just come in the back door.
The back door. There's just one. Yeah.
Not a giant window or, you know, some other opening.
I love how they get the nine on the pillow all wrong and have all also, it doesn't.
Even look like a nine. It looks like a backwards piece.
Looks like a backward. They may as well said.
I think it's an inverted lowercase b
like she.
Started. Down.
She must have rotated the pillow after she wrote it.
Yes, it's for R or it's a backwards lowercase d.
We just don't know. It could be anything.
It's a tennis racket, poorly drawn. Sorry,
I'm just sitting here thinking of all those symbols, a circle and a stick to B,
it's a bad lollipop.
Like, mostly I'm thinking of you because you can't draw very well.
And if it was you, like, I would be like, No, no, don't assume that it's a nine.
His handwriting was awful and he couldn't draw it could be anything.
Could be. Really. It's a mountain.
He he could have been trying to make a symbol for a parrot or something.
I don't know what that is. Sorry.
If you guys could see his face right now.
It's really trying not to.
Be mad at me.
You write like a serial killer.
I'm sorry your handwriting is so bad.
I do. I do write very.
So I hope you never get murdered and have to leave the initial of the
killer in your own blood.
I'll try to leave first and last initials.
Just rip out of typewriter real quick.
Type it. Out.
Well, cut the.
Letters out of the newspaper.
I may.
I may nap in the proper clothes, but I also have my typewriter with me.
Yes, Yes.
Since the attacks. Text.
Who did it before he died? Okay.
Daniel's been dead four days in a pit.
we're there. All right.
It's not even a dry well, it's just a pen.
It's just.
It's just a garden feature.
What a horrible way to die.
Your dad has just been.
You think murdered?
Yeah.
You're homeless and you're an alcoholic.
All you've got to your name is this old useless sword, and you get killed
and pushed into a garden feature and covered up with weeds.
By an academic. By a professor.
You know those people.
I mean, like, come on, even drunk.
Daniel should be able to fight him off.
Father Brown writes his bike through a field, and I'm like, They're nearby.
I think riding bikes on grass, it's hard.
It is especially uneven.
So he uses the super nose of Mr.
Gillespie to find the body.
And then the professor comes along
and Father Brown says, Dude, the jig is up.
Yeah, yeah, I cannot believe that Professor.
Not done.
Not is going to behead Father Brown.
He goes and all crazy.
Go like, get down your knees. Okay.
Hold your head still. Yeah.
And I'm going to do it like a full 360 swing and lop it off.
Well, luckily, Susie doesn't make the gate make a noise.
No, she stealth mode the squeaky gate and.
Walks up to him.
Dropped Boots and Whammo by Susie.
He's making a Siouxsie and the Banshees joke,
which if you look them up, you'll see that she has the same hair
and she whacks her dad on the head with a rock.
Yeah. He's short. She's short. So it works.
I guess she's lucky he didn't spin around and lop her head off, too.
She deserved it.
Wow. He's nasty. Is like.
I understand he's humiliated because his wife is sleeping with.
His cousin.
Mega Godzilla and.
Misogynistic gross guy.
But, like, have a conversation with.
He kills Danielle just to frame him.
Yeah, he was just in the way.
He's just he's he's human trash, basically.
I just I just put him in the garden. Yeah.
What does he think he's going to do with Father Brown?
I don't know. Like, what is his end goal?
Is he just kind of put him in the pit, too?
And again, and I hate I hate to bring this up over
and over again, but what is the inciting incident here?
Like?
What triggers does he feel so guilty
that he put the dyslexic woman in the car
that he has to start killing? Now?
That makes no sense at all.
That would explain why he might kill Daniel to make him stop accusing her baby?
No. Why?
His goal all the time is to kill his wife and her lover.
Daniel is just a byproduct. Yeah.
So what makes him? Why?
When want to do it. At the party?
He's just waiting for clearance to visit.
Do you think maybe there was a scene that was cut where he confronts Clarence
and then runs him through with a sword act?
I think what we're supposed to think is and maybe here's my supposition,
is that
he notices how Clarence looks at Lucia and he's not having it because he thinks,
Clarence is going to try to put the moves on my daughter.
It's bad enough he's sleeping with my wife.
I'm going to take him out. So he's going to kill Clarence.
Even better and say I'm going to confront him and then have
Salem have Claire and say,
well, are you sure she's your daughter?
Like, they're like, okay, murderous rage, I guess.
And then he's got a motive to kill lady naps a lot, too. Yes.
