As this episode opens a man is giving a speech at a local museum after donating a collection of doll houses. Not everybody is happy; his estranged wife things he donated them to spite her and a man at the back of the room slow claps him. Then we see the muzzle of a silenced weapon point through the windows of one of the doll houses and he is fatally shot. It is claimed that while he was generous giving away the doll houses he was less generous with the tenants of real houses he owned. There are plenty of suspects; his wife, the man whose daughter died in a badly maintained property rented from the dead man and the man who was jailed for her manslaughter but claims he wasn't the one responsible to mention just a few. As the case proceeds more details emerge and somewhat inevitably more bodies are found.
I thought this was a really fine episode which opened well. A shooting may not seem too imaginative but the way the muzzle emerged from the doll house was very effective then ballistic tests revealed interesting details about the weapon. There were plenty of interesting guest characters; including a children's entertainer who dressed as a purple bird and the maker of exquisite doll houses. As always the number of suspects and motives means the viewer will be guessing till the reveal. While the guest characters are fun it is pathologist Fleur Perkins who provides much of the episodes humour as she gets her own macabre doll house and reveals a surprising passion. Overall an fine episode that fans of the series should really enjoy.
I thought this was a really fine episode which opened well. A shooting may not seem too imaginative but the way the muzzle emerged from the doll house was very effective then ballistic tests revealed interesting details about the weapon. There were plenty of interesting guest characters; including a children's entertainer who dressed as a purple bird and the maker of exquisite doll houses. As always the number of suspects and motives means the viewer will be guessing till the reveal. While the guest characters are fun it is pathologist Fleur Perkins who provides much of the episodes humour as she gets her own macabre doll house and reveals a surprising passion. Overall an fine episode that fans of the series should really enjoy.