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Father Brown

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Father Brown	comment	A daytime BBC television series inspired by the Father Brown mystery stories written by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams (whom you might recognise as Arthur Weasley, Brian Williams or part of Paul Whitehouse's team on The Fast Show) as the mystery-solving Catholic priest.The series is inspired by Chesterton's original stories but is otherwise very different. Whereas the originals were set between 1911 and 1936 and had the good father turn up all over the world, this series is set in the early 1950s and positions Father Brown as the kind-hearted and insightful priest of the fictional parish of Kembleford in the Cotswolds. Five of the early episodes were loose adaptations of Chesterton's stories; the remainder are complete originals save one.There is a small regular supporting cast, either associates of Father Brown who help him solve cases, or police who fervently wish he would stop interfering in their work. In the first series they were Mrs. McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack), the holier-than-thou parish secretary; Lady Felicia (Nancy Carroll), a wealthy socialite with a wandering eye and a frequently-absent husband; Sid (Alex Price), a local handyman and petty crook whom Father Brown tries to keep on the straight and narrow; Susie (Kasia Koleczek), a Polish refugee who works as Father Brown's part-time housekeeper; and Inspector Valentine (Hugo Speer), a long-suffering detective. Series 2 rotates out Inspector Valentine for the less-tolerant Inspector Sullivan (Tom Chambers), who in turn was succeeded by the irascible Inspector Mallory (Jack Deam) in Series 4. They are aided in-turn by the affable Sergeant Goodfellow (John Burton). Series 5 introduced Bunty (Emer Kenny), Lady Felicia's adventurous niece. Series 10 introduced Claudie Blakely as Mrs. Isabela Devine and Ruby Ray-Martinwood as Brenda Palmer, with Tom Chambers returning as Inspector Sullivan.The first series aired over two weeks in January 2013, composed of ten episodes. Series 2, 3, and 4 followed in the January of each subsequent year. The first Christmas special was shown in December 2016, with the rest of Series 5 in January 2017. This repeated itself with Series 6, with the first episode being shown on December 18th, before continuing after the holidays on January 2nd.A Spin-Off series starring Lorna Watson as Sister Boniface from the episode "The Bride of Christ" called Sister Boniface Mysteries premiered in 2022 on the streaming service, BritBox.According to The Other Wiki Father Brown has been sold to 162 territories by BBC Worldwide. Broadcasts across the world include Germany (as Pfarrer Braun, on Das Erste), Australia (The ABC), Finland (YLE), Sweden (TV8), Denmark (DR), Norway (NRK) and Iceland (RÃšV). In the US, Father Brown has been sold to 40 public television stations with a reach of 30% of all US television households.
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Father Brown / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Father Brown / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: The second victim in "The Face of Death" writes a bloody message on her pillow. But due to her dyslexia she winds up writing the letter 'P' back to front, causing most people to mistake it for the number 9 at first glance.
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Father Brown / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Father Brown / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Aside from Inspector Valentine, based on a character who appeared in the early stories, and archenemy Flambeau, all the supporting cast are original creations.
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Father Brown / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Father Brown / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: In "The Cat of Mastigatus", Father Brown that a boys school has a secret history of inflicting terrible Corporal Punishment on boys using a modified taws called 'the cat of mastigatus', that leaves permanent scars and permanently crippled the hands of one boys.
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Father Brown / int_12c1a10e	type	Reusable Lighter Toss
Father Brown / int_12c1a10e	comment	Reusable Lighter Toss: Used by the killer in "The Lair of the Libertines" to ignite a Vapor Trail that destroys a motorbike and nearly kills Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy.
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Father Brown / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Father Brown / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Valentine rather tiredly notes in "The Bride of Christ":
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Father Brown / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Father Brown / int_14beeefd	comment	"The Sins Of Others" in Series Five is even Darker and Edgier. It opens with a revelation about one of the regular characters. The very first face we see, emerging from the darkness, has an unexpected Beard of Evil. We learn that Father Brown's heart has been quietly breaking during Series Five, making it all a little Harsher in Hindsight. The whole episode is full of fears for him, and he worries that he is beaten, not just as an amateur detective, but as a moral teacher. That's just for starters. For heavens sake, there is an armed assault on Father Brown's garden and the very uncharacteristic sight of two of the series regulars holding guns and threatening in all seriousness to use them. Add in the brutal beating of a prostitute desperate for a better life, and it's hardly cosy afternoon TV. Beyond the Darker and Edgier aspects there's also an underlying theme of parental love â€“ people willing to do anything for their children â€“ shown in three different examples.
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Father Brown / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
Father Brown / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: Father Brown is always nearby when the bodies drop. It's lampshaded by all three resident inspectors at least once. Inspector Valentine rather tiredly notes in "The Bride of Christ": An annoyed Inspector Sullivan continues the list in "The Upcott Fraternity", which is set at Brown's alma mater. And finally, Inspector Mallory in "The Resurrectionists":
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Father Brown / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Father Brown / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: The slingshot Father Brown confiscates from a boy in "The Lair of the Libertines" later helps to save the lives of Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy.
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Father Brown / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Father Brown / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Sister Boniface in the "Bride of Christ" just loves being in involved in a murder mystery. She's even holding a copy of Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide when the police come to interview her.
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Father Brown / int_181c8a41	type	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Father Brown / int_181c8a41	comment	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: In "The Missing Man", a pilot returns from the dead after eight years, as Father Brown is about to marry his wife to his brother, entering the church as Father Brown speaks these words.
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Father Brown / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Father Brown / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Flambeau disguises himself as one of the Maltese Guard so he can spy and learn the combination of the safe.
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Father Brown / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Father Brown / int_18e11001	comment	In "The Queen Bee", the Victim of the Week, who is laid up in bed with a broken leg, is smothered with a pillow.
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Father Brown / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Father Brown / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exiles: Edward and Jia-Li become these in "The Prize of General Gerard". After Jia-Li murders Gerard rather than submitting to being his mistress, she and Edward, who had fallen in love with each other, flee Britain with forged passports. Father Brown, having satisfied himself that Jia-Li was truly repentant for killing Gerard, turns a blind eye to their escape.
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Father Brown / int_1c090ec2	type	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
Father Brown / int_1c090ec2	comment	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Mrs. McCarthy wears any number of prejudices on her sleeve, sometimes to Father Brown's gentle or even pointed displeasure. She's usually proven dead wrong by the end of the episode and, after choking down her Humble Pie, tries to make amends.
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Father Brown / int_1c6dc230	type	Dad the Veteran
Father Brown / int_1c6dc230	comment	Dad the Veteran: Given this is in the aftermath of WWII, there's quite a few around. Colonel Adams from Series 1 episode The Flying Stars. Father Brown is a veteran of both World Wars — the first as a regular soldier in Flanders, the second as an Army Chaplain at a mobile Field Hospital. The first is notable as it made him realise his calling into the priesthood.
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Father Brown / int_1cf08d1d	type	Hollywood Encryption
Father Brown / int_1cf08d1d	comment	Hollywood Encryption: In "The Judgement of Man" the safe sports a triple DES cipher, which is... wrong on many different levels (the fact that DES was invented in the 1970s at IBM isn't even remotely the worst offense).
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Father Brown / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
Father Brown / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: The second Victim of the Week in "The Theatre of the Invisible" is found dead in a bathtub. It looks as if he has killed himself but, of course, it's Never Suicide.
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Father Brown / int_20dc0291	type	Curtain Camouflage
Father Brown / int_20dc0291	comment	Curtain Camouflage: In "The Man in the Shadows", Sid is forced to hide behind a curtain when he is snooping around outside the archive and the door opens unexpectedly.
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Father Brown / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Father Brown / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: The murderer does the 'Frame Yourself' version in "The Brewer's Daughter"; laying out an Orgy of Evidence against themselves, then relying on Father Brown to realise this evidence was planted, and then uncover the second more subtle set of clues planted to implicate someone else. The 'Framing a Known Guilty Party' version happens in "The Hangman's Demise". The Victim of the Week actually commits suicide, but does it such a way as to make it look like murder, and frames someone he knows committed murder years before but whom the police cannot touch. In "The Penitent Man," Flambeau has a friend fake his own death, following which Flambeau pleads guilty to his murder so he can search for a valuable artifact hidden in a prison's death row. His plan to get out is unfortunately compromised when his accomplice is actually murdered by his greedy wife, who wants the medallion for herself.
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Father Brown / int_2200d9ec	type	Engineered Heroics
Father Brown / int_2200d9ec	comment	Engineered Heroics: In "The Theatre of the Invisible", Jeremy Mayhew-Bowman's engineered heroics result in Accidental Murder. He arranges a house fire while the boarding house is empty, so he can dash in and save some kittens and impress Bunty. However, the landlady had returned home early as was caught in the trap and killed.
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Father Brown / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Father Brown / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: In "The Blood of the Anarchists", Titan—who is allergic to nuts—is murdered by someone spiking his hip flask with crushed almonds. In The Kembleston Olimpicks, Ursula Fanshaw is murdered when someone adds the deadly nightshade to a bowl of spinach for the eating contest.
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Father Brown / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Father Brown / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Leonard Quinton and his much younger mistress in "The Wrong Shape". Though as the episode progresses it becomes apparent that he only started a relationship with her in a vain attempt to distract himself from other stressors in his life. Dr. Crawford and Oona in "The Grim Reaper", leading to false rumors that she's having an affair with a much younger man. Audrey (December) and Walter (May) MacMurray in "The Laws of Motion". Even Lady Felicia congratulates Audrey on being able to snag such a looker.
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Father Brown / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
Father Brown / int_235a2706	comment	Cricket Episode: In "The Last Man", the arrest of the new cricket captain of Kembleford's cricket team for the murder of the team's fast bowler, and a suicide the year before in the cricket pavilion and a match against a rival village to determine the ownership of the cricket ground finds Father Brown consoling the victim's mother, solving a murder involving blackmail, playing cricket and watching Lady Felicia as the last man of the innings.
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Father Brown / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Father Brown / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Lady Felicia is regularly unfaithful to her husband the Earl, but is overall a good person and a steadfast ally of Father Brown. It's implied, in fact, that the Earl cheated first.
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Father Brown / int_24e48d72	type	Dirty Harriet
Father Brown / int_24e48d72	comment	Dirty Harriet: In "The Crimson Feather", Bunty goes undercover as a burlesque dancer.
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Father Brown / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Father Brown / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Sid is so named because he's broadly similar to Bert, a Canon Foreigner in the 1954 movie, who was played by Sid James.
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Father Brown / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Father Brown / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "The Devil You Know" has perhaps one of the most extreme instances of this that can be imagined: a fugitive Nazi posing as a Holocaust survivor.
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Father Brown / int_27adb17a	type	Train Job
Father Brown / int_27adb17a	comment	Train Job: In "The Great Train Robbery" a pair of train robbers create a red signal to stop a train, and disconnect the private carriage attached to the rear of the train. When the train pulls off, they board the left behind carriage to steal the owner's jewels.
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Father Brown / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Father Brown / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: In "The Laws of Motion", Walter MacMurray's football career ended prematurely after he suffered from a knee injury, making him very amenable to marrying the very wealthy Audrey MacMurray.
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Father Brown / int_29476563	type	Crusty Caretaker
Father Brown / int_29476563	comment	Crusty Caretaker: When a schoolgirl is attacked in "The Cat of Mastigatus", the aggressive, stuttering gardener with metal prostheses on his crippled hands looks a likely suspect, until he turns up dead.
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Father Brown / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Father Brown / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: In "The Scales of Justice", Father Brown asks if the evidence presented in the trial is still in the courthouse, only for Bunty's barrister to tell him that it would be completely unethical to tell him that what he he is looking for is in the Storeroom D at the end of the corridor. He then gets up and walks away, 'accidentally' leaving the key lying on the bench.
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Father Brown / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Father Brown / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: In "The Daughter of Autolycus", Flambeau's daughter Marianne is kidnapped. By the time Flambeau and Father Brown arrive with the ransom, Marianne has already escaped, overpowered her abductors, and tied them up.
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Father Brown / int_2cd322e4	type	Shoot the Builder
Father Brown / int_2cd322e4	comment	Shoot the Builder: "The Alchemist's Secret" opens with the alchemist murdering the architect and leaving his body sealed in the secret room in the university (along with the box containing the eponymous secret), after having been assured that the builder have been 'dealt with'.
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Father Brown / int_2d1d46bb	type	Lotsa People Try to Dun It
Father Brown / int_2d1d46bb	comment	Lotsa People Try to Dun It: In "The Laws of Motion" no less than three separate groups make an attempt on the victim's life in the span of a single day — with two of the attempts being spur of the moment decisions at that.
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Father Brown / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Father Brown / int_2d363f63	comment	In "The Menace of Mephistopheles", a pair of criminals abduct Inspector Mallory's wife and children to force him to plant eveidence against the man they are framing for murder, and get him to imcriminate himself for the Frame-Up.
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Father Brown / int_2d717e11	type	Suicide, Not Murder
Father Brown / int_2d717e11	comment	Suicide, Not Murder: In "The Wrong Shape", Leonard Quentin is found hanged, with Father Brown initially suspecting it to be murder made to look like suicide. It's ultimately revealed that Mr. Harris killed Leonard, and forged a false suicide note. In a double twist, Leonard was already dead, having genuinely killed himself, and his real suicide note was hidden underneath the false one Harris had made. Happens in "The Hangman's Demise". The Victim of the Week commits suicide in a manner designed to look like murder, and leaves evidence framing one of his friends. Overlaps with Framing the Guilty Party, because the reason he did it was that he had learned his friend had committed a murder years ago and gotten away with it. By making him out to have committed this murder, he was attempting to ensure the friend would still go to the gallows. Happens again in "The Eagle and the Daw". This time around, the victim's framing someone for providing evidence that got the victim's lover convicted. Unfortunately, the intended patsy just so happens to be Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Father Brown / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: In "The River Corrupted", Mrs. Barford believes her husband Roger to be cheating on her with a girl young enough to be their daughter, as she used to work at his factory, during which time their were seen speaking in secret a number of times, before she became visibly pregnant and he found her a job somewhere else. This led to her killing her husband in jealousy. In reality, the girl was his daughter from a fling from before their marriage, they had only became aware of each other very recently, the pregnancy was by another man, and Roger didn't tell his wife about this because she's sterile and he believed that knowing he had had a kid by someone else would have devastated her. When this comes to light, she doesn't take it well.
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Father Brown / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Father Brown / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Father Brown in "The Hammer of God" when he notices a key discrepancy between the church clock and his pocket watch right before the climax.
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Father Brown / int_2e03fb64	type	Embarrassing Slide
Father Brown / int_2e03fb64	comment	Embarrassing Slide: In "The Daughters of Jerusalem", the Women's Institute is supposed to be watching a film on the educating orphans in Swaziland, only for the film to turn out to a hardcore porno.
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Father Brown / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Father Brown / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: In "The Sins of Others", the murderer snatches Sid's gun off him and attempts to shoot him with it. Father Brown then hold out his hand, showing a handful of bullets. Father Brown had unloaded the gun when he took it off Sid earlier in the episode, and no one had ever checked if it had been reloaded. In "The Final Devotion", Father Brown gets hold of the killer's gun when he drops it in his haste to get to the treasure. Father Brown points the gun at the killer, who correctly deduces that the priest will not shoot him and snatches it back from him. Later he attempts to shoot Flambeau, only for the hammer to fall on an empty chamber. Father Brown holds out his hand... and opens it to reveal a handful of bullets: having unloaded it in the short time he had it in his possession.
