A Coincidence Solves Two Murders on 'Ludwig'

The third episode of Ludwig starts off with the discovery of a dead body inside a church belonging to Megan (Ella Bruccoleri), a 21-year-old American tour guide who was murdered on the last stop of the Cambridge tour she gives every day. Ludwig and Carter set about interviewing everyone who was on Megan’s final tour. They are typical: the local couple doing the tour for their anniversary; a grandmother, mother, and daughter on a trip from Paris; a couple of students from the Isle of Man. To his dismay, Ludwig can’t find an immediate solution to this mystery of why Megan was killed. Everyone who went on the tour is a suspect. “I think we are going to have to find a motive for this one,” he says.

Ludwig: People who plan murders in advance don’t commit them in front of six potential witnesses and then write their email address down for good measure...

Ludwig and Carter’s interviews with the tourists don’t yield much information. The local couple, Adrian and Julie Tate (Paul Chahidi and Amanda Lawrence) weren’t spending much money on their 30th anniversary because the husband had been laid off (or “made redundant,” as the Brits say) and had just found a job as a security guard. The three Parisians are on a 22-city “eat, pray, love” type of tour; the grandmother’s husband had died, the daughter was recently divorced, and the granddaughter had her heart broken. The college students, it turns out, are friends of Megan’s who just took the tour to ensure she hit her quota.