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including the murders, the mayhem, the loonies, and everything else we love.
This week, Father Brown.
Season one Episode ten The Blue Cross.
The Blue Cross. I'm Sarah. And I'm Mark.
And if your kids can attempt to foil a world
renowned jewel thief while on a train, they can probably handle this episode.
Yeah. Absolutely.
It's a train episode.
Mark is happy to do.
Hey, big news. Big.
If you subscribe to the newsletter, you already know this,
but if you don't, we're laying down the tea for you right now.
This is our last episode of Father Brown Season one.
What's next?
You may ask.
A little gentlemen.
We like to go war row.
With his village of gray cells and his little mustache.
So we will be covering from 35 years ago.
Yes, 35 years ago this month. Yes. Who?
Arrow season one.
Which includes some of the greats.
there are some great episodes in here.
We already covered season one episode one, episode six and seven.
So you'll get remixes of those.
Episodes and we've got some goodies to go along with those remixes,
so don't miss them, including next week on the very first episode,
which is the Clapham car the remix is going to include.
I'm still giddy about this, an interview that you simply will not believe
that we got. I can't.
I cannot believe we got this.
It's in the can.
So it actually happened. Yeah.
And it's amazing. Yeah.
And you guys are going to squee.
You're going to be like, we so excited. Yeah.
But other things
included in season one, if you haven't watched it in a while.
So yeah, we start with the clap and cook 32 times.
No, you know, that's amazing.
We get Murder in the Mews, which includes Hastings trying to fix his car.
Yeah, which is awesome.
Four and 20 blackbirds is
our is in there to where Perot hangs out with his dentist.
Yeah. He wants to see is his work in action.
The triangle roads with all of the references to pink gin.
Third floor flat with the singing.
The problem at C which ends with the creepy doll.
Yeah.
Revealing the murderer the dream where they're in the pie factory.
And the guy just says, I just shoot myself at least 19 million times.
He says, Can I just shoot myself? Yes.
So many gems.
Yeah, every episode is awesome.
Every single one.
And we're going to have so much fun with them.
So even though we've done a few already,
we will be remixing those and adding some goodies to them.
Nothing as good as what we're adding to the first one, but.
And that should they'll. Be well worth the lesson.
That should take us into May mash sometime.
Decide what to do. Next.
We'll take some time off
because I got to do some stuff at the end of March
and beginning of April, but they kind of coincide
with the remix episodes too, so you shouldn't be interrupted too much.
Now we're going to have so much fun and I'm excited.
And we have a thing coming to Bloomington that we cannot minimize for you guys
the fact that the sun
is going to be eclipsed basically over our house.
Yeah. Is kind of.
Crazy.
I can't I can't even describe already.
It's February and already in town.
Everybody's talking about it.
They canceled classes at IU.
They did, which they never do.
And just this week I got to work and there were these giant boxes
outside my office like, What the heck is going on?
Like, what are these boxes?
It was 8000 pairs of eclipse
glasses that they ordered at school to give away a.
Little little eight.
Thousand pairs.
And that's just at my school in the university.
Never mind the rest of the camp.
As we know, remote employee
who is going to come to Bloomington for this.
And they looked in the hotel rooms and they were all $600 or above.
Yeah, we're in a.
Hotel room at the Hampton in the.
Days Inn was 750 and saying, William Shatner is going to be here.
And everybody's like, it's not going to be that big.
yeah, I'm stunned how big it is already.
And it's months away. Yeah.
And that is April eight.
Yeah. So we will.
If you don't hear from us on that day
or if
Mark, just post to Instagram like his face with a silent scream.
You know what's happening?
The people in the foil hats have taken over.
It's going to be crazy.
But what's crazy is we may go to the thing at the auditorium that night,
but like the stadium, the 86,000 seat stadium
is going to be open for people to view it together.
Probably the largest eclipse viewing in one single location.
Probably probably the most people looking up at the same time.
And like we'll probably go out in the backyard
and look at it and think, my.
God, I hope it's not cloudy that day.
I really hope it's not cloudy.
So three maniacs eclipse special?
Yes, it was cloudy.
Yeah. Yeah, overcast. Nothing to see here.
Go home.
wow. Yeah.
So we've got that craziness coming our way.
But maybe some of you are also in the path.
If you're in North America, you'll be able to see it.
It's going to be exciting.
It was funny.
I went to a website and it just happened to
it was the Noah website, and then it was like, look at the path of the location.
