Father Brown: "The Wrong Scone"

This is the second of five spec scripts that I have written for the BBC comedy-drama series "Father Brown". There are one or two callbacks in it to my first Father Brown spec "The Dark Lantern" (which is also posted on this profile), and also various callbacks to running jokes (such as Mrs. McCarthy's "Award-winning strawberry scones) and character developments from past episodes of the series itself; but I believe this story is enough of a stand-alone that even someone who's not as familiar with the show or its regular cast of characters should be able to pick up on everything right away, especially since I inserted a "Previously On" summary at the top of the script after the character list, which summarises what happened in the previous spec, "The Dark Lantern". I also used the British spelling of many words that differ from the US spellings since this is a British/UK -based show, and written with the intent of trying to sell it to the BBC. This spec-script won the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition in 2021, and is now in the Top 3% of Discoverable Projects on the Coverfly script website.