(GASPS)
Be careful, Therese!
No sign of Therese?
Late again, I shouldn't wonder.
I'll go. Therese?
Therese?
Therese! Therese! Therese!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
(CLUCKING)
Oi! Out!
C'mon, shoo! Out! Out!
Come on, or it'll be roast chicken for dinner
and I won't be gentle with the stuffing!
-Morning. -Did you sleep with
your door open?
It's the only way I can get
a through draft in this godforsaken sweat box.
Eyes on you, sir. Keep walking.
Oh, charming!
You're here early.
There's been a fire at Le Couvent du Sacre-Coeur.
Ah, ah, ah, English please. My house, my rules.
The Convent of the Sacred Heart.
-A postulant nun has died from smoke inhalation.
-Oh, really?
Cause of the fire?
According to the fire department,
it was started by a cigarette.
The nun was smoking in her cell!
(CHUCKLES)
-The proverbial smoking nun, eh? -Excuse me?
-Nothing. -Typical Caribbean, though.
Even the nuns are laid back.
Don't you think that is odd? A nun that smokes?
Listen, on this island, I wouldn't be surprised
if she was making sangria with the communion wine.
She was a woman of God.
Behind their saintly exterior, nuns have a heart of stone.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Yes, indeed.
NUN: Welcome. Good day.
Are you OK?
Yeah, fine.
Can I help you?
I'm Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey.
This is Detective Inspector Poole.
I'm still in shock. Poor Therese.
-If only I could have got there sooner.
-What do you mean?
I discovered the fire.
Her door was locked so Father John broke it down.
Through the smoke we could see her lying on her bed,
head on her pillow.
It was just like she was asleep.
JOHN: Let's get her out of here.
Quickly! Oh, Therese!
(COUGHING)
MARGUERITE: I tried to revive her. But it was no use.
I'm sure you did everything you could.
Father John had better be our first port of call.
Of course. It's hit him quite hard.
Like all of us. We're like a little family here.
I'll show you the way. (PHONE DIALLING)
I keep saying to myself, "Keep busy, keep busy."
Yes, of course. It must be a shock.
Father, forgive the question
but is it usual for the nuns here to smoke?
You have to understand Therese was a postulant nun,
she'd been here less than six months.
She hadn't taken holy orders yet.
Postulancy being a sort of trial period
before you actually commit yourself?
Exactly, and it's a big transition to make,
giving up nearly all contact with the outside world.
No possessions. No money, but the cigarettes.
We knew it was a struggle for her.
And she always smoked when she was upset.
It seems odd that she didn't wake up when the fire started.
That's another tragedy, she took sleeping pills, you see.
-Found it hard to sleep. -And where did she
get the pills?
Sister Marguerite whom you met outside just now,
she runs the infirmary here. She's a trained nurse.
Did you notice anything suspicious this morning?
-Anything unusual? -Unusual?
Out of the ordinary?
Well, not this morning, but I haven't seen her...
But some of the nuns came to me saying,
they'd seen some sort of phantom nun.
A phantom nun?
A person who is not a sister in the convent, but dressed as one.
Sorry to interrupt. I didn't know you had company.
This is Sister Anne, our Mother Superior.
Father, what a mess!
I'm always clearing up after him!
I just came to see how you were.
She's with our Lord and Saviour now. You know that, Father.
Bury your sadness in his loving heart.
(CAMILLE CLEARS THROAT)
Father John was just telling us about your phantom nun?
-Stuff and nonsense. -So you haven't seen her?
Of course not. She doesn't exist.
Father John seems very tired now,
perhaps I could help you instead?
ANNE: I'm not made of stone, I do my grieving in private.
I need to keep myself together.
God is in the detail and the details need my attention,
death or no death.
-Even with the Holy Spring. -The Holy Spring?
The convent has water that is said to heal, sir.
They do heal, my dear.
And it's getting quite famous now, isn't it?
Yes. People are coming from all over in the hope of a cure.
-Even Canada. -So people cast
aside medical science
to come and splash themselves with water?
Ah! A cynic.
Call me old fashioned, but I simply
have a healthy respect for scientific proof.
Proof enough for you?
I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010.
I drank of the waters, I bathed in the waters.
By last year I was cancer free and have been ever since.
Living proof, you might say.
Might help that rash of yours.
Father John said you tried to unlock Therese's door.
