(gentle music) - So welcome, "Scarlet" cast, to our round table, where we're gonna have a chat about our favorite scenes on season six.

- Mine's maybe a bit of a weird one.

It was a scene that we did together, Kate and I, where we walk out of Scotland Yard.

It was the two of us coming out and it was a two-shot, which obviously means we were both in the shot at the same time.

And it was just the fact that we're in the shot at the same time and we're kind of just being active.

It feels like we're being, it's almost theatrical.

We're kind of in the moment together just doing a scene and not worrying about when it's you then when it's me and then, you know what I mean?

It was just kind of, it's just a really nice kind of like, yeah, I'm here.

This is a really nice thing to be doing.

- [Kate] Yeah, we exist in the world together.

- Yeah, right, exactly.

- Our DP loves doing one-shots, oners, which is where you kind of capture those moments where it feels theatrical.

Everyone's living in the world at the same time.

Our director's less fond of them, but we all get very excited when there's a oner.

The thing is with a oner or a two-shot, like, you know, a tracking shot like that is that you really cannot mess up your lines, because the reset is massive.

Particularly if you're working outside, so you were talking about like, carriages, you're talking about 50 SAs in the background, having to reset.

It's traumatic.

- I remember we had a oner last season and it was a night shoot and there was horses and carriages and loads and loads of people.

And it was me picking you up from the mortuary and then we had to walk through the street and suddenly the little voice inside me went, if you mess this up, every horse, every extra will have to start all over again.

That's all going on.

- I mean, one of my favorite scenes was watching you on horseback.

- Oh yeah.

- For two reasons, firstly, a horse not behaving particularly well and you having to deliver a speech.

Secondly, I didn't have to say anything in that scene, which was really great.

- You were just being a spectator.

- Just purely a spectator.

And that was a very nice morning.

And then another scene that I really enjoy is there was a scene where we are having a conversation and it's getting sort of quite close and we're sort of getting closer and closer as a sort of a couple.

And just as we're sort of physically getting near one another, Ivy breaks in.

- [Cathy] I'm sorry, Tom.

- And then I start, you know, sort of like shuffling with bits of sofa and anything I can to try and make it look as normal as possible.

So, all of those kind of things I really enjoyed this season.

- Eliza!

Inspector Blake, how nice to see you again.

- Mrs.

Potts.

The thing that I've also really enjoyed is, there have been days where it's felt like I've done four different TV shows.

'Cause it's like you can do a sort of action sequence in the morning, then you're in a sort of gangster film.

Then you have these sort of little romance moments and then you just get to do all of it in a day.

And it is such a treat as an actor to be able to do all of that kind of stuff.

- Well, you stole my favorite scene.

- [Tom] I'm sorry.

- That was the horse riding thing.

- [Tom] Oh.

- Only in that it was a really fun, again, it was a really fun challenge.

And I guess I was able to show off my horse riding skills.

They're limited, but all I was required to do was walk five paces on a horse, but I got to ride side saddle.

- Great for an actor to be actually able to ride a horse rather than writing it in your CV that's- - [Tom] Oh yeah, I can ride a horse, yeah, yeah.

- Gentlemen of the press, thank you for coming so expeditiously.

I am Eliza Scarlet, private investigator.

I've just really enjoyed, again, we touched upon it, but the kind of romance, the sparkly, twinkly bits between you and I, Blake and Eliza.

- Yeah, I think it's explore, this season's very much about exploring, particularly for Eliza, that what it is to be in a relationship and to realize that she does have to make concessions, and you know, I think we see that side of her that we haven't perhaps seen before.

And it's really lovely to watch.

- It's probably the romance that gets me every time.

And it's the kitchen scene where, first of all, I come home and I have a house husband for the first time and he's cooking me dinner and saying, let's, I'm going to go and get the sherry.

And then Eliza comes in and tells me the truth about the relationship, which I think Ivy has always wished for her, is to have fallen in love and have this nurturing, mature relationship.

Barnabas, Inspector Blake is joining us for dinner.

- Huh?

- I invited him.

- The more the merrier.

We can enjoy a nice long game of gin rummy after dinner, the four of us, all evening, putting the world to right, oh, won't that be marvelous?

- Marvelous.

I found myself being actually very emotional because she has found love.

And this works and Ivy really approves of her love.

- There's something about that kitchen.

It always reminds me of it, sort of Austin-y because it's like so much of life happens in that kitchen and it's this sort of domestic setting, but yet all the themes, all life is there.