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Father Brown / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Father Brown / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: When Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) returns in series 11, it is for an episode which also guest stars Watson's longtime comedy partner Ingrid Oliver.
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Father Brown / int_3064b642	type	Bathroom Break-Out
Father Brown / int_3064b642	comment	Bathroom Breakout: In "The Celestial Choir", the saboteur goes to the toilet and then climbs out the window and goes to sabotage the choir's bus.
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Father Brown / int_306dece3	type	Office Golf
Father Brown / int_306dece3	comment	Office Golf: Inspector Mallory is seen doing this when he hopes to gain membership to an exclusive golf club in "The Rod of Asclepius".
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Father Brown / int_31033037	type	Elevator Failure
Father Brown / int_31033037	comment	Elevator Failure: A sabotaged lift is used as a murder weapon in "The Crackpot of the Empire". The killer knew that the victim's selfishness would make him demand to be the first into lift, which then immediately plunged to the bottom of the shaft.
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Father Brown / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Father Brown / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Hercule Flambeau.
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Father Brown / int_32da548d	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_32da548d
Father Brown / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
Father Brown / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", after being caught seducing the daughter of the head of Unione Corse, Flambeau says 'shotgun wedding' would be an understatement to describe the circumstances of his marriage.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_32ec6393
Father Brown / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Father Brown / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: In "The Man in the Tree", the Father Frank that the cast had been interacting with for most of the episode turns out to be an imposter wearing the real deal's stolen cassock. Though in the imposter's defense, he didn't actually intend to steal the man's identity — he stole the clothing so that he could escape from the train he was on undetected, and was forced into assuming the man's role after running into Father Brown and Mrs. McCarthy.
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Father Brown / int_3403abfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_3403abfc
Father Brown / int_340e75cb	type	Writing Indentation Clue
Father Brown / int_340e75cb	comment	Writing Indentation Clue: In "The Devil You Know", Father Brown rubs a pencil over the notebook of the Victim of the Week to bring up most of a note he had written and then torn out and sent to the War Office.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_340e75cb
Father Brown / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
Father Brown / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: A sword cane is used as the murder weapon in "The Dance of Death" and as part of an elaborate Frame-Up.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_348c7ded
Father Brown / int_35e4fe72	type	Fakin' MacGuffin
Father Brown / int_35e4fe72	comment	Fakin' MacGuffin: In "The Penitent Man", another convict steals the Medallion of St. Mark off Flambeau while they are escaping from prison. While they are in the tunnels, Father Brown manages to switch it for the worthless copy Flambeau was wearing earlier.
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Father Brown / int_35e4fe72	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_35e4fe72
Father Brown / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Father Brown / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: The killer's motive in "The Eye of Apollo". The killer offed his 'astral partner' so that he could run off into the sunset with Suzie.
Father Brown / int_373e2b9f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_39afa76b	type	"Awkward Silence" Entrance
Father Brown / int_39afa76b	comment	"Awkward Silence" Entrance: When the obnoxious drunken Jerkass Colonel Bohun drives into an interfaith picnic uninvited in "The Hammer of God", the guests fall silent and watch him with varying degrees of distaste, including the woman he's sexually extorting. However, the string band plays merrily on in the background.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_39afa76b
Father Brown / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Father Brown / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Over the first four series Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy grow to like each other more. Mrs. McCarthy, while never quite losing her Holier Than Thou-ness, also becomes a bit less insufferably self-righteous and more forgiving. In Series 5 we see some character development for Father Brown himself- we learn just how much Sid means to him, and see him sometimes become more emotional when he confronts the Villain of the Week and is trying to save their soul.
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Father Brown / int_3bbf3fef	type	Recurring Riff
Father Brown / int_3bbf3fef	comment	Recurring Riff: The show's main theme is used in various forms and tempos as dramatic incidental music during many of the episodes.
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Father Brown / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Father Brown / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The killer in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" plans to dispose of Father Brown by causing him to have a fatal tumble in his wheelchair, which can be easily passed off as an unfortunate accident when the time comes to investigate. In "The Prize of Colonel Gerard", the Colonel pushed his brother off the cliff they were both climbing, and managed to pass the whole thing off as an unlucky climbing accident. The plot of the killers in "The Laws of Motion" involved staging a car accident to mask the fact that the body in the wreckage was killed before the race began. What they didn't count on was someone else tampering with the victim's car in their own attempt to cause the victim to get into fatal accident.
Father Brown / int_3f0b2f50	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Father Brown / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Unlike Inspector Valentin in the original stories, Inspector Valentine doesn't commit murder.
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Father Brown / int_3f45f1e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_3f45f1e6
Father Brown / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Father Brown / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: In "Fire in the Sky", Father Brown and several other characters go to see a B-Movie called Monsters from Mars. The small snippet that gets shown features bad acting, shoddy production values and obviously cheap special effects.
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Father Brown / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Father Brown / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: In "The Smallest of Things", the killer hides the newspaper that was stolen from the diorama by placing it in one of the other dioramas.
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Father Brown / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Father Brown / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: The man performing the Dead Person Impersonation in "The Truth in the Wine" comes to believe thoroughly in the dream of the late colonel, and does his best to live a life worthy of the man he's impersonating.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_44606d14
Father Brown / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
Father Brown / int_44c279ae	comment	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: The Victim of the Week in "The Sins of Others." A young up-and-coming lawyer who served as Sid Carter's defense attorney on an assault charge, he was paid under the table by a rich, powerful judge to deliberately lose the case to protect the true perpetrator, none other than the judge's own deeply disturbed son. His conscience gets the better of him after Sid gets out of jail, and he announces his intent to go to the police, at which point the judge and his wife have him killed and frame Sid once more to get him out of their hair for life. Fortunately, they are Out-Gambitted by Father Brown, who tricks the entire family into confessing in front of Inspector Mallory.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_44c279ae
Father Brown / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Father Brown / int_454b2f2b	comment	In "The Grim Reaper," the death is a legitimate accident, with the victim, a farmer, falling into his own thresher while drunk. However, the victim's doctor falsely confesses to murdering him, as he is Secretly Dying and reasons that a quick death via execution would be preferable to wasting away from cancer, would spare his wife from having to slave over him in his last days, and give the victim's father closure. Father Brown is able to convince him to reconsider.
Father Brown / int_454b2f2b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Father Brown / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: In "The Lair of the Libertines", the phone line to the hotel is cut. Father Brown discovers this just after he finds the first body.
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Father Brown / int_477bc5c4	type	Go and Sin No More
Father Brown / int_477bc5c4	comment	Go and Sin No More: The effect of Father Brown's sleuthing in more than one case; the assigned penance after a confession he takes can range from turning oneself in to letting them go so they live a redeeming life.
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Father Brown / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
Father Brown / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: Attempted by Mr. Welkin in "The Invisible Man", who manages to get Laura to accept his hand in marriage by blackmailing her with the fact that she's the one who accidentally killed the episode's victim. He eventually backs off after getting a stern dressing down by Father Brown. The victim in "The Mask of the Demon" threatened to have his now wife blacklisted from all the major film studios if she didn't marry him. Naturally she's still nurses a serious grudge over this, making her the prime suspect when he winds up dead.
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Father Brown / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Father Brown / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Almost without failnote prior to her being Put on a Bus, anyway, Lady Felicia will discover the Body of the Week. If she does, entirely without fail, she will scream bloody murder (pun intended). It's a wonder Nancy Carroll still has a voice.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_48309ad4
Father Brown / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Father Brown / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: In "The Shadow of the Scaffold", Father Brown has three days (as authorities wait for the results of her pregnancy test to come back) to solve a murder before the woman convicted of the crime hangs. Bunty is tried for murder in "The Scales of Justice", and Father Brown needs to race to find the true culprit before the trial concludes and she's convicted.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_496569e8
Father Brown / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Father Brown / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Father Brown identifies the killer in "The Eve of St John" when he realises that they knew the eye colour of the victim despite claiming never to have met them.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4aaffbd5
Father Brown / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Father Brown / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Poor Oona in "The Grim Reaper". She bursts into tears in her first scene, and that's before Father Brown believes she's writing poison pen letters, people think she's an adulteress and spit at her in the street — and, oh, her husband has confessed to murder.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4b316d47
Father Brown / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Father Brown / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: A fake UFO is used to create a diversion for a jail break in "Fire in the Sky". "The Time Machine" features a rare heroic example — a young scientist claims to have invented a working time machine, which he announces that he will use to prove his father's suicide was actually a murder. Of course, the time machine does not actually work, but is really an extremely elaborate feint (complete with setting every clock in the house wrong beforehand to throw off all the suspects' sense of time) intended to make the killer panic and incriminate themselves. The killer (the scientist's cousin, as it turns out) panics, all right... and kills the scientist too to shut him up.
Father Brown / int_4b9a8e96	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_4b9fa3a	type	Taking the Veil
Father Brown / int_4b9fa3a	comment	Taking the Veil: "The Shadow of the Scaffold." Father Brown gets Violet cleared of the murder of her husband, and released from prison, only to figure out that she actually did do it. Violet elects to become a nun.
Father Brown / int_4b9fa3a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4b9fa3a
Father Brown / int_4c095112	type	Call to Adventure
Father Brown / int_4c095112	comment	Father Brown is a veteran of both World Wars — the first as a regular soldier in Flanders, the second as an Army Chaplain at a mobile Field Hospital. The first is notable as it made him realise his calling into the priesthood.
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Father Brown / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Father Brown / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Flambeau's daughter shoots the pistol out of the hand of one of her kidnappers during her escape. When Flambeau expresses incredulity at this, she admits that she had actually been aiming for his head and failed to account for the recoil.
Father Brown / int_4cbc7f95	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_4d92da97	type	Get into Jail Free
Father Brown / int_4d92da97	comment	Get into Jail Free: In "The Penitent Man", Flambeau frames himself for murder and then pleads guilty to ensure he is placed in the condemned cell at the prison, where he knows a priceless gold medallion is concealed.
Father Brown / int_4d92da97	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4d92da97
Father Brown / int_4de1544	type	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
Father Brown / int_4de1544	comment	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Sid Carter is a Lovable Rogue with sticky fingers and a mischievous streak, but "The Sins of Others" shows that after spending a year in jail for a crime he didn't commit, he comes out hardened, dour, and ready to kill, showing none the sense of humor and cheekiness he once had.
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Father Brown / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Father Brown / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Towards the end of "The Wrath of Baron Samdi":
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4e7c4536
Father Brown / int_4f995f60	type	Train-Station Goodbye
Father Brown / int_4f995f60	comment	Train-Station Goodbye: There is a train station goodbye between Lady Felicia and her New Old Flame at the end of "The Face of the Enemy". He then uses a cloud of steam to pull a Stealth Hi/Bye and board the train.
Father Brown / int_4f995f60	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4f995f60
Father Brown / int_4fc172d5	type	Divorce Requires Death
Father Brown / int_4fc172d5	comment	Divorce Requires Death: Discussed in "The Flying Stars" when the Victim of the Week insists that she'll die before allowing her husband to divorce her, simply because he doesn't want to watch her drink herself to death, mere minutes before she's killed in a scuffle with another person.
Father Brown / int_4fc172d5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_4fc172d5
Father Brown / int_5036c7d4	type	Time-Passage Beard
Father Brown / int_5036c7d4	comment	After departing the main cast in Series 4, Sid Carter returns, only to become one of the prime suspects in "The Sins Of Others", complete with a Time-Passage Beard to show his year in a jail cell. He makes guest appearances in Series 6 and 8, and becomes a a regular again in Series 9. (Only to be absent again in Series 10.)
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Father Brown / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Father Brown / int_518de95b	comment	A story involving the jewel thief Flambeau, which also deviate from the series' usual Always Murder mode.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_518de95b
Father Brown / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Father Brown / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: In "The Owl of Minerva", Father Brown and Inspector Sullivan are cornered by the murderer and another member of the conspiracy, only for the other member to turn out to be an inspector from Special Branch who arrests the murderer.
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Father Brown / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
Father Brown / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: In "The Brewer's Daughter", the woman in gaol Father Brown is trying to clear tells him to look for the Holy Grail. It turns out that the key to her father's safe is hidden inside a book titled The Silver Chalice.
Father Brown / int_5319eefb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
Father Brown / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: In "The Island of Dreams", Father Brown realises that Sandy Beauchamp's surname is the French for 'Fairfield': the surname of the boy who had drowned at the holiday camp 15 years earlier.
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Father Brown / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Father Brown / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The murderer in "The Daughters Of Jerusalem". As he prepares to kill Father Brown, he says "I'm looking forward to all this being over. Popping the question... maybe a kiddie or two..."
Father Brown / int_537dd8fe	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
Father Brown / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: A woman dies from falling down a staircase ten years before the events of "The Smallest of Things". An attempt to reopen the investigation into her death leads to a murder in the present-day.
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Father Brown / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Father Brown / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A hastily improvised one occurs in "The Blood of the Anarachists". Angus, the murderer, is attempting to climb across the wall to the bedroom of his intended final victim Magdalena when he falls and is badly injured. When found, he says that Magdalena pushed him; hoping to get her convicted of the other murders and hanged.
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Father Brown / int_5942bb71	type	Disguised Hostage Gambit
Father Brown / int_5942bb71	comment	Disguised Hostage Gambit: In "The Jackdaw's Revenge", the murderer does this in an attempt to trick Father Brown into shooting Bunty. She uses a light to blind Father Brown as he enters, and has Bunty trussed standing behind the light, while she is tied in a chair with a bag over her head.
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Father Brown / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Father Brown / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The local police generally need resident Amateur Sleuth Father Brown to find evidence and solve murder cases for them. Inspectors Valentine and Sullivan at least try to investigate and sometimes are on right trail. Inspector Mallory is this trope. He barely investigate, tries to close cases with the laziest explanation, has to be pushed to investigate further, misses obvious clues, gets furious at anyone questioning him, and obstructs Father Brown at every opportunity. Disliked by other officers for his attitude and incompetence, the episode "The Smallest of Things" implies he was transferred to Kembleford to be less of an embarrassment to the police force than he was at his former position. Averted with Sgt. Goodfellow who tends to notice things Mallory misses and is willing to help Father Brown whenever he can.
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Father Brown / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Father Brown / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: The villain in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" is attempting to invoke this on his targets, three women who, twenty years prior, had perjured themselves in court and sent the killer's father to the gallows for a murder he didn't commit. He kills two of them himself and leaves evidence at the scenes implicating the third, hoping to send her to the same fate his father suffered. He likely would've gotten away with it, too, had he not tried to also silence Father Brown once the latter got too close to the truth, leading the priest to cleverly out-gambit him.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_599f943f
Father Brown / int_5a7c48f	type	Dig Your Own Grave
Father Brown / int_5a7c48f	comment	Dig Your Own Grave: In "The Devil You Know", a Nazi war criminal holds Father Brown and Inspector Mallory at gunpoint and forces them to dig their own graves, preparatory to killing them.
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Father Brown / int_5a7c48f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Father Brown / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Father Brown / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Father Brown and Flambeau full-stop. Even though their goals are at odds, they very much enjoy each others company and often seek each other out. They bring out the best in each other to the point where threatening Father Brown is an instant Berserk Button for Flambeau.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_5aa8d3d8
Father Brown / int_5bc36262	type	Backwards-Firing Gun
Father Brown / int_5bc36262	comment	Backwards-Firing Gun: In "The Lair of the Libertines", one Victim of the Week is killed when the killer removes the safety catch from his pistol. This causes the firing pin to shoot out backwards when he fires the pistol, hitting him between the eyes.