Yes, I think she must have locked it
because she was smoking in there.
She knew we'd disapprove.
I couldn't get my key in the lock, because hers was inside.
I tried to force my key into the lock...
Right, you go and talk to the other nuns.
Ask them about the discovery of the fire
and this so called phantom nun.
I'll join Fidel in the cell.
You sure you'll be all right on your own?
-I'll be fine. -Are you coming?
I'll pray for you.
So what was she like, this Therese?
She was young, only 18.
Brought up in an orphanage, in France.
I'm afraid she picked up some bad habits.
(CHUCKLING) Bad habits!
Nuns? Habits?
What sort of bad habits?
Alcohol. Chewing gum. Those cigarettes of hers.
I said to her, "They'll kill you one day."
I tried to come down hard on her, but...
I shouldn't say this,
but Father John had a bit of soft spot for her.
In what way?
He allowed her things to facilitate the transition.
I have errands to run.
Can I help you with anything else?
No, no, no, that'll be all, thank you.
Nuns.
They're just creepy, aren't they?
All this for a cigarette.
Or was it?
Therese was found with her head on the pillow,
-as if she'd been asleep, right?
-Right.
Well, if her head was on her pillow
and she was lying flat on her back,
how come the fire started at this end of the bed?
So what are you saying, sir?
I'm saying that she didn't smoke the cigarette that killed her.
-Then who did? -No one.
Someone planted it to make all this look like an accident.
But who would want to murder a nun?
Anyone who'd seen The Sound Of Music
more than once?
No, sir, it's impossible. She was in here alone.
Look, the window is sealed, right?
And the door was locked, but from the inside.
You see, the key is still in the lock.
No one could have got in to start a fire and back out again.
And what about this?
She had cigarettes in her room.
That just proves she was a smoker, we already knew that.
This mattress is old, pre any kind of fire regulation.
The smoke would've killed her in minutes.
I think the killer knew that.
But how did they get in? And out again.
If you're going to make Sergeant, Fidel,
you're going to have to learn to think outside the box.
Or in this case, think outside the cell.
Oh! For Christ's sake!
Fidel, I want you to conduct a thorough forensic search.
Pay particular attention to the door.
-OK, I'll start by dusting for prints.
-Good.
Dwayne, we'll need exclusion prints
from the sisters and Father John.
-Yes, sir. -Then help Fidel
complete the search in here.
I want every inch covered.
Camille wants you outside.
Says she has something you have to see.
This? This is what I had to see?
The water is said to be miraculous.
-Oh! I don't suppose it removes gum?
-Sir...
Holy Water? There's no such thing as Holy Water. Look, look.
See? No miracle. Still there.
And just to clear this up, this is heat-related psoriasis,
not a stigmata.
NUN: Sister.
Elodie.
Sister Marguerite now.
-Of course. How are you? -I'm fine.
-Well, apart from... -Yes.
It's so terrible. But I'm determined to be strong.
You have to be at times like these.
I learnt that the hard way.
Of course you did.
But enough about me. I suppose you're married now?
-Children? -No, still young,
free and single.
Well, free and single at any rate!
Dip your thumb in the ink for me.
There's nothing to worry about.
We just have to eliminate certain prints from the inquiry.
Good to see you again, Elodie.
Suspects?
Any prints?
It's hard to get much, sir.
There are partial prints on Therese,
but nothing else on the lock and key.
How about the cigarette packet we found in the room?
No, there were no prints there at all.
Making it very unlikely they were her cigarettes.
Must have been planted in the room.
I spoke to the sisters at the convent
about the phantom nun, like you said.
And could she walk through walls? Unseal windows?
No, but some of them said they'd seen a figure
walking about the convent who wasn't one of them.
-Well, was it vaguely human? -OK, what is it with
you and nuns? Hey! Look what I found
when I did the final sweep of Therese's room.
It was hidden behind a loose panel in her cell.
-It's just like The Count Of Monte Cristo.
-Like what?
CAMILLE: A secret hiding place in a prisoner's cell,
only his was behind a loose stone in the fireplace.
-Have you read the book? -No, no, we tended to
concentrate on the classics at school.
-Dickens, Trolloppe, Eliot... -Yes, it is a classic.
Yeah, in France. Slightly different.
Ah. A one way ticket to France, leaving next week.
Looks like our prisoner was planning to escape.