- [Cathy] Yeah.

- So, they are definitely, lots of my favorite scenes are in there because that's where the emotion is.

Or there's, I mean, especially now, Barnabas is living there in the house.

It injects so much comedy as well.

But even that, there's emotional sort of, it's bubbling beneath.

- Yeah.

- And I think that happens in everyday life, doesn't it?

The kitchen table's where it all- - Where it all happens, certainly did with our, when I was growing up.

- Yeah.

- I've never been allowed in the kitchen.

- No.

- I'm hoping one day I'll get into the kitchen, I'm just saying that, I'm just putting that- - [Cathy] Come over for- - Yeah.

- [Kate] One step at a time.

- I'm allowed in that dining room and in the parlor.

- Well, exactly.

You've only just made it out of the office.

- Yeah, exactly.

And I'm just grateful to be out and about.

- [Kate] I think you've earned your stripes, you should be allowed in the kitchen.

- I'm hoping one day, yeah, yeah.

- Simon?

- I think there are a couple, but I think when I am going through a bit of a mini breakdown, Barnabas, and decides to forge a literary career.

There was a moment where the camera was on Cathy for a very long time.

And I forgot one line right at the beginning.

And there were loads of extras running around, so really difficult scene to set up.

And I just said, I'm sorry, I have to stop.

I just have to stop.

And I didn't really realize that the camera wasn't on me.

(all laughing) - That's right, that's right.

- And the first very kindly just went, we will have to reset because- - A hundred, of extras.

- And then it hit me that I was (indistinct), but I really enjoyed that scene.

My memoirs, "Tales of a Mortuary Clerk" by Barnabas Potts.

Oh, it was slow going at first, but as soon as the dam of creativity burst open then them words just cascaded from my mind.

Like, like water from a dam, as I say, it burst open.

- You've written your memoirs.

- I had a full sort of stars in your eyes kind of moment of, I had to walk through the fog in the middle of, and you feel it- - I worked so hard to keep straight face, 'cause he's walking- - [Tom] But it's imposs- - Slo-mo through.

He's not lit.

He's through the fog.

Through the fog, but I can see his like, - [Tom] And I'm, and I'm- - Shoulders And then he suddenly appears in the light and then delivers a wonderful line.

I have a revolver and I'm not afraid to use it.

(Scarlet breathing heavily) - I'd really rather you didn't.

- I think it is the scene where in "The Poison Parrot" where I apolo, Clarence apologizes to Eliza for having shouted at her the night before.

And he's been thinking about it for ages and then he has to make this project because I think we've very, we've never seen Clarence lose his cool really, and certainly not with Eliza because he adores her.

But my first thought should have been your happiness.

- That means a great deal, thank you.

- But again, what you've done is that you have this really moving moment with, where Clarence gets to say what he needs to say, but it's interlaced with comedy because Eliza hadn't thought about it since and she's ready to move on.

And you just keep bringing it back.

- [Paul] She wants to talk about the case.

She's not worried, but he's mortified.

He, that he had strong words with her.

- My favorite, I've got two.

- [Tom] Oh yes, what are your favorites?

- So, my favorite scene is, the first one is you three in the kitchen when Moses is retelling this adventure that he's just been on to Eliza and Blake.

And then we have this sort of moment where Eliza just does this amazing, almost like Miss Marple moment.

It was just so much fun.

- Gosh, I wish I'd known all about this, especially what happened with Clarence.

But of course I've been away at the seaside.

- And my other one is when Ivy comes home and finds Potts at the typewriter.

- Oh yes, that's... - And then Simon just decided to start to, I don't even know if it was in the script, but he started to dance.

He, she's so horrified that he's carrying on his career as a novelist, thinking earlier on, thinking I've managed to convince him to go back to the mortuary.

And as she comes home and he's banging away at his typewriter, so happy and she's so shocked.

- Because he's like, he's mania.

It's like, I am writing the greatest new novel.

- [Rachael] And then he does that beautiful little waltz around- - [Simon] Yeah, but you wrote that, you wrote the dance in.

- But I thought you were going to get your old job back at the mortuary.

- Why would I do that when you yourself said I was a wonderful writer?

Oh, ha, ah!

- But it, that, it was just so funny.

And you were slightly manic.

- I was slightly manic, yes.

- It's very funny.

- You don't understand the process of writing, Rachael.

(all laughing) - Maybe I could just relate to it.

(all chattering) (gentle music)