'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: "Dead Man's Chest"
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries begins with a stylized cold open of a couple murdered at the ferry at Queenscliff. It's great timing since that's where Miss Fisher is heading right now in her fabulous car, with Prudence, Dot, and Jane in tow. It's a busy time in the holiday town, with the Temperance Movement holding protests, thieves being chased across the street in front of Fisher's car, and a valuable and rare Spanish doubloon turning up on the beach.
Miss Fisher: No mean feat to close down a watering hole in a fishing town.
When Miss Fisher pulls up to Hilly McNaster's (Julia Blake), where they are staying, the place is in an uproar. The family's servant couple, Clive and Moira Johnson have unexpectedly retired with no warning. Worse, the house has been burgled, or so Hilly's son Gerald McNaster (Dan Wyllie) claims. The Spanish doubloon found was stolen from him. Rather than leave, Prudence starts talking up Phryne's detecting abilities, and with only Kip (Reef Ireland) to run the house, Miss Fisher promises Mr. Butler will come down for the time being, and Dot volunteers to help too.