And I was like, I clicked on it.
I'm like, That's my house right there.
It's Eclipse out.
All right, Are you ready to start talking about the Blue Cross?
Yes, the Blue Cross Season one Episode ten originally aired the 25th of January
2013, 11 years ago, directed by Ian Barber.
Ian Barber and written by Paul Matthew Thomas.
Think Paul, Matthew Thomas went to boarding school.
Where do you think
people with triple barreled names automatically go to posh private school?
I have a triple barrel name in England.
Maybe Father Browns drink and sherry cackling at something on the radio.
So what do you think? He's cackling on the radio?
I don't know.
I think it's the Goon Show.
Would that have been on in 53?
That Goon Show would have absolutely been on in 53.
It started in 51.
If you don't know about The Goon Show, it is the funniest radio show of all time.
Sure, the line includes Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers.
I'll tell you how funny this show was.
We got a book of the scripts in high school, and we read these
so much that two of us puked
because we were drinking pop and we couldn't stop laughing.
I think you've mentioned that before.
It's absolutely one of my favorite things.
If you've ever heard of the nineties band Ned's Atomic Dustbin,
they that name of that band comes from an episode
in which Ned, their friend, makes an atomic dustbin.
Well.
Which is fantastic because I think it's them because they have an episode.
Unfortunately, this episode came out in 58, so it might be a little wrong.
Anachronistic. Anachronistic.
But they have an episode in which it's called The Mountain Eaters.
And let me read the synopsis to you so you can get a flavor of the good show.
Okay.
As everyone knows, there's only one place in the world
where you don't need a license to eat mountain.
India.
And that's why the famous Eccles, who is the insatiable appetite,
who has an insatiable appetite, is discovering at the foot of Mount,
is discovered at the foot of Mount Everest.
How can this all be in connection
with the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre is a mystery, too,
which is very considerably not explained in the script.
You have to be right because they definitely say, Well,
I'm going to steal the Mona Lisa.
I need you to help me. Yeah.
So something happens
right after that that I have a big problem with in this episode. Yes.
Somebody slips an envelope through Father Brown's letter box. Yes.
The letter slot in his front door, and he picks it up and he reads it.
Now, what would you do if you were sitting ten feet away
from your letter slot and somebody put something through
and you knew it wasn't the mailman because it was late at night.
You would open the door right away.
Immediately you would open the door.
You see Flambeau standing there going, Crap, You.
Know, he's just running.
Why is it?
But this happens all the time.
Yeah, in TV and movies.
Why don't people whip open the door.
When I get secret notes to the front door, I always whip open the door
and look around.
Let's be fair.
Our front door is so far away from anywhere you might be hanging
out, you'd never know that somebody put something through the door.
Never.
And there are so many considerable things in the way. Yes.
Between you and the front doors
that you'd have to jump over and dive around and walk around.
And there's no straight path to any place in our house.
What I don't like about the beginning, they're like, well, it's the Blue Cross.
They say it's jewel encrusted.
It has a couple of sapphires.
And where is it? At the start of the episode.
Just sitting in the open church.
Like in an alcove, kind of leaned up against the side
in a church that frequently has its doors wide open. Yes.
And if Flambeau wanted it, he could have just taken it
and nobody would have ever known who did it.
Yeah, it would have been gone. And that would have been it.
He has no reason to tell Father Brown.
Like, later on, he gets an idea of what Father Brown is, but he has no reason.
At the beginning.
I think his plan is to confront Father Brown from the very beginning.
I think that confrontation at the end, where Flambeau
confronts him about his father's death in the war is his whole point.
I think that's what he's heading towards.
That's interesting. And playing a little game with him.
In the meantime, notice.
The the candle is almost out.
How do you think they did that?
They burnt it for a while and then blew it out.
Yeah, but like, right.
Before they shot it. Yeah, but. Okay.
Yes, I understand how candles work.
I don't know what you're asking.
I'm asking, how could they shoot that?
Have somebody blow out the candle and then rush out of the scene?
They were behind the camera, okay.
And they went and then they backed up. Okay.
But then they.
Usually a candle goes out much quicker than I think.
The smoke always comes off of them way longer than you want it to be.
Anybody's ever put one out that way.
He's breaking into all sorts of places, including the Ashmolean.
I wonder if the Ashmolean has actually been broken into.
Yes, okay.
It definitely has.
On an Oxford.
Yes, I have a pub full of us.
He leaves his hankie.
