His name and the country he worked for are known for sure. Blake confronts Jock Clement with killing his mother; Clement points a gun at him. While the crowd cheers the winning pair from Ballarat College, one of the losers from the high school team accuses college rower Dennis Goodman of cheating. Checking the morgue again, Blake and Danny find evidence of another body brought into the morgue before Prentice's death, which is now gone. Jean speaks again with Father Emery, as she assesses what she leaves behind if she goes ahead with the marriage. Ashby was Superintendent Lawson's commanding officer for 10 years. She goes to the cemetery where her first husband is buried to think over her decisions, where she is confronted by Norman Baker, using that police gun, a man who blames Blake for the suicide death of his daughter in prison (she murdered the man who the family blamed for her younger sister's death, in Series 3, Episode 7). At the hospital, Harold says he learned to be easy with violence from the war. She reveals her relationship with Philippe, who is not homosexual, and that she was at the restaurant the evening Philippe was killed, seeing a light there. She had found Lee-related items outside the venue and had pulled a ring off his finger when he fell down dead. Entrants in the begonia contest had tried to bribe Ormond, including Jean with a cake, which he told her he cannot eat. When she slips into character to play the enigmatic housekeeper to Dr Lucien Blake, Nadine puts on more than the costume of a woman from 1950s Ballarat. Blake has been pushing Tyneman to upgrade the equipment and calls reporter Joy McDonald before the autopsy is complete. Rose Anderson is good friends with one teacher at the school, who was aware of the bullying but did not intervene, just as Charlotte's father failed to protect his daughter. Blake and Harvey meet at the cemetery and discuss his suspicions about the cause of his mother's death and the denial of his exhumation request. Dr Lucien Blake returns home after a week away to find Ballarat hosting a very public stopover in the 1960 cross-country, endurance motor race. This has been such a great television series, so it was no wonder that the TV movie was such a joy to watch. Charlie and Blake find Ethan attacked at his work site, with the weapon still in his chest, and he is saved by surgery. Blake does a second test on Mosca's blood, which shows evidence of tertiary stage syphilis and suggests he was forcing himself on the women in the factory. Bobby Lee, lead singer of a popular rock and roll group, dies in an alley outside Ballarat's concert hall surrounded by his fans. Back at home, Mattie brings out the cake she made to mark Jean's birthday. She actually had never met Lee. After talking business with Len Webster at the hotel, Henry King staggers up to his hotel room. Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. Jack may be the father. A man named Arthur comes to the pub where Doctor Blake and Danny Parks are playing darts, showing off a gold nugget he says came from his own mine. A second injury to the head took place after death, showing that the body was moved, and there is a bite mark on his arm. A boxing match turns sour when a fighter is seemingly beaten to death by his younger, far less-experienced opponent. Lawson and Danny arrive in the nick of time to stop Gus and take him away. Something Blake had deduced from the presence of two types of cigarette butts. [1] Series overview[edit] Episodes[edit] Series 1 (2013)[edit] Series 2 (2014)[edit] Alice Harvey, a new pathologist joins the Ballarat medical team. Turning away from the altar, Blakes ends by saying, "I can't". They learn that Vern has won a lot of cash at cards in an illegal gambling game at a local bakery and cafe, generating enemies. Jack is now staying at the Blake home and makes an unsuccessful pass at Mattie. After a scuffle, Blake takes Harold's pistol and shoots him in the leg. Ashby tells Blake that, depending on the lab results, if he does not release Dennis's body, he will have to review his position as police surgeon. Councillor Campbell wears the lipstick color found on Trevorrow's handkerchief. In Adam's wallet is a bill for a four-poster bed delivered to a derelict mansion owned by Patrick Tyneman's son, Edward. Chief Superintendent Frank Carlyle replaces Lawson. Blake discovers that Mark Dempster's farm once belonged to Jean and her late husband Christopher. Caxton tells Blake that Orton "butchered" his wife in surgery. Blake answers the