-What's that? -A printed list
of names and numbers.
-Any of them mean anything to you?
-No.
Dwayne, we need to find the people on here.
-Find out their connection to Therese.
-Look.
Another packet.
But these are a different brand to the ones
we found in her room.
Why would you hide one packet and not the other?
Because, as I thought, the other packet was planted.
Gum! But this is unopened.
Then where did the gum come from that was stuck to my shoe?
-Another old packet? -Yeah, but why be so careless?
She knew gum was frowned upon, why just leave it on the floor?
Maybe she was going to pick it up in the morning.
She couldn't have known someone was going to murder her.
Don't forget she was just a teenage girl, after all.
"If you speak, I will silence you."
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
Romans 12, verse 19.
A teenage girl who knew too much?
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
It's been such a shock for all of us
and I just wondered if you wanted to talk?
When I need to talk, I talk to the Lord.
Which was what I was doing when you knocked, so...
Of course, Reverend Mother. Forgive me.
Anything back on that list of names?
Maybe one of them wanted Therese silenced for some reason.
-Dwayne? -Nothing yet, chief.
Remember, Therese often slept late because of sleeping pills
administered by Sister Marguerite.
You think she upped the dose
to ensure she slept through the fire?
No, it was Elodie who tried to save her.
-Elodie? -Sorry. Sister Marguerite.
She changed her name when she took Holy Orders.
The lengths women will go to avoid you, Dwayne.
It wasn't like that.
We used to hang out, fool around, you know.
But her parents died when she was 21. Motor boat accident.
She never got over it.
Then, not long after, she joined the convent.
You think she can be happy?
You mean, without you?
Dwayne, she married Christ. You could never compete,
not with the miracles and the father-in-law.
Ah, but does he have my killer smile?
CAMILLE: OK. Thank you.
OK, thank you.
The plane ticket we found in Therese's box
was paid for in cash
a week ago by a Michael Lannon.
He bought two tickets to Paris-Orly,
one for Therese and one for him.
Right, so they were planning to leave the island together.
Good work, Camille. Right then, who is Michael Lannon?
Check all residents with that name,
all passenger lists in and out of Sainte-Marie.
I want him found.
I've put the word out on Michael Lannon.
If he's on the island, he won't be able to stay hidden for long.
So, come on, what is it with you and nuns?
What?
You've been strange all day, you nearly jumped out of your skin
when Sister Anne entered Father John's office.
She just startled me, that's all.
Look, I don't want to talk about it.
It's something in your childhood, isn't it?
Catholic school? Altar boy...
Look, if you must know,
the House Mother at my boarding school was a nun.
Sister Benedict. Imagine Geoff Capes in a wimple.
-Geoff who? -It doesn't matter.
Anyway she used to terrorise us with spot checks, day and night
nails, teeth, underpants...
-Underpants? -I still have
nightmares where I wake up
seeing her mole-ridden face in mine.
-You know she had this slipper, she used to beat us.
-Sir.
I had thighs like corned beef
-for almost my entire childhood. -Sir, I...
I know, they're brides of Christ.
But some are bad through and through. They are evil!
Sir!
Don't worry. I didn't bring my slipper.
Hi. Everything all right?
Yes, there's just something I forgot to tell you
about last night.
Sister Marguerite said Therese was afraid
of something outside this bar.
Yes, it was funny.
What was it she saw?
WOMAN: Not what, but who.
Daryl Dexter. A businessman,
but no one can tell me what sort of business he's in.
Then why would a nun be scared of him? Or even know him?
Do you know where he lives?
(HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING)
Er, excuse me. We're looking for Mr. Sexter.
-Dexter. -Dexter.
So nuns and girls in bikini make you nervous.
Or is it just women in general?
Women don't make me nervous.
Good God.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Mr. Dexter?
Detective Inspector Poole. This is Detective
Sergeant Bordey.
Detectives, glad you could make it.
Would you excuse us for a moment?
We're investigating the death of a young woman...
Perhaps we can discuss any business you have in private.
I'd appreciate that. This way.
DEXTER: I'm sure there's some mistake.
Why would anyone be scared of me?
But we have a witness who says she was scared when she saw you.
Very scared.
Then your witness is mistaken.
Did you know Therese, the girl who was killed?
Not personally, no. But I barely go up to the convent.
Just the odd meeting. What kind of meeting?