Yes, he. Does. Flambeaux Hankey.
With his fabulous effort on. It. Yes.
Because nobody else has the initial act.
No, it's his signature, though.
So, Flambeau, this is the first time we meet him.
But he's a recurring character. And we haven't.
We have to separate watching this episode for the first time and watching it now.
Yeah, because you watch it now and you go, let's find out what.
We know about him.
We know he's not really as bad as he seems
because he's charming and flashy even gives him a kiss. Yes.
And a little bit more. Ha!
But that's many seasons later.
But yeah, but he's already a well-established jewel thief.
Everybody knows of his reputation.
So when they see the Franky, the Franky, they know that it's him When you find it.
Franky Flambeau has been there Flambeau twice.
I'm just glad he's classy.
And it's a clean hankie.
Yes, that's. True.
The bishop shows up. Yes.
Okay, so Father Brown and Mrs.
M come out of the church with a bunch of other people.
I would assume it's Sunday morning.
Yes. Shouldn't the bishop be in church?
Not necessarily. Instead of driving around.
So the bishop is more of a clerical position in terms of
they usually don't have they visit churches on Sunday and sometimes they do.
Like sometimes we would have the bishop come and do the service,
but sometimes the bishop would just come and sit in the service
and sometimes it would be months that we didn't see.
Okay, but you're proving my point.
He's either doing the service or attending a service.
He should be in church on Sunday morning, not out driving around.
The other thing is, I know we are Anglican Church in Canada,
but this bishop is like high class.
He's got a driver and everything.
I can't wrap my brain around kissing somebody's hand.
It's just another human being.
It seems incredibly weird.
I can't get my brain around.
Like the notion like, okay.
If I were him, I wouldn't want people to do. That.
Like, like you. I understand.
If you believe in the Roman
Catholic religion, you believe the Pope is the voice of God?
Yes. Earth? Yes. Okay.
That that I get.
I can sort of understand if you believe in that.
Yeah. Okay.
But the bishop is one level higher than you through
multiple levels to get to the voice of God.
Yeah. He's nowhere near the Pope.
He's like the voice of Joe.
He's just somebody who's been a priest longer than you.
Yeah. And is better at paperwork.
And his.
Ring. Is better political style.
Maybe I'm just too proud to do that kind of thing.
He wants to move the cross because of the threat to it.
But Father Browne has hidden the cross in his drawers in his drawer.
I spent a exorbitant amount of time
staring at Father Brown's drawer in this episode.
And what?
What is in his drawer other than the hankie?
The cross and the letter.
Besides the hankie?
The cross In the letter is Bartholomew's revised half inch contour maps.
Okay, so it's a book of maps.
I'll put a link in the show notes.
All these maps are online.
They're incredibly beautiful to look at.
Is it a valuable book? AUSMAT No, no.
Why would he have it in a locked door?
I do. Not.
I mean, in a drawer. Yeah, but that's a locked drawer.
No, I do not know.
But the thing that I did notice was he also has issue
170 of modeled railway constructor.
There's a rabbit hole here, isn't there?
So modern rabbit.
Modern rabbit hole.
Modern rabbit construction.
We've never seen Father Brown show any interest in model railways before.
Model Railway Constructor was a monthly British magazine about model railways.
It ran from 1934 up until into the seventies.
And super nerds read it. It is.
Super dirty.
Copy.
I mean, Trainspotting is one thing, but
getting a magazine for railway construction.
This is like, Yeah, it is. Wow.
I read through some.
I'm sorry.
And I was like, Wow, this isn't like they have articles, quite serious articles
and how to recreate Grass and the Village Green and all sorts of things.
Well, they didn't have all the supplies that we had.
No, no, they had to make all of them.
Everything was from scratch. Yes.
So the the Bishop and Valentine
team up on Father Brown, which is not fair.
No. They're like, we need to take it to Newbury.
We need to get it out of here.
Father Brown's like, I'll take it.
No, you don't get to take it.
They have no respect for Father Brown.
None. It's mean they go
at him.
Only a heathen would steal a holy relic.
I'm not sure this relic is all that holy.
Did you look into Great Dane fires?
Yeah, He was a Welsh abbot.
But they say that the cross has healing properties.
Yeah, it is gold. It inspires in it. Yeah.
That much gold could heal a lot of problems in my world. But
do you think that CAD Vale is
per somewhat related to greater fail.
Yeah. No, because there was.
Everybody was called Fail. Yeah.
