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Father Brown Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
The Tree of Truth
44 mins
Seven years after her disappearance the remains of Scarlett Dreyfuss are found in woods. Simple Benny Clough was charged with her murder but new evidence acquits him. During pantomime rehearsals Father Brown learns that Scarlett made enemies among the local amateur dramatics group, one of whom is also attacked. Father Brown is charged with finding the culprit so that the pantomime can go ahead successfully.
Episode 2
The Jackdaw's Revenge
45 mins
When another woman owns to the crime, Katherine Corven, whom Father Brown helped trap for her husband's murder, is released from jail and joins a convent. Eager reporter Eddie Hamsley is taken in by her supposed piety and sets out to discredit Father Brown. There is another death, the supposed suicide of a woman Katherine detested, but Katherine has an alibi given by the convent. With Bunty now in danger Father Brown must work out how Katherine achieved a seemingly impossible crime.
Episode 3
The Kembleford Dragon
44 mins
The prospective closure of the local railway station leads to a fund raising event to save it, at which the station master Ben Webb is found murdered. Chief suspect is Deepak Chatterjee, the man in charge of rail closure, but he reveals a secret about Ben which allows Father Brown to unmask the real killer, in addition to acting as an impromptu midwife.
Episode 4
The Angel of Mercy
44 mins
Mrs McCarthy's friend Freda Knight dies in her sleep at the hospital where Bunty's old nanny Ellen is also a patient but Father Brown feels her death was not natural, especially when the sole heir to Freda's will is also found dead. The father believes that a misguided person may be practicing euthanasia on terminally ill people and hurries to stop them before Ellen becomes the next victim.
Episode 5
The Face of the Enemy
44 mins
Lady Felicia returns from Africa, having split from her lover Benedict Northam and is told by MI5 agent Daniel Whittaker that he is a Soviet spy, blackmailing her into preventing Northam from handing over vital documents to the Russians at an arts fund raiser. Father Brown notices her unease and follows her, coming to her aid when she is accused of murder.
Episode 6
The Devil You Know
45 mins
Forced to reapply for his job Mallory is attending a local bowls tournament when Scotland Yard Commander Alec Frobisher, a former Nazi hunter is garroted. Replaced by the arrogant DI Ironside Mallory, for once, is grateful to Father Brown for helping him solve what proves to be a double murder.
Episode 7
The Dance of Death
45 mins
Lucy Dawes is murdered at a ballroom dancing contest and her necklace stolen. Her boyfriend Oliver DeWitt is arrested but her blind dance partner Alexander believes their hostess Lady Rose is responsible and is guarding a guilty secret. Oliver holds another secret. Father Brown must work out who is telling the truth to solve the murder.
Episode 8
The Cat of Mastigatus
44 mins
The grandson of an authoritarian private school's headmaster is implicated in a murderous attempt on a girl's life. Suspicion then falls on the school's enigmatic and handicapped gardener. A further death changes everything. Subtle clues noticed only by Father Brown, and his compassionate intuition, allow him to sort the wheat from the chaff. An inter-school romance and a rivalry between Mrs McCarthy and Bunty provide counterpoints to the main plot of this period drama set in the bucolic fifties.
Episode 9
The Flower of the Fairway
45 mins
Locals led by Hermione Harvey protest when brash American Raylan Reeve opens a golf club in the village and he receives death threats. During a golf tournament he is murdered but there is another corpse, that of a man Reeve's daughter Tamara clearly recognizes. Father Brown uncovers a shocking secret in the Reeve family to link the two murders.
Episode 10
The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau
44 mins
Father Brown reads that Flambeau has been killed in Italy before setting off to Gloucester where the Iron Crown of Lombardy, made from a nail from the Crucifixion, is housed. He is approached by a woman claiming to be Flambeau's widow but a key Flambeau sent him has been stolen and Father Brown believes it is connected to the intended theft of the Iron Crown. A chance meeting on a train proves him right and he must stop the theft - at the risk of his life.
