Jessica visits a convent to see a former sorority sister and winds up searching for a nun's killer.Jessica visits a convent to see a former sorority sister and winds up searching for a nun's killer.Jessica visits a convent to see a former sorority sister and winds up searching for a nun's killer.
- Sister Anne
- (as Caroline Gilshian)
- Garden Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe convent scenes were filmed at Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, CA, an all-girls Catholic Jr. High and High School. The school's main building, where most interior and exterior filming was done, was irreparably damaged during the Whittier Narrows Earthquake on October 1, 1987, ten days before this was aired. The main building was demolished on December 11, 1987, 18 months short of its 100-year anniversary.
- GoofsThe Celtic Cross is not a Crucifiix; Crucifixes have the body of Christ on the cross.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Jessica Fletcher: Bishop Shea, we couldn't have done it without your blessing.
Bishop Patrick Shea: Well, yes, that, that's true, isn't it? Oh. There's one more thing that you can do for me before you go.
Jessica Fletcher: Oh, what's that?
Bishop Patrick Shea: Try to impress on your dear old friend here the obligation of obedience. She is a troublemaker, you know.
Jessica Fletcher: I'm afraid that is your problem. And a delightful one you're going to have to deal with for a long, long time.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Reverend Mother Claire (Jane Powell) invites her childhood friend Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to a dedication service for a new office at the historic Immaculate Heart Convent and girls' orphanage school, in Bergen Falls, Louisiana, which would be situated in the southeastern section of the state, as the Reverend Mother Superior notes its position "east of the Mississippi" River.
Jessica meets several of the staff members at Immaculate Heart Convent, as elderly Sister Emily (Evelyn Keyes), whose physical ailments require the use of prescription Methylidene, and young Sister Sarah Martino (Sherri Stoner), who is torn between taking her final vows and her interest in former fiancé Mike Phelps (Mark Keyloun), who delivers orders from Lakeside Pharmacy to the convent school.
Bishop Patrick Shea (Robert Prosky) oversees the diocese at which Immaculate Heart Convent is situated, and visits to prepare for its office dedication. Marian Simpson (Eileen Brennan), wife of the ever-campaigning Mayor Albert Simpson (Ed Nelson), an alumni of the orphanage school, also serves on the dedication planning committee.
As Jessica and Marian await Mother Claire's meeting with the Bishop to conclude, Private Investigator Ray Carter (Clu Gulager) arrives from Florida to follow a lead regarding the long-lost daughter of a dying client, who seeks reconciliation with his child, who may have attended the convent school fifteen years prior. He is sent to Sister Emily's classroom, to leave a photograph.
Nancy Bates (Cindy Fisher), a former Immaculate Heart ward, who had been sent off to a Shreveport prison to pay for a crime reported by the nuns, is turned away at the door, but manages to sneak into the hidden corridors of this historic institution, which had once shielded runaway slaves in the years before the U.S. Civil War of the 1860's.
Doctor Marshall (Scott Paulin), also pays a call to the convent, to deliver a prescription, and to explain his purpose for substituting for the regular physician on call at the convent.
But after a body is discovered that night, resulting from a seeming suicide, various theories begin to unfold as to possible causes of death, apparently not murder leading the polls, which is rare in this series, until, of course, it is proved as murder.
Reverend Mother Claire, Bishop Patrick Shea and an unseen Sheriff eventually come around to Jessica's way of thinking, to rally to her cause of sorting through a roster of suspects to figure a way to expose the perpetrator, as "Old Habits Die Hard."
The cast is rounded out by Amy (Wendy Brainard), a frightened orphan, and Immaculate Heart staff members Sister Mary-Margaret (Fay DeWitt), Sister Margaret-Mary (M'el Dowd), Sister Margaret-Marie (Carol Swarbrick), Sister Anne (Hunter Mackenzie Austin), Sister Paul (Audrey Totter) and Nun (Linda Harmon).
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- Nov 3, 2009