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Jonathan Creek Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
Danse Macabre
50 mins
Ezra Lazurus is a successful writer of the macabre. Suffering from a splitting headache she leaves a Halloween costume party with her second husband. When they arrive home, an intruder knocks her husband out, dons his skeleton costume, and fatally shoots her. Alarmed by the shot Lazarus's daughter Lorna runs to her room but is knocked unconscious by the killer, who runs out of the house carrying her. When he is pursued, he hides in the brick garage and closes the door behind them. When the police arrive and open the door, the murderer is nowhere to be found although Lorna is lying there unconscious without her costume on. After Maddie is hired by Lorna's husband, a local vicar to find a logical explanation for the bizarre events. she brings Jonathon in on the case.
Episode 2
Time Waits for Norman
49 mins
Does time really wait for Norman? Can he be in New York in a meeting and simultaneously in Britain in a Wimpy spilling coffee over his foot? More baffling is how does he arrive home after several hundred witnesses saw him die. They're all lying or are they?
Episode 3
The Scented Room
50 mins
When some schoolgirls are touring a stately mansion, an El Greco masterpiece disappears from the small room it was in even though no one was in the room at the time, and the door was only closed for thirty seconds. Maddy would love to collect the reward being offered, but she finds Jonathan reluctant to help as the painting's owner, Sylvester Le Fley, a snobby theater critic, has panned his magic shows.
Episode 4
The Problem at Gallows Gate: Part 1
49 mins
Adam introduces Maddy and Jonathon to Hewie Harper, a blind jazz musician, who has regained his sight through surgery but maintains the pose of blindness for professional reason. Adan's aghast when his dotty Scottish older sister unexpectedly drops in. She joins Jonathon and other nature lovers on a "badger watch" from a blind, and on the way home witnesses a murder through a window. With her binoculars she can clearly recognize the murderer, whom she identifies through a photograph, but everyone is shocked when they find out who it is.
Episode 5
The Problem at Gallows Gate: Part 2
50 mins
Duncan Proctor, who had leapt out of a window to his death several weeks earlier, was subsequently seen committing the murder of his ex-girlfriend. The disappearance of three tapes from an answering machine intrigues Jonathan, especially when one is found in the manor house's cesspool. Things get complicated when he finds that none of the area funeral parlors handled the body.
Episode 6
Mother Redcap
49 mins
Jonathan is brought in to determine how a judge, under threat while presiding over a trial involving Chinese Triads, is killed while sleeping under police protection. Meanwhile Maddy investigates an old pub, the Mother Redcap, scene of a serious of mysterious deaths.
Episode 7
Black Canary
89 mins
A retired female illusionist dies in mysterious circumstances. Maddy and Jonathan are called upon to investigate.
