It starts with the death of Mary Pritchard. We see a maid and Mary’s husband try to enter her room but it’s locked; he can’t find the key quickly so he thinks that shouldering down the door might be quicker... what kind of door do they have in that house?!?
Anyway, next we see Miss Marple suddenly realizing something she hadn’t thought of before, so the tries to reach the detective that was investigating the case, she wants to stop the trial because she says they all made a mistake and they’re about to convict an innocent man. Upon hearing who it is, the detective refuses to answer the call so Miss Marple goes to talk to Sir Henry and finds him at his Gentlemen’s club where women are not allowed, so she’s at first refused entrance, but when Sir Henry sees her he lets her in, telling the man to make an exception for him.
She tells Sir Henry: “I was there when it happened and I got it wrong”, and then tells him the whole story.
She was visiting a friend, and she met a man on the bus. The man Eddie will be found dead among the trees at the golf club later. They were all at the Golf Club because Mary’s husband George was about to be celebrated as captain of the club, when some children found the body. At first Mary didn’t want to go because frightened by her horoscope or something, but her doctor convinced her she’d be safe with them around. Mary made quite a scene shouting at the priest (Marple’s friend) because he was about to ask George for money. We learn that Mary stole George from her sister Philippa. They were very much in love, before she met him (she was prettier and she stole him, bad girl and worse sister, but he didn’t put up much of a fight did he?).
A fortune teller tells Mary that the blue geranium will mean her death.
Lewis, George’s brother who married Philippa, is a drunk and a gambler, therefore always having money trouble, and he asks George for some.
Mary is always terrified, and her doctor gives her some “magic medicine”, which is actually water because she’s not really sick.
Their friend Hazel turns out to be Penelope, Eddie’s wife: he had driven her away because he was a drunk, and now he had tried to get her back but she wouldn’t hear of it.
The doctor, Jonathan, and his girlfriend, find Mary’s former nurse Susan dead, pregnant with George’s baby. She was the one pretending to be the fortune teller Zarina apparently, and George’s fingerprints are all over the place. Hazel is shocked to hear that he had a story with Susan, and in a private meeting asks him about it, and he says that he did it because Susan was there but that he only loves her, Hazel... :-/ they tell each other that they want to be together so when Mary dies they both suspect each other. He is the main suspect and he made a full confession to all three murders - the detective keeps thinking that they are all murders - but Miss Marple tells Sir Henry that he confessed to protect the one woman he truly loved. She’s then heard by the judge at the Old Bailey. Philippa had been poisoning Mary for years, to punish her (her but not George who chose the prettier sister despite his words of love), but not to kill her, only to make her a bit unwell. Eddie committed suicide. Nurse Caroline knew that Philippa was poisoning Mary, she envied Mary’s money and wanted it for herself. She killed Mary, and Susan too (that bit wasn’t totally clear to me), to make it look like she was Zarida (wasn’t she? Or they both played the part?). Caroline told Philippa - who would inherit everything after Mary’s death if George was hanged for it, that she wanted half of the money or she’d tell the police that she poisoned her.
Hazel and George are now together again.
(This episode featured the second Miss Marple)
Mary-Sharon Small
George-Toby Stephens
Philippa-Claudie Blakley
Hazel-Caroline Catz
Caroline-Claire Rushbrook
Detective Somerset-Kevin R. McNally
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