Fallen Angel Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

The Four Last Things

Mary Appleton is ordained as the female curate in the fictitious diocese of Roslington. During her service, she is heckled by an old lady named Audrey Oliphant, while her carer, Angela Wharton (Emilia Fox), hides in the background behind the altar. Angela turns out to be a serial killer, and she kidnaps the Appletons' five-year-old child, telling her somewhat reluctant accomplice Eddie that 'this one is not like the others.' She then sends the girl's parents on a wild goose chase, and emotional roller-coaster, by leaving a number of other child body parts around the city, all of which bear some link to their daughter, including her boots, her cut hair and ribbon. Eddie (Mark Benton) later, whilst rummaging through some of her belongings, discovers evidence that Angela had faked her own death, and is possibly an imposter. Michael (Oliver Dimsdale) reveals to his wife that when he was 11, he knew a girl named Rosie, who threatened to get back at him because he got her in trouble after having witnessed and reporting a murder. Michael also reveals Rosie's obsession with a young priest and heretic named Francis Youlgrave, a man who was himself obsessed with transubstantiation and supposedly ate the flesh and blood of orphaned children from the slums of North London. Rosie is later revealed to be hiding under the guise of Angela, having stolen Angela's identity, quite possibly after murdering her in order to use the body in her death deception. The child, Lucy (Jade Sharif), is brought back safely, but not before Angela brutally murders Eddie when he tries to hide and save Lucy from the former's murderous wrath, and return her to her parents. When they catch her in the act of slashing Eddie's throat, she attempts to implicate him as a pedophile, claiming to have been acting in the interest of protecting the child.

Episode 2

The Judgement of Strangers

After finishing her exams, Rosie goes to stay with her father, the parish priest David Byfield (Charles Dance), only to find that he wants to marry again. His interest is a woman named Vanessa (Niamh Cusack). Rosie initially opposes the idea, but then seemingly changes her mind. After the wedding, a woman named Juliana and the local historian Audrey Oliphant (Barbara Wilshere) both try to obtain the Journals of Francis Youlgrave - who lived at the local manor house - from their owner, Lady Youlgrave (Sheila Hancock). Lady Youlgrave used to own the local manor, but she later sold it to some hippies because she was too old to properly maintain it. Having learned that her exam results will not get her into Cambridge, Rosie takes out her anger on the young Michael (Greg Sheffield), who has come to stay with them while his parents are on a second honeymoon. After Michael sees Rosie murder her stepmother and attempt to destroy the journals, he tells his family, and Rosie is arrested. However, before they take her away, she threatens the whole family by screaming, "You will all suffer for this!" seeming to target Michael specifically. Sometime after this, her father finds that Rosie has been released and apparently killed in a car crash, of which an 'Angela Wharton' is the sole witness.

Episode 3

The Office of the Dead

67 mins

Wendy Appleton (Clare Holman) comes to stay with the family after breaking up with her husband and finds her friends' marriage is in just as bad a shape. Rosie's mother, Janet (Emma Fielding), cannot take care of her child due to a difficult pregnancy, and little Rosie is largely ignored by her father. She has a close relationship with her grandfather, Hugh (Patrick Godfrey), but things take a turn for the worse as he becomes senile. After David finds Hugh "cuddling" in bed with Rosie, he threatens to send him to a home. Hugh responds by saying, "I wish I was dead." That same night, after being sedated by his daughter Janet, he is murdered, and Janet commits suicide. She leaves a note saying that she is responsible for the old man's murder. However, later on, while eating at an ice cream parlor run by Audrey Strickland, Rosie (Tiger George) reveals to Wendy that it was in fact she who killed Hugh and Janet simply covered it up. Alarmed, Wendy tells Rosie never to mention it to anyone. Later, Wendy gets back together with her husband and becomes pregnant with Michael.