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Midsomer Murders

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Midsomer Murders	label	Midsomer Murders
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Midsomer Murders	comment	British Mystery of the Week drama (1997 to present) about a police detective and his younger colleague operating in the fictional English county district of Midsomer, which appears to consist almost entirely of picturesque little villages, mostly named after the scheme "Midsomer X" - Midsomer Parva, Midsomer Mallow, Midsomer Worthy, etc. note A town called Midsomer Norton actually exists, near Wells in SomersetHas a bad case of Never One Murder (and a murder rate that ITV actually started making fun of in their adverts for this—according to a documentary made to celebrate Midsomerâ€™s 25 years on TV that in aired in 2022, there had been 396 murders up to that point), with the killer frequently Beneath Suspicion until five minutes from the end of each two-hour episode. Many episodes featured a Special Guest who turned out to be the murderer, unless they themselves are murdered instead.The original stars were John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby, and Daniel Casey as DS Gavin Troy. The current leads are Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby (Tom's cousin) and Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter.Has a brilliantly apt, lilting theme tune. Unrelated to Midsommar.
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Midsomer Murders / int_101254d3	type	Barsetshire
Midsomer Murders / int_101254d3	comment	Barsetshire: The eponymous Midsomer district.
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Midsomer Murders / int_106a0ec2	type	Cymbal-Banging Monkey
Midsomer Murders / int_106a0ec2	comment	Cymbal-Banging Monkey: There is one in the nursery where the first murder occurs in "A Christmas Haunting" It starts banging its cymbals as the body hits the floor.
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Midsomer Murders / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Midsomer Murders / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: In "Sins of Commission", it turns out the three "victims" all tried to murder the same nice older lady - who happened to have been an agent with the Special Operations Executive during WWII.
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Midsomer Murders / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Midsomer Murders / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: In "Blood Wedding", Barnaby goes to question The Vicar only to find him flagellating himself in church.
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Midsomer Murders / int_129a9466	type	Erotic Asphyxiation
Midsomer Murders / int_129a9466	comment	Erotic Asphyxiation: One Jerkass cigarette executive turns out to be into this, as revealed by his wife. As there was a recent strangling recalling a similar series or crimes decades ago, it's yet another reason to suspect him. The murderer was actually his boss, who murdered his blackmailer and tried to pin it on the previous killer, a hotel owner who ended up stabbed in the shower by his mother when she thought he'd started killing again.
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Midsomer Murders / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Midsomer Murders / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: In "The Oblong Murders", Jones gets trapped in a bedroom while conducting an undercover investigation. He calls Barnaby to rescue him but — because he cannot let the person he is with know that he is a cop — he pretends to be calling a friend. Calling Barnaby 'matey' initially confuses the Inspector, but he soon figures out what is going on.
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Midsomer Murders / int_12dd5755	type	Pursued Protagonist
Midsomer Murders / int_12dd5755	comment	Pursued Protagonist: "The Night of the Stag" opens with the first Victim of the Week being chased through an orchard at night.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Midsomer Murders / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: In "Days of Misrule", Tom attempts to get out of a team-building exercise by claiming to have tendonitis:
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Midsomer Murders / int_13556074	type	Brotherhood of Funny Hats
Midsomer Murders / int_13556074	comment	Brotherhood of Funny Hats: "The Pudding Club", an exclusive club restricted to members of the elite Devington School's students who are pursuing careers in diplomacy. On the surface, it's just a "boy's club" that regularly eats "puddings"note in the British sense of the term, which means anything from pies to desserts. In reality, it's a front for an illegal art-smuggling ring, with the members using their positions to smuggle valuables out of foreign countries and into the school proper, to be sold off to finance the school whenever it needs the money.
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Midsomer Murders / int_13b3655d	type	Geographic Flexibility
Midsomer Murders / int_13b3655d	comment	Geographic Flexibility: The villages often gain features and places previously unseen or unheard of. The series is filmed in locations all around England and Wales. It shows. But, surprisingly, it mostly averts California Doubling. The use of this trope is to be expected, given how the series is one of the Long Runners of British TV and is set in a small fictional English administrative region with a predominantly rural, old-timey character.
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Midsomer Murders / int_13b7c384	type	Pizza Boy Special Delivery
Midsomer Murders / int_13b7c384	comment	Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Fiona Conway does this (literally with the pizza boy) in "Not In My Back Yard".
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Midsomer Murders / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Midsomer Murders / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: In "The Scarecrow Murders", Barnaby and Winter investigate a series of killings were the bodies of the victims are left dressed and posed as Scary Scarecrows. The idea of a Serial Killer is floated, but Barnaby points out there are too many inconsistencies; including that serial killers refine their technique as they progress, but all three murder methods in this case were radically different. It turns out to be a case of Everybody Did It with three different killers working together to take revenge on an online gambling company that ruined their lives, and used the scarecrow motif in the hope it would taken as the work of serial killer targeting people randomly.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1484dba1	type	Foreshadowing
Midsomer Murders / int_1484dba1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "They Seek Him There," one of the Victim of the Week plays a French Noble who is guillotined in a film shoot. Three guesses as to how they are murdered later on.
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Midsomer Murders / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Midsomer Murders / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Plenty allusions to Hamlet in the episode "King's Crystal." We have the head of a manufacturing firm with the last name "King" killed by his brother who then marries his brother's widow. The son of the first man is handsome and broody. The broody son is being pursued by a girl whose father is stabbed to death in the episode, and has university friend who is trying to help him and keeps trying to persuade him to leave the emotional madhouse he is in. There is also a play within the episode as well.
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Midsomer Murders / int_151bc113	type	Cover Identity Anomaly
Midsomer Murders / int_151bc113	comment	Cover Identity Anomaly: In "The Stitcher's Society", a Private Investigator joins the eponymous society: a support group for survivors of heart surgery. However, as he has never had heart surgery, he lacks the distinctive 'zipper' scar down the centre of his chest. This ends badly for him when the killer sees him without a shirt and realises that he is an imposter and must have an ulterior motive for being there.
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Midsomer Murders / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
Midsomer Murders / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: As likely as not, a mystery might involve this or adultery.
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Midsomer Murders / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Midsomer Murders / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Lots...
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Midsomer Murders / int_15c0289	type	Bullet Dancing
Midsomer Murders / int_15c0289	comment	Bullet Dancing: In "The Village That Rose From the Dead", a Crazy Jealous Guy does this to a man who cuckolded him in preparation for shooting him for real.
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Midsomer Murders / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Midsomer Murders / int_161f1ebf	comment	Inverted in "The Creeper." A young man and woman who were childhood friends clearly like each other a lot, but haven't acted on their feelings — later explained by the fact, while they were raised separately, they believe they share a biological father. (Sort of a long story, but basically, his parents wanted to conceive but couldn't due to his father's sterility, so they came to an arrangement with her parents so her father would be the biological father, but his father would be on the birth certificate. The kids were told when they were old enough to understand.) But, perhaps unsurprisingly, secrets are revealed and it turns out they're not actually related after all. They both note that they're relieved, and share a smile and a final scene together that strongly hints at a Relationship Upgrade.
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Midsomer Murders / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Midsomer Murders / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: DCI Tom Barnaby evolved into this as the series centred on him went on and in one episode it's revealed he was an ex-member of MI6.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1818d1af	type	Protest By Obstruction
Midsomer Murders / int_1818d1af	comment	Protest By Obstruction: In "Left for Dead", a group of protestors protesting a new bypass use tactics like sitting in front of the excavators, chaining themselves to a tree and to a cottage that is scheduled for demolition, etc.
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Midsomer Murders / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: "Blood Will Out" has Barnaby being put on a diet, with Troy given the uneviable task of making sure he follows it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_18cb78a2	type	You Are Already Dead
Midsomer Murders / int_18cb78a2	comment	You Are Already Dead: In "Destroying Angel", the look on the face of the physician when he learns that a patient has eaten not one but several titular mushrooms says it all. Naturally, the patient didn't survive.
