Finished watching The Potter's Field from the Brother Cadfael series. A woman's body is found in the potter's field while the monks are plowing the earth. It was not a suicide, but there was no murder.

This episode was directed by a woman. She was able to draw from the two female performers characterizations more dynamic than those of the men.

Love the potter's workshop, the carved, Celtic crosses, and the oil vials. The blisters and boils were completely realistic, the mob hysteria scene well-executed and convincing, and the poisoning-by-hemlock wager lyrical and mesmerizing.

That quill-making scene, on the other hand, is questionable. As I understand it, the tips of quills must be buried in hot sand several times before trimming, and that it is the only way that their tips can harden.