'Grantchester' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Truth Will Out

On the fifth episode of Grantchester's third season, there's a nominal case about a girl falling from a window or something, and dying. But it's so tertiary to the main story, no one even stays arrested.

Sidney: How do I reconcile what I've done with what I believe?
Geordie: This is why I don't go to church.

Grantchester has always managed to maintain a balance between mystery and accompanying soap opera drama. There's always room in the space of an hour for both a crime to be solved and for Sidney to have Amanda feelings, Geordie to have an affair, and Leonard to wrestle with his sexuality. But a funny thing happened on the way to the murder this week. There were just one too many personal dramas going on. The mystery fell to the wayside. By the end of the episode, what had started as a promising set up, a girl who looked like she'd fallen to her death out the window of the sewing factory she worked in, had basically been written off completely. No one even went to jail.

Said mystery was actually an excuse to bring back the masonic rumblings from the Cricket Game Mystery earlier this season. At the time, as viewers might recall, Phil Wilkinson warned Sidney that he and Geordie better not go after the Towlers unless they were sure, lest they upset Towler's masonic friends "above us." Turns out that's because Superintendent John Baldwin, Geordie's boss, is a mason. This week's suspect Garston (and his father, Ezra): also masons.

Oh and by the way, Wilkinson? Also a mason! (Did anyone else hope that Geordie said "I knew it, i'm surrounded by masons!")