- Cal. (bell dinging)
- (giggling) Anna. (bell dinging)
- Anna or Sam, just because I see
(bells dinging) a lot of Rachel and Nick.
- I... miss them during seasons.
I text them saying, "It's horrid. Where are you?"
Or, "You're there and I'm not."
I mean, it's, I just send it to everybody.
(multiple bells dinging)
- All of them. (multiple bells dinging)
(laughing) Jess.
(bell dinging) (laughing)
- [Siegfried] Flying man.
- Feather! Feather!
- [Siegfried] B- B- Birds- birds of a feather!
- [Tristan] Oh, for God's sake,
it's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
- [Jenny] Oh!
- [Siegfried] What's all the flapping?
- [Tristan] Clearly, I was being a fairy!
(Helen laughing)
- [Siegfried] I see.
("Joy to the World" recording playing in background)
- [Narrator] More than anything,
Season Five of "All Creatures Great and Small"
leaves us with a sense of kindness and understanding.
- How did he get on at Mr. Dowsons's with Jimmy?
- Er, a slightly longer crash course could be in order.
- [Nicholas] James is at a building phase in his life
and has been for the last couple of years
in that he's building the foundations
on which to raise a family.
- [James] It says "J. Herriot and Son" on the front.
(parts clattering)
- [Helen] Aw!
- [James] So he can take it along with him on visits.
- [Rachel] I really hope in Season Six
that we see Helen and James having fun again,
because I think they've been through such a lot together.
- I'm just the girl that dragged you away from Glasgow.
- Corrupted me, lured me to the dark side.
(Helen chuckling)
- [Callum] Would be nice for James and Helen
to have another baby,
would be nice if-- for them to maybe have a daughter.
I don't know, something like that
would be cool. (chuckling)
Quietest baby in all of Darrowby.
- Should pick you up from the bus stop more often.
(Tristan chuckling)
- Uncle Tristan, happy to be of service.
- [Anna] Moving forward, you want...
everyone to get back to normal life.
For the vet practice to thrive again.
- I'm in your way-- I'll find somewhere else.
I did intend to offer, but...
I confess, I've grown rather fond of the place.
- Skeldale tends to have that effect on people.
- It does.
- [Rachel] We'd all like to see something wonderful happen
to Mrs. Hall.
I feel like she's quietly there
for everybody else, isn't she?
And she deserves all the good stuff.
- I feel for the boys-- they just want their own comfort.
- Mm.
- [Mrs. Hall] Or perhaps that's it.
- What?
- I could try making it more comfortable for 'em.
- It's like a home away from home.
And these characters are, they're so close to you now.
- (laughing) Wait, I-- this is the same cat
you nearly had cremated?
- Uh, well, yes, but, um-
- [Mrs. Hall] No, it were an honest mistake.
- [Callum] We're now on Season Five of this,
and the cast and crew is pretty much unchanged.
- [Nicholas] The cast get on incredibly well.
We go out for family dinners once a week and all,
and it's just lovely.
- Morning!
- Morning. (Jimmy babbling)
- Did I sleep through breakfast?
- [Siegfried] No, we've put something of a new regime
in place today.
- (kissing) All hands on deck so Audrey can get the tea on.
- [Samuel] I feel enormously lucky and privileged
to be part of an ensemble
that get to play these parts over and over again,
mostly because people seem to enjoy us doing it.
- [Tristan and Siegfried] Beware the Jubjub bird.
- They're all as puddled as each other.
- [Tristan and Siegfried] And shun the frumious Bandersnatch!
(all laughing)
(thudding) (bucket clattering)
- You can't help but be on set
on "All Creatures Great and Small"
and not be inspired by the people that are around you,
cast, crew, everyone.
- [Crew Member] Standby!
(clapperboard clacking)
- [Director] Action!
(laughing)
- These... past few weeks...
(poignant string music)
been the hardest of me life...
and I don't think... I'd have got through them...
without your kindness.
(poignant music continuing)
And your understanding.
So I just wanted to say from the bottom of me heart,
(catching her breath) thank you.
(poignant music continuing)
And more importantly, today is someone's special day.
(all chuckling)
So I just wanted to say to young Jimmy, "Happy birthday."
- [All] Happy birthday to you!
- And Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
- [All] Merry Christmas!
(glasses clinking)
- [Narrator] Thank you for joining us
for this comprehensive look at Season Five
of "All Creatures Great and Small" on MASTERPIECE.
We hope you will join us again soon
in the Yorkshire Dales for all the kindness, understanding,
and charming animals we find in these timeless tales
from James Herriot.
This has been "All Creatures Great and Small: Chapter Five."
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(mysterious chamber music)
- [Narrator] What happens when you pair
a crime-solving amateur sleuth
with a professional detective,
if you have them investigate a generally unlikeable victim,
who has come to a disagreeable end
in a close-knit, picturesque community,
and you tell their tale in a fast-paced story,
filled with humor, a hint of romance,
and at least one or two unexpected "turn of events?"
Well, you get a "cozy mystery."
Upbeat, optimistic, and lighthearted.
(both laughing) - Up top.
- Yes! (hands smacking)
- [Narrator] Cozy mysteries have become viewer favorites.
- The joy of murder mysteries
is that you take all of what looks glossy and smart,
and then you peel that away.
- [Lesley] I think what makes a great mystery
is what makes great drama.
- [Narrator] Some of the most celebrated cozy mysteries
have been featured on "MASTERPIECE Mystery,"
including "Grantchester," "Miss Scarlet,"
"Magpie Murders,"
"Moonflower Murders," and "The Marlow Murder Club."
In this special presentation,
we'll get to know the amateur sleuths,
journey through the quaint villages
and countrysides where each story is set,
and go behind the scenes
with the cast and crew of each series.
We'll learn all about what make "cozies"
such a fun, healthy dose of escapism,
and it will all turn out well in the end as we investigate
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
(ticking clock) (dramatic music swelling)
(dramatic music fading)
- [Melissa] And then, after we got married, I suggested,
if he wanted to be a published author,
he should write something that people
actually wanted to read-- a whodunit.
So he wrote "Atticus Pünd Investigates."
And the rest, as they say, is-
- Mystery.
- Exactly.
- [Narrator] So what is a cozy mystery,
and what makes them so popular?
- Before I begin, I'd like you to keep an open mind.
What I'm about to tell you will help you solve
the murder.
(dramatic percussion music)
- [Narrator] Well, there's no strict definition
of a cozy mystery,
but the main rule is that the violence is kept to a minimum.
- [Daniel] You know, there's intrigue,
there's comedy, there's tragedy.
Um, there's loads and loads of amazing
different colors to play with.
- That's great, but...
(sighing) are there any murders?
(dramatic music continuing)
- [Narrator] Well, sure, you can't have a murder mystery
without the murders, but they generally happen offscreen.
- [Sissy] He's definitely dead.
I know 'cause I poked him.
Stiffer than he was in life, which is saying something.
(ominous orchestral music)
- Thank you...
- Sissy-- it's short for Cecilia.
(plaintive string music)
- [Narrator] And the person investigating those murders
is generally an amateur sleuth,
who uses their own intelligence
and unique experience
to help put the clues together and solve the case.
