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*TitleDrop: At the end of the episode, when Father Brown recites the titular parable to Bunty, using it as an explanation for why he will '''not''' be going back to see Frances and gloat.
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* PeriodPiece: They didn't have the kind of ballistic forensics we have in subsequent decades, so simply a gun with the ''right caliber'' is enough evidence, since that's the best they can do anyway. This doesn't mean it was the same gun, but it's close enough. On the other hand, being able to present ''another'' gun with the same caliber is enough to refute such evidence.
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* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: Of the StringTheory variety. Father Brown gets a piece of chalk from Goodfellow, and proceeds to draw out an investigation board on the cell wall. Mallory is apoplectic when he finds it.
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* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: Of the StringTheory variety. Father Brown gets a piece of chalk from Goodfellow, and proceeds to draw out an investigation board on the cell wall. Mallory is apoplectic when he finds it.it.
* TogetherInDeath: Katherine's ploy [[spoiler: to get Raymond to kill himself for her.]]
* TogetherInDeath: Katherine's ploy [[spoiler: to get Raymond to kill himself for her.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: With FatherBrown indisposed, Bunty and Mrs. M. have to do some of the legwork in this episode on their own, including wheedling their way into visiting Katherine at prison, and making observations to Mallory.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: With FatherBrown Father Brown indisposed, Bunty and Mrs. M. have to do some of the legwork in this episode on their own, including wheedling their way into visiting Katherine at prison, and making observations to Mallory.
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'''The Eagle and the Daw''' is the sixth episode of the fifth season of ''Series/FatherBrown.''
A convicted murderer invites Father Brown for confession, but instead she tells him she's plotting the death of her lover. After Father Brown visits the lover to check on them, they give him their gun, and the key to their place. When the lover is later found shot in the head, Father Brown becomes the top suspect. From jail, Father Brown struggles to prove his own innocence, but has the help of his friends to push things along to find out what really happened.
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!!Tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: With FatherBrown indisposed, Bunty and Mrs. M. have to do some of the legwork in this episode on their own, including wheedling their way into visiting Katherine at prison, and making observations to Mallory.
* AmbiguousInnocence: Katherine insists she's innocent... but she [[ImplausibleDeniability says it with a smirk]].
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Katherine is holding something over on [[DirtyCop Frances]], the prison guard assigned to her unit, and is able to thus get her to do things for her, such as custom meals, but also [[spoiler: squirreling out letters to Raymond and Father Brown]].
* CutAndPasteNote: The letters that Father Brown (and others) are receiving from "R," which provide Mallory with motive for Father Brown to kill Worrall. We later see they have been constructed with [[KarmicDeath cut bits from a Bible]].
* TheDeadGuyDidIt: Raymond Worrall plays an important part [[spoiler: in the framing of Father Brown, specifically finding a reason to hand over to him what would become incriminating evidence in his death. All of course orchestrated by Katherine.]]
* DeathRow: Katherine Corven. She points it out repeatedly as the reason why she doesn't really care what happens at this point; she's going to die in a few days anyway.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Katherine Corven tells Father Brown she has orchestrated the death of her lover. She doesn't explain how, but the assumption is, she's going to have him murdered. [[spoiler: In fact, she has plotted ''with'' him to ''[[SuicideNotMurder have him kill himself]].'']]
* GreatEscape: Father Brown breaks out of Kembleford jail by swapping clothes with Blind 'Arry and having Goodfellow put Arry, in Brown's clothes, in Brown's cell, while walking Brown out dressed as 'Arry. Later, Goodfellow executes the [[InvertedTrope reverse swap]] by bringing in Father Brown, still in Arry's clothes, mimicking 'Arry's drunk singing, being put back in 'Arry's cell, ''in front of Mallory, none the wiser.''
** LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Goodfellow, referring to his helping Brown break out of (and back into) jail.
* LawfulNeutral: Father Brown steadfastly refuses to break the seal of the confessional and tell what Frances told him, despite the fact that it would likely get him out of jail and out of suspicion.