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Father Brown / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Father Brown / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Occurs in "The Resurrectionists", where a pair of lovers turn out to be cousins who never knew that their parents were siblings.
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Father Brown / int_5bca5a56	featureConfidence	1.0
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Father Brown / int_5d716d61	type	Ground by Gears
Father Brown / int_5d716d61	comment	Ground by Gears: In "The Grim Reaper", the Victim of the Week Alfred Tatton is pushed into a threshing machine.
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Father Brown / int_5d716d61	featureConfidence	1.0
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Father Brown / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
Father Brown / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Discussed in "The Devil's Dust". The child of a white woman and a black man is born lily white. The father views this as a God-given miracle, considering that by the time of the child's birth the mother was married to a white man.
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Father Brown / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Father Brown / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: "The Prize of General Gerard"; Gerard made it clear to Jia-Li, his Chinese-born adopted daughter, that he only brought her to England so that, once she was old enough, she would become his mistress, and even planned to have his nephew Edward committed to an asylum when he found out the truth. Jia-Li and Edward, by this time, were in love with each other, and Jia-Li murdered Gerard rather than submit to his desires.
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Father Brown / int_5e0776c3	type	Vapor Trail
Father Brown / int_5e0776c3	comment	Vapor Trail: In "The Lair of the Libertines", the killer punctures the petrol tank of the motorcycle being used to leave the hotel. When it runs out of petrol and stalls, the killer ignites the trail of petrol with a Reusable Lighter Toss. The bike explodes, barely missing incinerating Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy.
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Father Brown / int_5e4fa749	type	Crossdresser
Father Brown / int_5e4fa749	comment	Crossdresser: The Victim of the Week in "The Missing Man". His crossdressing actually leads to his demise, as the person who shoots him does not recognise him in drag, and shoots him thinking he is a female intruder.
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Father Brown / int_5f6ac848	type	Wrong Bathroom Incident
Father Brown / int_5f6ac848	comment	Wrong Bathroom Incident: In one episode, a wealthy businesswoman with a taste for younger men walks into the men's room while Sid is using the urinal. She begins to flirt with him and nearly seduces him until one of her other boy toys catches them.
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Father Brown / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Father Brown / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Father Brown, while having all the modesty of an ordained priest sworn to poverty/modesty (more precisely, "perfect" charity as he's a diocesan priest), absolutely loves to indulge a good feast. This is one of the reasons (the other being Susie's inability to make any food that isn't Polish) Mrs McCarthy makes extra portions of food. Even so, she also tries to keep him from overindulging, as lampshaded in "The Wrath of Baron Samdi".
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Father Brown / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Father Brown / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Discussed by the show-runners here and here. Essentially, a lot of the main changes between the original stories and this adaptation are for reasons of cost and to adapt the show in such a fashion that it fits into the modern television landscape. The first season did attempt to adapt some of the original stories loosely, though since many involved Father Brown travelling to different locations, this was mostly dropped afterwards to allow a consistent setting.
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Father Brown / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Father Brown / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: During the episode "The Daughters of Jerusalem", what was supposed to be a film about African orphans in Swaziland turns into a more...adult film. As everyone else erupts in shock and disbelief, Lady Felicia is watching...intently.
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Father Brown / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Father Brown / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Gerald Firth aka Kalon from Series 1's "The Eye of Apollo" returns in Series 9's "The Children of Kalon". In his first appearance he's an obsessed religious zealot, who murders his wife and lusts after Susie. In his second appearance, he's a remorseful, meek man who's consumed by guilt over his past actions.
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Father Brown / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Father Brown / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In "The Jackdaw's Revenge", the murderer kidnaps Bunty and threatens to kill her if Father Brown does not resign from the priesthood. In "The Menace of Mephistopheles", a pair of criminals abduct Inspector Mallory's wife and children to force him to plant eveidence against the man they are framing for murder, and get him to imcriminate himself for the Frame-Up.
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Father Brown / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Father Brown / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Bobby and Joan in "The Labyrinth of the Minotaur" are first more or less shoved together by their mother and father, respectively, as an example of Nobility Marries Money, but end up becoming genuinely interested in each other. By the end of the episode, they're engaged on their own terms.
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Father Brown / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
Father Brown / int_63499260	comment	Kembleford's preachers from every Christian denomination all appear together in "The Eve of St. John," where they attempt to form a coalition against a pagan commune that's recently moved into town — Father Brown, of course, refuses to join, thinking even at the first meeting that they're going too far. The Methodist pastor, Rev. Gillespie, is the Villain of the Week.
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Father Brown / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Father Brown / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: An understated one during "The Wrath of Baron Samdi" Father Brown realises he has been poisoned, but like the good Christian he is, is not angry or fearful, just a bit surprised. He just has time to ask how the poison was administered, and then, with a beatific smile and chuckle says: Also subverted, because he's not quite dead.
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Father Brown / int_691672b1	type	Plot-Driving Secret
Father Brown / int_691672b1	comment	Plot-Driving Secret: With Father Brown being a crime mystery series, it's safe to assume that this pops up frequently, along with Red Herring. However, in "The Deadly Seal", the culprit — Natasha, Lady Felicia's goddaughter — decides to abuse Father Brown's status as The Confidant in order to throw investigators off the scent of the murder. By telling Father Brown in a confessional that Bishop Talbot was to be assassinated the following morning, Natasha forces the Catholic priest into a religious dilemma. Being unable to break the "seal of the confessional" and explain the situation, he elects to attempt to avert the assassination. While he succeeds, the episode reveals that the false confession was a ruse to hide the true plot; for her to kill Talbot's chauffeur/bodyguard on behalf of his wife, who in turn made a pact to kill Natasha's father who had abused her as a child, somewhat mirroring Strangers On A Train.
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Father Brown / int_69806c03	type	Cold Reading
Father Brown / int_69806c03	comment	Cold Reading: Father Brown accurately pegs this as part of the methodology of Kalon, the leader of the cult-like Church of Apollo. Unfortunately, it manages to work on Suzie, who has been feeling particularly vulnerable, prompting Father Brown and Sid to try and extract her from Kalon's clutches.
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Father Brown / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
Father Brown / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", when Lisandra and Flambeau are in bed together in Italy, Lisandra covers herself with a bedsheet to preserve her modesty. Flambeau, on the other hand, seems to have gone Right Through His Pants.
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Father Brown / int_6a971d39	type	Tainted Tobacco
Father Brown / int_6a971d39	comment	Tainted Tobacco: In "The Time Machine", one Victim of the Week is killed when the killer places several drops of strychnine in the bowl of his pipe.
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Father Brown / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Father Brown / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: A woman takes a fatal Staircase Tumble after being pushed ten years before the events of "The Smallest of Things".
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Father Brown / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Father Brown / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In the first episode, the loutish Norman Bohen is taunting the Catholics present at the Anglican vicar's party about their religious differences, and makes dismissive reference to the pomp and ceremony of Catholicism. While Father Brown's parishioners react with great offense, Father Brown himself has a look on his face that suggests that he thinks Bohen has a little bit of a point.
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Father Brown / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Father Brown / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sgt. Goodfellow may not have any great detective skills himself, but is a decent chap who wants to see the right person brought to justice (in contrast to his superiors, especially Mallory, who go with their first instinct and inevitably get it wrong), who will listen to Father Brown and is willing to bend the rules to help.
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Father Brown / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Father Brown / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: In "The Truth in the Wine", a sergeant took over the identity of a colonel with whom he shared a hospital room. Realising he was dying, the colonel asked the sergeant (who had no family) to take over his identity and return to England to fulfill his dream of turning the family estate into a vineyard. Not having been home to England in decades, he was confident no one would spot the substitution and coached the sergeant on everything he would need to know.
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Father Brown / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Father Brown / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: In "The Flying Stars", the Adamses are very against their daughter Ruby marrying her penniless, Communist lover. Though Colonel Adams later reveals that he was against the match because he was counting on Ruby marrying into money to secure her future, as the family had long lost all the wealth they did have.
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Father Brown / int_6e287af	type	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
Father Brown / int_6e287af	comment	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: In "The Owl of Minerva", Sullivan and Sid pose as window washers in order to break into the police station.
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Father Brown / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Father Brown / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: In "The Wrong Shape", Leonard Quinton is consumed by guilt over prescribing Thalidomide to his pregnant wife for her morning sickness, which resulted in their daughter being born severely deformed and dying at barely 3 months old. This guilt eventually drives him to take his own life. In The Maddest of All, Dr. Miller has never forgiven himself for his drink driving causing the car crash which killed his wife and left his son severely brain damaged. The events of the episode are due to him trying to fix the latter, by any means possible. Dr. Crawford in "The Grim Reaper" deeply regrets not being able to do more to help Alfred's mother, which is why Alfred can easily persuade him into prescribing him more and more painkillers. In the episode proper, Dr. Crawford experiences the second greatest failure of his life — inadvertently causing Alfred to fall into the wheat thresher. The guilt over this drives him to attempt to be convicted for Alfred's "murder", in the hope that him being hung will give Alfred's father some sort of peace.
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Father Brown / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Father Brown / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: One Victim of the Week in "The Devil's Dust", turns out to be alive despite blood-stained clothes making it look like she had been murdered at at least one point in the investigation. Another, in "The Maddest of Them All", wakes up in his coffin during the funeral. Needless to say, he's a bit shaken right afterwards.
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Father Brown / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Father Brown / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Happens in "The Bride of Christ" as Father Brown is questioning a couple of nuns. Both nuns are surprised when Father Brown takes off as they're admitting their sins. In "The Face of the Enemy", Lady Felicia's New Old Flame takes advantage of the cover of a cloud of steam to vanish during his Train-Station Goodbye with Lady Felicia.
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Father Brown / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
Father Brown / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: After being pinned to a target by a crossbow bolt in "The Lair of the Libertines", Father Brown escapes by taking off his cassock.
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Father Brown / int_70bd07ef	type	Caught Up in a Robbery
Father Brown / int_70bd07ef	comment	Caught Up in a Robbery: In "The Great Train Robbery," on Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy are on their way back to Kembleford when two Stupid Crooks stage a train robbery and hold them hostage.
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Father Brown / int_7104ae6a	type	Wrench Whack
Father Brown / int_7104ae6a	comment	Wrench Whack: In "The Laws of Motion", the Victim of the Week is done in with a blow to the head from a lug wrench. The killers then plan to make it look like she died in a car accident.
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Father Brown / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Father Brown / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: In "The Blue Cross" Father Brown is told by his unamused bishop that he is going to lose his parish.
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Father Brown / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Father Brown / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: A blackmailer who is passing-out drunk is smothered to death with a teddy bear in "The Theatre of the Invisible". In "The Cat of Mastigatus", the would-be killer, realising that the victim was still alive, sneaks into her hospital room and attempts to finish the job with a pillow. In "The Queen Bee", the Victim of the Week, who is laid up in bed with a broken leg, is smothered with a pillow.
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Father Brown / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Father Brown / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Most episodes to feature Flambeau, apart from the first, have another villain as well. Typically this character is significantly eviler than the master thief himself, necessitating a teamup with Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Father Brown / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: The kidnappers in "The Great Train Robbery" plan to do this when Inspector Mallory surrounds their house with armed police. They even unload their guns so they cannot accidentally harm any policemen in the process. Fortunately, they are talked out of it
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Father Brown / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Father Brown / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: You'd find it difficult to find an instance in which Inspector Mallory doesn't call Father Brown "Padre".
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Father Brown / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Father Brown / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Over the course of the show's run thus far, the lead detective in Kembleford's police force — the main non-villainous foil for Father Brown's sleuthing — has made way for a successor twice. Inspector Valentine, after taking the credit for the convictions made with the Father's help, landed a promotion to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector which necessitated a move to London so he could serve in their Metropolitan Police at the beginning of Series 2. His replacement, Inspector Sullivan is later replaced by Inspector Mallory in Series 4. Sid Carter gets put on the proverbial bus twice. In Series 4, he was accused and convicted of assaulting Judith Miles — who was a prostitute at the time — and, despite Father Brown's best efforts, spent an entire year in jail. After being exonerated from the main case of "The Sins Of Others", he decides to leave Kembleford and spend some time travelling the world. Early in Series 5, Lady Felicia leaves England owing to her husband becoming Governor of Northern Rhodesia. And, at the start of Series 10, Bunty Windermere and Mrs. McCarthy have both left Kembleford to make way for their replacements - newcomer Isabel Devine and returning (from Series 8) side character Brenda Palmer - Bunty having gone on a safari in Africa, while McCarthy had returned to Ireland to care for her sister.
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Father Brown / int_75ee1020	type	FakeGunshot
Father Brown / int_75ee1020	comment	Fake Gunshot: In "The Flower of the Fairway", someone attempts to set up an alibi for the murderer by establishing a fake gunshot. They do this by tying a firework to golf ball and driving it over the clubhouse. This not only makes it appear the murder happened later than it did, but obfuscates the method because the victim was not shot but stabbed through the throat by a broken golf club.
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Father Brown / int_75f56be2	type	Trail of Blood
Father Brown / int_75f56be2	comment	Trail of Blood: In "The Passing Bell", Father Brown follows a trail of blood to find the Body of the Week hidden out of sight in the corner of the belltower.
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Father Brown / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Father Brown / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: In "The Lepidopterist's Companion", the Victim of the Week dies after being struck over the head with a cricket bat after being mistaken for a burglar. However, he had been poisoned with strychnine before that. In "The Cat of Mastigatus", the Victim of the Week is cracked over the skull by a cricket bat in the boiler room of the school.
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Father Brown / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Father Brown / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Surprisingly, Father Brown utters one of these at the end of the Series 2 episode, "The Mysteries of the Rosary". After finding the titular rosary, he produces the small silver case in which he'd kept it from the lockbox in order to present it to Professor Ambrose. In its place, however, is a note from mercenary-slash-thief Flambeau. Cue the priest exclaiming, "The thieving-" While, judging by the reactions of Bunty and Mrs. McCarthy, he isn't actually interrupted, Inspector Mallory's curse in "The Smallest of Things" is — from the viewers' point of view — drowned out by the popping of a champagne cork. And, in "The Sins Of Others", Sid has one after Father Brown follows him to Reese's house. His curse is also cut off by a champagne cork, which he uses to lead him to the party being held there at the time.
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Father Brown / int_7831c048	type	So Much for Stealth
Father Brown / int_7831c048	comment	So Much for Stealth: The 'stepping on a twig' version happen to Inspector Sullivan in "The Owl of Minerva" as he is sneaking up on a secret meeting being held by Father Brown. Fleeing, he runs straight into the murderer.
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Father Brown / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Father Brown / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In "The Final Devotion", Father Brown picks up the gun the killer had dropped and points it at him. After a moment's hesitation, he concludes that Father Brown does not have it in him to shoot a man in cold blood and taunts him with this before taking the gun off him. Only later does he discover that Father Brown had unloaded the gun before he took it back.
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Father Brown / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
Father Brown / int_790b1e6	comment	Nasty Party: In "The Crackpot of the Empire", Father Brown is one of the guests invited to a 'Welcome Home' party being held for a comedian recently released from an insane asylum. However, the invitations were fake and someone starts picking off the guests one by one.
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Father Brown / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Father Brown / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: In "The Penitent Man", Flambeau is saved from a warder's bullet by the gold medallion he is wearing around his neck.