- What do you think?
- What do I think?
I think it's a matter for the police.
- Oh, I wish people would stop saying that.
- But it is!
That's their job.
They catch criminals and murderers,
whereas I... make sandwiches.
That's my job.
I serve tea and biscuits, I help my husband,
and I hide in cupboards from women like Mrs. Eddingham.
- Who's Mrs. Eddingham?
- Chair of the Marlow Parish Council.
A terrible gossip.
- But I'm not a detective.
(waves lapping the shore)
I can go to the hotel, but I can't investigate.
I wouldn't know where to begin.
- Do you believe that Cecily Treherne is dead?
(waves splashing)
- She's been missing for five days.
- Then that is where you must start.
(foreboding string music) (sighing)
- [Narrator] Often, our hero has a personal investment
in the victim or the case overall.
- I know his name.
(cheeky chamber music)
The dead man.
(cheeky music continuing)
And I don't think you do.
(music intensifying)
(footsteps receding)
I thought not.
I also know who put that knife in his chest,
and will gladly tell you here and now.
But if you insist on wasting time
by taking me to Scotland Yard,
logging my arrest with the duty sergeant,
putting me in a cell until you can find
an available interview room,
then please be my guest.
(cheeky music continuing)
(chair slamming)
- Start at the beginning.
Every detail, no matter how small.
- [Narrator] Another important aspect
that makes a mystery cozy is humor.
- [Samantha] I think the big thing
that's really very helpful
is that we all have a monumental sense of humor.
- And we all like wine.
(all laughing)
- [Narrator] Perhaps there is no lighter side to murder,
but the best cozies find a way to lighten the mood
with funny secondary characters and situations.
(quiet footsteps)
- Was he any good, the magician?
I was thinking of coming along to watch.
(muffled background chatter)
- Well, you're a bit late now, Larry.
(muffled chatter continuing)
- (stepping forward) Good evening.
I am a friend of Wang Zhenglin,
and I have a gift for his daughter.
(background tinkling and chattering)
(cheeky music resuming)
(chuckling nervously) Not his daughter.
His sister.
(cheeky music continuing)
His aunt?
(coins clinking) (throat clearing)
- This should be enough for the whole family.
- [Narrator] Many times, the victims are unlikeable,
or even criminals themselves,
so you don't have to break out the tissues
when someone does them in.
- [Andreas] That was when everything changed.
Suddenly he was nice.
- [Susan] Nice?
(scoffing)
That's not a word I'd use to describe Alan Conway.
(moody string music)
- [Judith] So Elliot was right.
(string music continuing)
Stefan...
was a crook.
He seemed quite upstanding to me.
- [Narrator] Often, the local police do not appreciate
the so-called help from our amateur investigators,
until they end up actually solving the crime, of course.
- Miss Scarlet, I have found through bitter experience
that private investigators do not compare
to professional police officers.
I do not trust them, I do not use them, I do not need them.
(mysterious chamber music)
It's not my intention to be rude.
- You're doing a wonderful job of it.
- Please shut the door on the way out.
(chamber music continuing)
- [Tanika] What are you doing here, Mrs. Potts?
And you, Miss Harris?
- Tanika's reaction to the amateur sleuths
is an interesting one.
- [Tanika] Where are you going?
I need to speak to you.
- [Natalie] I think, for her, she's trying to
quieten that noise,
but I think slowly
there's a, a s- a real sort of turnaround,
where she realizes,
for all of the chaos that comes with them,
they have brilliant ideas.
- [Narrator] And each cozy mystery can be counted on
to provide a wide variety of twists and turns,
keeping the detectives and the audience on its toes.
- The thing with whodunits, you go round in these circles.
You're like, "No, he's too obvious,"
but then maybe it's too obvious
to make someone who's not obvious,
and then maybe, it is the obvious one
that's so unobvious.
- [Conleth] Well, basically what I think
makes a good, uh, mystery is intrigue
and, uh... red herrings and suspense.
- You, go in the other way!
- [Narrator] Overall, a cozy mystery
is a fast-paced, lighthearted story,
featuring an easily relatable amateur detective
who lets the audience get into their shoes
and try to play along.
It's why we love them, and why there's no shortage
of successful varieties on the theme.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
(dramatic percussion)
After nine seasons on the air,
perhaps no "Mystery!" series
is as cozy for PBS viewers as "Grantchester."
The characters feel like family.
- Oh, you're happy.
- [Narrator] But going forward,
many changes are in store.
- [Robson] Suspense, mystery, love, laughter.
There will be...
tears... of joy and sadness,
because we wi- we will be saying goodbye
to the character Will Davenport,
played by my very, very close friend, Tom Brittney.
- [Crew Member] Ladies and gentlemen,
that is a series wrap for Mr. Tom Brittney.
(crew applauding)
- [Tom] M- my, most of my
acting career has been this show.
It's the best time I've ever had in my life,
acting, non-acting...
to, uh, to come to...
to work every day and just hang out with my best friend.
But I... I...
I feel like I've had my time,
and Will's story, I think, is, is coming to an end.
(soft string and piano music)
- Go on then-- off you go.
(soft music continuing)
Crimes don't solve themselves. (Will chuckling)
- [Emma] After four series, Tom Brittney has decided
that it's time to go and do something else,
which is a real shame to us,
but it gave us a real opportunity
to bring in a new character.
(car zooming past)
And... Daisy came up with a brilliant storyline,
so we're introducing Alphy Kottaram,
which is really exciting.
(car zooming) (birds chirping)
- [Mrs. C] (huffing) There's a gentleman
breaking into the vicarage!
A swarthy gentleman.
(footsteps) (tussling and grunting)
(crockery shattering) - Gotcha!
(grunting and shouting) (fist connecting)
- [Alphy] Bloody hell!
Oh, yeah, that's it, I'm calling the police.
- I am the police.
- [Rishi] My name is Rishi Nair,
and I play Alphy Kottaram.
- If this was your house, that would make... you...
(cheeky piano music)
Oh, God.
- Not quite, but you know, on speaking terms.
- [Geordie] You're the new vicar.
(church bells clanging)
- [Daisy] It's always exciting bringing
a new character into the show.
'Cause... it's seeing how they interact
with other actors, other characters.
- [Emma] He is a very different character.
He's not somebody like Will,
who was immediately interested in, in getting involved.
He's kind of wary, and he's a little bit wary of Geordie,
and it takes a little bit longer
for their relationship to cement.
- I need your help with a case.
- I'm not a great believer in the police.
- I'm not a great believer in God.
- Well then, there we are!
- [Robson] There's this moment where Geordie
brings him into the police station,
because he has a connection
to one of the murders in Episode Three.
And I said...
- [Geordie] You coming?
(cheeky woodwind music)
- To the morgue?
- Yes.
(Alphy chuckling)
(cheeky music continuing)
- W- Why would I come to the morgue?
- [Melissa] And it's really fun to watch Geordie
have to get--
- Have to get... yeah, yeah... - a new vicar on his side.
You know? He's literally like...
"But my last vicars have always helped me
with these cases, so what's wrong with you?"