There's a lot of fails in Welsh.
So Father Brown decides
he's not going to let the bishop send this thing to Newbury.
He's going to take it himself.
He says he feels responsible for it.
He does a great nod with said, Here, I got it hidden right.
Here under my. Hat.
And now we're onto the train portion.
We've seen this train before.
Let's move on.
So Dawson, who is Flambeaux accomplice here? Yes.
It's pretty darn clever in the train station
and insinuating himself into conversation with Father Brown.
I think he pretends he doesn't have enough money to buy the ticket.
Has a little fit. Yeah.
Just to get Father Brown's attention so he can let Father Brown
to the front of the line and then sit with him in the train.
It's all. Planned.
Out. It's the only two weeks I get to see my lady friend.
Yeah, it's an arrangement.
He's so skeezy.
Yeah, You can smell him.
Yeah, he really can.
Just by looking at him, you can smell him.
And of course, he wants to share a compartment. So it's.
It's Dawson, Father Brown, the rich guy.
Dovey. Dovey and clever.
Dovey is a red herring wearing a yellow vest.
Yes, he is right.
And he is so great that he eats all the scenery.
Yeah, he causes all sorts of problems.
He's drinking, he's smoking his pipe.
He's obnoxious on. The run from gangsters.
He is a perfect red hair.
He's going for the horses.
Yeah, he's.
He's a Ponzi aristocrat kind of guy.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is the first moment when I realized something
that you said to me about this episode was right
when we were talking about it before we started recording.
You said that to you.
This struck you like a Sherlock Holmes story. Yes.
And when Father Brown says what the is not everything he appears to be
because his collar's frayed and like he notices things about him that give away
the fact that he's not as aristocratic as he would like to seem.
It's a deductive.
There's a couple of.
Other Brown's guy in his scenes.
Yeah, he's the father.
Brown's got his deductive powers turned up to 11 to impress everybody.
They are kind of a motley crew, though, sitting there together.
And of course, Flambeaux pretending to be a minister, going to war.
Yes. So two ways.
Reading a newspaper, which is the turf from October 3rd, 1953.
So we know exactly.
All newspaper about horse.
Race, the time frame.
Now, did you catch this is tiny and way overly specific
but relates to us when Father Brown talks about racing.
Did you hear what he says?
He likes to have a little.
Flutter, an occasional flutter, and those are the exact words
that Jude Tindle sent us when we asked about what he asked for.
And then in the newspaper agent.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
So she was reference in this episode.
Well, a little flutter is a pretty common phrase to use towards a small bat.
Yeah, a casual bat.
One thing I don't understand
about Flambeaux character here when he's pretending to be Captain Flynn.
Yes. The impression that we're supposed to have is that he's off to Korea
and that he is fearful about going.
But he's not a new soldier, right?
No, he's not a new soldier.
But this is the first combat that he's probably seeing.
Then why does he have so many ribbons and stuff on his?
You know, because I was obsessed with something else.
Let's see.
The newspaper. No, his book.
no, Man in the Sea.
So he's reading Ernest Hemingway's Old Man in the Sea.
When did that come out? 1953.
So it's brand new. Hot off the presses.
This is a first edition, 1953.
Old Man in the Sea.
It has an orange and blue cover on it.
It's beautiful.
That's a dust jacket.
I know from watching Antiques Roadshow and old book
where the dust jacket is worth like double what the same book without it is.
I don't.
They obviously recreated this because.
Or they borrowed it.
No, I don't think anyone would actually lend them this book.
How much do you think this book is worth?
$1 million.
No, no, it's not crazy like that.
10,000.
It's $1,000 on a couple of.
they went to borrow that book. No problem. You think so? Yep. Yep.
They could ensure it. Make it.
They could pay it back if it got damaged.
Well, on this website, you can buy it for $1,000 or
you can pay for the visa, too.
There you go.
So the guy who did the cover of that book, The Art?
Yeah.
His name is Hands Twenties, Dell Tisdale.
Yes. He's a German born artist who moved to England to do art.
And before the war, he moved there and he did so many book covers.
He was super well-known for book covers.
He is he has retrospective books now that are just the book covers.
He did. Well. It's beautiful. Yeah.
Do you ever read Old Man in the Sea?
It's not the most exciting story.
I found it so boring when you read it in high school.
I couldn't believe that our teacher thought
high schoolers could make it through that book.
It's short.
I'll give you a Not short enough. Not short enough.