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Father Brown / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Father Brown / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: The Adams family in "The Flying Stars" are revealed to be in such dire financial straits that they'd pawned the titular Stars off years ago to make ends meet. Officer and a Gentleman: Colonel Adams fits this to a tee, even though he's completely broke.
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Father Brown / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Father Brown / int_7a21fc07	comment	In "The Face of the Enemy", Lady Felicia's New Old Flame takes advantage of the cover of a cloud of steam to vanish during his Train-Station Goodbye with Lady Felicia.
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Father Brown / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
Father Brown / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: In "The Dance of Death", Bunty's current beau (who is blind) takes off his tail coat and puts it on her (she is wearing an evening gown) after they have a blazing row in the garden.
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Father Brown / int_7ab37e1	type	Miss Conception
Father Brown / int_7ab37e1	comment	Miss Conception: In "The Kembleford Dragon", Pandora had been told be her aunt that she shouldn't kiss a man because she could "get in the family way". So she was very careful not to kiss Ben Webb while having sex with him. She returns to Kembleford pregnant.
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Father Brown / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Father Brown / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: In "The Prize of Colonel Gerard," Father Brown compares Edward to Hamlet, suggesting that like the Melancholy Dane, Edward was pretending to be insane as part of his plan to avenge his father. Edward believed that his uncle Gerard killed his father and seduced his mother. Turns out he was right.
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Father Brown / int_7b228c31	type	"L" Is for "Dyslexia"
Father Brown / int_7b228c31	comment	"L" Is for "Dyslexia": Lucia and Lady Margaret Galloway in the Series One episode "The Face Of Death". It's the fact that Lucia inherited the condition from her mother that leads Father Brown to solve the mystery.
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Father Brown / int_7bfb7ed7	type	Only One Plausible Suspect
Father Brown / int_7bfb7ed7	comment	Only One Plausible Suspect: In at least two episodes, S 2 E 6 "The Daughters of Jerusalem" and S 3 E 12, "The Standing Stones," there is a brand new character who somehow is portrayed as always having been around and well known — who turns out to be the culprit. In both cases, they are police officers — PC Pugh note not his real name and PC Everett, respectively.
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Father Brown / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Father Brown / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Father Brown delivers one of these speeches at the end of "The Curse of Amenhotep" to try to improve someone's attitude and behavior. It's pleasingly effective. In "The Wrath of Baron Samdi" a distraught Sid unleashes one of these on Inspector Mallory:
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Father Brown / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Father Brown / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: "The Resurrectionists" starts with a young man on a motorcycle being decapitated by a low hanging branch. However, this turns out to be a case of Faking the Dead.
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Father Brown / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Father Brown / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Generally averted, though Father Brown's own political and spiritual attitudes can be a bit closer to the twenty-first century than you might otherwise expect from a 1950s Catholic priest. In the very first episode, "The Hammer of God", Philip Walker is frightened that Brown will expose his then-illegal relationship with Norman, explicitly mentioning chemical castration; instead, Father Brown assures him that such business is his own, and promises that he won't try to convert Philip when next they meet. In the next episode, "The Flying Stars", when he catches James trying to flee the scene in drag, the only thing he comments on is how his brogues would give him away quite easily ("And if you wanted to pass incognito, you should really have changed your shoes."). A notable example is when a good character actually blackmails someone over the fact that he is homosexual. She will give the money to a good cause, but even so... The episode "The Last Man" touches on attitudes towards gays and Indians. Strongly averted in "The Wrath of Baron Samdi" when the black characters can't rent a room in Kembleford. And then played with when Mrs. McCarthy is notably unnerved by the group...because they're all (white characters included) open voodoo practitioners, and she is a good Christian woman, thank you very much. Both averted and played straight in "The Mask of the Demon". Rex Bishop is only acting in the victim's movie due to the victim blackmailing him over his sexuality. However, Lady Felicia convinces him to bring Father Brown into the loop about the blackmail by assuring him that the Father is the last person who'd be bothered about his secret. Father Brown winds up finding and burning the incriminating evidence, knowing it will bring Rex peace. Averted in "The Fire in the Sky" and "The Angel of Mercy;" even Brown, progressive for his time as he is, is shown to be deeply uncomfortable with abortion in the former and assisted suicide in the latter.
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Father Brown / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Father Brown / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Lady Adams in "The Flying Stars". When she's found drowned in the lake, it's initially assumed that she accidentally fell in while drunk.
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Father Brown / int_7f9bfc3f	type	Human Mail
Father Brown / int_7f9bfc3f	comment	Human Mail: In "The Paradise of Thieves", the murderer gained access to the bank vault by having himself shipped in inside a crate supposedly containing pieces of art.
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Father Brown / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Father Brown / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: In "The Brewer's Daughter", brewer Gabriel Kane arranged the marriage of his daughter Grace to the wealthy Harry Fitzgerald, as the brewery was in dire need of a cash injection to stay afloat. The fact that the episode opens with Grace having spent the night with Sid is our first clue that she has never loved Harry. She never loved the brewery either, leading her to frame Harry and her stepsister Rose for Gabriel's murder and an arson attempt at the brewery, after which she announces that the brewery is closing and the workers are being laid off en masse. In the "Labyrinth of the Minotaur", Joan is the bookworm daughter of a millionaire, being pushed into an arranged marriage with a handsome young aristocrat whose family needs money.
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Father Brown / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Father Brown / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Occasionally, there are episodes that do not revolve around murders. Some episodes feature deaths that appear to be murders, but later turn out to be suicide. Most of Flambeau's episodes focus on theft rather than murder. In "The Man in the Tree", the focus is on the assault (and attempted murder) of a mysterious man found bloodied in the woods, with Sid becoming the main suspect. "The Devil's Dust" revolves around the disappearance of a teenage girl, allegedly sick from radiation poisoning. "The Star of Jacob" focuses on the kidnapping of a baby. The Series 8 premiere, "The Celestial Choir" is about the Kembleford Choristers being sabotaged to prevent them from winning a choir competition. There's also blackmail involved. "The New Order" sees the Father investigating an attempted murder.
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Father Brown / int_8199787d	type	Stocking Mask
Father Brown / int_8199787d	comment	Stocking Mask: Worn by the robbers-turned-kidnappers in "The Great Train Robbery".
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Father Brown / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Father Brown / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: There are several examples, but the best example must be the killer in "The Bride of Christ", who had her baby forcibly taken from her and was thrown into a mental asylum thanks to orders given by the second (and intended) victim of the episode, and has completely lost touch with reality due to the resulting trauma. Father Brown is visibly heartbroken for her when the truth finally comes out.
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Father Brown / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Father Brown / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: A few show up over the course of the series. Lady Felicia is on her way to this and can put on a magnificent show of hauteur when it suits her. Also, Mrs M is more than capable of pretending to be one when one of Father Brown's subterfuges require it; she can even adopt a passable RP (for a short while anyway) to make it convincing.
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Father Brown / int_8513bc0f	type	Accidental Public Confession
Father Brown / int_8513bc0f	comment	Accidental Public Confession: In "The Mask of the Demon", Inspector Mallory discovers that the Victim of the Week had bugged his own office and turns on the microphone just in time to hear the killer confess to the murder as he prepares to dispose of Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Father Brown / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Father Brown himself is frequently the Cassandra, especially where Inspector Mallory is concerned.
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Father Brown / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
Father Brown / int_86f2d483	comment	Frying Pan of Doom: In "The Penitent Man", the Victim of the Week is bludgeoned to death by his wife with a frying pan.
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Father Brown / int_8894d9e2	type	Deadly Escape Mechanism
Father Brown / int_8894d9e2	comment	Deadly Escape Mechanism: In "The Crackpot of the Empire", Sir Mortimer dies when he forces his way into the narrow lift that is the only way out of the factory. The killer has sabotaged the lift so it plunges to the bottom of the shaft; taking Mortimer to his doom. The killer had bargained on Mortimer's Fatal Flaw ensuring he would be the first one into the escape route and shut everyone else out.
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Father Brown / int_88a5b2e6	type	Circle of Standing Stones
Father Brown / int_88a5b2e6	comment	Circle of Standing Stones: The scene of the murder in "The Standing Stones".
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Father Brown / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
Father Brown / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: In "The Kembleford Dragon", the body of Kembleford's stationmaster is found stuffed inside a steamer trunk.
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Father Brown / int_89b71276	type	Mind Your Step
Father Brown / int_89b71276	comment	Mind Your Step: In "The Queen Bee", the Victim of the Week is climbing a ladder when the top rung comes away and they fall off (non-fatally). It is later revealed that her son had sawn through the bottom rung as a practical joke: expecting for it snap as she stands on it and for her fall over. However, she placed the ladder upside down.
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Father Brown / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Father Brown / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: The murderer in "The Crimson Feather" is revealed to be this. Having accidentally made a confession of love to the wrong woman, they killed her before the woman could humiliate them by revealing their obsession. A stack of unsent love letters addressed to their true object of desire was found in their room after they confessed.
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Father Brown / int_8bf802dd	type	Golf Clubbing
Father Brown / int_8bf802dd	comment	Golf Clubbing: In "Flower of the Fairway", the first Victim of the Week is cracked over the head with a five iron and then has his body dumped in the water trap.
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Father Brown / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
Father Brown / int_8da65890	comment	Commuting on a Bus: Both Sid Carter and Lady Felicia turn up about Once a Season after their respective departures from the main cast, before Sid returns as a regular in Series 9. In Series 9, Bunty leaves the main cast, similarly making occasional one-off reappearances. "The Tower of Lost Souls" has Inspector Valentine and Sullivan are brought back to solve the same case as Mallory. Naturally hilarity ensues as the three Expies butt heads.
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Father Brown / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Father Brown / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The episode "The Eye of Apollo" in Season One is a great deal more intense and darker than most of the other episodes in the series. "The Sins Of Others" in Series Five is even Darker and Edgier. It opens with a revelation about one of the regular characters. The very first face we see, emerging from the darkness, has an unexpected Beard of Evil. We learn that Father Brown's heart has been quietly breaking during Series Five, making it all a little Harsher in Hindsight. The whole episode is full of fears for him, and he worries that he is beaten, not just as an amateur detective, but as a moral teacher. That's just for starters. For heavens sake, there is an armed assault on Father Brown's garden and the very uncharacteristic sight of two of the series regulars holding guns and threatening in all seriousness to use them. Add in the brutal beating of a prostitute desperate for a better life, and it's hardly cosy afternoon TV. Beyond the Darker and Edgier aspects there's also an underlying theme of parental love â€“ people willing to do anything for their children â€“ shown in three different examples.
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Father Brown / int_8e5c0199	type	Egomaniac Hunter
Father Brown / int_8e5c0199	comment	Egomaniac Hunter: The killer in "The Lair of the Libertines" is ultimately revealed to be this.
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Father Brown / int_8e6a882b	type	Prison Episode
Father Brown / int_8e6a882b	comment	Prison Episode: In "The Wayward Girls", Bunty reunites with Father Brown to uncover a dark secret at the local girls' borstal.
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Father Brown / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Father Brown / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The first few minutes of a given episode usually show the Victim of the Week being a jerk to various people before getting murdered, to ensure we have a nice long list of possible suspects. Special mention goes to Audrey MacMurray in "The Laws of Motion", who antagonises enough people in her final few hours that no less than three separate people make an attempt on her life — one planned, two completely spur of the moment. Though, in Series 5, this has been drastically shortened to just show an incomplete view of the victim's demise or, in the case of the victim in "The Hand of Lucia", the attack that left her blinded in one eye, explaining the stylish eyepatch she's wearing when she next appears. John Mulch, the murder victim of "The Gardeners of Eden", had already been shown as a highly unpleasant man in his earlier scenes and when it was revealed that in his youth he had broken the heart of Octavia Eden by leaving her to marry someone else for money. But he fully established himself as an irredeemable bastard when confronted by his illegitimate daughter, Noele. "You were supposed to have died at birth. I wish you had," is what he says to her. Small wonder that Noele was spurred into killing him. It is telling that even an all-loving hero like Father Brown is clearly taken aback by this, and his reaction shows that he considers Mulch to have ultimately been completely irredeemable, and one who ultimately brought his fate upon himself.
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Father Brown / int_8ee710e7	type	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
Father Brown / int_8ee710e7	comment	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: In "The Numbers of the Beast", the husband of the Victim of the Week is found by Father Brown holding the umbrella she had been stabbed with. He claims he had pulled it out thinking he could save her.
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Father Brown / int_8f1bb87c	type	Deliberately Painful Clothing
Father Brown / int_8f1bb87c	comment	Deliberately Painful Clothing: Prominent in "The Upcott Fraternity", which takes place at the eponymous Upcott seminary school. The murderer wears a cilice around his leg, leaving a trail of blood.
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Father Brown / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Father Brown / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Father Brown's favourite tool against criminals, and the frustration of the police with its seal. Doesn't work on Flambeau though, who treats the absolution like a pretty bauble he can steal. Artistic License â€“ Religion: By canon law, Father Brown does not have to hold the seal of confession if the confessor was not contrite or proved later to have tricked him. Despite this, he tends to hold the seal anywayâ€¦ however, he also is not willing to give absolution at all if you're not contrite, as Flambeau had to find out.
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Father Brown / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Father Brown / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Almost all of the departed series regulars have returned to the show at least once. Since leaving the main cast at the start of Series 5, Lady Felicia has continued to make at least one guest appearance per series. After departing the main cast in Series 4, Sid Carter returns, only to become one of the prime suspects in "The Sins Of Others", complete with a Time-Passage Beard to show his year in a jail cell. He makes guest appearances in Series 6 and 8, and becomes a a regular again in Series 9. (Only to be absent again in Series 10.) Inspector Sullivan comes back for Series 7's "The Sacrifice of Tantalus", as Mallory and Goodfellow are hospitalized by a gunman tied to the conspiracy uncovered back in Sullivan's last regular appearance, "The Owl of Minerva". He also returns in the Series 8 finale "The Tower of Lost Souls", and becomes a regular once more from Series 10 onwards. Inspector Valentine reappears in Series 8's "The Tower of Lost Souls", where he gets to interact with both Sullivan and Mallory.
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Father Brown / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Father Brown / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Father Brown does this in "The Standing Stones", delivering a speech to a group of villagers who were planning a human sacrifice in an attempt to stop an outbreak of polio. While it does not sway the leader, it gives most of them pause, and make one of them switch sides and cut Father Brown's bonds so he can escape.
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Father Brown / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Father Brown / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Lisandra poisons Father Brown with a dose of thallium that will kill him in 35 hours if he does not receive the antidote. Exactly how she calculated the correct dose to do this is not explained. It is possible she was just being dramatic, as the number 35 held special significance for her, and she had no intention of giving him the antidote anyway.
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Father Brown / int_959a9947	type	Phone-In Detective
Father Brown / int_959a9947	comment	Phone-In Detective: In "The Daughters of Jerusalem", Father Brown is laid up with a broken leg. He solves a series of murders from his bedroom with Mrs. McCarthy, Lady Felicia and Sid doing his legwork for him.
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Father Brown / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Father Brown / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The murderer in the episode "The Face of Death" is definitely this.
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Father Brown / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Father Brown / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: "The Deadly Seal" leaves open the question of whether the murderess's pedophilic uncle confessed his crimes to Father Brown, who did nothing about it, or if the uncle was lying to taunt his niece. Just what is "The Alchemist's Secret," anyway? The ability to truly turn lead into gold, as the murderer believes, or a sample of an ancient bioweapon, as Father Brown does? Brown manages to convince the killer to back down owing to the possibility of it being the latter, but the audience never learns for sure.
