MIDSOMER MURDERS II


Episodes #201 & #202 "Death's Shadow" - Parts 1 & 2
A successful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, arrives in the village of Badgers Drift; his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Then, soon after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, a property developer in the village is savagely murdered with an Indian sword belonging to a vicar. Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Troy investigate the crime, trying to discover if it was motivated by ill-feeling in the village about his plans for property development or some longer buried secrets.

Episodes #203 & #204 "Stranglers Wood" - Parts 1 & 2
The body of a young Brazilian woman is found strangled with a tie in a forest where three similar murders occurred several years before. Barnaby and Troy visit George Meakham, the now-retired police officer who was in charge of the investigation of the earlier crimes, and who has since become obsessed with them. The trail leads them to a local cigarette and tobacco company and two of its employees in particular. The Portuguese au-pair of one of them is then murdered. Barnaby manages to solve both the new murders and the old ones, though not before the murder of yet another victim.

Episodes #205 & #206 "Blood Will Out" - Parts 1 & 2
When an unpleasant and unpopular local magistrate, Hector Bridges, is found shot dead in his house, investigations uncover that his wife was once married to one of their neighbors, Will Saxby. Saxby's current wife used to be Mrs. Bridges, his daughter, Fleur, is really Saxby's daughter! A new-age traveler, Orville Trudway, who has recently moved into the village was an old army comrade with a grudge against Bridges. Things are complicated still further by the presence of a group of travelers on the village common, who proceed to hold a horse race.

Episodes #207 & #208 "Beyond the Grave" - Parts 1 & 2
The slashing of a 17th-century painting in Aspern Tallow museum appears to herald the start of a series of ghostly manifestations by the ghost of Jonathan Lowrie. Cully's boyfriend Nico has just been given a part in a soap opera as a Detective Sergeant, and asks DCI Barnaby if he can shadow DS Troy to learn more about how to play the role.