Hemingway. Okay. Yeah, but.
There are other
Hemingway's that I like better that are not so rah rah.
I'm a dude.
No, Everything he wrote is rah rah.
And you'd be surprised.
But it was so far like if you had a continuum of books
that teenagers will understand and get into and relate to
and like an old man in the sea, they are so far away
on that continuum that you can fit every other book possible in between.
Yeah.
We also read Pilgrim's Progress in the same class, which was just paper.
We didn't read Old Man the Sea.
We read The Pearl, which is kind of like it.
So Valentine is chasing Father Brown.
He misses the train when he gets on.
So you meet him at the next stop.
The whole time. I was like,
And then it's like, totally.
There's some there are some.
Keystone cops going on.
Some Benny Hill music.
So I was kind of expecting a scene like a Scooby Do scene.
Father Brown runs out of one one carriage and into the other one,
and Valentine comes the opposite way. Yeah.
So the whole time, Father Brown has four things
hat, an umbrella, a suitcase, and a package.
That he holds out in front.
He holds the package as if it's contagious, right? Yes.
Like, look at my package. I have a package.
Look at my brown paper package wrapped up with string.
It's one of my favorite things.
Did you get that reference?
Yes. Okay.
Thanks for laughing at it. He.
He holds it out like I hope nobody notices.
I have this package. It's very important.
That is the dumbest way to transport the class.
And Father Brown should know better.
I realize that he's trying to draw Flambeau out
while also making sure that the cross gets to Newbury safely.
He feels responsible for that.
Yeah.
He's trying to do two things at once by putting the cross in a brown cardboard
box that he clearly values is like a neon sign.
And Father Brown does this and goes to the train station.
How does Flambeau ever hear about it so that he can whip up a decoy?
That's exactly the. Same.
That's the other thing I don't get.
Flambeau might have deduced that Father Brown
would take it right, because he's that kind of he doesn't like authority.
He's going to he's going to take the package himself.
Okay?
I give him credit for for predicting that.
I cannot give him credit for predicting exactly
the size, shape, color, string, say. Or.
Not. Type all of that unless he was like outside of Brown's
window looking in and watching him wrap it and then ran off to get an eye.
On the door and left another note.
And when Father Brown went to look at that note, which says, I made you look,
Flambeau
looks in the window and sees what the package looks like now.
The knock on the door, He opens the door
free box for carrying crosses.
it's just left there. There you go.
So he's like, how convenient that I don't have to come up with anything.
I can just put it in this box.
From.
How nice people. Flambeau Nikki.
Nikki 9 to 4. Yes.
Name of the episode.
Okay, so you're Father Brown,
and you have to take this cross to Newbury and you've got to take the train.
You know, Flambeaux after it.
You want to draw him out, but you don't want him to get the cross.
How do you carry it?
See, I'm going opposite.
I'm putting the cross in my luggage and I'm carrying
a giant like I'm saying two by two cross shaped box
that occasionally,
because it's so bulky and difficult to do,
occasionally I end up having upside down
and I have to rapidly turn over for comedic effect.
Or sling on your back.
Yeah. So slingshots, you walk.
Like Jesus Dad. Street.
That's what I'm. Do. But the cross is smaller than that.
Flambeau wouldn't fall for that.
Well, you know.
I just think he could have tricked him better.
Like, have the suitcase, have the package, have something in the package.
But that's not the cross and have the cross somewhere else.
Yeah.
So that when he goes for the box, he doesn't get it.
Like Bobby Brown wears a cassock.
Yeah.
He could easily have it hanging like over his loins
or something.
He could have put a big gold chain on it and wear it around his neck.
Actually, Father Brown, who did.
This isn't great.
It feels cross. This is my bowing.
It's just my bowing.
Or he could have had Mrs.
M make him a big sandwich and put it in the big sandwich.
It's a big sandwich. And packed it up like a lunch.
That's my lunch.
This is my very important package. Yes, but.
Like a picnic lunch.
The lunch had even better.
He could have had Mrs.
M come with him because, you know, she would have.
And they could have put it in her knickers.
You know, Mrs.
M was giant underwear.
You know, there's giant plenty of room.
Plenty of room for the plan for the.
In the back.
That would have made it uncomfortable to sit down. Well.
Mr. Chairman, don't you sit down. I can't.
It's under.
It's uncomfortable.
Big hat, Big had.
You could have put it under the hat. Lady.
If could have brought a big hat.
