British Network Television

‘Father Brown’: S03.E13. “The Paradise of Thieves”

Father Brown, Mrs McCarthy, Lady Felicia, and Sid get caught up in a bank robbery that goes sideways fast

Screen capture: James Charles O’Neill as William “Billy” Flanders in “Father Brown”

The Paradise of Thieves, first televised in the British Isles on Wednesday, 21 January 2015, draws the episode title from G. K. Chesterton’s 1914 published short story collection The Wisdom of Father Brown. The episode features a screenplay written by Rob Kinsman.

Kinsman, for people not familiar with his work, has written for such British television series as Land Girls, Holby City, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, and Doctors. As opening teasers go, not that other episodes don’t deliver more captivating beginnings, The Paradise of Thieves has what it takes to hold our interest.

Screen Capture: Sorcha Cusack and Mark Williams as Bridgette McCarthy and Father Brown, respectively, in “Father Brown.” Facing away from the camera, playing Samuel Harrogate, is William Gaminara

With the roof at St Mary’s Catholic Church needing repairs, noting the cost being significant, the Gloucestershire Savings Bank seemingly establishing a new charitable fund is a G-d send to Father Brown (Mark Williams) and his church. Bridgette McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack), the parish secretary, presses bank…