door to see former Superintendent Matthew Lawson (Now Chief Inspector) in full uniform, who says, "I hear you resigned, is it in writing yet?" A painting is stolen from the art gallery. Edward's father Patrick cannot bear the loss of his son and pulls strings to get Blake re-instated with the police, believing he will find the murderer of his son. This episode was filmed four months before Craig McLachlan was accused of sexual harassment. Phillip's mother Rosemary, an ambitious woman, learned of the pregnancy and her son's love for Ann; she arranged to meet Ann, "the little slut" and killed her, using her son's car. Patrick admits to Munro that he had a brief affair with the actress a few years earlier when he invested in one of her shows. The evening after the autopsy, Mrs Orton had contacted Harvey, who told her of her husband's affair with Lambert and of advances he'd made towards several women, including her. The students are members of the CPA, staying at the house of Colin Doyle. Mattie and her father make peace. At the autopsy they learn from surgeon David Michaels that Father Morton had a brain tumor. Franklin was a Mason. Joy McDonald appears in town to do a story about Blake at the request of Patrick Tyneman, who is on the hospital board, but he talks her into digging into Nicholson, who had benefited under the estate of a patient who died soon after changing her will. He killed his own brother in the stream, and moved his body to the swimming pool, proved by matching the water in the lungs to the water in the stream. They were turned down as buyers by the owner, Daryl, in favor of buyer Edward Tyneman. 9/17/17. That morning, a window washer sees three dead people at the Dennison home. Patrick shows up and tells Edward he is on his own. Mattie sees Romana Novak, who works at the plant, and has signs of syphilis, including a rash. Caxton appears at Blake's office in extreme pain with an intestinal blockage. Carlyle is in debt to a bookmaker who is one of the suspects, which he states openly. Ten years earlier, 14-year-old Jack was arrested by Ashby and sent to a reformatory, where he was in a dormitory with Ray Banford. From his cell in Ballarat, Blake works on solving the murder, based on the simple geometry of the event. Munro arrests Sargeant Murray Nelson, who punches him and then grabs and chokes Dr Harvey. Blake finds the woman after figuring out the particular phrasing of the kidnapper to mean they were near railroad tracks. 1960 Ballarat, Australia. They had a plan for her on the stage before the dance started, but she was killed before the hairy spiders were released. In response to Jack's question, Charlie tells him that Ivy is recoving from surgery and is pregnant. Tim actually let Dennis's team win to ensure the success of his plan. This Australian series set in 1959 opens with Dr. Lucien Blake, a keeper of secrets and a solver of mysteries, returning to the rural gold rush city of Ballarat to take over his late father's medical practice and the role of police surgeon. Dawn and James were engaged, and the prize money was going to start them off in life. She had provided her lover with papers for the false identities he used as he moved around Australia. At the Miss Begonia contest, Maria announces that she and Oliver are engaged. I would have loved to have seen more of Peggy and Brian too. He is a cocky man, with an almost lunatic grin. Blake learns that his father was the barrier to family reconciliation after his mother died, and is easier with his aunt Dorothy. Blake tells him he is a spoiled brat with very little imagination. Harold arrives with his service pistol and threatens Blake. Back home, Blake tells Hannam, who is left-handed, how he killed Prentice while stealing the body of a man who died from radiation poisoning due to atomic tests. Herbert Jones works for the auto manufacturers to make their models drive better, or disadvantages cars from those not paying him. Munro asks Blake to accompany him to a interview, which turns out to be with Alice Harvey. The room is suddenly darkened by Gus, and Blake tells him he realizes that Hazel discovered the phony prescriptions Gus had written, revealing his addiction. From the medical file that was recently found, Blake learns his mother had a miscarriage when he was two years old, and she had been diabetic. Dennis's father feels his son's death is his fault because of the inherited heart condition, but Ashby says there are other reasons for his responsibility. Blake returns from Shanghai just as