Sorry, I thought you knew. I run a PR company,
I've just taken them on as clients.
Since when do convents need PR?
Since they discovered they have a Holy Spring.
-It has the potential to transform their fortunes.
-How so?
The amount of revenue this could generate
for the convent could be quite phenomenal.
-For a price. -A percentage.
That's what this little get together is in aid of.
To stimulate initial interest.
And there's talk about the Holy Spring
being sanctified by the Vatican.
Now, if that happens, the sky's the limit.
Does the name Michael Lannon mean anything to you?
Can't say that it does, no. And do you recognise
any of these names?
We found them in Therese's room.
-No. -Are you sure?
Take your time. Look, I know you're only
doing your job, but I'm trying to do mine.
And this isn't exactly good for business.
So, if you don't mind.
That man is obsessed with money. And promoting a Holy Spring,
with women in bikinis. I wonder what Sister Anne
would say?
Do not mention bikinis and
Sister Anne in the same sentence!
Conjures up a very powerful image.
-Hang on, Camille. -What?
I saw a photo of that woman on his desk.
I think I know her from somewhere.
-You know her like that? -Drive.
So, Daryl Dexter is suspect number one.
He obviously knew Therese. Why else would she
be scared of him?
Yes, he lied about knowing her. So, what does he have to hide?
Maybe he and Therese were lovers?
Maybe he's the Michael Lannon who bought the plane tickets?
I haven't found anyone of that name on the island yet.
But Daryl has a lover, remember? The woman we saw at the villa.
Doesn't mean he can't have another one.
Yes, but, if they were lovers,
why was she so scared of him during the procession?
Maybe she was going to tell his girlfriend
about their relationship?
So he sent the threatening letter to silence her?
It's rubbish, isn't it. Any joy on that list of names?
Maybe there's a connection to Daryl Dexter there?
Fidel's on the case.
Something else came up here.
I've just spoken to the orphanage in Strasbourg
where Therese grew up.
They say she wasn't a religious girl.
Quite the opposite in fact,
boys, drugs, petty theft.
So, not the obvious candidate to join a convent?
Ah, but that's not all.
When I was looking for their telephone number,
I went onto the orphanage website.
They have a gallery going back years
and had photographs of their celebrations
for the Pope's visit to Strasbourg in 1988.
Therese wasn't born in 1988.
It's not Therese.
Sorry to disturb you, Father.
Ah, part of your PR campaign? I met Daryl Dexter earlier.
I know people doubt his motives,
but with his help, I'm sure we can
save the convent.
Save it?
Well, each year, costs rise, donations dwindle.
You mean your future here is in doubt?
In this house, yes. There's talk of it being sold.
Many old convents are turned into hotels these days.
Of course, the nuns can find homes in other convents.
I'm sure the church can find a home for me somewhere.
Yeah, where were you before here?
Oh, many places.
-Lyon, Limerick, Ghana... -Strasbourg?
I was a priest there, many years ago.
Attached to the orphanage where Therese spent her childhood.
But you didn't think to tell us that?
I didn't think it was relevant. It was 20 odd years ago.
I was long gone before she was there.
And also, it was a difficult time.
I don't want to go into it.
Well, I'm sure the diocese in Strasbourg can tell us?
Old sins make long shadows, isn't that what they say?
-Ah. -Ginette Pascal.
For once, I was just a man, not a man of God.
I would have left the priesthood for her,
but the church found out.
They didn't want a scandal and so I was sent away.
Not that it stopped the sisters here finding out.
Oh, the orphanage told one of my officers
that Therese wasn't a religious girl.
So why did she want to become a nun?
She'd spent her whole life inside an institution,
and quite simply didn't know how to exist outside of one.
-A prisoner? -Of sorts.
Even to the extent that she hid things in her cell?
We found a box, hidden behind a secret panel.
Like The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Quite.
Ah! Great minds. You thought you'd get an early start too?
Yes. What's that?
Ah, your Count Of Monte Cristo.
Ah! And?
Quite a man.
But, most importantly, it got me to thinking about locked cells
and how you get through solid walls.
Well, Edmund Dantes used a tunnel.
Yes, but we found no tunnel. So, how else could someone
get out of a locked room
after starting the fire?
Anyone from the convent would've known
the place like the back of their hand.
Yes, speaking of which...
Still waiting on that miracle.
Father John. He didn't mention the orphanage connection.