- [Geordie] It's almost impossible
to hold a rifle that long... and shoot like that.
- Why are you telling me this?
- [Melissa] And obviously, Alphy's like,
"This is weird-- I am just here to be a vicar."
- No reason.
- So, can I go?
- [Robson] But we see him in the vicarage thinking about
this scenario that's happened in Grantchester
with this guy that's potentially committed suicide.
(tentative piano and orchestral music)
And he starts to work it out himself,
and then realizes that he is...
he's being drawn to Geordie's world,
and he's being drawn to the "Grantchester" world.
- [Rishi] When I watched previous seasons
of "Grantchester,"
the chemistry between all you guys was, was amazing.
And then I've come here and I've met you in person...
It's because it's real.
It is a- actually is there. - [Robson] Yeah.
- [Rishi] How is it for you?
How is it like having it...
This is, this is the third vicar now.
(Robson and Rishi laughing)
- [Robson] Immediate- what ha- I knew your energy would work.
So you're gonna bring a new dynamic to it,
that sometimes a long-running series needs.
- [Rishi] And I met Tom yesterday for the first time,
and-- such a lovely guy--
and gave me some great tips, um, on how to deal with you.
(Robson and Rishi laughing)
But yeah, he's proper passed the baton over to me,
and, um, I'm excited.
- [Robson] Just enjoy the journey,
'cause it's gonna be a fabulous journey.
(Robson laughing loudly)
(uplifting orchestral music)
- [Narrator] An integral part of any cozy mystery
are the signature locations.
(car zooming away)
The small, rural villages our stories are set in
often feel like one of the main characters.
Perhaps no location fits this description best
than the village of Marlow, England.
The title location of "Marlow Murder Club."
- [Robert] It's the town,
it's the river, it's the church.
It's the quintessential Englishness of Marlow
that I think makes it such a fun location.
I live in Marlow.
All of the locations in the books are real locations.
- [Alison] We tried to deliver the things
that you would sort of want to get from this kind of a town,
but also try and be surprising about it.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Crew Member] Cut it.
- [Andrew] One of the things
that really attracted me
to the script and the book
was the opportunity to design Judith's home.
It was described as a Arts and Crafts mansion,
on the river, with a boathouse.
I knew that it was gonna be a difficult location to find,
because it had to do so many things.
We filled the... home with lots of archeological finds,
lots of books.
- And when I imagined the show,
I really imagined Judith's house
just as it's been delivered.
It really is exceptional.
- We've been so lucky that the town have sort of embraced us
as a production,
and let us film everywhere and been very encouraging.
- [Crew Member] B marker!
(slate clapping)
(car zooming past)
- [Narrator] Of course, Grantchester is the epitome
of a cozy mystery town,
with its cafes, churches and sleepy streets,
belying a town that creates
a surprising number of murder victims.
(shouting) (gun firing)
(grunting)
(upbeat piano music)
Perhaps the most interesting locations
are those interwoven in the "Magpie"
and "Moonflower Murder" mysteries.
Each location has to double for a village in the 1950s,
along with its contemporary version.
- [Jill] Looking at the way
that we light things differently
and frame things differently,
between '21 and '55...
And that's gonna be quite fun,
because we're using the same village,
but we're going to... it's going to just look,
with the color adjustments, slightly different.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Pippa] So we're in the village of Kersey today,
which is where most of the 1955 story occurs.
And it's the most beautiful,
quintessential English country village.
You feel that time has stood still here.
- Everywhere you turn, the camera works,
and it's kind of pretty much unchanged from 1955.
We even found old photos of it in '55,
and it stayed the same.
(mysterious orchestral music)
The location department did a really good job,
and the people of Kersey were just lovely.
People were really helpful-- it was great--
let us just use their houses,
and we had to move all the contemporary cars
out of the high street.
We could just sometimes just change our minds
on the spur of a moment,
"Oh, can we shoot it outside your house?"
- [Rebecca] Particularly what's different, I think,
about "Moonflower Murders,"
is we have two separate locations.
- Eh, for the 1950s, we have the Moonflower Hotel.
Um, which is Melissa's Hotel.
And then Branlow Hall,
which is the house that we're in now,
in Howth Castle, which is the i- the modern day hotel.
- [Rebecca] It's a good landscape, I think,
for things to happen behind closed doors.
- It's a, it's a great setup.
A hotel is a fantastic setup for a murder mystery.
'Cause you know, hotels have secrets.
People hide there.
So you don't really know what's happening,
and who is who and who has done what.
- [Peter] The locations have been a joy to shoot.
We added a little bit of smoke atmosphere to the 1950s,
because everyone was smoking cigarettes, and all the time.
And we didn't do that for the more modern period.
- [Louise] We're kind of introducing the world,
and then suddenly the world kind of turns upside down.
And we've been able to kind of live in that world
with those characters,
and feel like you're going on that journey with them.
And I think that's why this one in particular is so good.
(music crescendoing and fading)
- [Narrator] What is it that we love
about "Magpie Murders"?
(tense string music)
Amateur detective?
Check.
Beautiful English countryside locations?
Check.
Grumpy local police?
Check.
- [Locke] This is the real world,
and I don't need some fancy editor... from London
poncing around pretending to be
some sort of private detective!
- [Narrator] "Magpie Murders" serves up
everything you could want in a cozy mystery, and much more.
- [James] We'll all miss you.
- [Narrator] Because this unique series
serves up two mysteries in one.
A fictional tale set in the 1950s,
and a modern murder of the mystery author himself.
(slate clapping) - [Director] Action!
- Have you read "Magpie Murders?'
- It's a crime thriller, a whodunit, uh,
in two different time zones--
Uh, the present day, and the 1950s.
The modern day storyline concerns
the famous author Alan Conway,
who is famous for writing
the Atticus Pünd murder mysteries.
- Who has recently died, apparently committed suicide.
And who's left the final Atticus Pünd novel unfinished.
- Right now, I think we should be concentrating
on what happened to the missing chapter.
- Well, how do we even know he wrote it?
- And so it's about what happens when the final chapter
of his latest book goes missing,
and we crisscross between the dramatization of the book,
and chief editor played by Lesley Manville,
trying to kind of become a detective herself.
- Both of those storylines run parallel to one another.
So the structure and the form is mixed in,
they're like kind of threads that constantly
interweave with one another,
which lends itself to this amazing canvas,
really, to, to play on.
- [Anthony] Everybody in the book is based on somebody
in the author's life,
and one of those people has murdered him.
So it's a sort of a whodunit inside a whodunit,
and it's also a murder mystery about murder mysteries.
- The characters are so vivid,
and they're painted so brilliantly by Anthony,
and you know, they're, they're, they're delicious.
You want to kn- you want to spend time with them.
- It was possible, perhaps, to have more fun
with the murder mystery format,
to write not just a whodunit with a solution--
"the butler did it"--
but a whodunit that actually informed you
about the world of literature, about why we read whodunits.
The idea was, was to write a, a tricksy whodunit,
that at the same time posed interesting questions
about the world in which it existed.
(disorienting orchestral music)
- [Matthew] Yeah, big attraction to the job was
getting to play two parts,
and two very different parts as well.