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Midsomer Murders / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Midsomer Murders / int_18e11001	comment	The first Victim of the Week in "The Creeper". This instance is more realistic than many examples as the victim was drunk, drugged and there were two people holding the pillow over his face.
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Midsomer Murders / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
Midsomer Murders / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "Judgement Day", when Midsomer Mallow's youth orchestra is shown rehearsing. In "Things That Go Bump in the Night", the brass band at the railway open day plays the theme tune before moving on to more traditional tunes.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Midsomer Murders / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Winter, who seems to have a least one Shirtless Scene per series.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Midsomer Murders / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Five time Olympic Gold Medallist in rowing Steve Redgrave makes a brief appearance at the end on "Dead In Water" as a scout for the British Olympic Committee. Troy gets one at the end of "Blood Wedding," almost running Barnaby and Jones off the road in the process.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Midsomer Murders / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: Almost a prerequisite for any whodunit set in an English village, though dog collars appear to be the Midsomer equivalent of a Red Shirt. If you're a clergyman in Midsomer, chances are you'll either be horribly murdered or unmasked as a horrible murderer before the credits roll, to the point where you could probably fit all the names of the Vicarâ€™s who were major characters and who turned out to be neither by the end of the episode on the back of the proverbial postage stamp.Of particular note is the Reverend Stephen Wentworth, played brilliantly by Richard Briers in the episode "Death's Shadow". Another honourable mention should go to Mark Gatiss's Giles Shawcross in "The Sword of Guillaume" and the Reverend in "Sting of Death".
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Midsomer Murders / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Midsomer Murders / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Barnaby and his sergeant are apparently the only two officers in Causton CID capable of investigating murder, the only exception being the handful of occasions where Barnaby is booted from the case (and each time that happens he ends up solving the case before his replacement anyway).
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Midsomer Murders / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
Midsomer Murders / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: The first murder victim in "Echoes of the Dead" is found submerged in a petal-strewn bath, dressed as a bride. The first Victim of the Week in "Fit for Murder" is drowned in a flotation pool at a spa. Joyce discovers the corpse when she goes for treatment.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1d9099cb	type	Deadly Disc
Midsomer Murders / int_1d9099cb	comment	Deadly Disc: In "Written in the Stars", the murderer uses a razor-edged disc to slice the throat of the third Victim of the Week.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Midsomer Murders / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Day-to-day life in Midsomer is apparently so boring without a bit of homicide that murderers dedicate their brain cells to devising really bizarre ways of bumping people off. Specifically, victims have been: Tied up and covered in truffle oil while a boar is set loose Had their wheelchair hijacked via remote control and subsequently steered into the path of a milk float (although the victim had been shot in the head beforehand). Tumble-dried to death. Pinned to the lawn with croquet hoops while wine bottles are catapulted at them. Knocked out, had a hollowed-out TV with a hole in the top shoved over their head, and wine poured into the TV until they drown, which happened in the same episode as the above. Crushed to death with a forklift, then broiled in an industrial sterilizer. Had their head crushed with a giant wheel of cheese. Boiled to death in a brewing vat of beer. Had their corset tightened until their chest could not expand enough for them to breathe. Knocked off their bike by a wire strung across the road and ran over by a tank. In "Sting of Death", the murderer commits a series of bee-themed murders. The first victim is stung to death by a swarm of bees; the second is coated in beeswax and turned into a human candle; and third is almost embalmed alive in honey.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
Midsomer Murders / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: In "Send in the Clowns", several suspects receive threatening notes (one of them delivered by a brick through the window) written in pig's blood.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Midsomer Murders / int_1f799027	comment	After the conclusion of the case in "Secrets and Spies", one of the characters, an Obstructive Bureaucrat, is sent to the Arctic to monitor shipping traffic in the Northwest Passage.
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Midsomer Murders / int_1faf34ad	type	Prisoner's Dilemma
Midsomer Murders / int_1faf34ad	comment	Prisoner's Dilemma: Barnaby uses the trope in one episode to get two individual murderers not to confess, but to witness that they saw the other committing a murder.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2027ffd7	type	Cryptid Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_2027ffd7	comment	Cryptid Episode: "Secrets and Spies" - After a break-in at Causton Museum where an animal skull was stolen, ex-spy Brenda Packard tells Barnaby that Allenby House, owned by testy ex-spymaster Malcolm Frazer, is a safe house for agents. Geoffrey Larkin, a visiting former agent, has a bitter argument with Frazer, who accuses him of treachery when they were spying in Berlin during the Cold war. Larkin threatens Frazer with a dossier marked "Wolfman" and next day is murdered, seemingly by a wild animal, the legendary Beast of Midsomer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_209164be	type	Extremely Lengthy Creation
Midsomer Murders / int_209164be	comment	Extremely Lengthy Creation: In "Fit for Death", Miranda Bedford has been writing a novel for decades: to the point that many people don't believe it actually exists. Towards the end of the episode, another character attempts to destroy the manuscript (thinking it may contain incriminating information) only to discover all he has destroyed is her handwritten copy. The novel has been sold to a publisher, and her transcriber has been delivering each chapter as it is finished.invoked
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Midsomer Murders / int_20d71ade	type	Fictional Painting
Midsomer Murders / int_20d71ade	comment	Fictional Painting: In "The Black Book", the sale of a previously unknown painting by an 18th-century painter sends Barnaby into an investigation of murders as well as art forgery. The episode features an entire fictional catalog of paintings by this artist.
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Midsomer Murders / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Midsomer Murders / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: In "Blood Will Out", the Victim of the Week is a bully who thrashes his stepdaughter with belt.
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Midsomer Murders / int_21304649	type	This Bear Was Framed
Midsomer Murders / int_21304649	comment	This Bear Was Framed: An episode has a killer use a saber tooth tiger skull to make marks on the body to hide the real cause of death.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2169c95c	type	Taxidermy Is Creepy
Midsomer Murders / int_2169c95c	comment	Taxidermy Is Creepy: In "A Rare Bird", one of the suspects is a vegetarian taxidermist. He regards his work as giving animals a second life.
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Midsomer Murders / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Midsomer Murders / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Twenty-two years and counting.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
Midsomer Murders / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: In "Country Matters", Tom Barnaby's face is framed between the legs of "Mr. Hundsecker," when the latter mistakes Barnaby for a Dom (there have been a lot of sexual escapades around the village) who is going to whip him with a riding crop.
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Midsomer Murders / int_22fbf816	type	Flat Joy
Midsomer Murders / int_22fbf816	comment	Flat Joy: One episode centers around the filming of a Scarlet Pimpernel movie. When the guillotine falls on an aristocrat, the revolutionaries have less-than-enthusiastic reactions.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Midsomer Murders / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The first crime in "A Vintage Murder" involves the wine being served at a wine tasting at a winery being poisoned. The second Victim of the Week in "Wild Harvest" is killed when the killer swaps the wild celery for the soup they are preparing with highly toxic hemlock water dropwort.
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Midsomer Murders / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Midsomer Murders / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Only the five episodes of Series 1 were based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby books. The rest are original stories, even after Graham wrote two more books.
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Midsomer Murders / int_235289d	type	Conveyor Belt o' Doom
Midsomer Murders / int_235289d	comment	Conveyor Belt o' Doom: In "The Killings of Copenhagen", the murderer trusses up one of the victims and places them on a conveyor belt leading into an industrial baker's oven. In "Send in the Clowns", the third Victim of the Week is stunned and dropped on to a conveyor belt into an abattoir which carries into the gassing chamber where is asphyxiated with carbon dioxide.
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Midsomer Murders / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_235a2706	comment	Cricket Episode: "Dead Man's Eleven" (series 3) "Secrets and Spies" (series 11) "Last Man Out" (series 19)
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Midsomer Murders / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Midsomer Murders / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: In "The Silent Land", a prankster dresses up as a bedsheet ghost in order to disrupt a ghost walk. However, the killer takes advantage of the distraction to murder the second Victim of the Week.