He didn't know her back then.
Yeah, but we know he had an eye for the ladies.
Maybe Therese was his lover.
His motive to kill her?
She threatened to expose the affair?
He couldn't survive a second scandal?
But Daryl Dexter, he's still our main suspect.
He lied about knowing Therese, and she was terrified of him.
Ah, yes, but he didn't have access to the
nuns' living quarters.
How could he have got in to start the fire unnoticed?
-Maybe he is the phantom nun?
-Hmm.
Did you look into Sister Marguerite's family's deaths?
Yes. No suspicious circumstances.
Also, the autopsy report is back.
Sleeping pills were found in Therese's system,
but no more than the prescribed dose.
Sister Marguerite did not drug her.
She's still first on the scene though.
Could she have done something to the lock?
Is there is a way to trip it, do you think?
Or could someone maybe have
turned the key from the outside somehow to lock it?
Breakthrough.
We've spoken to all the people on the list of names
from Sister Therese's room.
-And? -They were all cured by the
waters of the Holy Spring.
-Cured? I find that hard to believe.
-No, no, they all swear it.
Except one. Bomba Dupuis.
An old drunk, lives by the port.
And after a few rum punches
courtesy of the Sainte-Marie Police Force...
Wait, wait, you saying you got a potential witness drunk?
He said he was paid to say he was cured. $200.
So Therese was paying people to endorse the Holy Spring.
No. Not Therese. Daryl Dexter.
Thank you for seeing us.
No problem. Can I get you a drink? Something fizzy?
No, thank you.
Oh. Well, you don't mind if I do?
-Not at all. -It was really Daryl
we wanted to see.
Oh, well, he's off on business, I'm afraid.
What's the nature of your relationship with Mr. Dexter?
We're engaged!
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
It means congratulations.
I've been grinning like a school girl ever since he asked me.
It's ridiculous at my age, I know.
How involved are you in his business dealings?
Oh, very.
We're a partnership.
I'm very excited about the Holy Spring.
You see, the pool might be in the convent,
but I own the land where the spring finds its source.
-You own the land? -Yes, it was left to me
many years ago.
Well, we thought it was worthless
but then a nun gets cured,
and then others.
I'm hoping to sell it to the Vatican,
once the waters have been sanctified.
At a great profit, I presume?
Well, certainly enough to keep me in imported champagne.
You are aware that a nun was found at the convent,
dead in her room?
I know. Isn't it dreadful?
Were you also aware that the same nun had discovered
that Daryl had been bribing people to make bogus claims
about being cured by the spring?
Well, I really can't imagine that that's true.
-We have at least one witness. -A witness?
CAMILLE: Do you mind if I join you?
I've been trying to give up but...
Yes, of course.
-I really should be good. -Look, can we get back
to the bribes?
Bribes? Are you implying
that Daryl and I are somehow involved in...
That's just ridiculous.
I know exactly when the fire broke out in the convent
and I can tell you, Daryl and I were together that morning.
So if you'd just like to let yourself out...
Since when do you smoke?
Since I wanted to see whether Laura smokes the same cigarettes
we found in Therese's room.
And she does.
-Good work. -Pardon?
Come on.
Come on. Haven't got all day.
(EXHALES)
I'll come back later.
(CHOKING)
(COUGHING)
Can you think of any reason why anyone would want to attack you?
Some of the silverware on the altar
might be worth stealing, I suppose.
But nothing was stolen.
We found these. Grown here. Rosary beads.
Not the conventional weapon we encounter,
which rather suggests it was someone from the convent.
Can't believe what you're insinuating.
Sister Anne, if you don't help us,
the attacker may strike again.
Therese is dead. One of the other sisters
may be in danger or you may not be
so lucky next time.
I've survived cancer and I have survived this.
And mark my words, it has nothing to do with luck.
God has saved me twice. He obviously has some
plan for me.
I brought you some tea. I was just...
I couldn't drink it.
Well, if it's going spare...
Why won't she talk?
I don't know. But I know why she didn't drink the tea.
I think they make it with your Holy Water. Thank you.
Hey, isn't that Dexter's car?
POOLE: Mr. Dexter!
Inspector. Sergeant Bordey.
This really isn't the best time to talk. And, to be honest,
I've told you everything I know.
Not quite everything.
You failed to mention that you've been bribing
people to say they've been cured.
