A poet hangs himself in his locked conservatory. Father Brown thinks that it was not a suicide, but a murder.A poet hangs himself in his locked conservatory. Father Brown thinks that it was not a suicide, but a murder.A poet hangs himself in his locked conservatory. Father Brown thinks that it was not a suicide, but a murder.
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- TriviaMartha Quinton mentions that she was given a new drug from Germany during her pregnancy that caused her baby to be born with missing or deformed limbs, but fails to name the drug. Since the series is set in the 1950s, she is almost certainly referring to Thalidomide, developed by the German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal in 1954 and later withdrawn for causing severe birth defects. Since the episode is set approximately two years after her pregnancy, this also sets the date of the events depicted here at about 1956 or slightly later.
- GoofsWhen everyone is leaving at the end, Fr. Brown remembers his umbrella, but forgets his hat.
- SoundtracksMorning Has Breoken
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, to a traditional tune
Performed by Mrs. Parffit
Played at the audition
Featured review
Grief, guilt, emotional and good spiritual advice
A poet named Leonard Quinton has a man working for him that has cultish type beliefs from India. The man Umesh Varma is Quintons spiritual adviser and tells the poet he sees death for the poet soon. Leonard is married, has his house decorated in the way the cult worships. He has a girl friend Violet Parnassus that lives with him and also a wife that is depressed. He used to be a doctor but does not practice as one anymore.
The wife Mrs Quinton cannot stand the site of her husband for many years so she does not care if Leonard is having an affair. Mr Quinton invites Father Brown to his house. He wants the priest to make sure his wife is taken care of, he still loves her if something happens to him.
Later Leonard dies and is found hung. The story gets more complicated, murder, suicide etc. It comes out toward the end that the Quintons had a child named Olivia who was born deformed and Mr Quinton left his wife and came back. The baby looked like the father but died at 3 months soon after. He came back just before she died. Mrs Quinton held it against her husband and he held felt guilty himself because he had his wife take some medication when she was pregnant. They both seem to think the medicine caused the deformity and Mrs Quinton found it easier to blame her husband for recommending the medicine for her morning sickness.
It is never explained how Mr Quinton got hung. The end is very emotional. Mrs Quinton wants to kill herself. She is broken hearted because of the death of her child and wants to blame God. Father Brown does not get religious in most of these episodes but this was important to me. He tells Mrs Quinton he does not know why her child died or why God allowed it. He tell her that he knows that God knows what it is like to lose a child.(Jesus) and that God is standing next to her and can't stop her suffering but loves her and if she lets him into her heart she will see Olivia again. It broke my heart to hear this. I often thought of the crucifixion and that Jesus died for me. I never thought of God as a parent losing his son in such a painful way on the Cross and feeling the grief of a parent.
So there is some good spiritual advice from Father Brown this time around.
The wife Mrs Quinton cannot stand the site of her husband for many years so she does not care if Leonard is having an affair. Mr Quinton invites Father Brown to his house. He wants the priest to make sure his wife is taken care of, he still loves her if something happens to him.
Later Leonard dies and is found hung. The story gets more complicated, murder, suicide etc. It comes out toward the end that the Quintons had a child named Olivia who was born deformed and Mr Quinton left his wife and came back. The baby looked like the father but died at 3 months soon after. He came back just before she died. Mrs Quinton held it against her husband and he held felt guilty himself because he had his wife take some medication when she was pregnant. They both seem to think the medicine caused the deformity and Mrs Quinton found it easier to blame her husband for recommending the medicine for her morning sickness.
It is never explained how Mr Quinton got hung. The end is very emotional. Mrs Quinton wants to kill herself. She is broken hearted because of the death of her child and wants to blame God. Father Brown does not get religious in most of these episodes but this was important to me. He tells Mrs Quinton he does not know why her child died or why God allowed it. He tell her that he knows that God knows what it is like to lose a child.(Jesus) and that God is standing next to her and can't stop her suffering but loves her and if she lets him into her heart she will see Olivia again. It broke my heart to hear this. I often thought of the crucifixion and that Jesus died for me. I never thought of God as a parent losing his son in such a painful way on the Cross and feeling the grief of a parent.
So there is some good spiritual advice from Father Brown this time around.
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- ctyankee1
- May 18, 2014
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