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Midsomer Murders / int_24400cfe	type	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
Midsomer Murders / int_24400cfe	comment	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: In the episode "Death of a Hollow Man" where the killer removes the tape from the edge of a cutthroat razor being used in a suicide scene in a play. And again in "The Magician's Nephew", where the fake spikes in a magician's 'Cabinet of Death' are coated in a quick acting poison. And in "Send in the Clowns", the killer sabotages the retraction mechanism in a trick knife used in a sword cabinet routine, resulting in the volunteer from the audience being fatally stabbed. Subverted earlier in the same episode, where it appears that a clown has been shot dead as a result of a prop gun being replaced with a real one — but it turns out that this was only done to scare the victim, and the gun was loaded with blanks. The real killer, who had learned about this plan, used it as cover by shooting the victim with a rifle at the same moment. Then there is "They Seek Him Here", where a film director dies via a guillotine being used as a movie prop, as does the second Victim of the Week.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
Midsomer Murders / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: The gloomy vicar in "The Sword of Guillaume". Naturally (for this programme), he's given a sign just at that moment.
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Midsomer Murders / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
Midsomer Murders / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: In "Dead in the Water", a jeweler conspires with some of his friends to rob his own store. The jeweler is left Bound and Gagged in a chair in the vault, but one of the robbers decides to make the scenario look more realistic by smacking him hard in the face.
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Midsomer Murders / int_266b283	type	Crime After Crime
Midsomer Murders / int_266b283	comment	Crime After Crime: "Talking to the Dead" is a textbook example. The original crime (which the viewer only learns about after several murders) was the comparatively minor one of stealing goods that were already stolen. When one of the crooks they were stealing from discovered them, the murderer killed him and blackmailed his accomplice into helping him dispose of the body. However, things quickly escalated and he committed three subsequent murders to prevent his crimes from being discovered, and would have committed a fourth if Barnaby had not caught him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Midsomer Murders / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Major Teale spends almost every moment he is on screen either perving on women, or talking about it. In "Things That Go Bump in the Night", the musical director of the village church is a man of advanced years with a bad case of wandering hands, including feeling up one of his choristers under the guise of correcting her technique. Will Green in "The Night of the Stag" is outright called this by the object of his lust, in a Batman Gambit the killer uses this as part of their plan.
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Midsomer Murders / int_270ed8b8	type	Candlelit Bath
Midsomer Murders / int_270ed8b8	comment	Candlelit Bath: In "Last Year's Model", a sleazy music producer and his mistress are holding a candlelit Two-Person Pool Party when they are interrupted by Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Midsomer Murders / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The murderer in "Days of Misrule". The kid was such a Jerkass that his dad still manages to be a Sympathetic Murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_283d8c21	type	Forklift Fu
Midsomer Murders / int_283d8c21	comment	Forklift Fu: In "Sauce for the Goose", Victim of the Week Dexter Lockwood is crushed by a forklift before being dumped in a sterilizer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Midsomer Murders / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: "Death of a Stranger": Simon Tranter, father of Grahame Tranter, who walked out and disappeared 30 years before the story.
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Midsomer Murders / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Midsomer Murders / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The village of Upper Warden is down hill, while the village of Lower Warden is up hill.
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Midsomer Murders / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Midsomer Murders / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: There are 20 Easter eggs in the 20th anniversary episode "Death Of The Small Coppers." Each one references a previous episode's mystery or murder.
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Midsomer Murders / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
Midsomer Murders / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: Abused in at least one episode to make a murder look like a suicide.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Midsomer Murders / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging on this in "Bad Tidings":
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Midsomer Murders / int_2a9b1de6	type	Bear Trap
Midsomer Murders / int_2a9b1de6	comment	Bear Trap: In "Country Matters", a woman pretends to be caught in a bear trap as part of an elaborate sexual roleplay.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
Midsomer Murders / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: In "Country Matters" this is inverted and played straight; while there are multiple men adopting the submissive role they are both bad and good. The Dom is the murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Midsomer Murders / int_2d363f63	comment	In "Picture of Innocence", he's removed because he himself is connected to the case by an attempted Frame-Up. Once again his replacement is intolerable (and seemingly preoccupied planning his wedding) so Barnaby proceeds to get to all the witnesses two steps ahead of the other inspector.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Midsomer Murders / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: At least some of the murderers caught in the series.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2d6a3b85	type	Embarrassing Hobby
Midsomer Murders / int_2d6a3b85	comment	Embarrassing Hobby: Troy secretly collected a comic called The Hawk which he was embarrassed about. Inspector Barnaby did not seem to mind when he found out, although he thought Troy was a bit stupid for keeping it secret.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Midsomer Murders / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Troy questions a South American maid in Spanish in Strangler's Wood, much to Barnaby's surprise.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
Midsomer Murders / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: George Meakham's obsession with the original Strangler's Wood murders.
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Midsomer Murders / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Midsomer Murders / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Midsomer Murders is not usually flattering in its depiction of bisexuals — especially female bisexuals. One of the victims in "Not In My Back Yard", who was using seduction to manipulate several people of both sexes. In "Dance With The Dead", a missing woman had half the village wrapped around her little finger, charming people of both sexes in order to ensure that she could maintain her comfortable, "free spirited" lifestyle without having to deal with unpleasant things like morals or responsibility. While Barnaby supposes that she used sexual favours to get her own way, most of her targets seemed to be genuinely smitten and protective of her, rather than lusting after her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_30725d31	type	Medication Tampering
Midsomer Murders / int_30725d31	comment	Medication Tampering: The second Victim of the Week in "Death in Disguise" is killed when the murderer deliberately withholds their heart medication as they are suffering a heart attack.
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Midsomer Murders / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Midsomer Murders / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Downplayed. in "The Ballad of Midsomer County", Danny Carver isn't keen on his daughter Melody becoming a famous folk singer as he worries it will change her irrevocably. He comes around at the end of the episode. Ironically, Melody's real father probably wouldn't have minded.
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Midsomer Murders / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
Midsomer Murders / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Averted, unusually for the genre. Both Barnabys are well-adjusted and cool-headed with stable family lives, and their sergeants also have their heads screwed on pretty effectively too.
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Midsomer Murders / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
Midsomer Murders / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: In "Till Death Do Us Part", the second Victim of the Week is shot with ball bearings while modelling a wedding dress at a bridal show, leading to this trope.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3174384e	type	Shameful Source of Knowledge
Midsomer Murders / int_3174384e	comment	Shameful Source of Knowledge: Several episodes have characters not reveal information that could have prevented someone's death, as this would also force them to reveal that they're cheating on their spouse or involved in shady deals with other inhabitants of Midsomer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Midsomer Murders / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: One murderer takes a small boy who he knows to be the witness to his crime out on a boat ride. Then Barnaby has his "Eureka!" Moment and heads for the dock, expecting the worst... only to find the kid unharmed, with the murderer saying he couldn't kill him. In "Painted in Blood", the two corrupt NIS officers are pissed that their also corrupt superior murdered a fellow officer who refused to be part of their scheme. They wanted to steal another suspect's ill gotten money, but wanted no violence towards innocent people.
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Midsomer Murders / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
Midsomer Murders / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: The two kids in "Worm In The Bud," who think that trying to investigate a murder will be fun. Their parent's are not amused, and try and talk them out of it, by telling them it's dangerous. However a couple of clues they find do help one villager put the pieces together, and they actually work who the murderer is before Barnaby does.They end up shooting the murderer themselves in front of Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Midsomer Murders / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: Almost everyone in "Blood Will Out" has a motive for killing Hector Bridges.
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Midsomer Murders / int_32c7a2a3	type	Symbolic Blood
Midsomer Murders / int_32c7a2a3	comment	Symbolic Blood: In "Drawing Dead", the second Victim of the Week runs a print shop and is murdered by having his throat cut with a paper guillotine. As they do so, the killer knocks over bottles of blue and yellow ink that spill and pool under the victim's chair like blood.
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Midsomer Murders / int_33d0b177	type	Attack of the Town Festival
Midsomer Murders / int_33d0b177	comment	Attack of the Town Festival: "The Straw Woman" had a village deciding to go ahead with a festival despite the vicar being burnt to death. The replacement vicar was then also murdered. In "The Scarecrow Murders", people are being murdered and then dressed up and posed as Scary Scarecrows during the village's annual scarecrow festival.
