Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder At The Vicarage
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8.0
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The Murder At The Vicarage
- 2.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 2
- First Aired: 12/19/2004
- Prod Code: 1884
- A calendar on Miss Marple's table shows 1st August 1951 as a Tuesday. In fact, that date fell on a Wednesday. edit »
- In this episode, Miss Marple can be seen reading a book called The Simple Art of Murder. Within the book, the author criticises writers including Agatha Christie for creating over-elaborate murder plots in their works of fiction. edit »
- Rev Leonard Clement: I could strangle Protheroe sometimes. May God forgive me.
Griselda Clement: I'd stab him.
Currate Ronald Hawes: I'd poison him.
Dennis Clement: I'd shoot him.
Lawrence Redding: Use my gun edit » - Currate Ronald Hawes: 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.'
DI Slack: Well, someone beat the Lord to it.
edit » - Colonel Protheroe: [Reading the Bible during the church service] But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth... death. Here endeth the lesson.
edit » - Lawrence Redding: And how would you do it, Miss Marple?
Miss Jane Marple: I never speak lightly of murder, Mr. Redding. I hate to tempt fate. edit » - DI Slack: [to a constable as Miss Marple is some distance walking away] I don't know whether to buy her a box of chocs or kick away her stick.
Miss Jane Marple: [still walking away] I prefer the chocolates.
edit » - DI Slack: The chief constable sends his regards.
Miss Jane Marple: How lovely. I have been of some assistance to him from time to time.
DI Slack: He said.
edit » - Miss Hartnell: Where's Lettice this morning?
Miss Jane Marple: Mr. Redding's painting her.
Miss Hartnell: On a Sunday? You don't think...?
Miss Jane Marple: Oh, he does have a way with him, but she's just a girl. I'd plump for an older candidate if there is someone. edit » - DI Slack: Look, it's easy to imagine all kinds of things after the event, but the simple fact is ...
Miss Jane Marple: Murder is never simple. We would be foolish, stupid, to ignore any possibility.
DI Slack: 'We?'
Miss Jane Marple: [smiling] Did I say that? Hm. So sorry. edit » - Miss Jane Marple: Why does Inspector Slack think the Colonel was shot at twenty past six?
Dr. Haydock: He'd started writing a note to the vicar saying he couldn't wait. He put the time on it.
Miss Jane Marple: Had he?
Dr. Haydock: And the clock stopped at just gone 6:20. He knocked it off the desk when he took the bullet.
Miss Jane Marple: Oh, dear. I'm afraid I must put a cat amongst the Inspector's pigeons. edit » - Miss Jane Marple: What is this, Mary?
Mary Hill: Soup.
Miss Jane Marple: Does it have a name?
Mary Hill: Bits-and-bobs-and-odds-and-sods-and-the-meat-ration's-been-cut-again soup. edit » - DI Slack: The lady in the cottage with a view of the back here.
Rev Leonard Clement: Miss Marple?
DI Slack: I need to interview her. Would you tag along? These old maids tend to get nervous. edit » - Miss Jane Marple: We're all very ordinary in St. Mary Mead, but ordinary people can sometimes do the most astonishing things. edit »
- Miss Marple: Miss Hartnell's cousin's maid is stepping out with a baker's boy from Milchester who delivers your mother-in-law. edit »
- Lawrence Redding: I'll have to leave, you know, for Anne's sake.
Miss Jane Marple: That's very brave.
Lawrence Redding: Yes, well, I'll soon be over it.
Miss Jane Marple: You won't, not for a long while.
Lawrence Redding: Nothing gets past you, Miss Marple, does it?
Miss Jane Marple: [smiling] Hardly ever, young man. edit »
Murders
Colonel Lucius Protheroe - Shot through the head edit »- Rachael Stirling (Griselda Clement) is Diana Riggs' daughter. edit »
- Stephen Churchett, the writer for the episode, has a cameo as a coroner. He played a coroner again in The Moving Finger. edit »
- This episode was aired from April 17th-24th 2005 in the US on PBS in two parts. edit »
- This episode is based on the novel by Agatha Christie of the same name, first published in 1930. edit »
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