The film – which is adapted from the first novel in Richard Osman's series of best-sellers – will be arriving on Netflix in just under a week's time, but many die-hard fans will no doubt be rushing to see it on the big screen while they can.
There are immediately several suspects: including his shady former business partner Ian Ventham (David Tennant) and former employee Bogdan (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), and it doesn't take long until the gang have infiltrated the investigation with help from junior cop Donna De Freitas (Naomi Ackie), much to the annoyance of her superior DCI Chris Hudson (Daniel Mays).
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With the club already chasing several leads, things really take a turn at the protest against Ian Ventham's continued developments and his plans to dig up the graveyard.
Shortly afterwards – with the gang realising they are all suspects – Elizabeth mentions the photo that was found at Tony's murder scene, which saw him standing alongside a notorious criminal by the name of Bobby Tanner and a man who appears to be Jason Ritchie, Ron's son (although she withholds this information from the others).
When Elizabeth returns to her apartment, she finds that Bogdan (who she had previously introduced herself to as Marina, hoping to get information from him) is there playing chess with her husband Stephen – and that he has found out the truth about her identity. He also says he has something he wants to show her that night in the cemetery.
The following evening – after the remains have been dug up and Elizabeth and the gang get a dressing down from Chris for continuing to interfere in police matters – Elizabeth notices an intruder in her apartment who has mysteriously left flowers along with card that reads "back off".
Later, while Chris is questioning Jason – who has been arrested on suspicion of Terry's murder – the gang (minus Elizabeth) arrive in his office to derail the interview, and Jason admits that the real reason he had been cagey was that he was with Ian's wife at the time of the murder – and that they'd been having an affair. That rules him out as a suspect and he walks free.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth works out where the flowers she'd been sent had come from and is thus able to track down the sender: Bobby Tanner himself. She takes Donna with her to visit him at his florist business, and they question him – asking him directly if he'd had Tony and Ian murdered to get their shares at Cooper's Chase. He denies it and says he is looking to sell the land as fast as he can.
View oEmbed on the source websiteTurns out, Tony and Bobby had been engaging in a practice of bringing in people to work illegally for their businesses and keeping their passports from them. This information appears to make things click for Elizabeth, who instructs all the rest of the gang – and the police – to rush back to her apartment as soon as possible.
Bogdan calls him clever and reluctantly admits to his crime, saying it was an accident – that he had no intention of killing Tony and that he had merely been trying to get his passport back.
Thankfully, Joyce realises that Stephen hasn't been poisoned, and furthermore that, since Stephen records all his chess games, Bogdan's confession is on tape.
Faced with this knowledge, Bogdan reiterates that it was an accident, and that he had killed Tony in self-defence when the latter had lashed out after refusing to give his passport back. He also confirms that he didn't poison Stephen, who he considers as a friend.
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While the rest of the gang are watching Jason competing on Dancing on Ice, Elizabeth decides to look back at previous files concerning the latter and comes across some very interesting information, which she then takes to her old friend John – who remains at Penny's bedside.
Looking at the photos, Elizabeth realised that, knowing Peter was guilty, Penny had taken matters into her own hands, killing him and hiding his body at the cemetery with John's help. It was those bones that Bogdan had dug up all these years later.
Elizabeth admits that she'll have to tell the police but agrees to give John a bit of time with Penny first, seeming to realise that John will use that time to apply both himself and his wife with a fatal dose of the remaining Fentanyl.
We then flash forward to Ibrahim delivering a eulogy at their funeral, saying: "Sometimes, good people do bad things. But what John did, he did for love. For the love of Penny. And their enduring love will span time and space, dancing into the stars together. We shall miss them, and we shall remember them always."
How is The Thursday Murder Club film ending different to the book?
There's a whole plot involving Tony's ties to drugs and organised crime – including a character named Turkish Gianni, the murder of a taxi driver, £100k in stolen cash and a trip to Cyprus – that is not featured in the film.
The whole passport scheme is a new plot line for the film, with the motive for murder in the book having been tied to the fact he had stolen £100k of Tony's money many years ago after shooting Gianni in retribution for his own best friend being shot to cover up Tony's murder of a taxi driver many years earlier.
As for the plot involving Ian Ventham and Peter Mercer (named Peter Weber in the book), this is also altered, albeit less dramatically. Aspects of the story involving characters called Gordon and Karen Playfair and an increased role for Father Mackie are cut, making the version of the story in the film rather more streamlined.
"With Amblin and Spielberg, when they came in, they said, 'It's definitely going to be in England, we'll give you that assurance, but someone else is going to write it.'"
"To have me looking over their shoulder every five seconds telling them that they couldn't do this or they couldn't do that I think would be hard."
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