'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 2, Episode 9 Recap: "Framed For Murder"
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries begins on the set of an Egyptian epic, with elaborate costumes, giant set pieces, dancing girls, and the lead actor's body accidentally speared by the extras. Oops. The producer, Raymond Hirsch (Hamish Michael), calls in Miss Fisher, his studio's main backer, for help. She and Dot arrive at the set of Bride of Babylon, as Jack checks out the body of Donald Everton, who seemed to have drunk himself into a coma. But the marks on the floor indicate someone dragged him there.
Clarke: I'll tell you this is one crazy country. Back home society dames are holding tea parties. Here, they're packing pistols.
Hirsh insists Everton was a professional who never drank in the morning, suggesting that all happened the night before. Clara Whiting (Jane Harber), Hirsh's assistant, confirms no one saw Everton arrive, she'd assumed he was running late. Fisher checks out Everton's dressing room and notes that there's a highball glass, but no bottle. Collins checks the trash, where Dot joins him, finding the broken bottle and an extra cup with lipstick on it. Dot knows which actress favors this shade: the film's leading lady, Lily Luscombe (Stephanie King). Luscombe admits to drinking with Everton, saying that it was just par for the course when rehearsing, as were his octopus hands.