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Midsomer Murders / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Midsomer Murders / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Troy in the original novels was married with a daughter.
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Midsomer Murders / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Midsomer Murders / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Actually averted with Troy, who's a bit of a homophobe and never considers lesbians as arousing.
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Midsomer Murders / int_340e75cb	type	Writing Indentation Clue
Midsomer Murders / int_340e75cb	comment	Writing Indentation Clue: In "Death in a Chocolate Box", Barnaby rubs a pencil over the notebook in the Victim of the Week's office to discover the last thing he wrote was a letter. Although Barnaby only gets the last part of the note, it is enough to tell him the letter exists and may have been the reason why he was murdered.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
Midsomer Murders / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: One episode had a rich Jerkass tell two or three people they'd be the sole inheritors of his fortune (without informing the others), just so that they'd show up to the reading and discover they got nothing. Since he's episode's first victim, and some of the claimants follow him, there is naturally suspicion about this trope being in play.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Midsomer Murders / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: The first victim in "The Glitch". And the first victim in "A Sacred Trust". As Barnaby points out, one nun in glasses looks much like another in the dark. The first victim in "The Maid in Splendour", who was in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong clothes. The victim in "Death and Dust" is run down because he is driving the intended target's car. The second victim in "Send in the Clowns" is killed due to a retractable sword used in a magic act as part of a circus being exchanged for a real one, resulting in him being stabbed during the act. Problem is, the person who was supposed to be doing the act (the intended victim) volunteered a friend of his to do the act instead as part of a publicity stunt, being none the wiser. The third victim in "With Baited Breath" is killed because he is wearing the very distinctive hat of the intended target. The second Victim of the Week in "Judgement Day" dies after drinking poisoned wine meant for another person.
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Midsomer Murders / int_35b090a3	type	Shared Family Quirks
Midsomer Murders / int_35b090a3	comment	Shared Family Quirks: One episode has Barnaby figure out two women are related when both use the same bizarre Malaproper despite not living near each other, just in time to save the Asshole Victim.
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Midsomer Murders / int_36c73fcf	type	It Always Rains at Funerals
Midsomer Murders / int_36c73fcf	comment	It Always Rains at Funerals: In "Four Funerals and a Wedding", it is raining heavily at the third eponymous funeral. So heavily that the rain washes away the dirt in the grave that is concealing the body of the next victim: the woman who was supposed to be officiating at the funeral service.
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Midsomer Murders / int_371fdcd1	type	Royal Bastard
Midsomer Murders / int_371fdcd1	comment	Royal Bastard: "Bantling Boy" features a very dark example that is the explanation for the episode's murders. Peter Craxton is secretly the child of the former Lord Hartley of Bantling Hall, who raped his mother while she was his carer. Due to Ray Craxton's career being in making weapons and armour for medieval reenactments, Peter grew up obsessed with everything medieval. Thus upon discovering the truth of his parentage, he was overcome both with a belief in his own genetic supremacy and with shame at what his medieval codes told him was the ultimate disgrace. Together with his unusually high intelligence led to him manipulated his mentally disabled uncle into killing everyone who knew his secret.
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Midsomer Murders / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
Midsomer Murders / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: Revealed just before the climax of "A Rare Bird".
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Midsomer Murders / int_3856d429	type	Shear Menace
Midsomer Murders / int_3856d429	comment	Shear Menace: In "The Made-to-Measure Murders", a large pair of tailor's scissors are used as the murder weapon.
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Midsomer Murders / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Midsomer Murders / int_38d02d44	comment	Will Green in "The Night of the Stag" is outright called this by the object of his lust, in a Batman Gambit the killer uses this as part of their plan.
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Midsomer Murders / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Midsomer Murders / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "Picture of Innocence", Liza Goddard guest stars as a character who partly drives the plot, but only actually appears in the last couple of minutes of the episode. She's someone who Tom Barnaby says he used to date, briefly, about 30 years ago. In The '80s, Liza Goddard had a recurring role opposite John Nettles in Bergerac as someone who had a flirtatious relationship with Jim Bergerac. In "The Axeman Cometh", Michael Angelis plays the drummer in blues rock band Hired Gun. In one scene, the band's singer (Suzi Quatro) scathingly calls him Ringo. Angelis took over as the narrator of Thomas & Friends from Ringo Starr, as they have very similar voices. Also, Michael Angelis' brother Paul provided the voice for Ringo in Yellow Submarine. In "Vixen's Run", the plot kicks off when elderly Sir Freddy Butler dies at dinner. Despite there being traces of strychnine in his system, the coroner rules natural causes as strychnine is an ingredient in heart medication and Sir Freddy was rather old, fat and drunk. Several other members of his family are killed over the course of the episode by Sir Freddy's first wife Lady Annabel, played by Sian Philips. When she's taken away by Barnaby in the police car at the end she says: In "Secrets and Spies", the murder takes place during a cricket match. One of the competitors in said match is Peter Davison, formerly the cricket-loving Fifth Doctor. Kenneth Colley, best known for playing Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars trilogy, guest stars in "Electric Vendetta" as a ufologist. Actors Tom Chambers, Natalie Gumede and Danny Mac, along with singer Fay Tozer were all previous finalists, and in Chambers case, a former champion, of Strictly Come Dancing. They all ended up playing dancers during the ballroom themed episode "Point of Balance."
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Midsomer Murders / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Midsomer Murders / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Dudley Carew in "Murder on St. Malley's Day". Properly Paranoid: There really is a secret and sinister purpose to the Pudding Club... just not the one he thinks.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Midsomer Murders / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: There really is a secret and sinister purpose to the Pudding Club... just not the one he thinks.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3b4a8714	type	Prongs of Poseidon
Midsomer Murders / int_3b4a8714	comment	Prongs of Poseidon: In "Small Mercies", the second Body of the Week is done in with a trident that was part of a Neptune costume.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3c3b5c27	type	Vehicular Assault
Midsomer Murders / int_3c3b5c27	comment	Vehicular Assault: In "Faithful Unto Death", the killer murders the first Victim of the Week by using their larger, more powerful car to force the victim's car to collide with a trailer full of logs, killing her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3d22397d	type	War Reenactors
Midsomer Murders / int_3d22397d	comment	War Reenactors: Given the event takes place in Midsomer, it should come as no surprise that the annual Civil War recreation in "The Dark Rider" results in murder.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Midsomer Murders / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In "The Oblong Murders", one killing was committed by loosening the gas line to the stove on a boat, causing the boat to fill with gas. The killer then called the victim as she arrived back on the boat, knowing that she always lit a cigarette while talking on the phone. Result: one 'accidental' explosion. In "Send in the Clowns", Terry Bellini is shot mid-performance with a hidden rifle, fired at just the right angle and time to give the illusion that Les Morrison accidentally killed him with a loaded gun during a prank Gone Horribly Wrong.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3f961b7b	type	Spice Rack Panacea
Midsomer Murders / int_3f961b7b	comment	Spice Rack Panacea: In "Sting of Death", a local apiarist claims to have cured his cancer through a regimen of honey and bee venom. He is now doing a thriving trade in selling honey and venom as an alternative medicine. It turns out he never had cancer. It was a misdiagnosis. However, by the time this was discovered, he was making too much money to come clean, so he paid off his doctors to keep quiet about it. The killer turns out to be someone whose mother had the same form of cancer and eschewed medical treatment in favour of the honey and venom and died.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3fa4ef91	type	Baby's First Words
Midsomer Murders / int_3fa4ef91	comment	Baby's First Words: In "Breaking the Chain", John and Sarah Barnaby spend the episode trying to get their daughter Betty to say her first word. John wants it to be "Dada" and Sarah wants it to be "Mama" but eventually Betty says "dog" instead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
Midsomer Murders / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: Inspector Barnaby and pretty much any other standard police detective in Midsomer county. Goes hand in hand with the very British attitude of Doesn't Like Guns. One episode has Scott Cracking Up on learning they're dealing with an annoying suspect. Barnaby stops the car and makes it very clear he won't tolerate that sort of behavior.