Because she slept with him and has been lying to him all this time.
But that would only be the case if Lucinda was Lucia.
Lucia was 15 and if she's 15.
I think she could be I think she could be anywhere from 15 to 22.
I think she's under 18.
Well, she could be 12 or 21.
Wow. That's a deep joke.
That's a deep.
Don't even try to get at people.
That was a mark gets a joke.
Let's just pretend that that's what happened.
Did you notice the weird
droning noise when they're in the garden when he's confronting Patrick?
Yeah, kind of like somebody is playing house music kind of far away.
Yeah, I did notice that noise.
There's bees and flies.
That's one thing. That's not what I'm talking about.
There's a noise there that must have driven the audio engineer insane.
Underneath the dialog, underneath the flies there is a boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom. Boom.
Or it's like a lawnmower, like we're hearing right now.
It's got a rhythm to it.
It does have I think there's a music festival
going on somewhere or something, and they did their best.
We Also have a music festival this weekend.
Everybody has to come in costume.
Thank you. I can now run my business.
It would
be a time traveling music festival because it's clearly house music.
It's what it sounds like.
Yes, I think they tried
to remove it from the footage and did their very best to kind of like
dull it down and like hide it with flies buzzing over the dead body.
But yeah, it's there.
So let's talk about the flashback of the car ride of death, okay.
And why this is so problematic.
Okay, this is horrible.
Lady Knapp's lot is driving her car.
Yeah, theoretically.
In her napping outfit.
The arrest, which is just a regular clothes.
I get it.
Patrick is with her, Right?
So he.
Think so? Yeah.
Yeah. So he's not driving. He.
She's driving. So she must be confident about driving.
Otherwise she would say No, no, you drive. Okay.
All right.
So she goes around the corner, she sees Daniel's dad picking up the dead stuff.
There was a lot of DS and panics.
Yeah, Okay.
And based on the flashback in her panic,
she takes her foot off the gas pedal where already was, right?
Yeah.
Looks down, sees one that says L and one that says R.
And then there's the part where she gets her hands.
Her fingers
up to meet the L and the backwards Albert figure out which is left and right.
And then that's what sticks her hands off the wheel.
And that's how she had to know.
Why wouldn't they just say, Stop, go. Yeah.
On the pedals.
And if you need to look at the pedals, you shouldn't be driving.
And maybe you should be him rather than stopping.
Like, maybe stopping is not stopping.
Is secondary to steering away. Yes.
He's way too close for you to stop.
But then she'll be hit him and they know they hit him
and then they kind of look at each other and go,
oops and drive away.
I don't think they do.
I think maybe they drive to get help because everybody knows
she's the one who hit him.
It's not like a hit and run and there's nobody else around to have said
it was her.
She didn't deny it if she had denied it or not admitted,
you know, if if they hadn't gone to get him help or whatever,
she'd be in a lot more trouble.
This is, as she says from the very beginning, a terrible accident.
Yes. She got bad about it, of course.
If she's not ready to show up in French lingerie
in her pictures, she is a good mom and like a good person
who's dealing with the fact that her accident.
Causes.
Somebody to die, which would make you wear clothes to bed.
Now, does it make her say to Daniel, I'm so sorry about your dad
and it was an accident, but I feel responsible.
What can I do to help you?
Can I give you a job? Yes.
Can we provide you a place to live?
Can you have a job taking care of one
part of our fabulous garden or.
Yeah, like you can have a house on the estate and not do anything.
Yeah, that would be fine. They have plenty.
And tell me about your dad.
So she's still a bad. Yeah. Well, she.
Her guilt gets in the way of her being a good person.
Lady Knapp's lot inability to figure out which panel is which. Yes.
And the fact that she panics and then looks at the panel
just made me think when I used to drive around with my cousin.
Who's the worst driver ever?
when she was learning to drive and she was approaching an intersection
and the light would turn yellow, she would yell, Point a decision.
Point of decision out.
Loud because she was trying to decide whether to go through the intersection
or try to stop.
And so she did this verbally.
She would yell point decision.
So then this lady naturally.
Looking at the pedals.
And the bells go point. Up is,
is. It left to right, left to right?
Thank goodness she doesn't drive a stick.
my gosh. Yeah.
Imagine if there was a clutch two.
She'd be completely confused.
There probably should be a clutch in that car.
I don't think there were automatics yet.
I hate that The killer says that God is dead to Father Brown.
Father Brandon care about that?
Whatever.