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Father Brown / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Father Brown / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The murderer in "Blood of the Anarchists" and his Asshole Victim. The former is the vengeful husband of a woman killed in a workplace riot incited by the latter, a firebrand anarchist spokesman. However, he crosses the line when he attempts to also eliminate his target's innocent daughter as Revenge by Proxy. When found out for this, he attempts to commit suicide, only for Father Brown to finally defeat him by pointing out that doing so would make him identical to his nemesis — not only harming innocent people for a vague greater good, but also doing everything he can to dodge responsibility for doing so. The murderer surrenders.
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Father Brown / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Father Brown / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In "The Devil's Dust", the missing girl's father is revealed to be not the man her mother is married to, but a family friend who her mother slept with before she got married.
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Father Brown / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Father Brown / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: In "The Penitent Man", one of the warders smacks Flambeau in the face for his smart mouth when he first arrives in prison, and then takes every opportunity to torment him about his upcoming execution. The prison governor is a closeted homosexual who attacks Flambeau when Flambeau calls him on it.
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Father Brown / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Father Brown / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Jane Milton in "The Last Man" had a weak heart and stopped taking her medication once she decided to commit the murder, knowing her health would fail before she could be arrested and tried. Attempted by the killer in "The Man in the Shadows". Subverted in "The Grim Reaper" where the doctor, who knows he is probably terminally ill, reasons that it will be better all around if he is tried and executed for murder, saving him from a lingering death and giving the victim's father a target to blame other than himself for his son's death. Father Brown manages to convince him otherwise. The killer in "The Pride of the Prydes" takes this course of action after realising that it's either the scaffold or the lunatic asylum for him, despite Father Brown doing his very best to convince him otherwise. Lenny and Daryl in "The Great Train Robbery" consider Suicide by Cop as an alternative to being hanged for murder once Inspector Mallory has them cornered. Fortunately, they're talked down.
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Father Brown / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Father Brown / int_99e14f05	comment	John Mulch, the murder victim of "The Gardeners of Eden", had already been shown as a highly unpleasant man in his earlier scenes and when it was revealed that in his youth he had broken the heart of Octavia Eden by leaving her to marry someone else for money. But he fully established himself as an irredeemable bastard when confronted by his illegitimate daughter, Noele. "You were supposed to have died at birth. I wish you had," is what he says to her. Small wonder that Noele was spurred into killing him. It is telling that even an all-loving hero like Father Brown is clearly taken aback by this, and his reaction shows that he considers Mulch to have ultimately been completely irredeemable, and one who ultimately brought his fate upon himself.
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Father Brown / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
Father Brown / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: In "The Time Machine", one victim was killed by strychnine placed in the bowl of his pipe. In "The Wrath of Baron Samdi", a musician is murdered when the killer coats the reed of his saxophone in poison. The killer later dusts Father Brown's toothbrush with the same poison.
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Father Brown / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Father Brown / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Kalon in "The Eye of Apollo" is this for Father Brown. Both are devout men of faith, but where Father Brown believes in reason, is kind-hearted and sincere, puts the well-being of his parishioners first and cares only about Suzie's well-being throughout the episode, Kalon is a blind fanatic, is smug and duplicitous, is devoted to his church to the point where he is willing to sacrifice others to protect it, and lusts after Suzie and wants her for himself.
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Father Brown / int_9bf3fa2b	type	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork
Father Brown / int_9bf3fa2b	comment	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork: In "The House of God", part of the mystery is how the Victim of the Week was poisoned when everyone at the the dinner, including Mrs McCarthy, had been served wine from the same bottle and no one else suffered any ill effects. Until Mrs McCarthy remembers that the victim had been the only one handed a specific glass when she arrived and was served a drink...
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Father Brown / int_9c0dc5cd	type	Quick Nip
Father Brown / int_9c0dc5cd	comment	Quick Nip: In "The Scales of Justice", Bunty's barrister takes quick nips from a hip flask while conducting her defense, until Mrs. McCarthy confiscates it.
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Father Brown / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Father Brown / int_9ce6492a	comment	Sgt Goodfellow, one of very few jovial policemen in the village who will often listen to Father Brown and shrewdly help him when possible, despite usually remaining loyal and patient to his pompous superiors that complicate the mystery (even once Taking the Bullet for the hot headed Inspector Mallory).
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Father Brown / int_9ce83619	type	The Corpse Stops Here
Father Brown / int_9ce83619	comment	The Corpse Stops Here: In "The Crimson Feather", the initial suspect is found kneeling over the body of the week with blood on his hands. He flees when discovered. It is later revealed that he had found the body and was attempting to put pressure on the wound.
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Father Brown / int_9cfe57cf	type	Idyllic English Village
Father Brown / int_9cfe57cf	comment	Idyllic English Village: In contrast to the original books where the titular priest turned up in numerous places around the world, most of the episodes are set in the quaint Catholic parish of Kembleford in the Cotswolds, during the 1950s, where everyone knows one another, are often seen down at the local pub, often hold village fÃªtes and garden competitions, etc. Naturally, Father Brown stumbles upon murders, deadly secrets, and messed-up family shenanigans pretty much every episode.
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Father Brown / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Father Brown / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Father Brown sends a desperate message to Flambeau by placing an extremely cryptic advertisement in the newspaper's classifieds.
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Father Brown / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
Father Brown / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Father Brown chews out Mrs. McCarthy, over her paranoid treatment of a sick girl like a Nuclear Mutant, in uncharacteristically harsh tones. She's caught off guard and later relents on her unfair ostracizing of the girl, though admits no wrongdoing.
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Father Brown / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Father Brown / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: A Running Gag during the Inspector Valentine era was Mrs McCarthy's pride in her "award-winning strawberry scones". When the now-Chief Inspector Valentine dines at the rectory in the S8 episode "The Tower of Lost Souls" he asks whether they will be having her award-winning strawberry scones for afters. Mrs McCarthy is clearly delighted that he remembered — and yes, they will!
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Father Brown / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Father Brown / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: After hearing the confession of Norman Bohen's brother in "The Hammer Of God" and the reasons why he committed the crime and doesn't feel guilty about either the crime or the possibility that Elizabeth could hang for it because the events were divinely guided, Father Brown yells, "God! Is not! Your scapegoat!!" The fact that this is pretty much the only occasion over the course of the whole series in which the sleuthing priest raises his voice in anger/outrage, it isn't just the punctuation that emphasises the line.
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Father Brown / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
Father Brown / int_9ec132e7	comment	"The Deadly Seal" leaves open the question of whether the murderess's pedophilic uncle confessed his crimes to Father Brown, who did nothing about it, or if the uncle was lying to taunt his niece.
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Father Brown / int_9ed6761e	type	Death by Woman Scorned
Father Brown / int_9ed6761e	comment	Death by Woman Scorned: The motive for the murders in "The Face of Death", where the cheated on party kills both their unfaithful spouse and her lover in revenge. Also the motive for the death in "The Mayor and the Magician", through the killer being dumped was merely the spark which inflamed their lingering resentment over the Mayor forcing them to have the back alley abortion that lead to them being unable to have any further children.
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Father Brown / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Father Brown / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Inspector Mallory towards the end of "The Wrath of Baron Samdi":
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Father Brown / int_a1605a7f	type	I Have Brothers
Father Brown / int_a1605a7f	comment	I Have Brothers: Lady Felicia, which is used to explain her having a number of unladylike skills. In the Cricket Episode "The Last Man'', she is sent in to bat in a Down to the Last Play moment and scores a six off the final ball to win the match. She then explains that her four brothers used to use her to practice their bowling, and she became an adept batsman in the process.
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Father Brown / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Father Brown / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: In a flashback in "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Flambeau attempts to hide in a wardrobe to avoid Lisandra's father. When the father opens the door, the naked Flambeau is clutching a straw hat in front of himself to preserve his modesty.
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Father Brown / int_a1c5e0cc	type	Trigger Phrase
Father Brown / int_a1c5e0cc	comment	Trigger Phrase: In "Sins of the Father", the murderer hypnotises one of his patients into going into a trance whenever he hears a particular piece of music and killing whoever is playing it, and then sends the sheet music to the man's son to practise for a music competition. He did not foresee his patsy later coming on someone else playing the same piece of music.
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Father Brown / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
Father Brown / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: In "The Lair of the Libertines'', the doctor shoots the fez off Cyrus's head, which serves to show the viewers how heedless of others safety the doctor is. For the rest of the episode, Cyrus's fez has a neat bullet hole in it.
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Father Brown / int_a24bd0e9	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Father Brown / int_a24bd0e9	comment	Poison and Cure Gambit: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Lisandra poisons Father Brown with a poison that will take 35 hours to kill him. She says she will provide him with the antidote if he persuades Flambeau to surrender the stolen holy artifact to her.
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Father Brown / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Father Brown / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: By canon law, Father Brown does not have to hold the seal of confession if the confessor was not contrite or proved later to have tricked him. Despite this, he tends to hold the seal anywayâ€¦ however, he also is not willing to give absolution at all if you're not contrite, as Flambeau had to find out.
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Father Brown / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Father Brown / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: "The Wayward Girls"
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Father Brown / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Father Brown / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In "The Invisible Man", the circus returns to Kembleford and local waitress Laura is held to her promise given in jest the year before to marry the clown or the hypnotist. The clown is murdered; in his dying breath he names the hypnotist. Laura's boyfriend, the clown's girlfriend, and another clown are all suspected.
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Father Brown / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
Father Brown / int_a588c1cf	comment	(Named After A...) Cool Horse: Father Brown calls his bicycle Bucephalus; not a Biblical reference as one would expect, but named after the horse ridden by Alexander the Great.
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Father Brown / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Father Brown / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: When Father Brown, Lady Felicia and Mrs. McCarthy are stranded in the middle of nowhere, Mrs. McCarthy is shocked when a man wearing nothing but a fez wanders past and greets her politely. He turns out to be a naturist staying at a local hotel.
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Father Brown / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Father Brown / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: Downplayed in "The Great Train Robbery". After realising that their kidnappers weren't involved with the episode's murder and were just two bumbling older brothers who were planning to use their ill-gotten gains to send their disabled brother to grammar school, Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy wind up covering for them when they're finally found by the police.
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Father Brown / int_a659f3a4	type	Sibling Murder
Father Brown / int_a659f3a4	comment	Sibling Murder: Occurs in "The Hammer of God". Part of the backstory in "The Prize of Colonel Gerard". Colonel Gerard murdered his own brother, passing his death off as an unfortunate climbing accident, in order to get his hands on his fortune and his wife.
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Father Brown / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Father Brown / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: At the end of "The Wrong Shape", Mr. Quinton's wife scatters his ashes over their deceased baby daughter's grave in a private service, with Father Brown officiating. In "The Queen Bee", Mrs. May requests that the mourners at her graveside service dress up as if for a cocktail party, so that they won't be stung when the bees she tended to show up to pay their respects.
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Father Brown / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Father Brown / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Apart from the ones featuring Flambeau, Father Brown fails to get his man in only a single episode, "The Fire in the Sky." It's downplayed, however, for a number of reasons: first, this is one of the episodes where the victim was a worse person than the killer — an abusive father who had poisoned his pregnant daughter to spite her boyfriend, whom he hated, then tried to blackmail the killer, the family doctor, into helping him cover up his crime. Second, Father Brown speculates that he will effectively be imprisoned by paranoia for the rest of his life, constantly looking back over his shoulder for the law and never being able to stay in one place for long.
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Father Brown / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Father Brown / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: In order to investigate the murder of an infamous author in "The Hand of Lucia" and having learned that the case thus far has had parallels with her latest book, Father Brown, Bunty and Mrs. McCarthy read it together in search of clues. In doing so, they each get an Imagine Spot of their own. "Lucia had the power to turn any male sophisticate, any male intellectual into a savage beast..." — Bunty imagines herself in the role of Lucia, lying on a divan while she watches two shirtless men fight each other to the death. "Cardinal VÃ¶gel had been humiliated for the last time..." — Father Brown imagines himself walking out of a palace he's just set ablaze and laughing maniacally as the whole place burns down. "Lucia danced all night with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg..." — ...while McCarthy imagines herself (as Lucia) dancing with an amorous duke for all of ten seconds before cutting her imagination short, declaring she needs some air.
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Father Brown / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Father Brown / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Gerald Firth, shot in the head by a sniper during the war. After managing to survive and make a recovery, albeit suffering from delirium in the process, he gives himself a name by which he's known for the majority of the episode in which he features: Kalon.
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Father Brown / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Father Brown / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Subverted in the first episode, which features members of the Church of England, but on the whole the series tends to feature and revolve around Catholicism, and most of the main characters are Catholic. Of course, since the show openly and clearly revolves around a Catholic priest, this is justified. Also justified in being based on the works of G. K. Chesterton. Kembleford's preachers from every Christian denomination all appear together in "The Eve of St. John," where they attempt to form a coalition against a pagan commune that's recently moved into town — Father Brown, of course, refuses to join, thinking even at the first meeting that they're going too far. The Methodist pastor, Rev. Gillespie, is the Villain of the Week.
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Father Brown / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Father Brown / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: In "The Cat of Mastigatus" the would-be killer, on discovering the victim was still alive, sneaks into her hospital room and attempts to finish the job with a Vorpal Pillow.
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Father Brown / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Father Brown / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: The killer in "The Shadow of the Scaffold". Father Brown discovers this when he realises that they could not have seen what they claimed to have witnessed unless they were standing up.
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Father Brown / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Father Brown / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: In "The Devil's Dust", Mrs. McCarthy raises a mini-mob outcry against a local scientist when his daughter is believed to have come down with radiation sickness, believing her to be at risk of contaminating the village. Afterwards, Father Brown very coldly informs her of just how little he was impressed by this using these exact words. Mrs. McCarthy is left looking like someone just hit her with a goods train.
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Father Brown / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Father Brown / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Lisandra drugs the thermos of tea she gives Father Brown. This knocks out both Father Brown and Flambeau and allows her to steal the key.
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Father Brown / int_ac6ecb56	type	Plague Doctor
Father Brown / int_ac6ecb56	comment	Plague Doctor: In "The Alchemist's Secret", the eponymous alchemist is dressed this way in the flashback that open the episode. The main suspect later hallucinates a vision of the alchemist who — when he removes his cowl and mask — turns out to be himself. It is learning of the alchemist's garb that allows Father to deduce that secret is actually a weaponized version of The Black Death.
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Father Brown / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Father Brown / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: For Inspector Mallory "In the Wrath of Baron Samdi" Mallory realises that Father Brown wasn't actually murdered by the poison, but the post mortem that Mallory ordered will definitely do the trick.
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Father Brown / int_ad7533dd	type	Creepy Catholicism
Father Brown / int_ad7533dd	comment	Creepy Catholicism: Prominent in "The Upcott Fraternity", which takes place at the titular Upcott seminary school. The murderer wears a cilice around his leg, leaving a trail of blood.
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Father Brown / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Father Brown / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Had the murderer not died at the end of "The Flying Stars", he would have found out that his entire murderous plot would have amounted to absolutely nothing in the end — as the diamonds he killed to obtain are nothing more than pretty fakes, the real deal having been pawned off years ago.
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Father Brown / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Father Brown / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The original books have a Genteel Interbellum Setting (which was the present day when they were written); the series is set in the early 1950s.
