This episode opened with two apparently unconnected incidents; first somebody is wounded when shot by a musket during a re-enactment of a civil war skirmish and secondly a man is found dead on a tour bus and the body may have been put there while people were watching the re-enactment. It turns out that the bus had stopped at the stately home where the enactment took place. Matters are made more interesting when it emerges that Sgt. Hathaway grew up on the estate and knows many of the suspects. There are many possible motives ranging from sexual jealousy to buried treasure.
The story went along as a fairly slow pace but I don't think this mattered as it gave us a chance to get to know the characters better, especially Sgt. Hathaway who took the lead in this episode and gets rather close to Scarlett, his childhood friend and daughter of the estate's owner. The acting was good, from both regular and guest characters. Often murder mysteries ignore the consequences of death but here they didn't gloss over it when a teenager lost her father and was effectively orphaned as her mother had disappeared some time before.
The story went along as a fairly slow pace but I don't think this mattered as it gave us a chance to get to know the characters better, especially Sgt. Hathaway who took the lead in this episode and gets rather close to Scarlett, his childhood friend and daughter of the estate's owner. The acting was good, from both regular and guest characters. Often murder mysteries ignore the consequences of death but here they didn't gloss over it when a teenager lost her father and was effectively orphaned as her mother had disappeared some time before.