The Daughter of Autolycus is the fifth episode of the fourth season of Father Brown.
Flambeau seeks Father Browns' help to steal the Pope's coronation gift to the Queen.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Religion: The episode references the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gloucester, which doesn't exist. The Roman Catholic diocese covering Gloucestershire is not in Gloucester, or even Bristol (as one might expect) but in Clifton (which is technically in Bristol, but the name of the diocese doesn't reflect that—and in any case it's definitely not in Gloucester).
- Authentication by Newspaper: The kidnappers of Flambeau's daughter send him a photograph of her holding that day's newspaper.
- Badass Bookworm: Marianne Delacroix is a student of art history. We first see her deep in her studies, and she has a initially bookish appearance.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: Father Brown gets past police guarding the Episcopal Palace by just holding up a Bible and saying "Ecclesiastical security!"
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Marianne shoots the pistol out of the hand of one of her kidnappers during her escape. When Flambeau expresses incredulity at this, she admits that she had actually been aiming for his head and failed to account for the recoil.
- Damsel out of Distress: By the time Flambeau and Father Brown arrive with the ransom for Marianne, she has already escaped, overpowered her abductors, and tied them up.