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Father Brown / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Father Brown / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Father Brown is prone to say Seek Forgiveness, or something very similar.
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Father Brown / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Father Brown / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Bunty Windemere, tall, stacked, and endlessly flirtatious. She even goes undercover as a stripper in one episode.
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Father Brown / int_b14ce563	type	Pinned to the Wall
Father Brown / int_b14ce563	comment	Pinned to the Wall: In "The Lair of the Libertines", the killer prevents Father Brown from leaving the hotel grounds by using a crossbow bolt to pin his cassock to a target.
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Father Brown / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Father Brown / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: While Father Brown's vows prevent him from going to the police when people admit to him that they're murderers, it doesn't stop him from encouraging other people who know about or are witnesses to do so.
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Father Brown / int_b20515e0	type	Hand on Womb
Father Brown / int_b20515e0	comment	Hand on Womb: In "The Kembleford Dragon", Father Brown deduces that Mrs. Webb is pregnant because she keeps touching her belly. She is doing this deliberately so she can fake a pregnancy to allow her to appear later with a baby.
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Father Brown / int_b321fcad	type	It's a Costume Party, I Swear!
Father Brown / int_b321fcad	comment	It's a Costume Party, I Swear!: The Asshole Victim in "The Scales of Justice" throws a The Great Gatsby-themed party but tells his brother the theme is the Teddy Bear's Picnic. As a result, the brother arrives dressed in a teddy bear costume while everyone is in Roaring Twenties finery.
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Father Brown / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
Father Brown / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: This is what the killer appears to have been attempting in "The Brewer's Daughter". In reality, it was the reverse. The killer set the fire in such a way as to make it obvious it was arson as part of an elaborate frame-up.
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Father Brown / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Father Brown / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: In "The Wrath of Baron Samedi," one witness is aware of the murderer's identity the entire time, having seen the killer running from the scene, but keeps silent due to sympathizing more with the killer than the Asshole Victim, given that the killer was a seriously neglected and depressed teenage boy with a crush on his abusive father's new trophy wife and the victim was the father himself. Then, however, he discovers that the culprit also tried to kill Father Brown to keep him quiet and immediately gives him up, as anyone who would kill a holy man to save his own hide is absolutely not worthy of his goodwill.
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Father Brown / int_b5bd58a3	type	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Father Brown / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: in "The Pride of the Prydes", Bunty Pryde is torn between the gentlemanly, filthy rich Marquess she's betrothed to and the penniless lawyer who she's having a fling with. She end up choosing the lawyer, though by the time she makes up her mind his financial situation has been turned on its head due to Father Brown revealing that his father is the rightful inheritor of the Pryde assets.
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Father Brown / int_b61f1b2b	type	TouchÃ©
Father Brown / int_b61f1b2b	comment	TouchÃ©: A silent one during the verbal duel near the end of "The Eye of Apollo". After Father Brown insists the falsehood of a central tenet of Kalon's religion, the cult leader's immediate comeback causes Brown to adopt a facial expression that could only suggest this. There is a double meaning to this example, however, since Father Brown also says this before delivering Kalon with conclusive proof that his religion actually is based on nothing more than the delusions of a fevered and damaged mind. Kalon's religious symbol, which be believes to have been delivered to him by the aforementioned astral spirits, is in fact based on nothing more than his confused reaction to a doctor's stethoscope while under medical treatment for a wartime head injury.
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Father Brown / int_b652fd1	type	Blitz Evacuees
Father Brown / int_b652fd1	comment	Blitz Evacuees: The Hermit Of Hazelnut Cottage reveals in a flashback intro that Brenda Palmer was one of them.
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Father Brown / int_b6ca8bd	type	If Jesus, Then Aliens
Father Brown / int_b6ca8bd	comment	If Jesus, Then Aliens: Raised in "The Eye of Apollo", where members of the sun-and-astral-spirit worshipping cult challenge Father Brown that, as a Catholic priest, he should be open-minded towards the possibility of otherworldly phenomenon of the type they preach. Father Brown points out that there is a distinction between what is possible and what is probable.
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Father Brown / int_b87ae3ba	type	Crash Course Landing
Father Brown / int_b87ae3ba	comment	Crash Course Landing: In "The Missing Man", Father Brown has to be talked through landing a light plane after the pilot (a young girl) freezes at the stick. The person talking him down inadvertently makes the 'crash course' joke, and Father Brown mutters several prayers throughout the process.
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Father Brown / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
Father Brown / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: In the episode "The Passing Bell", Inspector Mallory questions one of the suspects about her conspicuous gloves and becomes increasingly brusque as she hesitates to remove them. Then, he's horrified and apologetic after she shows him badly scarred hands and explains that her abusive husband deliberately burned her and that she needs to wear gloves to deal with the regular and painful sloughing off of skin.
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Father Brown / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Father Brown / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Inspector Mallory, who seems born to say a line like this, says it in "The Resurrectionists". With good reason. A headless body is no longer headless.
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Father Brown / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Father Brown / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: "Blood of the Anarchists" goes for two: just because someone who is a gigantic asshole has some Hidden Depths doesn't make them not still a gigantic asshole, and that social activism that hurts the same people it professes to help, such as that practiced by the eponymous anarchist organization, isn't worth it.
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Father Brown / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Father Brown / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name/Clear Their Name: Most episodes have one of the suspects being falsely accused of the murder of the week, causing Father Brown to track down the real culprit. Several episodes have also featured some of the regular characters undergoing this trope. Sid quickly becomes the prime suspect in "The Man in the Tree". Father Brown has to race to find the true culprit before he's formally convicted. In "The Owl of Minerva", Inspector Sullivan is framed for murder. After breaking out of gaol, he is forced to team-up with Father Brown and his associates in order to clear his name. Bunty is a prime suspect in her first episode "The Labyrinth of the Minotaur". In Series 5's "The Eagle and the Daw", Father Brown is set up for murder by Katherine Corven, a murderer whose arrest he was responsible for. "The Jackdaw's Revenge" from the following series, see a newly released Corven set out to ruin the Father's reputation. "The Smallest of Things" has Inspector Mallory arrested for the crime. The victim was a hated colleague, and his coat was found near the body. "The Sins of Others" sees Sid return to Kembleford after serving a year's imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit. He is arrested when his corrupt lawyer is found murdered. "The Face of the Enemy" has Daniel Whittaker blackmailing Lady Felicia into engaging in spy work for him. When a man is murdered, Whittaker orders Mallory to arrest Felicia as the prime suspect. When Bunty is arrested for murder in "The Scales of Justice", Father Brown, Mrs McCarthy and Sgt. Goodfellow have to scramble to find the evidence to clear her. After Father Brown is falsely accused of breaking the seal of confession in "The New Order", he is suspended from clerical duty, and must solve an attempted murder of the man who defamed him. Brenda Palmer's first episode "The Wayward Girls" sees her accused of the murder of the governor of a juvenile hall. With the twist that she's a regular not in this series but in its spin-off, [Sister Boniface Mysteries Sister Boniface] is arrested for murder in "The Forensic Nun". The experience is implied to set her on the course toward being the police forensic consultant she becomes, a few years down the line.
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Father Brown / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Father Brown / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not use Christianity as a justification for cruelty and intolerance in Father Brown's presence.
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Father Brown / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Father Brown / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: At the end of "The Flower of the Fairway", Father Brown — having presumably never played before due to him describing the sport as "a good walk, spoiled" — grabs a golf club from a passing caddy to hit a ball for fun. Not only does he successfully hit the ball on his first try, it sails over the lake and he nails a hole-in-one. Sadly, McCarthy and Bunty were too busy trying Hermione's home-made brandy to notice, leaving him to smirk to himself as the show cuts to the credits.
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Father Brown / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Father Brown / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Lady Felicia. She's made no secret of her attraction for men, but she also shares a kiss and some romantic tension with a female suspect in "The Lair of the Libertines". In a later episode, she is seen reading and enjoying a novel that is in-universe bisexual erotica. Flambeau is no stranger with the ladies but seems almost equally flirtatious with various male characters as well—most notably his male cell block mates in "The Penitent Man". He also tells a closeted male prison guard that "omni-sexuality"note sometimes used synonymously with pansexuality is "nothing to be ashamed of." Sid has a good deal of this as well. In addition to his Will They or Won't They? relationship with Susie in Series 1 and hookups with female guest characters, his behavior with Inspector Sullivan, Lt.Graham in "Sign of the Broken Sword" and Father Roland in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" can easily be read as flirtatious.
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Father Brown / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
Father Brown / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: A gender flipped variant is seen is "The Laws of Motion". It's clear to everyone but Walter MacMurray that his wife Audrey only married him to have a pretty young thing to show off to her peers.
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Father Brown / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Father Brown / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Father Brown and Mrs. McCarthy visit an underground bar for crossdressers in "The Missing Man". Father Brown works out what sort of club it is fairly quickly, but Mrs. McCarthy remains in the dark.
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Father Brown / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Father Brown / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted in "The Grim Reaper" where the doctor, who knows he is probably terminally ill, reasons that it will be better all around if he is tried and executed for murder, saving him from a lingering death and giving the victim's father a target to blame other than himself for his son's death. Father Brown manages to convince him otherwise.
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Father Brown / int_c3223008	type	Unwitting Test Subject
Father Brown / int_c3223008	comment	Unwitting Test Subject: In "The Maddest of All", Dr. Millard has been experimenting on his patients for years. The murder in the episode was a result of one of these experiments going awry.
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Father Brown / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Father Brown / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Befalls Susie after the first series, along with the rest of the Polish refugee camp. It's finally revealed in Series 9's "The Children of Kalon", that she ran off with a Buddhist.
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Father Brown / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Father Brown / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Marianne Delacroix in "The Daughter of Autolycus" is a student of something like medieval history or literature. See also the Damsel out of Distress entry.
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Father Brown / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Father Brown / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: A one-sided version; Inspector Valentine gets very irritated with Father Brown's nosing into his job, but recognises that the priest often knows what he's doing. Valentine's replacement, Inspector Sullivan, arguably has a dimmer view of Brown's involvement. In the eight episodes in which he's led the police side of the investigation, from "Maddest Of All" up to the penultimate episode of Series 2, "The Grim Reaper," he's done little else but insist that the sleuthing be left to the pros. In the last episode of Series 2, "The Laws of Motion," he actually arrests Father Brown. Inspector Sullivan has his own instance of this in "The Eye of Minerva". Having been made the scapegoat in a conspiracy initially involving a journalist and being charged with — and almost convicted for — murder, Sullivan makes his way back to Kembleford for two reasons: the town is the only place where he can prove his innocence and, whether he likes/approves of it or not, he knows that Father Brown's tendency to meddle will work out as more a help than a hindrance. Inspector Mallory's even less agreeable to Father Brown's sleuthing than Sullivan was. If it weren't for his sergeant going behind his back half the time, Father Brown wouldn't be able to ensure that the right suspect even got charged.
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Father Brown / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
Father Brown / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Father Brown pulls this in "The Man in the Shadows" with a slight twist as he does it to save a life. Knowing that a Soviet agent has put cyanide in her tea so she won't be taken alive, he asks her for some sugar and then switches teacups with her while her back is turned.
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Father Brown / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Father Brown / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Bunty threatens to do this in "The Eagle and the Daw".
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Father Brown / int_c47fed84	type	Waking Up at the Morgue
Father Brown / int_c47fed84	comment	Waking Up at the Morgue: Happens to Father Brown in "The Wrath of Baron Samdi" when he is drugged with a poison that lowers his heart rate to the point where he appears to be dead.
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Father Brown / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Father Brown / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: The Victim of the Week in "The Laws of Motion" has the brake lines of her car cut while she is participating in a hill climb. In "The Judgement Of Man", Sid makes the seemingly inconsequential announcement that the spark plugs from the Rolls Royce have been stolen. It isn't until later in the episode that things become clearer. Although never depicted on-screen. it's safe to assume that Chip, aka Flambeau, stole the spark plugs so that he would be able to befriend Lady Felicia to the extent that she would invite him to the Belvedere Gallery. In "The Sins Of Others" a hired assassin cuts the brake lines of a sports car and nearly wipes out most of the regular cast. In "The Celestial Choir", a saboteur cuts the fuel line on the coach transporting the Kembleford choir to the competition.
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Father Brown / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Father Brown / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Father Brown himself, who, while also playful and sneaky in his investigating, is also bafflingly genial and calm in adversity, and will often try reasoning with culprits or even empathising with their motives, believing their souls must be redeemed. Sgt Goodfellow, one of very few jovial policemen in the village who will often listen to Father Brown and shrewdly help him when possible, despite usually remaining loyal and patient to his pompous superiors that complicate the mystery (even once Taking the Bullet for the hot headed Inspector Mallory).
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Father Brown / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Father Brown / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: In "The Standing Stones", a group of villagers plan to sacrifice an innocent in order to end an outbreak of polio.
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Father Brown / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Father Brown / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Double Indemnity in "The Laws of Motion." Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson and Fred Mac Murray as Walter Neff have their names mashed together with Phyllis Stanwyck and Walter Mac Murray. Both Phyllises and Walters successfully scheme to eliminate a spouse.
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Father Brown / int_c78560a2	type	Stolen by Staying Still
Father Brown / int_c78560a2	comment	Stolen by Staying Still: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Flambeau and his accomplice stage an elaborate crime scene, including knocking out the guards, to make it appear that a crown has been stolen from the safe, when the safe has actually not been opened. They know that Father Brown's investigation of the 'theft' will allow them to actually gain access to the safe and steal the crown.
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Father Brown / int_c7aa57f5	type	Laxative Prank
Father Brown / int_c7aa57f5	comment	Laxative Prank: In "The Time Machine", a girl spikes her sister's water bottle in an attempt to cause her to lose a race. Unfortunately, this act coincides with her sister keeling over from a dose of strychnine. In "The Queen Bee," a beekeeper's adopted son spikes his mother's drink with laxatives in retaliation for her nagging him, but when she turns up murdered, Inspector Mallory treats the prank as a serious attempt to poison her and uses it as evidence against him, which underscores just how dangerous this trope can be in real life.
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Father Brown / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Father Brown / int_c819533b	comment	In the first episode, after the sanctimonious culprit treats his actions as being divinely guided, Father Brown finally hits his Rage Breaking Point and bellows "God is not your scapegoat!!!". Even Brown himself looks rather stunned he lost his cool.
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Father Brown / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Father Brown / int_ca22ca46	comment	Madwoman in the Attic: In "The Labyrinth of the Minotaur", an aristocratic family are keeping their mentally defective son hidden away inside their manor to avoid scandal to the family, albeit in very comfortable quarters. While not directly connected to the murder, the secret does serve to muddy the waters and make the truth harder to find.
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Father Brown / int_ca68d759	type	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology
Father Brown / int_ca68d759	comment	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology: In "Bride of Christ", two people are murdered with potassium ferrocyanide covered hard candy. Cyanide would kill most oxygen-breathing organisms, but ferrocyanide would not. And it is stated in the very episode! However, Potassium ferrocyanide (K4[Fe(CN)6]Ã—3H2O) can be (and, until 1900, was) used to create its much more lethal cousin, Potassium cyanide (KCN); and the winery's quality control station is a fully equipped chemical lab with everything needed to pull this off.
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Father Brown / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Father Brown / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Colonel Adams fits this to a tee, even though he's completely broke.