I have no need to bribe anyone. These waters cure people.
That's not what our witness says.
Well, your witness is wrong.
I don't think so.
I think Therese knew what you were doing
-so you sent her a threatening letter.
-This again?
I barely knew the girl,
so why would I sent her a Bible spouting letter?
How do you know the letter quoted the Bible?
He said so.
No, he didn't.
Therese had less commitments than the other nuns.
She had time on her hands.
(SIGHS) One day...
One day, she saw me giving money to one of the pilgrims.
Next thing I know, a list of contacts
has gone missing from my car.
The list we found in her cell.
She came to me and said she knew what I was doing
and was going to tell Father John
if I didn't stop the bribes. I panicked.
So you killed her?
No. I threatened her.
I just threatened her.
I admit maybe I was over the top with the Bible bit,
but I thought it was a language she'd understand.
But I did not kill her. That's ridiculous.
Anyway, I was with Laura at the time of the fire.
So she was keen to point out.
Have you been here at the convent all morning?
Most of it. Why?
So you were here when Sister Anne was attacked?
Attacked?
-Is she all right? -She's fine.
Despite someone trying to strangle her.
Did she know your secret? Was she going to expose you?
Sister Anne? She's the poster girl for the Holy Spring.
She, at least, has been cured. Why would I want her dead?
So, Therese's discovery of bribes must be what she was
going to tell Father John about before she died.
Only someone made sure she didn't get the chance.
Have we got anything back from the UK on Laura or Daryl yet?
FIDEL: Nothing yet, sir.
But I finished asking for prints on the rosary beads
we found in the chapel.
So? Any prints?
Yes, only partial ones. Sister Marguerite's.
Need a hand? I've been at this for hours.
I'm really sorry to have to ask,
but we found your prints on the rosary.
That's because they're my beads, Dwayne.
But why were they in the chapel?
I must have left them there when I ran out of confession.
You ran out of confession?
I wanted to confess what I'd been thinking about.
Which is?
You.
So I've still got it, then?
Still got a massive ego.
No, no, what I mean is I've been thinking about what
life would have been like if I'd not come here.
I thought I should confess, but when it came to it
I thought Father John had a lot to deal with at the moment.
You've got nothing to confess as far as I can see.
Maybe not.
But when God took my parents, I wanted a family so badly,
and maybe I came here for the wrong reasons.
You happy here, Elodie?
Completely.
Except when my bike gets a puncture.
-Dwayne. The nun. -What?
That's her. The phantom nun.
Hey!
Police!
Ouch! Stop!
Sir, you need to see this.
-What the hell's going on here?
Mr. Dexter.
Darling, are you all right? You have no right
bringing her here.
And what's the charge, hmm? Come on, darling, we're going.
Just a couple of questions before you go, Sheila.
Just got this from CID in England.
We had them run background checks on both of you.
Sweetheart? What's going on?
They know Laura as Sheila Parker,
a Sussex-based nurse accused of killing her elderly patient.
What was it the press dubbed you? The Angel of Death?
It's not how it sounds. He was in pain.
You left him the wherewithal to administer a lethal injection,
promptly benefited from his will.
Well, I was never convicted. It never even went to trial.
Leaving a lot of unanswered questions
and you are a very rich woman.
You even inherited the land you now own on Sainte-Marie.
Is this true?
I'm not a murderer.
This was all a long time ago.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on now.
Tell us, what is going on now?
What were you doing at the convent?
-I can't say. -Were you at the convent
the morning of the fire?
You know I wasn't.
-Tell them, Daryl. -I'm not lying for you now.
We weren't together that night.
I was on the other side of the island on business.
So neither of you has an alibi for that morning, then.
-Lock them both up. -What? What for?
We can detain you for questioning
on suspicion of murder.
So, why would Laura Masters make regular visits to the convent?
She was spotted there numerous times before the murder.
To plan how she intended to kill Therese.
Then why was she there today?
-To finish the job on Sister Anne.
-I managed to find it, sir.
What's inside?
Looks like medical stuff.
Medical supplies?
Do you think she was going to kill again?
No, I think this time she was planning to save a life.
I'm sorry I was so short with you before.
It's understandable, given what you've been through.
How are you feeling? My neck is still a little sore.
No, I'm sorry, the cancer.
Cancer? That's gone, you know that.
Has it?
Sister Anne, would you remove your wimple and veil for me?