Ballarat's re-elected mayor Graham Trevorrow is murdered. Libby failed to learn that her husband was buying pine bark solution, a remedy to aid in their wish to have a second child. Again they find two bodies in the coffin, again from the Callow funeral home. So why would anything change now?Three murders, two weddings and a funeral - life's never been straightforward for Doctor Lucien Blake and Jean. He tells of the argument they had after the police raid and Philippe's absences from home with Tilly. Sergeant Davis arrives at the scene with Munro, and is sure that Munro changed something after he pushed Davis out of the room where the body was found. Mei Lin confesses to get Blake released, with true details about how Alderton pursued and threatened her to get to Blake, as well how she committed the murder. Arguments continue at a bar, a fight breaks out and the bar closes. Lawson calls out Charlie Davis for taking Beatrice on a date when she was a suspect. Blake and Rose discover a break in the fence around the base, where Merv was running home, not running because he could not sleep. Blake finds the cash from the sale of Ben's farm, which Mark claims was given to Mark to invest. Sergeant Robert Hannam was seen entering the observatory and seen leaving it in a green Studebaker by Rose. Blake and Jean hunt for Catherine in care homes until they can bring her to Ballarat, near her grandmother. Charlie's brother, Ray. The next morning, hotel owner Catherine Lewis tries to wake him up. Edward Tyneman makes a scandal of Blake's request for divorce, on the basis of his drinking, in the evening newspaper. That night, Ormond is murdered in his greenhouse, which was set afire. Richard and Jean come home when the film is running, which shocks Richard. District nurse Mattie and Jean's nephew Danny Parks, a young police officer, board in the large house. A secretary with more than meets the eye. A debate between Blake and the hospital surgeon occurs over whether to amputate Lawson's leg. Returning from their four month honeymoon, they set their bags down in the house, and Lawson is there, calling Blake back to work. Patrick Tyneman invited reporter Joy McDonald to Ballarat to cover the expected political change. Nick Manos never wins the begonia contest, and there has been a feud between the Griffith and Manos families since the prior century. Jean's nephew Danny Parks, police officer in Melbourne, helps in Ballarat to solve the murder. Jean, Mattie, Blake and Danny return to the boarding house to purchase two appliances. Lawson promises to help Alderton find a deserter, and Blake recognizes Alderton as an old acquaintance from the army. Lennox has warfarin in his blood at high dose. The two were in a brutal camp and it broke Alderton's will to live, but Blake kept him alive, and Blake thinks Alderton never forgave him for that. James and Roger had beaten Simon, but Roger was kicked out of school because James said he alone was responsible. Blake and Laidley save him from the fall that Blake realises killed Joy. People who were at the botanical garden the day before the body was found saw the man kissing a blonde woman under the tree, but they didn't see her face so cannot identify Mrs Lundqvist. She is being stalked by violent prior boyfriend Walter Gregan and has been afraid to speak. Harvey contemplates ways to investigate without exhumation and thanks Blake for the hospital's re-examination of her complaint. Simmons was to testify in a few days with evidence against Gregan, who bribed police at another station, so he is the first suspect in this murder. Doctor Blake tells both of them of the antidote. MurderMysteries - full episodeshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqWd3pkat2LzLh26HkHHetAThe Doctor Blake Mysteries (Telemovie 2017) - Family Portrait / full m. Blake meets with Clare Llewellyn, who had been a patient of his father for her mood swings. Ben knew about Morton's bee allergy and is looking like a suspect for killing the priest. Mattie tries resuscitation, but Hazel is dead. Jean and Lucien set a date for their wedding. The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013-2018) Episode: Still Waters (2013) TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery. The librarian tells him he'd discussed Hope with "a Dutch fellow," and they find the book of Hope's poetry is gone. Ballarat police are shocked when young policeman Ned Simmons is found brutally murdered at night in the station, his neck broken, files and paperwork strewn all over the