And getting to explore those, those different sides.
I've never done anything like that before.
And it's great,
actually, also finding the similarities.
I mean, there's, there's a lot of differences,
but also, you know, what, working out what thread
could connect these two people.
- [James] I hope that doesn't shock you.
- Not at all.
- So I think it's been very nice for the actors.
I mean, the cast is great.
We've got a really top-of-the-range cast.
And I think the carrot for a lot of them,
apart from the obvious things
like the script and the great writing,
is, is that they get to play two people.
Um, and-- 'cause you never really
see that on television.
So you can literally be in a scene where
you'll see Susan driving up in her red MG to Abbey Grange,
and then the camera might pan off of me,
and pan-- come into Abbey Grange,
and there's the characters from the 50s.
(dramatic string music)
- [Peter] It's been great fun playing
with the echoes and...
even the things like Clarissa Pye's house
and Claire Jenkins's house where we've got the same shots
and you've got like an old kettle and a new kettle,
and you've got an old toaster and a new toaster.
And I would kind of hope that people who love the show,
they can actually look back
and kind of spot all these little echoes.
- [Matthew] The drive for you as a reader
wanting to know, or as a viewer in this case,
wanting to know what happens at the end
is the same drive Susan has
trying to find out what happened in the end,
and the same drive Atticus has
when he's trying to work out what happens in the end.
So the viewer and the characters
all share the same... drive
and, uh, investment in the story.
- Blood.
- [Conleth] Intrigue.
- [Daniel] Murder.
- Red herrings.
- [Daniel] Passion.
- [Peter] I think a bit of humor
and a bit of twinkle in the eye.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Michael] A good mystery means there has to be
a really good solution.
- Don't tell 'em everything up front.
(dramatic orchestral music continuing)
- [Matthew] Everyone is a suspect.
- [Alexandros] Perfect, you know?
You don't know who done it.
That's great, you have to wait till the end.
- A good mystery is made
when you care about the fate of the characters.
- The delight is in
how wrapped up in everybody's story you become.
- [Tim] Well, I think it's, um,
the workings of the human heart.
That's the ultimate mystery,
why we do the things that we do.
- [Susan] He played games and they were always games
designed to hurt people!
- [Anthony] A great mystery puts
all the clues on the page.
It is a mystery that you can solve.
But with a bit of luck, you won't.
(dramatic orchestral music crescendoing)
(dramatic music fading)
- [Narrator] Stay with us, because when we return,
we'll take a look at those pesky police officers
who always seem to just get in the way
of our beloved detectives.
We'll explore a bit of romance
in the midst of all that murder.
And we'll take a look behind the scenes
at the show that breaks all the rules,
as we further investigate
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(ticking clock) (dramatic music concluding)
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[MUSIC]
[Narrator] Welcome back e Cozy Mysteries to "Th
of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
Coming up, we'll investigate the professionals
in law enforcement who make things so difficult
for our amateur sleuths,
and we'll learn why humor is such an important element
of cozy mysteries.
But first, let's look at the next installment
of the "Magpie Murder" series.
with its follow up "Moonflower Murders."
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Hey, Cecily.
- Dad, we've made a terrible mistake.
- What are you talking about, darling?
- [Cecily] Stefan Leonida, I was right all along.
He wasn't guilty.
He wasn't the killer.
- Just-- Cecily, slow down.
- [Cecily] You know that book I bought, "Atticus Pünd?"
It's got the answer.
- What?
- The real killer is named in the book.
- Cecily, you're not making any sense.
- Just read it, Dad, it's all in there.
- Bu--
If it wasn't Stefan, who was it?
(door opening dramatically)
- [Anthony] "Moonflower Murders,"
takes place about a year
after "Magpie Murders" ended when Susan Ryeland left the UK
for Crete, where she set up a hotel
with her partner, Andreas.
And two guests walk into her life
with a story they tell her,
and she's drawn back to England
and to further murders.
- [Conleth] And like "Magpie Murders"
we have the two ongoing 50s
and contemporary investigations.
- [Pooky] It's a double brain tease
and it's a double rollercoaster ride.
- [Lesley] The crossover of the two worlds
being that Pünd
and Susan have this really rather lovely relationship.
Um, and, of course, he's a manifestation
of her imagination.
- [Susan] Why does everything have to be so
bloody complicated?
- [Pünd] The investigation or your personal life?
- Both!
- [Tim] In "Magpie Murders"
she was terribly shocked when he appeared
and took a while to get used to him,
and now they're, they're sort of... they're like two people
who have known each other for years.
You know, it's really nice.
- [Pippa] What I think audiences will love
about "Moonflower Murders," is, um,
some familiar faces returning
and some new faces joining.
So, Madeline is in the 50s part of the show
and she is Atticus Pünd's new secretary.
- [Tim] And we have a great working relationship.
She's super efficient, anticipates my every needs.
- [Pünd] You're a remarkable person.
- [Tim] And, uh, kind of surprises me
with her perspicuity.
- [Mark] I play Frank Parris
and Oscar Berlin.
Frank is a rather mean,
nasty man. (laughing)
In the 50s, in the book that Alan has written,
Oscar Berlin is a, is a European film director.
Oscar is clean-shaven and
has a very f- strange toupee
(laughing)
and a very strange accent.
- [Oscar] I will not sign a contract
when production begins two months from now.
If you back out now, do you have any idea?
- [Rosalie] I just completely loved
the fact that, uh, Melissa,
who's the 1950s character,
is like a 1950s movie star.
I was like... "Dreamy."
I would, I was like-- (laughing)
"Let me have a go at this."
- [Adrian] Lance was great fun to play, you know,
whatever the situation is,
he'll work it to his advantage.
Lawrence is, is a pretty straight, moral character.
I think he's got sort of a steady backbone.
- [Pooky] So, I play Pauline and Maureen.
And so, Pauline is a very well respected hotelier in 2015.
Maureen is a character in 1954, she runs a hotel
with her husband Lance,
but she's definitely more dodgy than, uh, Pauline.
- [Will] It's, it's so much fun to play the two roles.
Very confusing and very tricky,
but, um, but it's been, it's been great to see
how they inform each other as well.
- [Suzanne] There's three timelines
in "Moonflower Murders" where we flip
between 1954, the present day, 2023,
but we also have a storyline in 2015, which is very,
very key to the 2023 storyline.
Moonflower Hotel is the hotel owned by Melissa James.
She's a retired Hollywood actress.
She's given up acting
and she has opened this kind of boutique, Art Deco hotel.
- [Rosalie] It was so beautifully designed.
You'd lift up something
that was exactly from that time period.
There was no stone left unturned.
- [Louise] Clarence Keep also, which is Melissa's home--
and Melissa's home ended up being
like a house in the 1920s.
And then also knowing that she's this movie star
where you tried to bring in a bit of Hollywood glamour,
like maybe she'd picked up props from, you know,
Hollywood films and brought them back to England
and everything was a little bit over the top.
And then, you know, all the detail of the hotel as well
that, um, she was trying to,
people were coming to the, her hotel,
Moonflower Hotel, for the glamour
and trying to get a, see... get a bit of movie star.
