Sid returns to Kembleford to ask his old family to help save his new one.Sid returns to Kembleford to ask his old family to help save his new one.Sid returns to Kembleford to ask his old family to help save his new one.
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsFather Brown tells Blind 'arry that he will be gaoled if he is found to have committed perjury. Perjury is wilfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath. Giving a false statement to police does not constitute perjury as it does not involve swearing an oath. He could, however, be charged with giving a false statement. However, while talking to Mr Laughlin in gaol, he says "if 'arry has lied under oath." This implies that the statement made WAS under oath, which IS perjury.
- Quotes
Blind 'Arry: Not so different, you and me, what we've been through.
Father Brown: The Great War.
Blind 'Arry: Mmm. Both watched the light fade from another man's face, smelt his last breath. That moment... it's why you found God, I reckon. Why I found drink.
Father Brown: I'm aware of the injustice. For all its horrors, the war helped me to find peace, robbed you of yours.
Blind 'Arry: One way or another, changes you, that moment. That guilt, changes your very bones, casts a shadow across your soul.
Father Brown: And that is why you should let God's light into your life.
Blind 'Arry: On that we differ, Father. I'm saying, you might hide it from some people, that shadow. But not the rest of us, not them what knows how it feels.
There are some contrivances, of course - coincidences and lucky guesses - but the plot is entertaining and the characters are vaguely likeable. Even Inspector Mallory avoids the worst pantomime characteristics in this episode.
The return of an occasional character might stop it being the best introduction to this series, but the writing and acting are good enough to keep it entertaining.
- silvio-mitsubishi
- Jan 14, 2020