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SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS: Outrageous Fortune

Leila Ayad as Dorke Ugric (Maid), Thomas Dominique as Wayne Mckenzie (Fitness), Colin Ryan as Benoit Roux (Designer) in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."
Courtesy of Gary Moyes / BBC Studios 2019
Leila Ayad as Dorke Ugric (Maid), Thomas Dominique as Wayne Mckenzie (Fitness), Colin Ryan as Benoit Roux (Designer) in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."

Airs Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2

On this episode, Lawyer George Gonzalo seeks out Frank and Lu to help a client with a difference — he's got four paws and is worth his weight in gold.

Mongrel Tim, heir to the late Theodore Athenaeus' vast shipping fortune, has run away from his life of luxury at the opulent Miranda Park.

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Outrageous Fortune: Preview

With the promise of a £25,000 reward for his safe recovery, Frank and Lu vow to suss out where, and why, Tim would flee, questioning Tim's plethora of staff — vet Antigone Carter, personal trainer Wayne, animal stylist Benoit and eccentric animal undertaker Leonard Baxter along the way.

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Mark Benton as Frank Hathaway, Leila Ayad as Dorka Urgic, Colin Ryan as Benoit Roux, Thomas Dominique as Wayne Mckenzie in a scene from SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."
Courtesy of Gary Moyes / BBC Studios 2019
Mark Benton as Frank Hathaway, Leila Ayad as Dorka Urgic, Colin Ryan as Benoit Roux, Thomas Dominique as Wayne Mckenzie in a scene from SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."

The case heats up when Gonzalo receives a ransom video demanding £200,000, revealing that Tim didn't run away - but was kidnapped.

Patrick Walshe Mcbride as Sebastian Brudenell in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."
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Patrick Walshe Mcbride as Sebastian Brudenell in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."

When Lu discovers the CCTV footage from the night Tim went missing was tampered with, it seems Tim's disappearance was an inside job.

But who would wish ill on a lonely, pampered pooch?

Michael Maloney as George Gonzalo in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."
Courtesy of Gary Moyes / BBC Studios 2019
Michael Maloney as George Gonzalo in SHAKESPEARE & HATHAWAY-PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS "Outrageous Fortune."

Credits:

From BBC Studios. Created by Paul Matthew Thompson and Jude Tindal. Producer: Ella Kelly. Starring Mark Benton and Jo Joyner.