(slate clapping)
- [Pippa] What I think makes a great murder mystery
is delicious writing, fabulous characters.
- And it, ultimately, I think you have
to have a really clever murder.
- [Pünd] A sense of evil in the air.
(tentative piano music)
It's here too.
(tentative music continuing)
- [Conleth] The characters, on the surface
seem to be idyllic,
and rural, and happy, but it's not.
- [Daniel] It has an amazing sense
of intrigue and mystery
and sort of deep, dark secrets, really.
- [Pooky] It's just a double delight.
It's a double brain tease.
- [Will] And I think it, it makes for
a, a very sort of exciting, visceral experience, hopefully
when they're watching.
(dramatic music concluding and fading)
- [Narrator] While we may love cozy mysteries,
one group is rarely happy
to see our amateur detectives on the scene-- the police.
- Then why did the killer leave this
at the second crime scene,
but nothing at the first?
- [Judith] I know!
- [Tanika] Oh, how did she get in here?
Come on, guys!
We are literally the police
and we've just been broken into.
- [Judith] Well, not a bit of it!
That nice young man let me in.
- [Tanika] Oh, when Jason gets back here, I want a word.
- And I know why that medallion
has "Hope" written on it.
- (chuckling) That's not possible, love.
- [Judith] I think you'll find it is.
- [Samantha] Judith likes to work things out
very logically, very precisely.
- [Judith] Knowledge can be derived by
what is observed and measured.
- [Samantha] She strives for the truth
and she knows at the first incident
it hasn't been investigated properly.
- Listen to me, because every time I see you,
there are more of you.
- And we're even more successful.
- [Tanika] Well, we're dealing with a double murder here.
- I was right.
- [Natalie] My name's Natalie Dew
and I play Tanika Malik.
She is the Detective Sergeant in charge
of the case in Marlow.
The police haven't had to deal
with a murder like this before.
- [Tanika] What did we get from door-to-door inquiries?
- Nothing.
- [Natalie] It's definitely their, their first
sort of big, big case.
And so, I think it is a real step up for her.
She's an am- amazing woman in terms of-- she seems
to be balancing home life and work life.
But, there is this thing of, of having to prove yourself
and it, and, and predominantly in quite a--
a male environment as well.
- [Brendan] Not to worry, our civilian advisors
will come to the rescue.
- [Natalie] I think she definitely has
moments of, um, self-doubt,
but it's about trying not to show that
in front of the team.
- [Narrator] This season, "Miss Scarlet" is dealing
with a new colleague at Scotland Yard,
Detective Blake.
- [Kate] They don't get off to a great start.
Eliza comes on very strong.
Uh...
She's confident, she behaves like she owns the place
and, uh, that doesn't go down very well with Blake.
- Inspector Blake, I presume?
(tentative piano music)
May I congratulate you on your new position?
From what I hear, it's well deserved.
- And... you are?
- Eliza and Alexander don't work together.
That is the point.
Alexander does not want to work
with Eliza Scarlet under any circumstances.
He thinks that she gets involved
in business that isn't hers.
This is strictly police work
and the fact that there's a private detective
getting involved in any way
is unnecessary and fairly ridiculous.
- [Alexander] I'm afraid you're wasting your time.
I do not engage the services of private detectives.
- Well, may I at least present the progress
I've made on the Boden case?
- There is no need.
My officers will deal with it.
However, if you have a contract,
you will be paid for your work so far, but that is all.
(straightening papers)
Good day.
- [Narrator] In the latest season of "Grantchester,"
the tables are turned a bit as it's DI Geordie Keating
who has to convince the new vicar in town
to assist his investigations.
- What have you got against us,
if you don't mind my asking?
- In a nutshell, you're a bunch of morally bankrupt,
power hungry, violent thugs... who wield their power purely
to inflate their own egos and line their own pockets.
- Who enforces the law without us?
God?
(Alphy chuckling)
- Well, He'd do a better job.
Anyone would do a better job.
Someone who cares.
- I didn't used to care.
Not very much.
(quiet background chatter)
Till I met one of you lot.
Now I have got empathy pouring out of me at a rate of knots.
(quiet chatter continuing)
(soft jazzy music)
- [Narrator] Whether it's "Magpie"
or "Moonflower Murders,"
Detective Sergeant Locke is never pleased
to see Susan Ryeland snooping around.
(jazzy music continuing)
- [Daniel] There's an enjoyment
of watching those characters again
and the interplay that they have.
For instance, when you get, you know,
Locke coming up against Susan again,
you know, he, I think one of his opening lines is like,
"I can't believe it's you again."
- I thought we were on first-name terms by now.
- We're not on any terms at all, I want a word.
- [Daniel] You know, you know that the, the characters
have worked in the past,
you know that there's an appetite
from the audience for it.
(jazzy music concluding)
- [Narrator] She breaks the rules in more ways than one,
she's "Miss Scarlet."
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Eliza] Do you always enter people's houses
without permission?
- Yes, all the time.
- There is no "we," Miss Scarlet.
(dramatic music continuing)
- Independent...
ambitious, determined.
- You have all the answers,
don't you, Inspector Blake?
(gavel banging)
- [Eliza] If I were to take your case,
it would put me in a difficult position.
- Eliza Scarlet, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder.
- [Narrator] "Miss Scarlet" may not be set
in rural England,
and she's definitely no amateur--
a total pro all the way--
but we can't help feeling cozy
when watching her go about her business.
- [Kate] So we find Eliza
at the beginning of this series, uh...
she's back in the comfort of her own office.
(cheeky orchestral music)
She's had a level of success
that means that she can reemploy
Clarence and her staff.
I think our viewers can look forward to
some really suspenseful storylines
and some really great cases as ever,
and we've had to say goodbye to some people,
but we haven't forgotten the power
of a very exciting, uh, "Will they, won't they?"
- My name is Tom Durant Pritchard,
I am... playing the role of Alexander Blake.
He is the Detective Inspector
who's taken over at Scotland Yard.
He is trying to get things under his control
pretty quickly.
He's... got some plans.
- [Alexander] Are we ready?
- Yes, Inspector Blake.
- All right, let's go.
- [Tom] He's got a way of working,
and he's making sure that everything runs smoothly.
We'll find it out as the season goes along,
but he has a young daughter
who he brings with him to this new job,
and...
but his wife, um, passed away three years ago,
so he's arrived at this new job...
with the pressure of being a single dad.
- I think Fitzroy is a lot more grateful
to have this new boss than maybe Phelps might be.
- I don't care what you say,
I think he's impressive.
- 'Course you do.
- Did you notice he spent two years in Hong Kong?
He speaks fluent Mandarin.
- Oh, and that'll come in useful.
- And I believe he served in
many different parts of the world,
and... - Stop.
(indistinct chattering of police)
- What is it?
- Nothing.
I just want you to stop talking.
- It's your turn, my dear.
(cheeky orchestral music)
(wine glass slamming)
- Yes, I know it's my turn, Barnabus.
- [Cathy] Well, we see Ivy in a really unhappy place
at the beginning of this season.
I think her world is closing in on her.
Um...
She's unhappy with her lot in life.