Inspector, that is not permitted
by the dictates of my convent or my faith.
Or is it because it would betray your secret?
You don't have any hair, do you?
From the chemotherapy you're receiving for the cancer
you're still suffering from.
Laura Masters has just admitted to me that she comes to
the convent periodically to administer further treatment,
dressed as a nun to avoid suspicion.
What must you think of me?
It didn't start as a lie, really.
When I was first diagnosed with cancer,
I started to drink of the Holy Spring.
When I returned to the hospital, they told me that
the tumour had shrunk.
I was overjoyed.
I knew that God had a purpose for me, to save the convent.
People would believe now, truly believe.
The Holy Spring would be our salvation.
But after three months, I went back to the hospital
just for a routine check up and the doctors told me
that the tumour had returned.
I couldn't believe it. But Daryl said we
needn't back out.
He told me about Laura Masters being a cancer nurse,
and that she would help me. I didn't want to lie.
But I felt it was what God wanted.
People were coming to the convent in such numbers
and God's word was spreading.
I felt that the ends would justify the means.
Then Therese found out about your little fraud,
-so you killed her. -What? No!
You had the opportunity to come into her room
-the morning of the fire. -No, what are you talking about?
What about me? Somebody tried to kill me!
How do you account for that?
I know I lied, Lord forgive me, but,
do I look like a murderer to you?
POOLE: You know, I really thought we had our killer.
I was sure Sister Anne killed Therese
to protect the fake spring from being revealed.
I thought when I confronted her she'd confess,
tell me how she did it, say three Hail Marys, case closed.
How did someone get in and out of that room?
-I'm sorry. -That's OK.
You know, sir, that cancer business was brilliant.
Really. How did you work it out?
Well, remember, Fidel,
things aren't always as they appear on the surface.
Especially when disguised by a veil and a wimple.
Or... Or made to look like something else.
Excuse me.
-Got it. -Got what?
Soot. On the inside of this lock.
I think I know why.
Michael Lannon.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
You're right, this wasn't in the fire.
-So, someone put it in afterwards.
-Exactly.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-You still haven't got into that?
-No.
You think you can do any better?
I may have a way.
Uh, Dwayne, are you sure that...
(CLANKING)
And we are in.
You found what you're looking for?
I've found exactly what I'm looking for.
And I've found Michael Lannon.
Sorry for the disturbance.
But I'm sure you are all anxious to know who killed Therese.
Almost from the start, it seemed clear that
this case was about the Holy Spring,
and the fact that Therese knew it was a fraud.
-A fraud? -Yes.
I'm sorry to say that any cures you might have heard about
are all false.
And so much rested on that staying a secret for so many.
But like everything in this case,
nothing was as it seemed upon first appearance.
You see, this case isn't about the Holy Spring at all.
And I realised that with the help of the good book,
The Count of Monte Cristo, where nothing is as it seems.
The mad priest isn't really mad, and, well, the count is no count
but one Edmond Dantes,
just as Laura Masters is really Sheila Parker,
Sister Marguerite is really Elodie Francois,
and Father John is in fact Michael Lannon.
You told me everyone has a weakness and yours was a woman,
Ginette Pascal, in Strasbourg. So you were sent away,
far from temptation,
and the woman you loved, to here, Sainte-Marie.
Then Therese arrived, and the two of you began a relationship.
You soon decided to leave together,
so you bought two plane tickets to France.
As you were going to leave the priesthood,
you booked them under the name you had before
you took Holy Orders.
Michael Lannon.
We found out your birth name from the diocese in Strasbourg.
But someone discovered your plan to leave,
someone who couldn't let you make the same mistake again.
Someone who felt they had to stop you
making a fool of yourself,
throwing everything away for a woman.
And that's what you did, isn't it, Sister Anne?
That's why you killed Therese.
Because you feared they were lovers.
Father John, Mother Superior.
You're almost like an old married couple.
You clean up after him, you nag him...
Indeed, in your own way, you love him.
You knew the mistake he'd made in Strasbourg
and you couldn't let his weakness
destroy the relationship you had.
You also knew that the scandal would destroy the convent.
So you had to get rid of Therese.
But how to make her death look accidental?
God really is in the details.
That is what you always say, isn't it, Reverend Mother?
Therese took sleeping pills,
often making her late for chapel,
and she was also a smoker,
giving you the perfect means to make her death look accidental.