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Midsomer Murders / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
Midsomer Murders / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: In "Death and the Divas", it is revealed that when a younger sister had an illegitimate baby, her older married sister registered the baby as hers and raised the girl as her own.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Midsomer Murders / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Quite a few cases. Patricia Blackshaw in "The Black Book", for one.
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Midsomer Murders / int_40c4d32b	type	Pick a Card
Midsomer Murders / int_40c4d32b	comment	Pick a Card: In the episode "Ghosts of Christmas Past", a boy who wants to be a magician when he grows up does an actually-quite-clever version of the trick while being interviewed by Barnaby and Scott about the murder, and his explanation of how he did it (including the fact that he arranged matters to have his own choice of card come up at the end) inspires Barnaby's later "Eureka!" Moment.
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Midsomer Murders / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Midsomer Murders / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The movies in "Death and the Divas". Complete with wooden acting and poor effects. This is justified, as they were supposed to be low budget horror films from the late '60s and early '70s.
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Midsomer Murders / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Midsomer Murders / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: In "The Sleeper Under the Hill", a criminal hides a stolen painting on his wall, claiming that is a forgery of the famous painting.
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Midsomer Murders / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Midsomer Murders / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: If you know the alternate name for the profession or the character's nickname, it's no surprise who the killer in "The Axeman Cometh" is.
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Midsomer Murders / int_41d0640b	type	Hello, Attorney!
Midsomer Murders / int_41d0640b	comment	Hello, Attorney!: Rex Masters' solicitor in "The Animal Within" definitely played up to this, even if she was on the slightly more older side of the trope. She even let Rex take some sexy pictures of her for her husband.
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Midsomer Murders / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Midsomer Murders / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Good cop he may be, but Tom Barnaby isn't above occasionally snooping around a suspect's house without a warrant or overlooking relatively minor crimes in exchange for information in the interest of catching murderers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Midsomer Murders / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: The leader of the hippie commune in "Death in Disguise" originally started the place as a scam to fleece gullible new-agers. However, along the way he has started to truly believe in the ideas he is preaching - much to the chagrin of his less idealistic partner-in-crime.
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Midsomer Murders / int_45b850b7	type	Dead Animal Warning
Midsomer Murders / int_45b850b7	comment	Dead Animal Warning: In "Death in Chorus", artist Connor Simpson is shocked when a pig's heart is nailed to his cottage door. In "The Axeman Cometh", a campaign of harassment against Gary Cooper sees a dead sheep dumped on his tennis court, a gutted pig placed in his trout stream, and a skinned rabbit strung up in his garage. In "Breaking The Chain," the local village councillor is sent a pig's heart in the post. In "Till Death Do Us Part", the first Victim of the Week is being trolled by someone who is sending her dead animals with ribbons tied around their tongues. In "The Devil's Work", someone comes by the yurt. Jordana gets up and opens the door but doesnâ€™t see anyone. Then there is a knock on the door. Jordana looks outside and sees a wrapped package on the ground. It is a dead raven.
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Midsomer Murders / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
Midsomer Murders / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: "The Creeper", where the killers turn out to be a mother and daughter-in-law killing to protect a family secret. The murderers in "Point Of Balance"
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Midsomer Murders / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Midsomer Murders / int_469e3e2f	comment	The Gilbert and Sullivan episode "Prepare for Death" has characters named Phoebe, Phyllis and Katisha. The latter two are deliberately named In-Universe.
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Midsomer Murders / int_475b8ac0	type	Rope Bridge
Midsomer Murders / int_475b8ac0	comment	Rope Bridge: In "Dead Man's Eleven", a rope bridge across a mere is sabotaged to dump a group of walkers in the lake (although without murderous intent for once).
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Midsomer Murders / int_47929816	type	Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Midsomer Murders / int_47929816	comment	Lights Off, Somebody Dies: In "Written in the Stars", the Victim of the Week is part of a gathering observing a total eclipse. As the hill is plunged into total darkness by the eclipse, he is bashed over the head by a rock. A bystander screams as the sunlight returns and she sees the body.
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Midsomer Murders / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Midsomer Murders / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: One character immediately starts vomiting when she learns the guy she's been banging through the whole episode is actually her nephew. He doesn't really react to that, given that he also just learned he's the product of Brother-Sister Incest.
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Midsomer Murders / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Midsomer Murders / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Jones. Will anyone EVER treat him nicely? (Troy and Scott also received this treatment, but had a tendency to bring it on themselves.)
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Midsomer Murders / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
Midsomer Murders / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: "The Killings At Badgers Drift" in the very first episode whilst investigating a series of murders in the village, its established that the wealthy Henry Trace's first wife Bella died in a Hunting "Accident" two years previously. We're led to believe that she was killed by Phyliss Cadwell who was besotted with Henry in a moment of desperation. However, at the climax Inspector Tom Barnaby concludes that Phyliss's attempt failed, and Bella was actually murdered by the episodes killer who had their eye on Henry's money. "Death and Dreams" sees Inspector Barnaby investigating a series of garrotings which appear to tie to a respected local psychiatrist who provides support for ex criminals. It's eventually revealed the murders were committed by her three children as the individuals were taking away their mothers attention. It at first seems they were motivated by the death of their father, only for it turn out they murdered him as well for the same reason.
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Midsomer Murders / int_48e138e0	type	Footprints of Muck
Midsomer Murders / int_48e138e0	comment	Footprints of Muck: In "The Great and the Good", the murderer uses the schoolteacher's boots to plant muddy bootprints on her doorstep as part of a Gaslighting scheme to convince her that she might be the killer. Circumstances intervene to make the bootprints less effective than they might have been, but seeds of doubt are planted in her mind.
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Midsomer Murders / int_48f977b0	type	Magic Brakes
Midsomer Murders / int_48f977b0	comment	Magic Brakes: "Death and the Divas".
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Midsomer Murders / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Midsomer Murders / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Although the series has never shied away from depicting some spectacularly nasty murders, viewers are generally spared the worst of it. "The Sword of Guillaume", however, averts this trope to the point of horror.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4abd0b32	type	I'll Take Two Beers Too
Midsomer Murders / int_4abd0b32	comment	I'll Take Two Beers Too: The episode "Judgement Day" had Joyce (who's a judge in a Perfect Village competition) in a bar with a fellow judge who ordered two large whiskies and soda, then asked Joyce if she wanted anything.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Midsomer Murders / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: One particularly depressing episode saw a sweet-natured, ill-used suspect being cleared, only to realise that everyone she'd ever cared about or respected had been toying with her or manipulating her for their own ends. This destroys her sweet nature and turns her into an amoral Gold Digger, as she decides to Pay Evil unto Evil; everyone else was only out for themselves, so why shouldn't she take advantage of others?
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Midsomer Murders / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Midsomer Murders / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: In "Death of A Hollow Man", a father tries to take the blame for a murder after thinking that his son did it. The son had merely spread Vim on some cakes that the victim ate on stage.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4b7364d	type	Dead Man Honking
Midsomer Murders / int_4b7364d	comment	Dead Man Honking: Not dead but unconscious. The Teaser to "The Silent Land" ends with Joyce crashing her car. The scene fades to the credits with the horn blaring as Joyce slumps unconscious on the steering wheel. In "Death and the Divas", an attempted murder by cutting the victim's brake lines ends with the intended victim's face planted on the steering wheel and the horn blaring.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Midsomer Murders / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: In "Talking to the Dead", a dealer in stolen goods takes advantage of the reputation of the local woods for being haunted by playing eerie noises to keep the locals away on the nights when his deals go down.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4c2aa31	type	Historical Longevity Joke
Midsomer Murders / int_4c2aa31	comment	Historical Longevity Joke: Barnaby once asks his sergeant how old he thinks Barnaby is. He replies that he's done speed dating, not carbon dating.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4e40a927	type	Sleepwalking
Midsomer Murders / int_4e40a927	comment	Sleepwalking: In "The Great and the Good", the killer takes advantage of the local schoolteacher's sleepwalking, combined a little strategic Gaslighting, to make her believe she might be the murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
Midsomer Murders / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: In "Death in a Chocolate Box", a woman who was cuckolding her husband in a big way was doing it by getting arrested on a Friday night, and then having sex with police officers in the cells.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4f12c726	type	Decade-Themed Party
Midsomer Murders / int_4f12c726	comment	Decade-Themed Party: In "Dance With the Dead", the village of Morton Fendle is obsessed with the now disused WWII airfield based there. They hold a 1940s themed dance that the Barnabys and Jones attend.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Midsomer Murders / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Most the dead people in Midsomer. In some cases it's a miracle that they weren't murdered long before that episode.