(melancholy orchestral music)
Everybody around her f- to her, feels like
they're all moving on,
Mr. Potts has got a promotion,
Lizzie is getting on with her business and her life.
- ...at Aldgate Mortuary,
so I came by to inform you,
I will not be partaking in breakfast this morning.
- [Cathy] Ivy feels undervalued, undermined...
- [Eliza] ...hole in this sleeve.
- [Cathy] ...and in a bit of a rut.
- [Ivy] What have you been doing?
- Well, if I told you, you'd only worry.
Mr. Potts.
- Miss Scarlet, I really do not have time
to eat with you.
- [Ivy] Very well, off you go then.
- [Mr. Potts] Ladies.
- [Ivy] Sit down, have some breakfast.
- I don't have time either-- must go!
- Well, will you be home for dinner?
Lizzie!?
(orchestral music concluding)
- So we find Nash in a bit of a pickle,
in prison and licking his wounds.
So I think he has a lot of his home comforts
to keep him happy within the four walls.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
- [Nash] Load of rubbish. (book slamming)
- [Felix] I don't think he's struggling in prison,
let's put it that way.
(Nash sighing)
- Season Five is gonna be the most exciting season yet.
We see Clarence stepping up
and, uh, going into the field as a, as a proper detective,
so it's been huge fun seeing him
leave his little, uh, world of the office
and actually go out and face a bit of danger.
- I think this is our best season to date.
I think there's huge surprises, new characters,
and there's a big event at the end of this season.
- I think our viewers can look forward to
some really suspenseful storylines
and some really great cases as ever.
- [Tom] Well, you will firstly get to meet
Alexander Blake
and you will see a relationship of sorts
with Eliza blossoming over the episodes.
And... I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
- [Mr. Potts] May the next year... or so...
be simply marvelous.
- Marvelous.
- [Eliza] Marvelous.
(bright string music)
- [Narrator] While murder may not be a laughing matter,
humor is a vital component of any cozy mystery.
- Pleasure to meet you, Mrs...?
- Chapman.
- [Leonard] Sylvia.
(cheeky orchestral music)
Not me-- she's Sylvia, I'm Finch.
Leonard, Leonard of the House of Finch.
(cheeky music continuing)
- [Narrator] In "Grantchester,"
some of the best comedy comes from none other than Mrs. C.
(cozy orchestral music)
- [Mrs. C] In fact, nevermind the church,
if you don't get this sorted,
you'll end up killing half the parish.
(cozy music continuing)
- Let's hope not.
(cozy music continuing)
- Supper's ready.
(gentle music) (footsteps receding)
(Leonard chuckling)
- [Rishi] Just the way it develops
over the season,
is really lovely, we've done some great scenes
and it's always, always such a laugh working with Tessa.
I really, really love working with her.
- [Mrs. C] There is something afoot
with Alphy and the Bishop.
- Ah!
- So he did tell you.
- And I don't feel comfortable breaking that trust.
- He's a gambler, isn't he?
He looks like a gambler.
- What does a gambler look like?
- Is it women?
Is it men?
- You're such a-
- Such a what?
- You'll end up falling out with everyone
if you carry on like this.
- I don't fall out with people.
- Cathy, Geordie, Esme.
- I just want to know what's happening under my own roof.
- It isn't your roof though, is it?
It's Alphy's roof and Alphy's conversation
and Alphy will tell you when he's ready.
(birds chirping)
- He's definitely a gambler.
(intriguing orchestral music)
- [Narrator] In the "Magpie" and "Moonflower Murders,"
much of the humor comes from fictional detective Pünd.
- May I give you one other piece of advice?
- Of course.
- You should really stop smoking.
- [Susan] (scoffing) You're not real, are you?
(birds chirping) (footsteps receding)
You're just my guilty conscience!
- [Pünd] Always a pleasure to see you, Susan.
(intriguing music continuing)
- It's irreverent and witty
and a little bit naughty, a bit cheeky.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Narrator] While Miss Scarlet
is deadly serious about her work,
Clarence can always be counted on to keep things light.
- When I met Clarence, Oliver, he was teetotal.
- Oh, our Miss Scarlet has turned you to drink?
- Let's just say, working with her,
there's never a dull moment.
(laughing uproariously)
Yeah...
- [Narrator] Perhaps no amateur detectives
make us laugh more
than the ladies from "The Marlow Murder Club."
- We're not going to stop investigating, are we?
- No way! - Not on your Nelly.
- "Not on your Nelly?"
- What?
(Becks laughing)
- [Samantha] It's been very funny to shoot
and, um, it makes the director laugh,
so hopefully, it'll make the audience laugh too.
- [Judith] Maybe one of you should lure him away.
- [Suzie] Oh, that should be easy.
Just need to create a diversion.
- [Judith] Oh, that's a good idea.
- [Becks] Judith?
- [Suzie] Oh God, what have you done?
- [Becks] You're a giraffe!
- [Judith] How're you going to do that?
- [Becks] Judith...
what are you doing?
- [Judith] What? - [Becks] What have you...
- [Judith] Why am I a giraffe?
I must have pressed something.
Oh, this is ridiculous, how do I change it?
- [Suzie] Go to the bottom of your screen.
- [Becks] Change the setting.
- [Suzie] You should see a giraffe or some other Animoji.
- What's an Animoji?
(digital pinging)
I've done it again!
This is preposterous.
- [Narrator] Don't go away because when we return,
we'll investigate the history of cozy mysteries.
We'll also take a peek at some mysteries of the heart,
and we'll introduce you to some of the cuddly characters
that make these stories more fun,
as we put a magnifying glass to
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
(mysterious orchestral music)
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"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE
Mystery."
Coming up, we'll go behind the
Coming up, we'll go behind the scenes
with some of the cuddly animals
that guest star on cozy mysteries,
and we'll see that, even in the midst of murder,
there's time for romance.
But first, let's inspect the origins
and evolution of the cozy mystery.
- [Alan] Atticus Pünd was the greatest detective
in the world,
but his next case was going to be his greatest challenge.
- [Narrator] Although the term "cozy mystery"
has only been around since the late 20th century,
the genre feels timeless.
This is because "cozies" have their roots
back in the golden age of crime fiction
in the 1920s and '30s.
Whodunits by authors like Dorothy L. Sayers,
Ellery Queen,
and of course, Agatha Christie
charmed millions of readers around the world.
- (gasping) "Magpie Murders."
- [Charles] "One for sorrow, two for joy,
three for a girl and four for a boy."
- [Susan] "Five for silver, six for gold,
seven for a secret never to be told..."
It's very Agatha Christie, have you read it yet?
- [Charles] I've started it.
- And?
- Number One in time for Christmas.
- Yay!
(intriguing piano music)
- [Narrator] Today's cozy mysteries
often have other interesting and varied characteristics,
like cuddly pets, quirky supporting characters,
and unique hobbies or occupations
that feature into the crime solving.
Whatever your interests may be,
there's an entertaining cozy mystery out there for you.
(gunshot)
And what's more entertaining than an amateur detective?
How about three?
They're "The Marlow Murder Club."
(intriguing piano music)
- [Tanika] You don't think they carried out
a thorough search?
