'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 12 Recap: "Murder in the Dark"
The penultimate episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' first season opens in Aunt Prudence's backyard, where her maid, Marigold, is floating dead in the pool. This will never do, as she's two days from throwing an engagement party for her older son Guy Stanley (Felix Williamson), Phryne's dear cousin, who was planning on making it a fancy dress costume ball. Not to worry - Miss Fisher is on the case. She beats Robinson and Collins to the scene, but barely. Jack and Phryne agree she was strangled, as Fisher finds a discarded toffee apple nearby.
Miss Fisher: Put another pin in your hat, Dot. You're in for a very fast ride.
Prudence won't admit it, but her younger son, Arthur (John Lloyd Fillingham), who is intellectually disabled, is the one who found the maid. Marigold's father, Herbert Brown (Ken Radley), Prudence's stableman, says his daughter was only 16, but she no longer lived in their cottage, staying up in the servant quarters. He and Guy confirm each other's alibis, as they saw each other in the stables around the time of death, but Phryne says Brown's claim Guy wanted horses saddled up is nonsense. (A horse kicked him as a child.) Guy's fiancée, Isabella (Kate Jenkinson), saw nothing and doesn't care. Meanwhile, the housekeeper, Mrs. Truebody, is missing, having left at the crack of dawn, quitting her position.