Absolutely not. In this episode.
She would be like, you're.
you're so cute.
All I'm saying is lots of ways to hide that cross.
Yeah. Double double Blind Flambeau.
But no, he puts it
he actually puts it in the box that he pretends it's been so stupid.
So they get to. Expect. More.
They get to this place.
It's Bedford, I think it's the name of it.
And there's a sign with the bunch of fliers on it.
Did you look at those?
They're beautiful, beautiful, modernist font.
Absolutely. Great job. They're all for.
They're all like anti-crime posters that you would see in the cop shop.
But this is the train station where Valentine catches up with him.
Is that. Yes. Okay.
But then it says, Camelford Constabulary.
Is Camelford a village.
Does it have its own constabulary?
Does then it have a mayor? I don't know.
We don't know any more about the geography of this place.
No, I don't either.
Dovey gets yanked off the train.
He owns gangsters. Money Surprise is. Yeah.
Yeah. So, like.
you got me covered. Yeah, he's totally.
you got make coppers.
Father Brown goes.
It's a mile to the priory.
These people understand that a mile is not a long walk.
That's why he's saying. And it's only a mile of the priory.
That's why they can walk.
But it seems like they walk for four and a half hours.
You know that game
where you put a ball under one shell and you switch it around? Yes.
That's what's happening with the packages. Yes.
The package is always switching back and forth.
In the train when Dawson pulls the cord and makes them stop.
Yeah.
And then puts the smoke bomb off, they fall and swaps them.
He almost does. It when they get off the train.
Flambeaux swaps?
Yeah.
When they go over the fence, Father Brown swaps them.
Yeah.
It's like they're walking both through the forest with.
Holding them out in front of them by the strings.
Look, I have a special package.
yes, Well, I have a special package to.
My special package weighs exactly the same amount as your special.
Special package? Father Brown's special.
Day. Of the Everest.
I guess it's a good thing they put it in a box because if they took
any of my ideas, they'd be swapping underwear by now or something.
Yeah, that's my sandwich.
No, it's my giant sandwich. My giant sandwich.
Looks just like your giant sandwich.
Mrs. M, take off your underwear.
And I'll book out
a giant umbrella from the J.
Crossbar.
Uses it like the penguin.
It a sort.
Lambo has a little old lady with him that looks just like Mrs.. M.
They're swapping old ladies.
With this special. Burger just from.
Walking through the woods.
No. Father.
Can you find the lady? Which one has the lady?
You know.
Father Brown is trying to make Flambeau
understand what he's doing is wrong.
Well, he's always doing the thinking and falling for it.
No, they have kind of an argument in the woods.
I have your.
Your neckerchief.
really? Not a neckerchief.
I, I have your hankie.
The flambeau says
I'm kind of disappointed that we couldn't have had more of a debate.
And Father Brown says a deficient in reason, perhaps.
And Flambeau says a celibate simpleton like
bird.
But it's totally like.
Who's got the big sandwich now?
They have a rap battle.
They do the Flambeau and Father Brown Rap battle.
Well, Father Brown loses because he ends up tied to a tree.
Well, he leaves clues for Valentine, too.
Yeah, the umbrella and fountain. Who?
Okay, I know we've said Valentine's is a little sick every once in a while,
but he like to look at the hat and the umbrella.
He sees it while they're speeding by.
That's a good eye.
Wait a minute.
Maybe. No, He picks up on it right away.
He's not stupid.
I thought it was a little slow.
Flambeau is a gun.
A little gun.
And then later he has a bigger gun. He points at it.
But that's a tiny gun. It's like a palm gun.
But he pointed at Father Brown the first time you watch this, you don't know
Father Brown's going to get shot because you don't know Flambeau.
Yeah, You don't know how dangerous he is.
And later you don't me.
You want to think that he's a gentleman thief?
Yeah, but.
But he does commit crimes, and he will hurt somebody's death if he has to.
So Dawson is the dumbest accomplice? Yes.
He hits his head on a wall. Yes.
Knocks himself out. He didn't have polio.
He got his knees taken out by some ruffians, some gangsters.
The. No, this.
Was going to double cross him.
there should be a sound effect for that or.
wait, I'm late for a confessional.
Flambeau will be there waiting for me.
Yeah. What did he do?
Double back.
To a gas. In the truck, I guess.
Is that truck parked out in front of the church?
I just want beautiful things.
Like your package.
That sounds kind of gross.
I know.
I just want what's in your drawers.
