A Perfectly Simple Explanation

Religious fanatic and head of the Church of the Stony Path Malachi MacBean not only denounces Hamish as ungodly but claims that the policeman attacked him in the guise of the devil. Hamish's efforts to find a simple explanation for MacBean's increasingly frenetic behaviour lead him to make a connection between the late night trips out of the house of Malachi's long-suffering wife Bethsheba and the arrival in Lochdubh of Zoot Macpherson, a man well-known for his celebration of free love.