Father Brown (TV Series) The Three Tools of Death (2014) User Reviews

The dangers of electric shock treatment

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 11 January 2018]

Alice is placed in a hospital for electric shock therapy by her father Sir Aaron after shooting her mother dead accidentally. Father Brown thinks he can help a withdrawn Alice, but at a small gathering her father is found dead, prime suspect is a local money lender.

This is a pretty good episode, it shows the shocking and barbaric electric shock treatment that did go on, amazing to think it was a technique people believed in. It's a good story line, with a decent amount of intrigue, a decent amount of suspects. Some good lines, Alice describes Father Brown as an idealist, a perfect description for him, he is exactly that, an idealist, perhaps the exact thing a man of God should be. A clever conclusion, good episode.

The Three Tools of Death

[MrFilmAndTelevisionShow · 8/10 · 30 August 2021]

An interesting mystery where no one is the murder, and where the only killing was a freak accident, whereas the death was a genuine suicide (a first in the Father Brown series if I am not mistaken). The three weapons were an intruiging plot point and it did make me and I'm sure plenty of viewers wonder why was the guy tied up and not killed right there and then if so many weapons were available, the explaination for this is rather clever so well done to the writers!

Danny Dyer should have guest starred

[safenoe · 7/10 · 4 August 2023]

Danny Dyer should have guest starred as the debt collector in The Three Tools of Death. To this day, Danny Dyer still hasn't guest starred, but hopefully he will now that he's longer in Eastenders.

Alice Henley plays Alice Armstrong, and by Father Brown standards, she steamed up the screen with a beast-with-two backs scene with her boyfriend, that Mrs McCarthy accidentally intruded upon.

Still, the scenes involving mental health and shock therapy treatment were quite confronting for sure, especially for Father Brown viewers who could have been shocked (no pun intended) by the shock therapy treatment.

The Three Tools of Death

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 3 June 2017]

We see a young woman receiving electric shock treatment. Alice Armstrong accidentally shot her mother and has suffered from memory loss and depression. She does not want more shock treatment, her lover Peter tries to persuade her father but he also works for him.

However six weeks after her mother's death from the accident, her father Sir Aaron's body has been found with a blow to the head. A rope, gun and knife are left behind.

Before his death Sir Aaron was seen evading Eddie Monk, a debt collector. Inspector Sullivan arrests Peter as he had been acting suspiciously however Father Brown thinks there was something more to this death and Sir Aaron's debt issues could be behind it.

Nick Moran plays the shifty debt collector who thinks he might be framed and knocks Father Brown of his bike, at least Father Brown gets him to do an impromptu confession.

The three tools of death

[coltras35 · 5/10 · 30 July 2022]

When a troubled young woman's father is killed just weeks after her mother's death, Father Brown must help her deal with her grief, while solving the father's inexplicable murder by one of three weapons. An intriguing story at first, but becomes tedious very quickly and only the revelation brings things back to a bump. Also, not keen on Father Brown getting bashed for his beliefs.