That's all I want.
We're ready. Flambeau.
Doctor Flambeau, Father Brown, Flash
fiction.
Mrs. Evans.
Right outside the curtains.
We're going to your car.
she's like the worst listener ever.
Father Brown's really mad here.
As he should be.
But then he's. Stripped of holy orders.
wait, No, he is.
Bishop Asshole comes along and says, I'm removing you from your parish.
Yeah, and Father Brown looks like a puppy.
He's just been your bad. Yeah.
You just feel so bad for him.
And then Father Brown does the whole Kaiser sausage thing
and puts it all together.
he's sitting with Valentine in the police interrogation room, and he's it all out.
Yeah.
Flambeaux, Big plan.
And now Dawson was his accomplice.
And how he pulled the train, the chain and the fire,
smoke, bomb and the swapping and pass the parcel.
And you just wanted what was in my drawers and Mrs.
M's knickers and sandwiches.
Nobody knew what was going on.
And now he's got it and he's gone. Yep.
Off to her, which the boatyard.
Came to look for the Santa Cruz.
I've got on my side.
What?
Father Brown is never afraid to die? Nope.
It's like I'm good with God.
You're going to shoot me. Do it. If he went through Flanders.
If Father Brown says he was 17, like, wow.
Yeah, he's been through some stuff.
He's seen it both worse. Yeah, he's seen it.
So I think it's implied here that Father Brown wasn't
in the Holy Orders in the first right and was in the second.
Yes, I think that's accurate.
Yeah. Sid is super detective in this.
At the.
Super detective.
He finds out that Dawson is in Dawson's real name.
Yes. Finds out that he's a criminal and what his crimes are.
He tracks Dawson. He knows what stalks him.
Yeah, better than the police do. Yeah.
He goes with Father Brown to Horowitz.
So he's not there at the boatyard by himself?
Yeah. Saves the cross. Catches the cross.
He does a great job.
Sid's a good guy. In this episode.
I like Sid waiting behind the phone booth.
Watching Dawson? Yep.
Peering around the edge of it.
So Flambeaux Dad was a deserter at Flanders in World War One.
Yeah. Shot for desertion.
And he blames the church.
Yeah. For not preventing that.
And says I wouldn't be a thief if I'd known my dad.
And I would have known my dad if the if the military hadn't shot him
and the military wouldn't have shot him if the church had stopped them.
So it's Father Brown thought I'm a thief.
Yeah, there's some logic problems.
There's some logic.
Like, I'm guessing if your dad was a deserter,
that he probably wouldn't have been a real stand up dad.
Maybe. Well, I don't.
I don't want to claim his position.
Literally. Scared, maybe.
You know, and made a mistake and ran away.
You know, when he shouldn't have.
But I guess it depends on how purposeful his desertion was.
Yeah.
You know, like, if he stole a truck and dressed up like a nun and was driving.
Away the giant crossbow, that's a little.
Different. But Flambeaux both got some baggage of his own.
Apparently, he does indeed.
And poor Dawson's getting his comeuppance because now he's in chains.
It's like.
It's like you better read him his rights before I shoot him.
Yes, I'm going to.
I absolve you.
So the bishop gives him his job back.
Wait a minute.
You missed the slow motion.
Sid dives.
Yeah.
Which is it? Low motion and Flambeau.
Swan dive?
Yeah.
Like some kind of Olympics swimmer into the water.
And they shoot 1950s guns at him in the water.
That ain't going to work.
It's not that they didn't go six inches into the water.
No, they stopped but he's got a nice suit and shoes on.
Does he's a fancy dress.
Wouldn't that weigh you down. Swimming.
It would be kick his shoes off right away as soon as he hit.
But they would have been tied.
No, you can get your shoes off even if they're tied.
I what I have a problem with is swimming in socks.
Well, you're going to
take the shoes off, take the socks off those.
I would have just gone underwater and then gone the double back under the dock.
Yeah. That's what people usually do.
And Valentine's, like give me rides, like, okay.
An hour and a half later.
Yeah.
They will have rounded up some kind of flashlights or something.
They're not going to catch him.
The bishop doesn't apologize.
No, no, no, no.
He just says it never happened.
Yeah, whatever. Whatever.
I mean, he does tell him that the cardinal had good words for Father Brown.
You didn't have to tell him that anybody praised him at all.
No, he didn't.
Because, frankly, the whole thing wouldn't have happened
if Father Brown had followed orders and not tried to take it himself. Yes.
