Janet McTeer credited as playing...
Anne Protheroe
- Miss Jane Marple: You are quite sure?
- Mrs. Price-Ridley: I always put a pound note into the box on the anniversary of poor Bruce's passing.
- Miss Jane Marple: I know, but perhaps this time...
- Colonel Protheroe: Oh, come on, Miss Marple! If Marjorie said she put a pound in, then she did! So where's it gone? Well, I thought you'd be straining at the leash to sniff out the culprit. You do have a reputation to maintain.
- Miss Jane Marple: My reputation, Colonel Protheroe, if I have one, and how very kind of you to suggest I do, is neither here nor there. I merely wonder if it's a little early to talk of culprits.
- Colonel Protheroe: Nonsense!
- Anne Protheroe: [touches his shoulder in an effort to calm him] Lucius...
- Colonel Protheroe: Anne, don't paw me! Now, look, I'm a churchwarden, and I was in intelligence. I know when something smells fishy! This could be just the tip of the iceberg! Eh... Vicar!
- [marches off to confront the vicar]
- [In Miss Marple's home, Mrs. Protheroe is attempting unsuccessfully to convince Inspector Slack that she killed her husband, when the phone rings, and Slack answers it]
- DI Slack: St. Mary Mead, two - yes, speaking. Is that definite? Right.
- [hangs up]
- DI Slack: I don't like my time wasted, Mrs. Protheroe. The bullet that killed your husband was fired from Mr. Redding's gun.
- Anne Protheroe: But... he did it for me!
- DI Slack: He didn't do it for anyone! I released him half an hour ago. Just happened to be carrying his gun, which I don't believe. And more important,
- [to Miss Marple]
- DI Slack: and something you didn't think of: if the Colonel was shot at a quarter to seven, why did he stop the note like that at 6:20?
- Miss Jane Marple: [feigning surprise] Oh, yes.