* LawmanGoneBad: Invoked by Mallory, who suggests that Father Brown's skill at catching criminals has rubbed off too much and turned ''him'' into a criminal. Or even that it was a ploy all along to distract from his own criminal nature.
** PretenderDiss: Mrs. [=McCarthy=] to Mallory:
---> If finely-honed detective skills are a sign that somebody might be a violent maniac, I'm sure [[StealthInsult none of us has anything to fear from you]].
* PrisonEpisode: More than others in the series, because the main character is the one in jail.
* RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: Katherine's plot is to have revenge on Father Brown for getting her convicted.
* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: Of the StringTheory variety. Father Brown gets a piece of chalk from Goodfellow, and proceeds to draw out an investigation board on the cell wall. Mallory is apoplectic when he finds it.
A convicted murderer invites Father Brown for confession, but instead she tells him she's plotting the death of her lover. After Father Brown visits the lover to check on them, they give him their gun, and the key to their place. When the lover is later found shot in the head, Father Brown becomes the top suspect. From jail, Father Brown struggles to prove his own innocence, but has the help of his friends to push things along to find out what really happened.
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!!Tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: With FatherBrown indisposed, Bunty and Mrs. M. have to do some of the legwork in this episode on their own, including wheedling their way into visiting Katherine at prison, and making observations to Mallory.
* AmbiguousInnocence: Katherine insists she's innocent... but she [[ImplausibleDeniability says it with a smirk]].
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Katherine is holding something over on [[DirtyCop Frances]], the prison guard assigned to her unit, and is able to thus get her to do things for her, such as custom meals, but also [[spoiler: squirreling out letters to Raymond and Father Brown]].
* CutAndPasteNote: The letters that Father Brown (and others) are receiving from "R," which provide Mallory with motive for Father Brown to kill Worrall. We later see they have been constructed with [[KarmicDeath cut bits from a Bible]].
* TheDeadGuyDidIt: Raymond Worrall plays an important part [[spoiler: in the framing of Father Brown, specifically finding a reason to hand over to him what would become incriminating evidence in his death. All of course orchestrated by Katherine.]]
* DeathRow: Katherine Corven. She points it out repeatedly as the reason why she doesn't really care what happens at this point; she's going to die in a few days anyway.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Katherine Corven tells Father Brown she has orchestrated the death of her lover. She doesn't explain how, but the assumption is, she's going to have him murdered. [[spoiler: In fact, she has plotted ''with'' him to ''[[SuicideNotMurder have him kill himself]].'']]
* GreatEscape: Father Brown breaks out of Kembleford jail by swapping clothes with Blind 'Arry and having Goodfellow put Arry, in Brown's clothes, in Brown's cell, while walking Brown out dressed as 'Arry. Later, Goodfellow executes the [[InvertedTrope reverse swap]] by bringing in Father Brown, still in Arry's clothes, mimicking 'Arry's drunk singing, being put back in 'Arry's cell, ''in front of Mallory, none the wiser.''
** LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Goodfellow, referring to his helping Brown break out of (and back into) jail.
* LawfulNeutral: Father Brown steadfastly refuses to break the seal of the confessional and tell what Frances told him, despite the fact that it would likely get him out of jail and out of suspicion.
* LawmanGoneBad: Invoked by Mallory, who suggests that Father Brown's skill at catching criminals has rubbed off too much and turned ''him'' into a criminal. Or even that it was a ploy all along to distract from his own criminal nature.
** PretenderDiss: Mrs. [=McCarthy=] to Mallory:
---> If finely-honed detective skills are a sign that somebody might be a violent maniac, I'm sure [[StealthInsult none of us has anything to fear from you]].
* PrisonEpisode: More than others in the series, because the main character is the one in jail.
* RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: Katherine's plot is to have revenge on Father Brown for getting her convicted.
* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: Of the StringTheory variety. Father Brown gets a piece of chalk from Goodfellow, and proceeds to draw out an investigation board on the cell wall. Mallory is apoplectic when he finds it.