- [Detective] All clear! - [Judith] I know they didn't.
Someone shot Mr. Dunwoody.
- [Tanika] Mrs. Potts, this is Marlow we're talking about,
I think that's very unlikely.
(foreboding string music)
- [Samantha] My name is Samantha Bond,
and I play Judith Potts in "The Marlow Murder Club."
Judith is a retired archeologist,
she's very happy in her own company,
she has a wonderful cat.
When we first meet Judith,
I think it's quite a set of contradictions,
you know, she is blissfully happy
when she's swimming in her river
and it's a place where she can think and she can reflect.
But within that, there are lots of shadows from the past.
- [Director] Action!
- This is the proof we've been looking for.
Iqbal must have found out the truth
and that's why Giles killed him.
- [Judith] Unfortunately, Tanika told me
that Giles Bishop was in Windsor Hospital
when Iqbal was murdered.
- He's in the clear?
- So if Giles didn't kill Iqbal, who did?
- [Becks] And why?
- [Robert] "The Marlow Murder Club" is about Judith
and she bumps into what she thinks is a murder.
(gunshot) (ominous percussion)
- It's my neighbor,
I think someone's just shot him.
- [Robert] And the police don't believe that.
And in investigating her neighbor's death,
she bumps into Becks, the local vicar's wife,
and also Suzie, a, uh, a dog walker,
and together they solve a sequence of murders
that happen here in Marlow.
- Hello.
- [Judith] I think your husband's
involved with these murders.
You know it and I know it.
- Who is this?
- [Judith] Oh, you know who I am.
The Stanley Spencer painting you told us about,
it was Elliot who broke into Stefan's house
and stole it back, wasn't it?
- No!
(shuffling footsteps) (labored breathing)
I don't know.
(birds chirping)
- Daisy, I once stood by a man I knew was lying.
(birds chirping)
You don't want to carry that guilt
for the rest of your life.
(car door opening)
(bag dropping)
- (quietly) I think he's got something hidden in the house.
(mischievous orchestral music)
- [Samantha] Everyone loves a murder mystery
(mischievous music continuing) (paper crinkling)
and a good script is where it all begins
When I first read it
and you get to the end and you go... (gasping)
- [Judith] It's not as bad as it looks.
- The first thing that attracted me to the project
was the fact that it's got women at the helm.
The female characters aren't
in competition with each other.
- [Jo] The way we are as women,
the way we empower each other,
the way we support each other-- that's sisterhood.
- [Samantha] Judith's big quality
is a strive for the truth.
And that's what drives her.
- [Alison] And it's really nice to see her
almost surprise herself
as she gets drawn into the investigation
and sort of picks up Suzie and picks up Becks.
- [Tanika] What are you doing here, Mrs. Potts?
And you, Miss Harris?
- We met at Iqbal's house.
- [Judith] We want Stefan's killer caught.
- [Natalie] Like, they're all so different with each other
and have very, very different opinions.
- When we all come together,
we find all this common ground and, uh, sisterhood.
- [Samantha] It's been an amazing company of actors.
- [Jo] The character of Suzie is a dog walker,
a bit of an extrovert, she's very inquisitive,
some may say nosy.
(Suzie groaning)
- [Jo] She's busy, you know,
she's climbing through windows,
she's running to save people,
she's a little bit more like Judith,
like, she's more...
"Ah," you know, "Let's go for it," you know?
- [Cara] Becks is very key at the vicarage.
She's also at the epicenter of village life,
being the vicar's wife.
She does a lot of the kind of thankless tasks.
(plates and silverware clanking)
As she becomes involved with Judith and Suzie,
it starts to reignite that side of her character,
which is kind of curious and interested
and also very capable.
- [Becks] Mr. Eddingham, can I borrow your car?
(keys jingling)
- [Mrs. Eddingham] Lesley!
- Thanks!
- [Cara] There's a great chemistry between them all
and they have strengths in different areas.
- [Jo] The setting of Marlow, I mean,
that's the other... that's another cast member.
It's a beautiful, beautiful town,
but people are dying in Marlow.
- [Robert] So when you're trying to do
an English murder mystery,
what you're really looking for
is somewhere quintessentially English.
- [Steve] The locations are around Marlow or in Marlow.
I've not worked on anything that has, relies so much on
on its location, uh, to be accurate.
- [Natalie] There's something, um, very safe and calming
and so painfully beautiful about Marlow.
It's the perfect backdrop to, to this kind of story.
- TV adaptation of "Marlow Murder Club"
started with Debra Hayward,
who is one of the co-founders of Monumental Television,
and we all read it and got excited about it
and were lucky enough to be able to option it.
Robert always wanted to do the adaptation himself,
which felt like a no-brainer for us.
- The first week that we shot
was one of the longest weeks of my life
'cause I just couldn't believe after all of these years
that we were actually making the TV show.
Everyone had just created
what I had written in my mind seven years ago.
- [Samantha] It's beautifully put together,
and Robert's done the most amazing job.
- [Robert] I can't wait for people to see it.
- I hope it intrigues them,
I hope it fascinates them.
- We're not gonna miss this, are we?
- [Cara] The three words I'd use to describe
"The Marlow Murder Club" would be...
"never underestimate women."
(intriguing music crescendoing)
(music fading)
(tense string music)
- [Narrator] If you want to play along
with our amateur detectives,
keep your eyes open for the cozy mystery clues.
(tense music echoing)
(muffled sounds from street)
- I severed your contract
so you were determined to find a clue
that proved I'd been shortsighted
and would be compelled to rehire you on the case?
(muffled hoofbeats outside)
- Something like that.
- [Narrator] We enjoy the old time variety of clues
that Miss Scarlet must discover in 1880s London.
- [Eliza] Chateau Lemaitre.
(background chattering)
The man had expensive taste,
which is curious since he didn't drink.
(chattering continuing)
(intriguing string music)
But you didn't know that, did you?
- [Narrator] In "Magpie Murders,"
Susan Ryland has to use a mystery novel as one big clue
to solve the murder of the book's author, Alan Conway.
(anxious percussion and string music)
- [Susan] It's his last novel
and everyone he knew was in it
and that's why the last chapter was taken--
because it reveals the secret.
(anxious music intensifying)
The answer's in the book.
(anxious music crescendoing)
- [Narrator] And in "Moonflower Murders,"
another Alan Conway novel featuring Atticus Pünd
contains the clues to solve the mystery
of a young woman's real world disappearance.
- [Susan] Three stars and an arrow--
that happens to be the star sign for Sagittarius.
When was her birthday?
- December the 10th.
(quiet piano music)
- [Narrator] Judith Potts's skills
as a retired archeologist
are crucial to how she discovers
and interprets the clues of "Marlow Murder Club."
- [Judith] The same gun, the same bullets,
the same shot to the forehead...
except in one detail--
a medallion at one scene...
implies a medallion at the other.
Oh, hello, what have we here?
(plaintive string music) (murmuring)
It says, "Faith" on it, doesn't it?
- [Tanika] Yeah.
- [Judith] "And here abideth faith, hope, and charity.
All three.
(strings intensifying)
But the greatest of these is charity."
