Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many

Starring: Derek Jacobi

See on the PBS Mystery! series, this riveting tale stars Sir Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius; Gladiator) as Brother Cadfael, the intuitive crime-solving monk of medieval Shrewsbury. Cadfael is called upon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 054961659593
• Release Date: January 2004
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: ACORN MEDIA
• Director: Graham Theakston
• Starring: Derek Jacobi
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

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"We deal with what is"

Brother Cadfael - One Corpse Too Many (1994) S1E1 As complex as any of the Cadfael series, this one tells the story of how Master Hugh Beringar becomes sheriff. Also, as Cadfael states, "By my reckoning, there is one corpse too many." During the time of the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud, the abbey took a neutral stance. However, Brother Cadfael has been given a new assistant. The young lad is anything but, as he is a she. Naturally, Cadfael, being a man of the world, detects this and must find out why she is hiding. Meanwhile, back to the war, Shrewsbury Castle is under siege by Stephens’s men for being a Maud holdout. When Stephen finally gets to the castle, he orders the rebel soldiers executed. Cadfael is preparing them for a Christian burial when he counts 95. It is trivial to the king, but Cadfael presses that it would not bode well for a king to dismiss a murder under his very nose. It looks like it may have been the work of Hugh Beringar, a man who appeared to have conveniently changed sides in the war. King Stephen is not unaware of this. This time, will Cadfael’s intuition, forensics, and logic prove the case? Is Hue a villain, or will he turn out to be a friend?