Call me crazy, but if someone gets murdered the standard response is to call the cops.
Well, after you're done screaming, of course.
One thing you never think is "let's get the local priest down here, he'll get to the bottom of this".
That's because, as homicide detectives, men and women of the cloth are pretty rubbish.
And yet there's a whole genre devoted to crime-solving priests, who all seem to live in quiet little villages that have a murder rate that's out of control.
In this offering to the genre, Father Brown solves a murder in an amateur theatre group.
Everyone hated the murder victim so there are plenty of suspects - a cliche of the genre.
One of them is arrested but it's later revealed they couldn't have killed him - the mistaken arrest is another genre cliche.
Father Brown gets to the bottom of things through a series of deductions that simply aren't plausible to have made based on the absence of evidence.
It's hard to believe this show has lasted 13 seasons - surely everyone in the village must have been murdered by now.
China's First Emperor was Qin Shi Huang, the dude who was buried with heaps of terracotta warriors.
Seems he would need them to defend him in the afterlife, because of all the people he had killed while uniting China.
To help in that defence, those warriors had to be armed with what appears to be some pretty handy weapons for the time.
One of those is a heavy-duty crossbow that could fire some big arrows and surely take out a few enemies in the afterlife.
The archaelogical excavation is still going on and only pieces of the weapons have survived through the ages.
The wood had rotted away, the metal triggers and such left behind, which makes it a bit tricky for the archaelogists to know whether they've found a weapon or not.
Why devote a show to outback wreckers? Aren't they just the same as urban wreckers?
They both take cars and pull them apart.
But the outback is where a lot of cars get dumped, left on the roadside or piled up on someone's property.
So the wreckers battle the dust and flies to search through the rusty chassis to find a piece of gold.
Sometimes that gold is an old car they can cut up for parts and send over to the Third World for cash.
Places like that, they can't just duck down to Supacheap Auto and buy a new part. So they used old ones dug out of the desert here.
Other times the gold is an eight-cyclinder version of the old car that your dad has. So you cut the engine out, and stick it in dad's ride for a bit of a surprise.
That's what Jarrad does on this show and I reckon his dad could have worked harder at looking excited about it all.
