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Jonathan Creek Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2003 - 2013
Episode 1
The Coonskin Cap
55 mins
Jonathan is called in as a consultant on Crimewatch-style TV show "Eyes and Ears" to help shed light on the case of a serial killer. Teaming up with presenter Carla Borrego, they investigate the mysterious 'Daisy Chain murders' who appears to be able to vanish into thin air.
Episode 2
Angel Hair
55 mins
A married man is having an affair and his wife finds out. After the dust has settled he finds a video tape of his lover's kidnapping, delivered before she was thrown off the estate by his wife. It seems like his lover was trying to con him into handing over ransom money but who can explain how her hair grew back so quickly as it was clearly cut off in the video?
Episode 3
The Tailor's Dummy
59 mins
There seems to be no doubt that fashion designer Marco Bergman committed suicide. But Jonathan thinks he was murdered.
Episode 4
The Seer of the Sands
60 mins
A man dedicated to exposing the so-called spirit world dies in a boating accident. Then his body disappears.
Episode 5
The Chequered Box
55 mins
A respected police officer is photographed in suspicious circumstances. Can Jonathan prove his innocence?
Episode 6
Gorgons Wood
61 mins
A priceless porcelain statue of the ancient Shinto monk Sikoto-no vanishes from a small town museum under impossible circumstances.
Episode 7
The Grinning Man
120 mins
Stage magician Lance Gessler lives in a mansion known as Metropolis that has a deadly history. When another victim succumbs to an ominous presence in the attic room, it's up to Jonathan to unravel the mystery.
Episode 8
The Judas Tree
94 mins
In 1889 Dr Thaddeus Northcote fell victim to a curse by his spurned mistress, Egyptian Selima Al-Sharad, and died in the garden of his house, Green Lanterns,in mysterious circumstances that were never explained. A hundred years later Emily Somerton and her friend have a traumatic experience in the country and twenty years later Emily is plucked from working in a shoe shop by charismatic crime writer Hugo Dore, who just happens to be the current owner of Green Lanterns. Emily feels she is being taken over by Selima when death threats arrive, in her hand-writing, for Hugo's icy wife Harriet. When Harriet is murdered she identifies Emily as her killer before dying and Emily is arrested. Despite Jonathan explaining at her trial how Northcote was killed and how Emily was framed she is still found guilty. Jonathan and Emily's friend Joey, new assistant to Jonathan's boss Adam, discover that Emily is guilty - of a fatality from twenty years previously,and the real killer is exacting a personal revenge on her.
Episode 9
The Clue of the Savant's Thumb
90 mins
Now working for an advertising agency, Jonathan attends a function where he meets satirist Franklin Tartikoff and his wife Rosalind. Some while later, on the same day their adoptive daughter Fariba is returning from the Andemans, Rosalind, having returned from a school-mate's funeral, sees Franklin's corpse through the keyhole of his locked study door but when the police, led by wheelchair-bound Inspector Pryke, arrive the body has vanished. Paranormal investigator Joey Ross asks Jonathan to help with the enquiry and they learn that Rosalind is haunted by the death of a fellow pupil at a botched religious ceremony at school over forty years earlier. After an attempt is made to kill Fariba, Jonathan discovers just how Franklin died and how the illusion of the locked door was created. However the reason for Franklin's demise involves a sinister government plot and Jonathan and his associates are in danger before the case is finally resolved.
