In the third to the last episode, it made it seem that her sister Jane was kidnapped from the circus while Phrynne was distracted by the magician. She turned around and her sister wasn't there. Then, in the second to the last one, she is remembering her disabled cousin, the candy apple, and Jane's disappearance on the grounds of her family's estate. What am I missing?
shareEESH!! I just watched the same episodes and I agree . . . The tie in if any is that Foyle had a connection to the carnival as did Miss Fisher, but the one suggested the abduction at the carnival and the other at the aunt's house. Perhaps and this is a huge stretch not worth a spoiler since it is a hypothesis perhaps the carnival was close to the house and for some reason Foyle caught up with or chased Jane to the house at which point he killed her with the cousin watching. Foyle may be shown to have been a carnie with a costume suggestive of a woodsman (think of the Red Riding Hood wolf connection . . .
shareI guess we'll have to run with that theory! Very strange plot hole.
shareFoyle may be shown to have been a carnie with a costume suggestive of a woodsman (think of the Red Riding Hood wolf connection . . .
Any thoughts of the December 21 birthday thing?It's been a while since I saw the episode, but I thought that Phryne said she and her sister were both born on the 21st day of the month but her sister's birthday was in a different month (September(?)). IIRC, it comes out when she and Detective Robinson were in the room looking for similarities between the missing girls and Phryne realizes that she should have been Foyle's victim.
As long as we're on the subject of plot holes... In "Murder in the Dark" Murdoch Foyle cuts the telephone cord at Phryne's house. Then in the next episode Dot tries to call the house and we hear the phone ringing.
shareperhaps they fixed the phone in the intervening hours?
shareI have just discovered this wonderful series on Netflix, and have just finished the season. The way I remember it, Arthur was at the carnival as well as Jane and Phryne. She is remembering who came to the carnival and says her aunt showed up to pick up Arthur. That's when they go to question him. As to the cut phone line, he cuts it after Dot has been trying to call the house.
shareI feel like I need to rewatch those episodes because I was really confused.
I remember in the (first?) episode, Phryne talks to Foyl and brings her sister's "ribbon" which I thought looked like a white shoestring. But at the end of the season it's a blue ribbon? Also, was she wearing ribbons in her hair during the carnival episode? Because I don't remember it. I thought that the cousin and everyone arrived after the abduction, but now that I'm thinking about it, maybe you're right that it's a plot hole.
I was also really confused about the December 21 birthday thing. So their father drunkenly put Phryne's birthday on Janey's birth certificate? What about Phryne's birth certificate? Was hers wrong too? If he mixed up their DOBs, why and how? They weren't twins, right, so wouldn't the older sister's birth certificate have had the correct DOB?
{Look at me and mah clevah nicksies.}
they could have been born on the same day in different years. that's the only thing i could think of
I noticed that, too. But then I decided that they were at that house and had walked over to the carnival. Then Janie, getting bored or whatever, walked back by herself and was kidnapped from there. That explanation worked for me.
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