office, a police gun stolen. Mattie O'Brien leaves Ballarat for a new post at St Bartholomew's hospital, London. The police interview Ethan and, despite his pleas of innocence, there is some secret he will not reveal. Major Derek Alderton is in charge of the base, not a person Blake likes though he had known him since the Second World War. Patrick Tyneman follows his son into the station and fires him as editor of the local newspaper for all the trouble he is making. The murder of a beautiful woman takes Blake inside the intriguing and exotic world of Romani travellers passing through Ballarat. Percy is charged with Vern's murder and two attempted murders. Its always great to see Craig and Nadine in their role's, and along with Joel Tobeck who is fantastic. Charlie brings Albert to the police station, where he becomes upset and violent when told his mother is dead. Back at the station they find that the new television that was part of the prize package had been tampered with and electrocuted James when he touched the antenna. She is found and recovers in the hospital, surrounded by her daughter, her husband and her mother. Blake finds evidence that Trevorrow had a tryst with a lover in the town hall storage room, including a lipstick-stained handkerchief among his effects. Gus threatens Blake with a syringe of potassium chloride, the poison he used to kill Hazel. They also see that he was stung many times by bees, to which he was allergic. During his years at the University of South Florida, Dr. Blake published many papers and physician reviewed articles, participated in research studies to . She left the message in the book arranging a meeting where she killed him -- wearing her sick aunt's blond wig -- because he was unfaithful to her. It turns out that on the day of his death, Clive learned of the affair and headed for Sean's, bringing his gun. Hannam slips away, and Blake becomes aware that Mei Lin was flushed out with her false confession. Superintendent Munro is angry that Blake did not submit his written resignation. William Munro, who is brusque and pushy and wants to limit Blake's role in solving crimes. The role of Lucien Blake was a game-changer for McLachlan who had been stereotyped as the young Aussie hunk from long-running roles in Neighbours and Home and Away. The photos that Blake acquired reveal that Lee was stabbed before coming out into the alleyway. Charlie Davis and Blake ask Norman when his daughter Jessie died; she was 8 years old when the roof was being repaired by Henry. The two women piloted the tobacco flights. Doctor Blake decides that the dead man was bitten by a snake, and realizes the danger to Parks. One man walks away and sits on the fence of a cattle pen at a local farm. CLIP 03/08/21. Tyneman has high blood pressure. In the scuffle with Peter, Clive's gun went off, wounding him fatally. Blake and his household puzzle over who has murdered the two men, then realize that the murderer originally wanted to kill Simon and was unaware that the announcer Alan Coleman and Waterman had devised a scheme to end Simon's winning streak. After Simon does a perfect round, the dial is turned to turn off his microphone, but instead he is electrocuted on live television. Three murders, two weddings and a funeral - life's never been straightforward for Doctor Lucien Blake and Jean. Mattie and Aaron accompany Blake to the library, where Aaron identifies Martha Harris one of the two women who found the body, as the woman he saw, even though she is brunette. Blake suspects the former morgue attendant Ron Jackson, who has vanished after he was sacked by Prentice. Back at home, Jean tells Blake of her son Christopher's request that she come help them with the baby. Blake does the autopsy with the aid of senior constable Charlie Davis and finds Lee died after being stabbed. The next program has Simon versus Waterman, student versus master. He co-signs her application for a loan to cover traveling expenses. In the court document, she alleges Mr McLachlan placed his hand on her buttock during a close-up scene and says she was so surprised that she forgot her lines. Acting Superintendent Doug Ashby is at the scene when Blake arrives. They take some of the 16 mm film and show it at Blake's house. Mark Announces First Round Of Eliminations. He says he was glad he was on the team with Dennis but obviously resented that Dennis got all the attention. Davis admits to Lawson that he was sent from Melbourne to check up on Ballarat because they think Blake is a liability.
