Barnaby investigates a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.Barnaby investigates a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.Barnaby investigates a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.
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- TriviaThe part of Lord Holm (played by Edward Petherbridge) was originally given to Ian Richardson, who died two weeks before filming started.
- GoofsWhen a camera obscura pans across its field of view, the image also rotates on the viewing table. Here, the image mostly stayed the same orientation while the scene panned. Obviously a video projection simulating a camera obscura.
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DCI Tom Barnaby: Who's this character you're playing?
Cully Barnaby: Varya.
DCI Tom Barnaby: And what is she?
Cully Barnaby: She is Madam Ranevsky's eldest daughter; wants to join a convent to become a nun, and has got a thing about needing to be helpful, but in fact just ends up driving everybody mad.
DCI Tom Barnaby: And the director thought that was you?
Cully Barnaby: Yup.
[they both laugh]
There are lots of suspects in this town. Mostly because it is a small town and some of the people were former police and in a "Friday nighters" police scandal where the cops arrested women and had sex with them in jail. The Colby's are husband and wife and worked at the police station when this scandal took place. They both resigned.
Later prisoners are let out of jail and sent to this small town to start a new life given a job and basically assigned to someone. Mrs Colby the former police detective becomes a behavior therapist who is well known.
There is a character that is very funny in this. He is a patient of Dr Colby for many years and was put in jail for killing a woman. His name is Sir Holm. He is an older man. He falls in love with Dr Colby and tries to kiss her soon after her husband is murdered. She fights him off. Barnaby and Jones stop him from getting fresh with her. He raises his fist and says he can fight. This scene is very funny.
The whole story was good. I did not like the end. It makes me feel there is no justice even though the killer was found. The killer had many people suffer for their action. The killer had Sir Holm go to prison and be on drugs for many years prescribed for him by a doctor. The drug "Ativan" kept him from getting his memory back even years later so he could never remember what happened the night he found Maria dead. Some one else also hid the fact they knew who killed "Maria" and said nothing.
In the end the killer runs in front of a train. Jones comes into the office and says "Case closed then sir?" and Jones said yes. So I felt the case was closed after the killer ran in front of the train and the other people that were affected by this person were not cleared. Maybe they were but it ended to me with a question mark?...
- ctyankee1
- Sep 18, 2015