A Touch of Frost - S5 Ep.3 | True Confessions | Full Episode

19	3	"True Confessions"	Sandy Johnson	Michael Russell	23 February 1997	17.47
DI Frost investigates after the affluent Jeanette Barr (Yolanda Vázquez) commits suicide by jumping from a bridge into a river. However, the autopsy reveals that the water in her lungs means she was drowned in a bathtub and dumped in the river. Frost's main suspects are her husband, James Barr (Anthony Calf), whom Frost investigated a decade earlier following the murder of his previous wife, Harrriet, by an intruder, and Richard Sheridan, an employee at Barr's company, with whom Jeanette was having an affair. Frost and Superintendent Mullett worry that, if Barr killed his second wife, they potentially imprisoned the wrong person for Harriet's murder. Sheridan is given an alibi by his infuriated wife, while Frost meets with local priest, Father Sullivan (Eoin McCarthy), who recently heard confession from someone claiming they were going to commit murder. Frost's case is complicated when he is suspended by Detective Superintendent Bailey (Gwyneth Strong) of the Discipline and Complaints department, who is investigating falsified evidence in historic cases worked by Frost's former chief superintendent, Charlie Fairclough (Kenneth Cope). Frost meets with Fairclough, who admits he planted evidence to secure convictions, including against Harriet's killer. Frost meets with a retired priest who knew James and his brother, Alec, as children: Alec was devoutly religious in his youth, but as his family struggled, Alec became intensely jealous of James, vandalising his possessions, being linked to a pet's death, and obsessing over stealing James's girlfriends. Frost convinces Fairclough to confess his misdeeds to Bailey to close her investigation and have Frost reinstated so he can pursue Alec. Sullivan helps Frost trick Alec into admitting that he murdered Jeanette because James had gifted her his shares in the family business, which she was threatening to sell to a firm pursuing the company's assets, unless Alec paid an exorbitant sum. She lured Alec to a hotel under the pretence of selling the shares and then seduced him, keeping the receipt as blackmail material. When Frost accuses Alec of killing Harriet out of jealousy of his brother, he flees, running into the road, where he is killed by a passing truck.