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Father Brown / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Father Brown / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "The Curse of Amenhotep" the killer is over the lake where he deposited Amenhotep's body when his boat sudden stops, and begins to rock as he tries to steady himself. He falls in and is pulled down and drowned by reeds wrapped around his ankles. A ghostly voice is heard by the victim saying "Amenhotep" and then the victim's name while this is happening.
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Father Brown / int_cccb4fd1	type	Death by Pragmatism
Father Brown / int_cccb4fd1	comment	Death by Pragmatism: In "Crackpot of the Empire", Father Brown and a number of others are invited to a Nasty Party in an abandoned mill. When it is revealed what is happening, one of the guests—a pompous, bullying, autocrat—demands that they find a way out and orders everyone to search. When a freight elevator is found, he shoves his way past the others to be the first on board. However, the killer has anticipated his actions and the lift is rigged to crash straight into the basement, killing him.
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Father Brown / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Father Brown / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: The Victim of the Week in "The Mask of the Demon" is a film director famous for his use of the casting couch. He films his assignations for his own entertainment and blackmail purposes.
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Father Brown / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Father Brown / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: In "The Flying Stars", a cops and robbers comedy play takes place near the end of the episode. Naturally, this means that Lady Felicia frantically running on stage and calling for the police is treated as part of the play's proceedings, as is the murderer coming after her and threatening her at gunpoint to keep her quiet.
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Father Brown / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Father Brown / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Ethel Fernsley in "The Shadow of the Scaffold" is steadfast in her insistence that Violet murdered her son Ivan, refusing to retract her testimony even after Father Brown points out that she physically couldn't have seen Violet washing blood off of herself. She turns out to be right — Violet did murder Ivan, but escapes the scaffold after the police lump his murder in with the rest of Ethel's killings. In "The Prize of Colonel Gerard", Edward is convinced that his uncle, the titular Colonel, delibrately engineered the climbing accident which claimed his father's life. The Colonel uses his final words to confess that he did push his brother, and enjoyed his dying screams.
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Father Brown / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Father Brown / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Averted in "The Wrong Shape", where it turns out that Mr. Quinton had already committed suicide before someone tried to murder him, but the would-be killer didn't realize it.
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Father Brown / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Father Brown / int_d001c42c	comment	The Anti-Villain in "The Angel of Mercy" is an "angel of death"-type Serial Killer.
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Father Brown / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Father Brown / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Father Brown. He tries his absolute best by his parish, the people in his life and God. His sleuthing is, in a sense, also a part of this, as his goal is not human justice, but saving souls. Go and Sin No More: The effect of Father Brown's sleuthing in more than one case; the assigned penance after a confession he takes can range from turning oneself in to letting them go so they live a redeeming life.
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Father Brown / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Father Brown / int_d06305ff	comment	Talking with Signs: In "The Tree of Truth", Bunty claims to have laryngitis and communicates with Mrs. McCarthy by a series of pre-prepared signs, having already predicted everything Mrs. McCarthy is going to say.
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Father Brown / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Father Brown / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Not surprising in a mystery series. One notable time is in "The Grim Reaper", when Oona realises there was no chaff in her husband's clothing, which means he couldn't have pushed Alfred Tatton into the threshing machine — so he has made a false confession.
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Father Brown / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Father Brown / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: In "The Standing Stones," every significant witness and a whole smattering of background characters turns out to be in on the murders... with the exception of the eccentric old hermit who seemed the most likely suspect at first. In fact, he's the group's next target.
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Father Brown / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Father Brown / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: Nobody dies in "The Celestial Choir"; the mystery revolves around the identity of the saboteur trying to prevent the Kembleford choir from performing at a competition. Also a few episodes revolving around thefts, usually involving Father Brown's Friendly Enemy Hercule Flambeau.
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Father Brown / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Father Brown / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Father Roland in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" is incredibly pious and tends to look down on Father Brown because of it. It turns out to be over-compensating for guilt due to his love for a woman he met while a missionary.
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Father Brown / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Father Brown / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: An Egomaniac Hunter does this to Father Brown at the end of "The Lair of the Libertines".
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Father Brown / int_d2796e58	type	Clothing-Concealed Injury
Father Brown / int_d2796e58	comment	Clothing-Concealed Injury: The final piece of evidence Father Brown uses to identify the killer in "The Crimson Feather" is that one of the suspects has not removed their gloves since the body was discovered. When the gloves are removed, there is a deep cut on the murderer's palm from the shard of broken mirror they used to stab the victim. In the episode "The Passing Bell", Inspector Mallory questions one of the suspects about her Conspicuous Gloves and becomes increasingly brusque as she hesitates to remove them. Then, he's horrified and apologetic after she shows him badly scarred hands and explains that her abusive husband deliberately burned her and that she needs to wear gloves to deal with the regular and painful sloughing off of skin. In "The Scales of Justice", the killer wears gloves to conceal the thumbnail that was ripped off when she dragged the body across the lawn, until she can replace it with a fake nail. As Father Brown points, it could up to six months for the real nail to regrow.
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Father Brown / int_d32b4ca3	type	Pantomime Animal
Father Brown / int_d32b4ca3	comment	Pantomime Animal: In "The Tree of Truth", Father Brown and Sid play the Daisy the Cow in the Christmas pantomime.
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Father Brown / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Father Brown / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In "The Lair of the Libertines", the Egomaniac Hunter who is stalking Father Brown falls victim to one of the many mantraps they had scattered over the grounds of the hotel.
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Father Brown / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Father Brown / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Father Brown to Mrs. McCarthy in "The Devil's Dust" for her bigoted remarks at the atomic emergency meeting.
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Father Brown / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Father Brown / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: In "The Paradise of Thieves", Father Brown and Sid get locked in a bank vault and are in danger of suffocating. In working out how to escape, Father Brown also works out the solution to the Locked Room Mystery.
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Father Brown / int_d49ce4f8	type	Protect This House
Father Brown / int_d49ce4f8	comment	Protect This House: Or more specifically, Protect This Churchyard. When a coffin is dug up, Father Brown is quietly outraged that the peace of the grave has been violated and sets up a rota to keep watch in case the graverobbers come back. They do.
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Father Brown / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Father Brown / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Moore and Blackstone families in "The Resurrectionists" have been feuding for as long as anyone can remember. Naturally, Alexander Moore and Catherine Blackstone wind up falling in love with each other. However what the two lovers didn't realise was that his mother and her father are siblings, making them first cousins. This revelation leads to tragedy once Alexander's mother finds out about the relationship.
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Father Brown / int_d5929047	type	Revealing Injury
Father Brown / int_d5929047	comment	Revealing Injury: The final piece of evidence Father Brown uses to identify the killer in "The Crimson Feather" is that one of the suspects has not removed their gloves since the body was discovered. When the gloves are removed, there is a deep cut on the murderer's palm from the shard of broken mirror they used to stab the victim.
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Father Brown / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Father Brown / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: For two people who make a big show of how much they don't like each other, Mrs. McCarthy and Lady Felicia do seem to spend an odd amount of time hanging out together.
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Father Brown / int_da910c25	type	Authentication by Newspaper
Father Brown / int_da910c25	comment	Authentication by Newspaper: In "The Daughter of Autolycus", the kidnappers of Flambeau's daughter send him a photograph of her holding that day's newspaper.
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Father Brown / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Father Brown / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Bunty's waved around a gun, been in a car chase, and kicked down a door all in the name of solving the case. In the Series 5 finale, she even keeps the bad guy at gunpoint.
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Father Brown / int_db32e308	type	Whodunnit to Me?
Father Brown / int_db32e308	comment	Whodunnit to Me?: In "The Prize of General Gerard", Father Brown was evidently poisoned by cut-up tiger whiskers in his fish soup, and insisted on finishing the murder investigation, declaring that he was beyond hope and at least he can could function until he died. Turns out he didn't eat the fish soup; he was faking being poisoned because he reasoned that the killer was a person of conscience because he (or as it turned out, she) had researched a possible cure for the poison and even offered it to Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_db69b32c	type	Newspaper-Thin Disguise
Father Brown / int_db69b32c	comment	Newspaper-Thin Disguise: In "The House of God", Father Brown hides behind a newspaper on the back seat of a bus; dropping the newspaper when the bus in motion and the two people he wishes to confront cannot escape.
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Father Brown / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Father Brown / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: In "The Three Tools of Death", the Victim of the Week killed himself to ensure his surviving family wouldn't be left with his debt.
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Father Brown / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Father Brown / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: During The Summation in "The Brewer's Daughter", Father Brown points out that the sheer amount of evidence uncovered was unlikely unless the murderer was attempting a frame-up. The killer was attempting to invoke this trope by framing herself, and relying on Father Brown to then uncover the evidence she had left implicating a second suspect.
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Father Brown / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Father Brown / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Although they're rarely happy for the interference, Inspector Valentine and Inspector Sullivan know that a good Amateur Sleuth is worth listening to. Contrast with Sullivan's successor Inspector Mallory, who definitely isn't one of these.
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Father Brown / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
Father Brown / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: "The Curse of Amenhotep". The Victim of the Week is found alone in a room that was locked from the inside. It turns out that she was poisoned earlier. The poison caused hallucinations that made her lock herself in the room where she succumbed to the poison. In "The Paradise of Thieves", the Victim of the Week is found locked inside a bank vault. Suspicion naturally falls upon the only person with keys to the vault. Father Brown believes him to be innocent and sets up to discover how this seemingly impossible crime could have been committed. Sure enough, it turns out that the true villain arranged for accomplices to smuggle him into the vault ahead of time in a package that his intended victim was expecting (and thus didn't find suspicious), killed him, and then broke out. In The Eye of Apollo, the victim dies after falling from a window in a locked room. Though it turns out that there was no 'locked room' at all in this mystery. The killer merely pretended that the door was locked so that he could send Father Brown to fetch the keys kept downstairs, which gave him enough time alone to dart into the room and throw her out the window himself. In "The Blood of the Anarchists", the first Victim of the Week is found slumped dead over his typewriter with a gun at his feet in an outbuilding with a window that doesn't open and a door bolted from the inside. However, Father Brown notices that there is not enough damage to his head for him to been shot with the gun pressed his head.
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Father Brown / int_dd28eb85	type	Black Cap of Death
Father Brown / int_dd28eb85	comment	Black Cap of Death: Averted in "The Scales of Justice". Mallory appears in the court with fresh evidence to exonerate Bunty right as the jury announces an initial guilty verdict but before the judge can pass sentence.
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Father Brown / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Father Brown / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: The first episode of Series 2 has a cat jump out of a cabinet, scaring Sid.
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Father Brown / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Father Brown / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: In "The Tower of Lost Souls", Inspector Valentine discovers that one of his previous investigations (while Father Brown was away in Rome) sent an innocent man to the gallows. At least with Father Brown's help, he is finally able to collar the actual culprit.
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Father Brown / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Father Brown / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Many episodes feature young lovers from opposite sides of the tracks whose elders will stop at nothing to keep apart. Father Brown, of course, always approves, and often officiates the wedding himself.
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Father Brown / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Father Brown / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The solution to Season 2 premiere "Ghost in the Machine" is that there was no murder and no bad guy. Elspeth died eight years ago when she got trapped in the "priest's hole" hidden under the house and presumably died of dehydration. Her sister Charlotte disappeared because she stumbled onto the same priest's hole, but this time, Father Brown manages to rescue her.
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Father Brown / int_e0dc6390	type	Go Among Mad People
Father Brown / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: In "The Maddest of Them All", Father Brown feigns insanity to be admitted into a madhouse for an independent investigation into a murder case which turned out to be not as simple as it first appeared.
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Father Brown / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Father Brown / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", jewel thief Flambeau disguises himself as a priest using a cassock that he stole from Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_e1223d07	type	Evil Elevator
Father Brown / int_e1223d07	comment	Evil Elevator: A sabotaged lift is used to send one Victim of the Week plummeting to his death in "The Crackpot of the Empire".
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Father Brown / int_e12c0ab2	type	"Rear Window" Homage
Father Brown / int_e12c0ab2	comment	"Rear Window" Homage: "The Daughters of Jerusalem," where Father Brown is laid up with a broken leg.
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Father Brown / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Father Brown / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Father Brown, obviously. However his motivations are different to most amateur sleuths. He does want to help people who have been unjustly accused. However, more unusually—but quite understandably for a serious Catholic priest who understands his faith—he wants to find the real murderer to give him or her a chance to repent before it's too late. As lampshaded in The Smallest Of Things:
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Father Brown / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Father Brown / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: The murderer in "The Stars of God" is dressed up as a woman as part of his role in an ongoing play. When he realises that Father Brown and Lady Felicia are closing in on him, he flees the scene still dressed in costume and tries to pass himself off as an actual woman in order to avoid detection.
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Father Brown / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Father Brown / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The S11 episode "The Forensic Nun" serves as a Prequel to Sister Boniface Mysteries and ends with Sister Boniface transferring from St. Agnes' Convent (where she was in her first appearance in The Bride of Christ) to St. Vincent's, and having Mrs. Devine suggest she should change her bicycle for a moped - which becomes her signature transport in the spin-off.
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Father Brown / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
Father Brown / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: In "The Last Man", Kembleford is playing a vital cricket match for ownership of the local cricket ground. With three balls left and six runs needed to win, the opposing team engages in some Unnecessary Roughness to knock out Kembleford's star player with a cricket ball to the head. Kembleford already being a man down, Lady Felicia goes in as last man, and hits a six on the final ball.
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Father Brown / int_e517eb5b	type	Affectionate Pickpocket
Father Brown / int_e517eb5b	comment	Affectionate Pickpocket: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Lisandra hugs the Anglican bishop in gratitude, and uses the opportunity to pickpocket the key to the safe.
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Father Brown / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Father Brown / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Lady Felicia's husband Lord Montague, or "Monty", is mentioned frequently throughout the show, but always remains unseen. He finally made his first onscreen appearance in the Series 9 finale "The Red Death", where he is played by Alexander Hanson.
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Father Brown / int_e52e0dc1	type	Clothing Combat
Father Brown / int_e52e0dc1	comment	Clothing Combat: In "The Red Death", the Victim of the Week is garrotted during a New Year's Eve party. Some distinctive scratches are left on his fingers where he attempted to claw at the ligature. Father Brown eventually realises that the scratches were caused by the diamond studded belt Ruth Moulton was wearing with her gown and that she used to garrotte him.
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Father Brown / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Father Brown / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Kalon, the sinister cult-leader in "The Eye of Apollo", wears beautiful and pristine white robes, in contrast to Father Brown's scruffy black cassock.
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Father Brown / int_e6c8cd60	type	Fed to Pigs
Father Brown / int_e6c8cd60	comment	Fed to Pigs: How the killer disposes of the bodies in episode "The Shadow of the Scaffold". This is discovered when a finger bone with a ring on it is discovered in the stomach of a pig being prepared for tripe.
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Father Brown / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Father Brown / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "The Sins Of Others" you can see that the normally polite Father Brown is feeling the strain when he almost barks at Inspector Mallory. In "The Resurrectionists, he does shout at Inspector Mallory for making jokes about the exhumation and theft of a body. Even Mallory is cowed by the normally mild-mannered father turning on him. In the first episode, after the sanctimonious culprit treats his actions as being divinely guided, Father Brown finally hits his Rage Breaking Point and bellows "God is not your scapegoat!!!". Even Brown himself looks rather stunned he lost his cool. Father Brown chews out Mrs. McCarthy, over her paranoid treatment of a sick girl like a Nuclear Mutant, in uncharacteristically harsh tones. She's caught off guard and later relents on her unfair ostracizing of the girl, though admits no wrongdoing.