Therese kept her cigarettes well hidden,
but I'm sure it was easy enough to steal a packet
of Laura Masters' cigarettes from her bag
during one of her visits to the convent.
You couldn't risk Therese waking up
and smelling the smoke by placing the cigarettes
too close to her face,
so you placed it at the foot of the bed,
assuming that any evidence would be destroyed in the fire.
As the cigarette slowly burned down,
it gave you just enough time to lock the door from the outside.
You then took some gum, which you placed in the lock.
So, to the casual observer, it would look like
the key was still in it.
As the fire took hold, you only pretended to try
and unlock the door.
(COUGHING)
CAMILLE: As the door was broken down,
you knew all attention would be on Therese.
As everyone rushed to save her,
you put the key in the lock, dislodging the gum inside.
But a tiny piece of the silver paper remained inside,
betraying your method.
As did the gum,
stuck to my shoe, which, with DNA testing,
will prove you're the killer.
No! Someone tried to kill her, too.
Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up.
Because it was that very attack that led us to identify
Sister Anne as the killer. The attack took place here,
just after confession.
Of course, I can't know what was said,
but I can guess by what happened soon afterwards.
Father, I cannot tell you the nature of my sin.
Only know I did it to protect you.
To stop you making the same mistake again.
(CHOKING)
Father John couldn't go to the police
because he was bound by the confidentiality
of the confessional.
Sister Anne must have known
who attacked her but could say nothing,
as it would expose her as a murderer.
Both bound by silence.
I can't lie any more, child. Not here.
Not before God. It's true.
I had to save Father John from himself.
That pretty little thing had turned his head.
You all saw that, didn't you?
If he'd left with her as he planned to,
I would have been left alone.
God gave me strength while you were at your weakest.
But I loved her.
No, not love. Lust. That's all it was.
Just as before.
The only real love is here, the family.
She was family.
-She was a devil! -No, Sister, she
really was family.
-What? -Therese, who called Father John
Father every day,
was being deceptively literal.
Wasn't she, Father John? She was my daughter.
Your daughter?
POOLE: The daughter from his relationship
with Ginette Pascal back in Strasbourg
When Therese turned 18,
she was able to find out who her real parents were.
Mother, Ginette Pascal.
Father, Michael Lannon.
Ginette died in childbirth.
I couldn't claim the baby as my own,
so I made sure to place her in the orphanage where I worked.
But I was sent away, far from my own flesh and blood.
That's why she came here.
So she could get to know me.
Then, one day, she told me the truth. Who she was.
I was overjoyed.
Now she's gone. Forever.
Why didn't you tell me?
For the same reason you didn't tell me about the fake spring.
To save the convent.
I would have welcomed her if I'd known!
-Would you? -I would've done
anything for you.
Oh, please, forgive me.
Please. Please.
Only God can truly forgive.
-Poor woman. -Poor woman?
She lied, manipulated and ultimately killed
to get what she wanted.
Don't be fooled by the little old nun act.
-Nothing is really what it appears.
-Exactly.
CAMILLE: Well, are we going to arrest them for fraud?
POOLE: Unfortunately not. We don't have enough evidence.
Now I suppose you want me to hold up my left hand
-and show you that my psoriasis has been miraculously cured.
-What?
-I don't believe it! -It worked?
No, it's that one.
Honestly, Camille, sometimes your faith
in the unscientific astounds me.
So, I'm guessing this case has done nothing to ease
your nun phobia.
If I never see another nun again, it'll be too soon.
Relax. I'm not here to check your underpants.
Have you two been talking?
I have, actually.
I thought Sister Marguerite could help you
with your problem.
Cortical steroids, for your psoriasis.
-For my psoriasis? -Mmm-hmm.
Science, you see. Not divine intervention.
-No offence. -None taken.
-DWAYNE: I'll drive you back to the convent.
-OK.
And I'll go and get us some more drinks.
Nothing for me.
I'm going to head up as well, actually.
FIDEL: OK. Good night, sir.
Yes, because you've got to get back
to your monastic existence, your cell?
No, I have a book to finish.
I want to find out if the Count of Monte Cristo
ever gets off that bloody island.
Might provide me with a bit of hope.
Well, I can tell you he does.
Ah, fantastic!
Yeah, but it takes him 40 years.
Fidel, I think I might need that drink after all.