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Midsomer Murders / int_4ff19e3d	type	Defenestrate and Berate
Midsomer Murders / int_4ff19e3d	comment	Defenestrate and Berate: "Ring Out Your Dead"
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Midsomer Murders / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Midsomer Murders / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Jane Rochelle's burns from "Judgement Day" are not a pretty sight, especially her hand.
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Midsomer Murders / int_51f336bf	type	Joggers Find Death
Midsomer Murders / int_51f336bf	comment	Joggers Find Death: In "Murder by Magic", the second Victim of the Week is discovered by one of the suspects out jogging in the woods.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5290f613	type	A FÃªte Worse than Death
Midsomer Murders / int_5290f613	comment	A FÃªte Worse than Death: In the episode "The Straw Woman".
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Midsomer Murders / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Midsomer Murders / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: In "Blood Wedding", the cryptic inscription 'Cast no sin here' Barnaby finds on the back of an old photo, is actually an anagram for Catherine's son.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Midsomer Murders / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Tom Barnaby's final episode ends with the new guy being called out on his first Midsomer murder investigation - in Badger's Drift, the location of the murder that started the series.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5353bf39	type	With This Ring
Midsomer Murders / int_5353bf39	comment	With This Ring: In "Schooled In Murder", John Barnaby buys a ring for his wife for their 15th anniversary. However, while distracted by Jones, he accidentally feeds the ring to his dog Sykes. He then has to fabricate reasons to keep the dog with him till he can, um, retrieve it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
Midsomer Murders / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: "Master Class": An elderly piano virtuoso takes a talented young girl under his wings. It turns out that she is secretly his daughter from an incestuous relationship, and that he wishes to conceive a genetically superior child with her to save Britain from degeneracy.
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Midsomer Murders / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
Midsomer Murders / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: The first Victim of the Week in "Death in Disguise" suffers Death by Falling Over after being shoved down a staircase during a struggle (although this was more-or-less an accident). The first Body of the Week in "Left for Dead" turns out to be a case of Accidental Murder; suffering Death by Falling Over after being shoved down a flight of stairs during an argument. The first victim in "Ghosts of Christmas Past" is given fatal injuries as a result of being pushed down the stairs, but her family believe it to be an accident. Since someone has already made threats to the family, Barnaby is certain it was murder. This happens to Joyce in "The Creeper" while chasing the titular burgular, although she obviously lives.
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Midsomer Murders / int_54fdbff5	type	The Eeyore
Midsomer Murders / int_54fdbff5	comment	The Eeyore: The Reverend Giles Shawcross in "The Sword of Guillaume".
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Midsomer Murders / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Midsomer Murders / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Troy is homophobic, and his language reflects it. Barnaby doesn't normally let such comments slide (and Troy is usually punished by the plot gods), but even he has his moments.
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Midsomer Murders / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Midsomer Murders / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: In one episode with a medieval fair/tourney.
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Midsomer Murders / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Midsomer Murders / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The way Dennis pronounces the word "Constable" in "The Killings at Badger's Drift" leaves no doubt as to what he means.
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Midsomer Murders / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
Midsomer Murders / int_56352cc6	comment	In "Sting of Death", the murderer commits a series of bee-themed murders. The first victim is stung to death by a swarm of bees; the second is coated in beeswax and turned into a human candle; and third is almost embalmed alive in honey.
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Midsomer Murders / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Midsomer Murders / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In "Faithful unto Death", a woman uses make-up to fake bruises and persuade her lesbian lover that her husband has been abusing her, and uses this to incite the lover into killing the husband.
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Midsomer Murders / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Midsomer Murders / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: In "Night of the Stag", a village leader wants to restart an ancient tradition where one night a year, the men of one village would descend on the neighbouring village and ravish the women, thereby ensuring genetic diversity in the villages. One of the women in the neighbouring village is very keen on the idea and says she will leave the door open for him. However, she is not happy when he ignores her and goes for her daughter instead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Midsomer Murders / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: Happens in an episode to Troy. Troy repays the favor at the end of the episode, preventing the murderer from escaping.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Midsomer Murders / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Sergeant Scott bemoans his transfer to Midsomer has ended him up in "the Sticks". After the conclusion of the case in "Secrets and Spies", one of the characters, an Obstructive Bureaucrat, is sent to the Arctic to monitor shipping traffic in the Northwest Passage.
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Midsomer Murders / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
Midsomer Murders / int_57ca867e	comment	Force Feeding: Used as a murder method in "The Lions of Causton". The second Victim of the Week is stunned, and then the killer pours molten chocolate down his throat until till he drowns.
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Midsomer Murders / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Midsomer Murders / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: "Dark Secrets" opens with a flashback to 1975 where a brother and sister are involved in an accident where their speeding car runs off the road and into the river; leaving them both trapped in the sinking car. This accident proves pivotal to several murders that take place 25 years later.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Midsomer Murders / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Rosemary from "Dance of the Dead" was in love with Carol. The murderer couldn't stand the sight of the murder victim being someone else, especially someone of the opposite sex. Unable to handle the heartbreak, the murderer attempted to carry out the opening murder by knocking the couple out, placing them in the car, and suffocate them with toxic fumes. She reveals as Tom is interrogating her that she brought Carol's body back to her house and buried it so that they were still together. It's implied during his first episode as Tom's replacement that John has a gay neighbor who was trying to pick him up. When John mentioned his wife would be moving into their new house in a few days, the neighbor laughs in embarrassment. It's unknown if John knew his neighbor was interested in him or was just being friendly.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Midsomer Murders / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: In "The Fisher King", a man had 'spread his seed far and wide' â€” you could hardly turn a corner without finding one of his bastards. One couple didn't meet until they were both in graduate school in Canada and got married, only later realizing they were half-siblings; she was totally squicked, he lost his mind at the thought of losing her and tried to 'fix' the problem through religion. He ends up killed by his "official" father for unrelated reasons. A character in "Dark Secrets" immediately vomits upon learning the employee she'd been having an affair with was her nephew, the nephew himself being the product of Brotherâ€“Sister Incest. Inverted in "The Creeper." A young man and woman who were childhood friends clearly like each other a lot, but haven't acted on their feelings — later explained by the fact, while they were raised separately, they believe they share a biological father. (Sort of a long story, but basically, his parents wanted to conceive but couldn't due to his father's sterility, so they came to an arrangement with her parents so her father would be the biological father, but his father would be on the birth certificate. The kids were told when they were old enough to understand.) But, perhaps unsurprisingly, secrets are revealed and it turns out they're not actually related after all. They both note that they're relieved, and share a smile and a final scene together that strongly hints at a Relationship Upgrade. In The Killings of Copenhagen, the son of one the victims is in love with his real half sister, who came to the town to met her real father. She does try and push him away knowing this, but after being questioned by the police she tells him. He is upset, but the problem was his fault not hers. In "For Death Prepare", a young woman and and young man became attracted and plan to leave their village and travel the world together. But one of the problems they face is the man's father actingly like he's creepily attracted to the woman while also trying to prevent his son from leaving with her. At the end, the father explains what's really going on: he once had an affair with the girl's mother nine months before she was born and he always wondered if he was her biological father. Once his son became attracted to her, the father broke into the local medical clinic to learn her blood type which ultimately confirmed his suspicions that he is indeed. Hence why he'd being trying to break up their relationship and also get to know her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Midsomer Murders / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In the Circus Episode "Send in the Clowns", viewers learns that DCI John Barnaby suffers from coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
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Midsomer Murders / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Midsomer Murders / int_5c219298	comment	In "Things That Go Bump in the Night", one of the suspects is a spirit medium whose assistant turns out to have been buying personal details about the recently deceased from someone at the local funeral home, and is dismissed by Barnaby as a Phony Psychic. However, she genuinely believes in her own gift (as does her assistant, who insists the cribbed details were just to help things along, not the whole story), and a scene at the end of the episode — which Barnaby misses — suggests that her spirit guide is real.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Midsomer Murders / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: "Blood Wedding" features attempted murder by mace, and the would-be victim grabbing a sword to defend himself.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5d9b8c3a	type	Femme Fatale Spy
Midsomer Murders / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Femme Fatale Spy: Alice Krige's character in "Secrets and Spies". Trained by MI6 to setup Honey Traps.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5e0776c3	type	Vapor Trail
Midsomer Murders / int_5e0776c3	comment	Vapor Trail: In "Crime and Punishment", the killer douses a barn in petrol and then leaves a trail of petrol leading away from the barn. The killer then ignites the trail to set fire to the barn.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5e4fa749	type	Crossdresser
Midsomer Murders / int_5e4fa749	comment	Crossdresser: Gerald Hadleigh from the series 1 episode "Written in blood".