- I Corinthians.
- Oh my God, faith, hope and charity.
- [Judith] Indeed.
There's going to be a third murder.
We're dealing with a serial killer.
(strings crescendoing)
(music fading)
- [Narrator] Sometimes cuddly pets
can be extremely important to solving the case.
Let's take a look behind the scenes at the animals on set.
(peaceful piano music)
(birds chirping)
(Dickens whining)
- [Will] Good boy.
Look after the next chap, won't you?
(Dickens whining)
- [Narrator] Whether he's with Will Davenport
or Alphy Kottaram in the vicarage,
"Grantchester" wouldn't be the same without Dickens.
(Dickens barking)
- Um, Leonard?
(mischievous string music)
- [Leonard] Oh yes, sorry. (Dickens whining)
This is Dickens. (Alphy chuckling)
He comes with the house.
(Dickens barking) He's very fond of sausages.
- Hello, Dickens, hello.
(quirky piano music)
- [Tom] ...he's the naughtiest dog on earth.
- The worst acting dog I've ever...
(all laughing) He just, he can't do anything.
- That's not fair.
- [Robson] But if you look, I mean if you look-
- He's not-- - No, he's four now.
- [Tessa] I am defending Dickens
... to the end. - He should be able to do...
something.
(Dickens barking)
- [Narrator] And the pets in "Marlow"
are integral to the story.
- My name's Colette McKenzie
and, and I'm here as the animal trainer
for this production.
The animals that feature on this show is,
uh, the first animal is a dog called Delta
and she's a German Shepherd and she's four years old.
She has done some productions before,
so she has bead to being on a film set.
And the other animal that is on this production
is Thor the cat.
And he is only two years old, so he's quite new to this.
So what's been involved
in getting them ready for being on set,
for Delta is obviously just training her.
(Delta barking) - [Colette] Good.
But then there's also a couple of action scenes
where she has to jump through a window,
so we've been prepping that back at home, um.
But yes, and she's very energetic, very lively.
Does love her treats,
so anything involving food, she's really good.
- That's walking! (Delta panting)
Are you walking?
(laughing)
- And, and with Thor the cat,
he's just got to be that typical lovely house cat
and just sit and stay or lay down and stay.
(intricate string music)
- [Judith] The problem is we're empiricists,
aren't we, Jasper?
- What challenges are involved in my role?
Mainly, in getting the animal to do the action
over and over again.
And that's, that can be quite challenging.
It's quite an exciting project for us.
(intricate music intensifying)
(music fading)
(romantic string music)
- [Narrator] Perhaps it's the perfect combination,
romance and murder.
(romantic music continuing)
When Alphy Kottaram becomes the new vicar of Grantchester,
it sets many hearts aflutter.
- Student?
- Vicar.
- [Caroline] Oh, I've heard all about you.
- News travels fast.
- Well, nothing stays secret here for long.
(romantic music continuing)
- [Narrator] But when his quick fling
turns out to be the town's latest murder suspect,
it strikes a bit too close to home.
- [Alphy] He wanted you to be his girl.
(tense string music)
But if you weren't gonna be Daddy's little girl,
you damn well weren't gonna be his either.
- You're twisting my words.
- Did you see red and lash out?
Did you kill Innes Clark
because he tried to control you?
- I didn't kill him for me, I killed him for Sam!
(tense music continuing)
- [Narrator] And in its latest season,
the police station becomes home
to the question of "Will they or won't they?"
between Larry and Miss Scott.
- I'm scared... if I look at you, I'll want to kiss you.
(gasping slightly)
(feet shuffling)
- That wouldn't be such a bad thing, would it?
(swallowing)
- I've never wanted to kiss you
and I don't want to start now.
(inhaling sharply)
(distant echoes)
(quiet footsteps)
(tender orchestral music)
(tender music intensifying)
Damn you, Larry.
Damn you.
(tender music crescendoing)
(kissing) (romantic music swelling)
- [Narrator] We won't expect a romantic pairing
with Atticus Pünd anytime soon,
but his modern day counterpart, Susan Ryeland,
can always depend on her romantic partner, Andreas.
(setting glass on table)
- Aren't you supposed to be teaching?
- I took the day off.
- You came all this way. - Mm.
- God, you're lovely.
Where did you get the waistcoat?
- (chuckling) I bribed the waiter.
(both laughing)
- Aw, glad to see you.
I've had a horrible time here.
- We can go home together.
- Same flight?
- 17F.
- Ahh!
Alice is promoted. (giggling)
(kissing)
- We have the weekend.
- Great. - Mm.
- Can't wait.
- Yiamas! (clinking glasses)
- Cin cin! (Andreas chuckling)
- [Narrator] With the Duke no longer in England,
is there any hope romantically for Miss Scarlet?
We're dying to find out.
- [Kate] When it comes to Eliza's independence,
um, before William's departure,
she was, uh, always independent
and, uh, knew what she wanted,
so that hasn't changed with his departure.
I think what we do begin to see
is, is a real softening in her, interestingly.
And we're seeing a side of her personal life
where she's questioning what it is she wants from her life.
And in particular, her romantic, uh, affiliations
have always been sort of towards one person before,
but now I think it's quite interesting to see
what does it mean to be a young professional woman?
- I take it you would like to attend the questioning.
- Yes, very much so.-- thank you.
(background chatter)
- But perhaps next time you might wish to wear something
a little... less eye-catching.
(intriguing harpsichord music)
- [Cathy] There's a kindness in Blake as well,
which is really interesting
to see such a powerful character in a man's world
have that gentle kindness as well.
- You're supposed to be dressed and ready for school.
- [Tom] I think Alexander Blake
being a single dad,
he sees a lot of his daughter in Eliza,
and there's a mischievous side to his daughter
that he sees in Eliza.
And it brings out a slightly softer side of Blake
that I'm not sure he always wants people to see.
- But after a number of shared experiences
where Eliza's thrust herself into his world, um,
whether he liked it or not,
they begin to... warm to each other
and they start to understand each other.
And that's when we really see the magic happen.
(echoing harpsichord music)
- Drink?
(muffled hoofbeats and street noises)
- Make it a double.
- [Cathy] Can a woman have it all?
Even, you know... in the 19th century,
can she have a career and can she settle down?
(footsteps) (door closing)
- Ivy!
- [Ivy] Afternoon, Barnabas!
- Ah... I got your note.
"Most urgent," it said.
(footsteps)
If this is about what I spoke on-
- [Ivy] We have company, Barnabas.
(somber string music)
- [Barnabas] Reverend Harvey.
- Mr. Potts.
- What are you doing here?
(somber music continuing)
Oh.
(somber music concluding)
- [Narrator] Thanks for cozying up with us
as we've gathered clues in idyllic English villages
to deduce what makes the perfect
cozy "MASTERPIECE Mystery!"
As always, we've solved the case
in an upbeat, lighthearted way.
We love the time-bending double mysteries
in "Magpie Murders" and "Moonflower Murders,"
the small town family feel of "Grantchester,"
the cleverness of "Miss Scarlet,"
and the humor of "The Marlow Murder Club."
We hope you love them as much as we do.
This has been
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery!"
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