Just stupid, anti-intellectual ism crap it.
Yeah.
I mean, it wouldn't.
It wouldn't faze Father Brown at all. Yeah, but and.
It would use it.
Like it's, it's bad it's bad
for the character to say that, but he's obviously a psycho.
Yeah.
The Nixon argument that God is dead is so much more complex
than just There was an old guy who died, you know?
Okay, Professor, not done, not Patrick is clearly not a very good academic.
He says Dorito. Doritos or.
Dairy dog.
When I was your age, I was eating Doritos and rutabagas. Yes.
Reading anti-gun.
You almost spit your soda on your laptop.
And don't crave produced pronounced to God.
You mean Antigeni?
Yeah. it's anti-gun.
You don't know anything.
Who's the best corpse?
I think. What's his name in the.
Well, Daniel.
Yeah.
Got all those flies in the house music?
Yeah.
What happened is. He's been dead for days.
Done for days. Daniel. I don't know.
I think lady naps a lot is probably my favorite
because in my head, she still has her fingers stuck in one of her wounds
to get more blood out to write up his whole name backwards.
Hey, the A is the same either direction.
And if you write it.
In caps in previous episodes, it.
Tells the. T in previous episodes.
That's what you write. Tap
Horrible.
nine What's your name again? Tar.
We're not making fun of dyslexic.
No, just how it's portrayed in this episode.
How it's portrayed in this episode.
Mrs. M normally would have went on a rant about Laci
underwear and golf music, but she is mellowed here.
She's so relieved that Father Brown Father headed by the head.
Yes, that that's what she's thinking about. Yes.
And then she bustles off to go to the costume
emporium to do her money counting shift. Yes.
Father Brown lights the candle for Daniel.
Yeah. Which is the right thing to do. Yes.
So I think lighting absolute deserves one, too.
I think so, too. She.
She had her flaws, but no one else did.
No one else doesn't.
Except for everybody else does.
You mean everyone else does, except for Mechagodzilla.
He's just horrible.
No misogynistic gross guy does not get a candle.
Sorry, but Father Brown would like one for him
anyway, because he's a good person.
Years after credits, Lucia is in charge of everything.
Yes, she gets the big house all herself.
Gets the big house to run her fashion empire.
And I hope she does. It might.
You hope she has galas and fashion shows on the line?
Yeah. And has Thomas hired?
I don't think Thomas wants anything to do with.
I don't think he likes her.
Plus, I don't think it's because she's from the big house
that he doesn't like her. I think she does.
He doesn't like her.
Period.
Also, do they not have tables at this pub?
Like they have to sit in the grass outside?
That's because he's he's dirty. He's.
He's at work.
He's a. Working guy.
He's got to sit outside. No work. So
there's a.
Midsummer's, a midsummer summer.
Call. Benbow.
All right, so that is the face of death.
Okay, so what we got for you is the face of death this week.
This is Monday when you're listening to it.
And then later on this week, we have Season 24 Episode Three Claws Out.
The mini episode.
For midsummer. Midsummer.
And then after Christmas.
I cannot believe I just said that
we have a climate of death with I Will drop
the Mini will drop on the 28th of December.
That's the day the meaning will come out now.
Yeah, because the episode comes out on Christmas.
Or on Christmas Day. All right.
And then then starting January 8th, we will cover
those four new Midsummer episodes in.
So if you want us, you better watch them before then because
we're going to spoil them in the fall episode.
Boy, do we have a lot to talk about.
So much.
With only two down, we have so much to talk about.
And then then we'll finish off.
Father Brown Season one with two episodes.
Yeah, and then we're not sure.
God, that's fabulous. Three.
That's a million years from now.
It's going to be.
Certainly not five weeks away.
It's going to be here before you know.
I know.
We'll probably see it in the Mini, but I know not everybody listens to the minis.
If you don't have access to the episodes, you're not going to listen to them.
So this is our last chance to tell you if you're not going to listen
to those that we hope you have a great holiday. Yep.
We hope you get some rest.
And some time with. People that you love.
Have a laugh, have some cookies.
That's the extent of our Christmas song, by the way.
Happy holidays. Please
enjoy yourself.
We're going to make some of the cookie recipes that you sent us. Yes.
And we'll post some pictures. And we'll post some pictures.
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Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Whatever you celebrate.
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Good.
You don't want to have to skin your strawberries. Wow.
This is going to be an exciting outtake.
I'm not trying to record an outtake.
I'm just answering your question.