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Midsomer Murders / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: Much of "Last Year's Model", takes place in a courtroom during the trial of woman who was arrested for murder the year before, as Barnaby starts to have serious doubts regarding her guilt.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
Midsomer Murders / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: In "Market for Murder" one of the victims receives a blow to the head in her pool. The police find her with clouds of red in the pool.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5f60aadd	type	Deadly Remote Control Toy
Midsomer Murders / int_5f60aadd	comment	Deadly Remote Control Toy: In "Shot at Dawn", a remote control toy car filed with explosives is run up alongside an old man in a wheelchair, although his friend manages to hurl it away before it explodes. The old man was actually the killer and was faking an attempt on his life to divert suspicion. As he had the remote control, he was sure not to detonate the bomb until it was well away from him. Not strictly speaking a toy, but in "Death by Persausion" one Victim of the Week is murdered when a remore control delivery drone drops a razor sharp carving knife on him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Midsomer Murders / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: At the start of "The Killings of Copenhagen", Sarah unfolds the instructions for assemble the crib; which just keeps unfolding till it reaches the floor.
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Midsomer Murders / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Midsomer Murders / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Heavily implied between the Rainbirds in the pilot. "Master Class": An elderly piano virtuoso takes a talented young girl under his wing. It turns out that she is secretly his daughter from an incestuous relationship, and that he wishes to conceive a genetically superior child with her to save Britain from degeneracy. Played with in "Death in the Slow Lane". A scene between Kate Cameron and her father, Peter Fossett, heavily implies they're sleeping together. They are, but he's not her real father, and they both know it. That said, he did raise her, so there's still the same unhealthy dynamic involved.
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Midsomer Murders / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Midsomer Murders / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: In "Dead in the Water", Barnaby is watching a pornographic video that was used to blackmail one of the suspects. Joyce walks in and asks him what he's watching. As he tells her, she starts tilting her head with her eyes glued to the screen. She then asks him if he fancies an early night. Also the footage of Jenny Frazer in "Secrets and Spies", going off Jones's facial reactions.
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Midsomer Murders / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
Midsomer Murders / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: In "The Creeper", the first Victim of the Week is an alcoholic writer (played by Rik Mayall) who falls off the wagon when his asshole publisher (and former friend) rejects his book idea, and the hands him a bottle of 65 year old brandy. He gets drunk, and several humiliations follow, ending in his murder. In "Night of the Stag", the fanatical leader of the local Dry Crusaders is a recovering alcoholic. He falls off the wagon hard when the local Hillbilly Moonshiner leaves him a jar of the local hooch: an exceptionally powerful brew known as 'the Beast'.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
Midsomer Murders / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: In "Wild Harvest", the first Victim of the Week is tied up in a forest, doused with truffle oil, and left to be gored to death by a wild boar
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Midsomer Murders / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
Midsomer Murders / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: While drinking bad coffee in "Down Among the Dead Men", Barnaby wonders if he is drinking coffee or silt.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Midsomer Murders / int_6163afd9	comment	Reliably Unreliable Guns: In "Down Among the Dead Men", two suspects are arguing over a shotgun when they slam it down on the floor and it goes off, blowing a hole in the ceiling. Particularly egregious as the gun in question is a Purdey, generally regarded as the finest shotguns ever made.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Midsomer Murders / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In "Faithful Unto Death", the wife of a local businessman is kidnapped. Her husband is sent photographs of her bound to a chair and looking bruised and battered along with ransom demands (and the usual exhortation not to contact the police). The wife is actually the mastermind of the scheme, and is using it to extract cash from her husband before he is murdered.
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Midsomer Murders / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Midsomer Murders / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: John Barnaby and the killer in "The Night of the Stag" have a glare off in the final showdown in Midsomer Herne.
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Midsomer Murders / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Midsomer Murders / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: A reoccuring trope where the now-grown bullies are targeted due to bullying a peer when they were children, as in "Left For Dead," when the bullies torment, beat and almost drown a boy who wanted to join their friend group. The villain in "Bantling Boy" manipulates his mentally-challenged uncle into three murders and tries to go for a fourth. The Moore siblings in "Death and Dreams" remorselessly murder four people, including their own father.
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Midsomer Murders / int_643060dc	type	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies
Midsomer Murders / int_643060dc	comment	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies: It seems every other episode opens with Barnaby getting dragged to his wife's latest hobby group. Given that the episode then reveals they're all a bunch of immoral murderers, adulterers and thieves, it's no wonder she ends up looking for a new one.
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Midsomer Murders / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Midsomer Murders / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: In "The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy", the Wolf Hunter costume worn by the murderer includes a glove mounted with a set of silver claws which they use to slash their victims.
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Midsomer Murders / int_654f1e92	type	Don't Come A-Knockin'
Midsomer Murders / int_654f1e92	comment	Don't Come A-Knockin': In "Country Matters", The Vicar confesses to meeting her (married) lover in his van in a field. Although she claims they were just talking, the flashback shows the van start rocking almost as soon as they get in.
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Midsomer Murders / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
Midsomer Murders / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: The first Victim of the Week in "The Curse of the Ninth" is a violinist who is strangled with one of his own violin strings. The second is a violist who has the strings of his viola covered in powered strychnine, causing him to inhale a lethal dose as he plays.
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Midsomer Murders / int_659235a4	type	Train Escape
Midsomer Murders / int_659235a4	comment	Train Escape: In "Death in a Chocolate Box", the killer attempts to escape from Barnaby by dashing across the railway tracks ahead of an oncoming train. They don't make it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Midsomer Murders / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: No season is longer than 5 episodes.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Midsomer Murders / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: In "The Stitcher's Society", the third Victim of the Week is killed when one barrel of his shotgun is stuffed with rags, causing it to backfire in face. The Coroner Fleur Perkins comments that there wasn't much left of his face afterwards.
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Midsomer Murders / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
Midsomer Murders / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: Jones gets pelted with tomatoes while he is is undercover in a cult in "The Oblong Murders".
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Midsomer Murders / int_675c2212	type	Axe Before Entering
Midsomer Murders / int_675c2212	comment	Axe Before Entering: The killer of the episode "Dark Autumn" attempted to cut through a door with a machete to get to his final victim, only for the victim to disarm him by hitting the blade. He, nevertheless, manages to get in the room, but is stopped by Barnaby and Troy before he can kill again.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Midsomer Murders / int_6774150c	comment	In "The Ballad of Midsomer County", the murderer turns out to be one for his wife. He was jealous of John Carver who she dated and killed him so that he would have her all to himself. Decades later, he killed three more men under the impression that they were trying to take his wife away from him. When he confronts her, he claims that all his actions were done to "protect" her. When she reveals that she was planning on leaving her husband of her own free will, he pointed his gun at her with intent to kill her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Midsomer Murders / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: In "Not In My Back Yard", the first Victim of the Week is done in with a broken bottle. In "Hidden Depths", the guy is tied down to the lawn while the murderer uses a small catapult to hurl filled bottles at him. His wife sees the whole thing and corrects the murderer's aim.
