'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: "Raisins & Almonds"
The fifth episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' cold open begins with a woman who better call Saul. He's fallen into an epileptic fit in the bookshop. As the woman, Miss Leigh (Kat Stewart), tells him to relax into it, the scene cuts away to an auction already in progress, run by Melbourne's Kadimah student association. A man in the front row, Simon (Tim Draxl), one of the few without a kippah, is concerned Saul hasn't made it back, as Miss Fisher steps in and outbids the room for the painting in question. But her win is muted when Ben Abrahams (Brian Lipson) steps into the room and beings arguing that this whole enterprise is shameful. The auctioneer, Yossi Stein (Adam Schmerl), insists this fundraiser is for the good of their people.
Miss Fisher: It was poison. I'll bet my hat on it.
Ben's not having it and takes both the painting and Simon (who is his son, it turns out) home. Phryne, having won it, follows them out, only to learn Simon stole it. As she angles to convince Ben to sell her the painting privately (it's an early Margaret Preston), Leigh runs out. Saul Michaels is dead... and he didn't have epilepsy. Fisher orders Simon to call Jack Robinson.
