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17-04-2009, 19:50
DS Rachel Dawson (Clare Wille) is in town to investigate a series of stolen antiques which have ended up in Aidensfield. Wetherby (Rupert Ward Lewis) and Younger (Steven Blakely) find the stolen goods with local antique dealer Mr Brigstocke (Fred Ridgeway), who claims he inherited the shop and all of its stock from his uncle who died a week ago. DS Dawson’s sceptical and orders an inventory of the whole shop. However, when they arrive the next day some of the items in question are missing. Brigstocke insists he’s been burgled as they confiscated his keys but Dawson’s sure he’s involved and is frustrated she doesn’t have enough evidence to charge him. Will they get to the bottom of the missing goods?
Meanwhile, a group of Taoist monks on their way to a monastery in Middlesbrough have broken down in the middle of the Aidensfield. Their arrival causes quite a stir amongst the villagers, particularly Joyce Jowett (Elizabeth Bennett) who’s worried about the image of the village.
Peggy (Gwen Taylor) and David (David Lonsdale), are on the Ashfordly estate about to poach fish from the river, when they spot one of the monks fishing with his bare hands. They’re impressed by his skill and by his philosophy - that he is free to take the fish as it belongs to the god of the river – not Lord Ashfordly. Meanwhile, on the monks’ bus, local trouble makers Julie (Georgia Foote) and Eddie Tinniswood (Greg Walker) are snooping around stealing items and are shocked when they realise an elderly and clearly very ill man is on the bus.
A panicked Mrs Tinniswood (Polly Hemingway) summons Carol (Lisa Kay) to the house, worried that her husband is coughing up blood. However, when Carol arrives he has already passed away. A post mortem is required due to his sudden death and it soon comes to light that he was well known by the police and had a criminal record for burglary.
When word gets out that one of the monks is ill, it sparks off TB hysteria across the village. Mrs Tinniswood is worried about her children catching the disease and reveals to Carol that they were on the bus and Joe realises they’ve been stealing from the monks.
Meanwhile, eager to get some evidence against Brigstocke, Wetherby discovers there is another route into the shop via a tunnel which someone has been using. Rachel informs him that further items are being investigated and suspecting he’ll remove any items he knows will incriminate him, the team decide to stake out the antique shop and catch Brigstocke red-handed. As Mason (Joe McFadden) and Wetherby wait inside the shop, Dawson and Younger watch Brigstocke leave his house in the middle of the night and make his way there. As expected, someone enters the shop via the tunnel, however, they’re shocked to discover it’s not Brigstocke but Mrs Tinniswood’s children. Meanwhile, Brigstocke sets fire to the shop – will they make it out alive and will Rachel will they catch Brigstocke?
Elsewhere, Carol has received a letter from the adoption agency. They’ve managed to trace her mother, but she died ten years ago. She tells Gina (Tricia Penrose) now that she knows she no longer has a mother, she doesn’t want to lose out on having a brother, who she knows is in Australia. She’s going to go and find him.
Mr Tinniswood’s post mortem reveals he died of asbestos poisoning which he caught from breaking in to Brigstocke’s antique shop via the tunnel. When a devastated Mrs Tinniswood reveals that her husband used to take the kids with him on a regular basis, Carol heartbroken to have to tell her that her children most probably have the fatal condition also.
Meanwhile, a group of Taoist monks on their way to a monastery in Middlesbrough have broken down in the middle of the Aidensfield. Their arrival causes quite a stir amongst the villagers, particularly Joyce Jowett (Elizabeth Bennett) who’s worried about the image of the village.
Peggy (Gwen Taylor) and David (David Lonsdale), are on the Ashfordly estate about to poach fish from the river, when they spot one of the monks fishing with his bare hands. They’re impressed by his skill and by his philosophy - that he is free to take the fish as it belongs to the god of the river – not Lord Ashfordly. Meanwhile, on the monks’ bus, local trouble makers Julie (Georgia Foote) and Eddie Tinniswood (Greg Walker) are snooping around stealing items and are shocked when they realise an elderly and clearly very ill man is on the bus.
A panicked Mrs Tinniswood (Polly Hemingway) summons Carol (Lisa Kay) to the house, worried that her husband is coughing up blood. However, when Carol arrives he has already passed away. A post mortem is required due to his sudden death and it soon comes to light that he was well known by the police and had a criminal record for burglary.
When word gets out that one of the monks is ill, it sparks off TB hysteria across the village. Mrs Tinniswood is worried about her children catching the disease and reveals to Carol that they were on the bus and Joe realises they’ve been stealing from the monks.
Meanwhile, eager to get some evidence against Brigstocke, Wetherby discovers there is another route into the shop via a tunnel which someone has been using. Rachel informs him that further items are being investigated and suspecting he’ll remove any items he knows will incriminate him, the team decide to stake out the antique shop and catch Brigstocke red-handed. As Mason (Joe McFadden) and Wetherby wait inside the shop, Dawson and Younger watch Brigstocke leave his house in the middle of the night and make his way there. As expected, someone enters the shop via the tunnel, however, they’re shocked to discover it’s not Brigstocke but Mrs Tinniswood’s children. Meanwhile, Brigstocke sets fire to the shop – will they make it out alive and will Rachel will they catch Brigstocke?
Elsewhere, Carol has received a letter from the adoption agency. They’ve managed to trace her mother, but she died ten years ago. She tells Gina (Tricia Penrose) now that she knows she no longer has a mother, she doesn’t want to lose out on having a brother, who she knows is in Australia. She’s going to go and find him.
Mr Tinniswood’s post mortem reveals he died of asbestos poisoning which he caught from breaking in to Brigstocke’s antique shop via the tunnel. When a devastated Mrs Tinniswood reveals that her husband used to take the kids with him on a regular basis, Carol heartbroken to have to tell her that her children most probably have the fatal condition also.