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Father Brown / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Father Brown / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: In "The Brewer's Daughter", Mrs McCarthy is organising an adult literacy class, and when Lady Felicia mentions that a murder suspect who committed suicide had signed up for the class, Father Brown realises that his suicide note must be a forgery, and that he was really murdered.
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Father Brown / int_e9ae8248	type	Prisons Are Gymnasiums
Father Brown / int_e9ae8248	comment	Prisons Are Gymnasiums: When Sid Carter gets out of prison in "The Sins of Others", Mrs. McCarthy remarks that she expected him to be a bag of bones, but instead he is in very good physical shape. He replies that there was nothing else to occupy his time inside, so he did a lot of push-ups.
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Father Brown / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
Father Brown / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: In "The Mask of the Demon", the Victim of the Week has a secret room concealed behind a bookcase that he uses to secretly film his Casting Couch assignations.
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Father Brown / int_eafe9e0e	type	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
Father Brown / int_eafe9e0e	comment	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: At the end of "The Penitent Man", a filthy and soaking wet Flambeau comes across a pair of picnickers who are skinny dipping. Flambeau steals the man's clothes, and his car, as he escapes.
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Father Brown / int_eb48170d	type	Cramming the Coffin
Father Brown / int_eb48170d	comment	Cramming the Coffin: In "The Curse of Amenhotep", the killer attempts to dispose of Father Brown by sealing him inside a sarcophagus.
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Father Brown / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Father Brown / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: So many examples: "The Daughters of Jerusalem", "The Owl Of Minerva", "The Curse of Amenhotep", "The Rod Of Asclepius" ....
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Father Brown / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Father Brown / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Inspector Mallory is almost always in a bad mood and needlessly unpleasant to everyone.
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Father Brown / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Father Brown / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Norman and Wilfred Bohun in "The Hammer of God". Wilfred is the modest man of the cloth, whereas his brother is a boorish alcoholic who loves to gamble and is not above forcing a woman to sleep with him in order to pay her husbands debts. Though the episode does play with this trope, revealing that the good brother Wilfred was the one to smash his own brother's skull in, after discovering that Norman enjoyed men as well as women.
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Father Brown / int_ec4585b2	type	Delivery Guy
Father Brown / int_ec4585b2	comment	Delivery Guy: In "The Kembleford Dragon", Father Brown is forced to deliver Pandora's baby when goes into labour unexpectedly: having sent the only other person present to fetch an ambulance. He does a commendable job all things considered, although it is clear he would rather be anywhere else.
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Father Brown / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Father Brown / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: The first Body of the Week in "The Lair of the Libertines" is a prostitute who does not get any lines.
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Father Brown / int_edd312d3	type	Münchausen Syndrome
Father Brown / int_edd312d3	comment	MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome: The killer in Shadow of the Scaffold. All of her victims are those who threaten her charade.
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Father Brown / int_eef35d8d	type	A Handful for an Eye
Father Brown / int_eef35d8d	comment	A Handful for an Eye: In "The Devil You Know", the murderer is forcing Father Brown and Inspector Mallory to dig their own graves at gunpoint. When the killer is focusing on Father Brown, Mallory tosses a spadeful of earth into the killer's face. While the killer is blinded, Father Brown and Mallory bolt.
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Father Brown / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
Father Brown / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Although the various inspectors, come round to Father Brown's way of thinking eventually, Sergeant Goodfellow is always affable and ready to help. Occasionally, he even goes behind his superiors' backs to help — including smuggling Father Brown in and out of a prison cell after he is accused of murder in "The Eagle and the Daw", all without Inspector Mallory noticing.
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Father Brown / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Father Brown / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Bunty's performance as the Fairy Godmother in "The Tree of Truth". She is very stiff and wooden, and keeps forgetting her lines. Ultimately, she realises how awful she is and feigns illness to allow Mrs. McCarthy who originally read for the role, to take over the part.
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Father Brown / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
Father Brown / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: In "The Kembleford Dragon", Mrs. Webb tosses a glass of water in the face of the odious Buddy Arnold during a heated town meeting.
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Father Brown / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Father Brown / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: In "The Lair of the Libertines'', the hostess at the hotel feeds Father Brown a fruitcake laced with opium. This makes father Brown very woozy and he quickly passes out.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_f247d841
Father Brown / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
Father Brown / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: "The Shadow of the Scaffold". After Violet is just barely saved from the gallows, she confesses that she did kill her husband Ivan, and for that she feels she doesn't deserve marriage to the prison guard who she had fallen in love with. Father Brown agrees to keep her secret, because her husband was a brute who beat her viciously and deserved getting murdered, and in any case he couldn't do much about it after he was the one who got her cleared and released from prison. But he does suggest that she shouldn't marry her boyfriend if she doesn't think she can trust him with her secret. Violet elects to become a nun instead.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_f2bb1fb4
Father Brown / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Father Brown / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: In "The Pride of the Prydes", the son of the woman who supposedly cursed the Pryde family shot her through the heart to spare her the fate of being burned alive at the stake. In the present day, Lady Lavinia attempts to poison Jago to spare him the fate of being hung at the scaffold for his crimes. The Anti-Villain in "The Angel of Mercy" is an "angel of death"-type Serial Killer.
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Father Brown / int_f362cf07	type	Mercy Lead
Father Brown / int_f362cf07	comment	Mercy Lead: The Egomaniac Hunter gives one to Father Brown in "The Lair of the Libertines": giving him the time it takes them to finish loading their rifle in which to run.
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Father Brown / int_f3894c02	type	Underside Ride
Father Brown / int_f3894c02	comment	Underside Ride: Inspector Sullivan does this to escape in "The Owl of Minerva"; clinging to the underside of the van that is supposed to be transporting him to prison.
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Father Brown / int_f4992ba	type	Desperate Object Catch
Father Brown / int_f4992ba	comment	Desperate Object Catch: In "The Blue Cross", the culprit throws the titular artifact toward the harbor as a distraction for his escape. Sid rushes in to catch the precious item, ensuring it's not lost beneath the water.
Father Brown / int_f4992ba	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_f4992ba
Father Brown / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
Father Brown / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Poor Mrs. Webb in "The Kembleford Dragon" has wanted a child for decades with no success, only for her philandering husband to impregnate not her, but one of his numerous much younger mistresses. She drowns him in a bucket when she finds out about it.
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Father Brown / int_f4faa8f8	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Father Brown / int_f4faa8f8	comment	Pity the Kidnapper: The robbers in "The Great Train Robbery" who abduct Mrs McCartney and Lady Felicia to cover their getaway soon regret it. The two women are soon directing their behaviour and dictating the ransom note.
Father Brown / int_f4faa8f8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Father Brown / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: The Victim of the Week in "The Curse of Amenhotep" is the much younger second wife of Sir Raleigh Beresford. And by much younger, we mean she is younger that Sir Raleigh's adult son. She admits to her lover that she only married Sir Raleigh to get her hands on his money.
Father Brown / int_f6b2bfb7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Father Brown / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: The audition montage in "The Tree of Truth", which ranges from the unsuitable, to the terrible, to the misguided (one man is auditioning for the role of Prince Charming, which is played by a woman).
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Father Brown / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Father Brown / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: In "The Theatre Of The Invisible", Jeremy — the new producer of the Up To You radio quiz — kills both the landlady of a Kembleford boarding house and Richie Queenan — the quiz's announcer — after becoming infatuated with Bunty. However, Father Brown's summation reveals the eventual double murder to be an accident (He failed to account for Mrs. Rudge returning home early, just as his wax-and-gravel smoke trap kicked in; his original scheme was that he'd run into an empty house to rescue some kittens and have Bunty be impressed by his heroics) compounded by necessity (After smothering Richie, he made it look like suicide by dumping him in a bath surrounded by drugs and wine; filled with cold water to delay rigor mortis and tuning the radio in the room to a frequency whose broadcasts would only begin hours later to give himself an alibi).
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Father Brown / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Father Brown / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: In every single episode, Father Brown plays a key part in solving the mystery of the week. And yet, every single time, the police treat him as some random priest butting in where he doesn't belong. To be fair, they're just following correct procedure, but you'd think that they'd treat him with a little respect, especially in the later seasons where he's developed a slight reputation for solving murders and thefts.
Father Brown / int_f818b637	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_f92c808	type	Sauna of Death
Father Brown / int_f92c808	comment	Sauna of Death: In "The Enigma of Antigonish", the killer of the week locks Father Brown, Mrs. McCarthy, Sid and the woman who was his next targeted victim in the hot room—having removed the door handle from the inside—in an attempt to Make It Look Like an Accident.
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Father Brown / int_f92c808	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_f92c808
Father Brown / int_f935efbf	type	Unnecessary Roughness
Father Brown / int_f935efbf	comment	Unnecessary Roughness: In "The Last Man", a vital cricket match comes down to three balls left and six runs to win. The opposition bowler deliberately bowls a ball at Kembleford's star player's head to knock him out.
Father Brown / int_f935efbf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Father Brown / int_f935efbf
Father Brown / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Father Brown / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", Flambeau fakes with death with some strategically placed explosives and some pig offal to make it appear he had been killed by his own bomb. At the end of the episode, he fakes his death again and Father Brown performs a fake funeral to persuade the mobsters who are on his tail that he really is dead.
Father Brown / int_f9876f7e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Father Brown / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: At this point Lady Felicia screaming bloody murder at each body is becoming a borderline one. People mistaking Mrs. McCarthy's goddaughter for a boy in "The Bride of Christ", and her outrage over it. Becomes far less funny when the delusional murderer believes that the baby is her long lost son, and promptly absconds with the child.
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Father Brown / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Father Brown / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: In "The Standing Stones", the local policeman who is assisting the investigation turns out to be the killer, and in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" the killer is PC Pugh.
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Father Brown / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Father Brown / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Both deaths in "The Theatre of the Invisible". The first occurs when the killer attempts to stage a hero moment that will allow him to rescue a litter of kittens from a burning house. No one was supposed to be home, but the landlady returned home unexpectedly and died of smoke inhalation. The second occurs when someone attempts to blackmail him over the first. He attempts to stop the blackmailer from drunkenly waking everyone in the house, but accidentally smothers him with a teddy bear. The first victim in "The Bride of Christ" had the poor luck of falling for the trap meant for the killer's intended victim. The Victim of the Week in "The Resurrectionists" dies as the result of a Staircase Tumble after being shoved by someone who was in a state of shock and definitely not intending to kill him. Paulette in "The Mask of the Demon" spends the entire episode thinking that she killed the victim while trying to fend off his unwanted advances. This trope is eventually subverted when Father Brown reveals that she just knocked him unconscious, and that someone else finished him off after she fled the scene. The Victim of the Week in "The Passing Bell" trips and falls on to the blade being held by the man he was attacking. In "The Tanganyika Green", the victim dies after ingesting a sleeping drug spiked drink which reacts badly with their prescription antimalarials. When their killer brings this up as their defense after being apprehended, Mallory informs him that his charge has only been bumped down from murder to manslaughter.
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Father Brown / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Father Brown / int_fdc1e848	comment	Sid has a good deal of this as well. In addition to his Will They or Won't They? relationship with Susie in Series 1 and hookups with female guest characters, his behavior with Inspector Sullivan, Lt.Graham in "Sign of the Broken Sword" and Father Roland in "The Daughters of Jerusalem" can easily be read as flirtatious.
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Father Brown / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
Father Brown / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The French detective Valentin becomes the English detective Valentine.
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Father Brown / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
Father Brown / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: A story involving the jewel thief Flambeau, which also deviate from the series' usual Always Murder mode. Following their respective departures from the main cast, Sid Carter and Lady Felicia each reappear roughly once a series.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	A Handful for an Eye / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	A Taste of the Lash / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Amateur Sleuth / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Amnesiac Protagonist Catalyst / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Arranged Marriage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Authentication by Newspaper / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	"Awkward Silence" Entrance / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Backwards-Firing Gun / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Bad "Bad Acting" / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Bad Habits / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Bathroom Break-Out / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Batter Up! / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Battleaxe Nurse / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Blasting It Out of Their Hands / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Book Safe / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Bookcase Passage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Casting Couch / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Caught Up in a Robbery / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Chocolate Baby / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Circle of Standing Stones / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Circus Episode / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Clean Food, Poisoned Fork / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Clear My Name / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Clear Their Name / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Clothing Combat / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Clothing-Concealed Injury / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Confess in Confidence / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Conspicuous Gloves / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Cozy Mystery / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Cramming the Coffin / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Crash Course Landing / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Creepy Dollhouse / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Crusty Caretaker / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Curtain Camouflage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Damsel out of Distress / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dead Man's Chest / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dead Person Impersonation / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Deadly Bath / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Deadly Escape Mechanism / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Death by Falling Over / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Death by Pragmatism / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Deliberately Painful Clothing / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Delivery Guy / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Desperate Object Catch / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Detective Mole / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dig Your Own Grave / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dirty Harriet / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Disguised Hostage Gambit / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Divorce Requires Death / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Down to the Last Play / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dressing as the Enemy / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Dying Candle / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Egomaniac Hunter / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Elevator Failure / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Embarrassing Slide / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Especially Zoidberg / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Evil Elevator / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Exact Time to Failure / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Fakin' MacGuffin / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Faux Death / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Fed to Pigs / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Fiery Coverup / int_6234f5b3
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Food Slap / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Framing the Guilty Party / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Frying Pan of Doom / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Get into Jail Free / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Giving Them the Strip / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Golf Clubbing / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Ground by Gears / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Hairpin Lockpick / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Hand on Womb / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Hand-or-Object Underwear / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Hat Damage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Holier Than Thou / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Human Mail / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Human Sacrifice / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	I Have Brothers / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	It Works Better with Bullets / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	It's a Costume Party, I Swear! / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Laxative Prank / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Let Off by the Detective / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Locked in a Freezer / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Locked Room Mystery / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Madwoman in the Attic / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Mercy Lead / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Mind Your Step / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Miss Conception / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Modesty Bedsheet / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Must Have Nicotine / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Nasty Party / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	New Old Flame / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Newspaper-Thin Disguise / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Office Golf / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Orgy of Evidence / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Pantomime Animal / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Phone-In Detective / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Pinned to the Wall / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Plague Doctor / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Pocket Protector / int_6234f5b3
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Prisons Are Gymnasiums / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Quick Nip / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Reusable Lighter Toss / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Revealing Injury / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Sauna of Death / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Sexual Extortion / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Shoot the Builder / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Shotgun Wedding / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Slipping a Mickey / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Staged Shooting / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Staircase Tumble / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Stolen by Staying Still / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Suicide, Not Murder / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Sword Cane / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Tainted Tobacco / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Taking the Veil / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Terrible Interviewees Montage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Black Death / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Corpse Stops Here / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Exile / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Illuminati / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Scapegoat / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	This Is My Name on Foreign / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Trail of Blood / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Train Job / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Train-Station Goodbye / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Trigger Phrase / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Undercover Cop Reveal / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Underside Ride / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Unnecessary Roughness / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Vapor Trail / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Waking Up at the Morgue / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Wardens Are Evil / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Weaponized Allergy / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Whodunnit to Me? / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Wrench Whack / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Writing Indentation Clue / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Wrong Bathroom Incident / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	You Must Be Cold / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Shoot Me / int_6234f5b3
Father Brown	hasFeature	Affectionate Pickpocket / int_6234f5b3

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