I just
I don't think Flambeau would have been as eager to steal it from anybody else.
Are you aware Valentine had just taken it by himself?
I don't think Flambeau would have stolen it from him. I don't.
I don't think so either.
Are you aware that Susie was in this episode?
Susie has some some holy French pantyhose.
That and she burns a dinner.
That's Susie's. Part.
And Mrs.
M calls her a Slaton?
No, she doesn't call her that.
She says a woman should buy her own lingerie
or else walk around looking like a slaughter.
She doesn't say to you, Susie Slaughter.
So just me slut as in it.
It means slaughter, prostitute or untidy slovenly woman.
Okay, so on the website I wanted to look up the etymology
and when it was first used, 39.
First. Used. But then I saw this.
I can't believe
Webster does this and I can't believe this was published.
All right.
So there's a section called Recent examples on the Web.
Now, Slaton is not a word that I've heard anywhere else, but this seems like.
Here's the word used in a sentence recently.
Yes. Okay.
And this is from Andy Webster from The New York Times
on the 15th of March 2017.
Joe, he's obviously talking about, like a production or something.
Okay.
19 year old newcomer played by Rita Tushnet
and touching is encumbered by her Slaton
mother,
played by Dora Bride,
encumbered by her Slaton mother.
And this is in the New York Times.
Somebody had their fancy pants on.
Somebody had their the saurus out. Yeah.
You mean she was held back by her prostitute?
Mom, can I use slut here?
No. Let's find a different word.
Yeah. Okay.
The a makes it better.
If it's a you, it's bad.
The splatter was kind of amazed that they did that.
Have you ever been encumbered by your slacker mother?
No. No. Even though her name is Madonna.
Have not does have that pointy bra. Yes.
Well, we don't have a best corpse.
Wait a minute.
Father Brown gets a telegram before the U.S..
Because Flambeau, Frankie is classy and we will see him again.
Yes, right.
So he's like, you may have one this time, Father Brown.
But until we meet.
We will meet again in Latin.
Ooh, la la. Yeah.
I'm looking at the telegram form.
Yeah, because telegrams amaze me anyway.
Yeah, they're incredible.
Very bottom on the form.
Like in the on the printed on the not part of the telegram
is for free repetition of doubtful words,
telephone telegrams, inquiry
for free.
Repetition of doubtful words.
So when the tape came in with the words on it.
Right.
So they would get these long series of tapes.
Right.
And they, they'd translate them from the Morse. Right.
As they and it would print.
So if they made a mistake and you're like, did he really say what I think he said
Is that the word that was. Keep it in. Right.
Maybe he maybe it was a mistake.
But they did that with early carbon paper underneath it.
So there was they had backups.
But I'm just imagining that
it would
be so fun to be the person on the line who gets those cos.
It says here that you want to do that.
My wife wants a divorce.
Surely divorce is not the right word.
You mistranslated that.
The dots and dashes.
She said she wanted a new roast or something.
She called my mom.
I, I don't know for sure.
I don't think that's what she said.
We had those talks.
In a giant crossbow.
I didn't know they made sub sandwiches and that shape
it can't be right.
Father Brown, subway commercial,
A giant sub in the shape.
Of a cross.
It's the Easter special.
This Easter.
we're going back.
Ham and cheese?
No, it'd be like tuna salad ravioli.
During. Lent. Yeah.
Not even Friday.
No. Yeah, we can't have best quotes.
Nobody died.
You know what died?
Whatever.
Susie made food.
That was an over roasted roast. Yeah.
I mean, Dawson had his head, but he doesn't die now.
So after the credit slam.
Bo gets away and does more crimes and comes back.
Susie's probably going to go on burn and.
Susie's not, I don't think she's in the second season.
Said goes on being awesome Addison's going to jail.
Do you think Dave is going to jail.
Has he broken the law?
I think he'd be happy to go to jail and.
Be safer in. Prison.
I think he'll
since he turned over in about 2 seconds, I'm sure he'll turn state's evidence
on the gangster.
Yeah, he he wants he needs help.
Yeah. Queens evidence. Yeah.
And that's it.
And that's Father Brown, Season one, the whole thing, the whole shebang.
Next week.
Clap them cock and. Remix.
The big interview.
Dun dun dun dun.
You'll be amazed. It will be awesome. Yes.
So until then. Bye, maniacs.
Bye, maniacs.
Keep your hands on your Frankie.
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