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Midsomer Murders Season 10 Episodes
Season 10 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Dance with the Dead
93 mins
DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones investigate the death of Simon Bright who is found dead inside an old World War II vintage Humber parked at an abandoned airfield. From all appearances, the death appears to be a suicide, but the pathologist determines that the man suffered a severe blow to the head and may in fact have been unconscious when he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Simon Bright's girlfriend, Laura Sharp, is nowhere to be found, but the death of the aging village Lothario and the attempted murder of another of her friends narrows the list of possible murderers somewhat. Barnaby is convinced that one of Laura's ex-lovers is responsible but given her rather active life, the question becomes which one?
Episode 2
The Animal Within
93 mins
Faith Alexander returns with husband Alan to native Midsomer Deverell after four decades away to meet her long-lost uncle rich Rex Masters (80) in his lavish mansion but are shocked to discover Rex's friends were told she died in a plane crash. Then Rex is found drowned in the nearby river. Barnaby and Jones struggle to workout who wished 'amiable prankster' Rex dead but soon find he kept tricking people into free services. Niece Faith, gardener Miles King and housekeeper-cook Eileen Carnack and cleaner Janet Bailey each counted on a version of Rex's last will to inherit his fortune, ignoring their rivals, so each had motive believing to be the sole beneficiary. Jeremy Thacker wrote a book to promote his late mother a candidate for sainthood but claims Rex was the mystery man whose sexual abuse damaged her as a maiden. With two more murders the detectives investigate if the motive could be just envy, greed, passion or some revenge.
Episode 3
King's Crystal
93 mins
Alan King dies in a car explosion on a business trip to China to set up an Asian branch for the crystal manufacture he ran in Midsomer Magna with brother Alan, who survives and marries his widow Hilary six months later, having decided to close down the home branch of the family firm, King's Crystal is in financial uncertainty. Alan's son Ian won't forgive mother or uncle, leaning on his study buddy and gay admirer David Monroe. Factory workers refuse to just accept the loss of their jobs, their foreman Jack Tewson is stopped by David from apparently aiming a hunting gun at Ian. Peter Baxter, the firm's accountant is found fatally stabbed in the closed manufacture with a Masonic dagger. Barnaby asks Jones to brush up his mason membership to go undercover in the lodge ran by Charles, with Peter's daughter Sophie's fiance James Taylor as doorman. Ian surprisingly joins, having ended his biology study and declaring to Sophie he's converted to profit, which worries unconvinced David he's not telling why. Barnaby fails to oblige with protection when David warns Ian is in danger, only to find him hung in a badly staged suicide. Thomas runs away from Cully's performance in Hamlet, inspired to stop just in time a last crime in the chain.
Episode 4
The Axeman Cometh
93 mins
Barnaby is delighted to tell his family and Jones about the impending reunion of blues rock band Hired Gun at the annual Midsomer Rocks festival while assigned to supervise police security for artists, roadies and music fans descend on neighboring fields. He isn't amused daughter Cully dates band manager Simon Dixon, given the drugs context, and tells Jones his mentor, now retired D.I. Owen Jenkins, saw his career broken 30 years ago as the media blamed his failure to find the band's still missing member Ginger Foxton. The band stays at the mansion, with butler James Hobson, gardener Desmond Harcourt and secretary-housekeeper, his wife Finola, owned by a foundation in tontine but inhabited by Gary Cooper, who still fails to look a proper gentleman. Hired Gun's lush vocalist Mimi Clifton is electrocuted on stage whilst holding on to her microphone stand, that had an added mystery wire, but Gary was scheduled to use it that time. Barnaby and Jones guess rightly other band members could be targets. Bass player Jack 'Axeman' McKinley barely survives the bomb in his motorbike, Gary reports threats including animal corpses and suggests member Ginger Foxton, presumed dead in a drunk car crash, may be alive and vindictive. The drummer drowns in the car he slept in to avoid his wife arriving drunk with Jack. The detectives also find various infidelity and intrigues involving real estate and medical conditions, such as Jack's simpleton daughter and semi-catatonic ex.
Episode 5
Death and Dust
93 mins
DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the death of Dr. Alan Delaney who was purposely run down by someone driving a pick-up truck. Delaney was driving Dr. James Kirkwood's brand new SUV and Barnaby believes Kirkwood may have been the intended victim. He doesn't have to look far to find anyone who would like to see Kirkwood dead. Jim Kirkwood and Delyth Mostyn had only recently announced they were to be married. Both had been married previously but Kirkwood is a widower and Mostin divorced. Dorothy Hutton had asked Barnaby if it's suspicious that her son-in-law James is re-marrying a "mere" four years after his first wife, her daughter Sarah, died. Barnaby assures her that Sarah's death was fully investigated and James Kirkwood was nowhere near her bedside at the time of her death. Delyth Mostyn's children are nearly apoplectic at the thought of their mother re-marrying and are absolutely opposed to the union. Then there's Clifford Rawnsley, a local farmer who had pursued Delyth but whom she rejected. The case isn't quite so simple however. Meanwhile Cully and Joyce try to convince Barnaby that their garden patio needs to be enlarged. It actually provides him with the vital clue needed to solve the case.
Episode 6
Picture of Innocence
93 mins
DCI Tom Barnaby himself becomes the prime suspect when amateur photographer Lionel Bell is found death in the woods of Luxton Deeping because of a photograph showing Barnaby kissing Bell's estranged wife, who is an old girlfriend of his. Furthermore Barnaby's fingerprints are on a wine glass at Bell's home, an entry in Bell's diary names Barnaby as his guest the evening before his death and Barnaby has no alibi for neither that evening nor the time of the murder. The case is taken over by the unpopular detective inspector Martin Spellman who does not believe that the evidence against Barnaby is fabricated. More deaths occur while Barnaby conducts his own, unofficial investigation to clear his name
Episode 7
They Seek Him Here
93 mins
DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the murder of Nick Cheyney, the director of a low-budget film about the French Revolution and the Scarlet Pimpernel, being filmed at Magna Manor. He is found on his film set having been decapitated in the guillotine. Cheyney was found by Jed Norris, who had only recently been hired to work as a security guard by the film's tight-fisted producer, Jack Braxton. Cheyney had also had a run-in with Danny Twyman who operates a local taxi service and who wanted Cheyney to stay away from his girlfriend, Leonie Charteris. That Cheyney fathered her child is a complicating factor. The owners of Magna Manor, Leonie's parents Terence and Diane Charteris, have spent a great deal of money on the Manor and very much want to maximize any possible returns. Then there's Raymond Clandillon, a past his prime actor who is prone to drink and to whom Cheyney would only offer a position as an extra. Then there are Gwen Morrison and Neville Hayward who definitely had a history with the dead director. There will be a second guillotining however before Barnaby can identify the killer and the motive behind the deed.
Episode 8
Death in a Chocolate Box
93 mins
Lord Holm, an aristocrat who once served a prison sentence for killing his sluttish wife, has turned his home into a rehabilitation centre for other ex-offenders. Gina and Jack Colby, married ex-police officers, assist him, Jack as administrator and Gina as a counsellor. Jack has expressed concerns over the hostel's financial situation shortly before he is murdered. Eddie Marston, a new arrival at the hostel, over whose admittance Tom Barnaby has had misgivings, goes missing, and the local postman, a disgraced former policeman, tells Tom that he has been blackmailing Jack over information given him by Marston when they were cell-mates. Also in the frame is the bad-tempered local inn-keeper, whose neglected wife had been using Jack as a confidant. Nothing is ever simple when investigating a Midsomer murder even one of death in a chocolate box.
