Midsomer Murders, 31 Jan, "Birds of Prey" - a question

[Martin Underwood]

I may have missed the explanation of this in the "but there's one thing I
don't understand" tidying up of the plot at the end...

Did we ever find out *why* Eddie Darwin (Anton Lesser), the man who
collected birds' eggs, treated Eleanor and Jane Macpherson like slaves? I
presume he was lodging with them, so what hold did he have over them that
caused them to let him treate them like dirt rather than telling him to get
out of their house?

I liked the inventor's joke: "a new form of transport that uses no fuel"
turned out to be little scooters!

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[Maddie]

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> I may have missed the explanation of this in the "but there's one thing I
> don't understand" tidying up of the plot at the end...
>
> Did we ever find out *why* Eddie Darwin (Anton Lesser), the man who
> collected birds' eggs, treated Eleanor and Jane Macpherson like slaves? I
> presume he was lodging with them, so what hold did he have over them that
> caused them to let him treate them like dirt rather than telling him to
get
> out of their house?
>
> I liked the inventor's joke: "a new form of transport that uses no fuel"
> turned out to be little scooters!
>
>

I missed their explanation first time round but when I viewed the saved
video they explained that it was pride that stopped them.
Probably fear as well as it is very difficult to get rid of lodgers without
going through lots of legal hoops and the lodger stays in the building
whilst this is going on.
He was obviously a very sadistic character but in a good job- and who
believes eccentric old ladies anyway? He might have tried to convince their
doctor to put them in a "Home" as revenge.
Only my opinion but I am rapidly getting to their state myself and can
understand the problems old ladies face.

Liked the joke myself. There seemed to be no way investors could get out of
their contracts as the invention described it exactly!