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Midsomer Murders / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Midsomer Murders / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: In "Death in a Chocolate Box", the murderer attempts to escape from Barnaby by hitting him while the car is stopped at a set of boom gates waiting for a train to pass. The murderer leaps out of the car and attempts to dash across the tracks ahead of the oncoming train. They don't make it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6895a65c	type	Paid-for Family
Midsomer Murders / int_6895a65c	comment	Paid-for Family: One episode has a woman paid by her clients to act as a loving wife.
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Midsomer Murders / int_691de918	type	Death by Looking Up
Midsomer Murders / int_691de918	comment	Death by Looking Up: In "The Dark Rider", one victim is lured outside his ancestral home and looks up just in time to see a gargoyle toppling on top of him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
Midsomer Murders / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table: Honoria Lyddiard from the first series episode "Written in Blood" still keeps the corpse of her dead brother Ralph Lyddiard in her house, despite him dying several years earlier of aids. Honoria's sister in law (and Ralph's wife) Amy is understandably horrified of this when she discovers it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Midsomer Murders / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: The murderer in "Murder on St. Malley's Day" turns out to use a giant decorative spoon as a bludgeoning weapon to crack open the skulls of his victims.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6a3a1dda	type	A Tale Told by an Idiot
Midsomer Murders / int_6a3a1dda	comment	A Tale Told by an Idiot: One episode has a character for whom fly-fishing is Serious Business, and explains in great detail why she was entirely justified in assaulting another person for doing it wrong. Poor Troy is stuck taking down her statement with a completely bewildered expression.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6a971d39	type	Tainted Tobacco
Midsomer Murders / int_6a971d39	comment	Tainted Tobacco: In "Happy Families", the first Victim of the Week is killed when the murderer spikes his vaping solution with a slow-acting poison.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6a9c9b41	type	Brats with Slingshots
Midsomer Murders / int_6a9c9b41	comment	Brats with Slingshots: In "With Baited Breath", the third Victim of the Week is done in with a projectile fired from a commercial fishing slingshot (normally used to fire bait into the water).
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Midsomer Murders / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Midsomer Murders / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: The first Victim of the Week in "Death in Disguise" dies after a Staircase Tumble. As does the first Victim of the Week in "Left for Dead".
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Midsomer Murders / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Midsomer Murders / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: In "Breaking the Chain", Barnaby is talking to a suspect who is on his mobile phone to one of the other suspects. The suspect turns to Barnaby and remarks that he heard sounds of struggle and then the phone went dead. Barnaby hurriedly races to the scene and arrives in time to save the next victim who has been left in a room that is filling with gas. In "The Village That Rose From the Dead", the third Victim of the Week is on the phone to his wife when the killer whacks him on the head with a length of wood. In "Death by Persuasion", one Victim of the Week has just worked out who the murderer is and is on the phone to his girlfriend when he is killed by a knife dropped from a drone.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Midsomer Murders / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Some of the murders have unbelievably ridiculous motives (to anyone but the murderers). One woman ends up killing three people because her driving drunk would bar her from joining the village social club for life. Another episode, "Picture of Innocence," has the local photography club divided into love and hate of digital photography. Both sides take every single opportunity they can find to disparage the other, making even the Hatedom Serious Business. Justified in "Small Mercies"; the murderess is mentally handicapped and fixated on the miniature village. She literally can't understand why it's not right to kill people for "messing it up".
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Midsomer Murders / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Midsomer Murders / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: One Posthumous Character named Roger fathered at least four children, only one of them legitimate. As Scott so tactfully puts it, "Roger by name and roger by nature".
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Midsomer Murders / int_6c0d7fbd	type	That Poor Plant
Midsomer Murders / int_6c0d7fbd	comment	That Poor Plant: In "Death in Disguise", Barnaby is given a cup of acorn coffee, which he surreptitiously tips into a plant. When he returns on a different day and is offered another cup, he declines, then comments to Troy that the plant looks a bit peaky.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Midsomer Murders / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: In "The Glitch", a vandal known as 'the Bucket Man' is attacking cars in a village and dumping paint mixed with glue over them. The murder pours paint over his last intended victim to try and make it look like the work of 'the Bucket Man'. Ironically, his intended victim was actually the real Bucket Man.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6d0c6ed6	type	Lead Police Detective
Midsomer Murders / int_6d0c6ed6	comment	Lead Police Detective: Inspector Barnaby, who eventually retires and passes the baton to Inspector Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Midsomer Murders / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: On several occasions, including the pilot, the murderer ends up offing themselves before Barnaby can arrest them.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Midsomer Murders / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: In "Vixen's Run", it's mentioned that Lord Freddy forbade his son to marry the housekeeper's daughter. Turns out he had a valid reason: she's also the illegitimate daughter of Freddy's brother, and her mother wanted it to stay a secret.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
Midsomer Murders / int_6e8b95dc	comment	Not dead but unconscious. The Teaser to "The Silent Land" ends with Joyce crashing her car. The scene fades to the credits with the horn blaring as Joyce slumps unconscious on the steering wheel.
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Midsomer Murders / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Midsomer Murders / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: In "The Magician's Nephew", which shares its title with the C. S. Lewis book of the same name one character is played by Ronald Pickup, who had voiced Aslan in the BBC adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Midsomer Murders / int_708614d3	type	Killer Outfit
Midsomer Murders / int_708614d3	comment	Killer Outfit: In "Till Death Do Us Part", the first Victim of the Week is murdered when the killer tightens the laces of the corset to the point where her chest cannot expand enough for her to breathe and she asphyxiates.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7104ae6a	type	Wrench Whack
Midsomer Murders / int_7104ae6a	comment	Wrench Whack: The first Body of the Week in "The Flying Club" is done in by a blow to the back of the head with a wrench.
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Midsomer Murders / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
Midsomer Murders / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: In "Last Year's Model", a sleazy music producer and his mistress are getting in on in the Jacuzzi, discussing how his wife is about to go to prison. They are interrupted by the doorbell. They soon realise that it's Barnaby and that he is not going to go away.
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Midsomer Murders / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Midsomer Murders / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: In "The Axeman Cometh", the second Victim of the Week is smothered with a pillow as he lies drunk in the back of his Cadillac. The killer then shoves the car into the swimming pool. The first Victim of the Week in "The Creeper". This instance is more realistic than many examples as the victim was drunk, drugged and there were two people holding the pillow over his face. In "Blue Herrings" a murder (the only one in the episode) is done with a pillow smothered over the victim's face as she is asleep. In "Judgement Day" the killer is mercy killed after being given a large quantity of sleeping pills and then suffocated with a pillow.
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Midsomer Murders / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Midsomer Murders / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: In "Midsomer Life", a brawl erupts in the local pub between a group of entitled out-of-towners and the locals who are sick of being patronized. Inspector Barnaby gets punched in the face while trying to break it up.
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Midsomer Murders / int_71ff7f0d	type	Cooked to Death
Midsomer Murders / int_71ff7f0d	comment	Cooked to Death: In "The Killings of Copenhagen'', the murderer attempts to kill their final victim by feeding them into the industrial oven in a bakery.
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Midsomer Murders / int_720e0c25	type	Grave Robbing
Midsomer Murders / int_720e0c25	comment	Grave Robbing: In "Habeus Corpus", the body of a dead man is stolen from his bed minutes after he is pronounced dead, and then the body of a woman who died five months previously is dug up and stolen from her grave.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7270820d	type	Javelin Thrower
Midsomer Murders / int_7270820d	comment	Javelin Thrower: In "Written in the Stars", the second Victim of the Week is done in with a thrown spear using a stolen Bronze Age spearhead; which is unusual even for Midsomer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Midsomer Murders / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: "Beyond the Grave", as well as "The Great and the Good".
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Midsomer Murders / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Midsomer Murders / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: In "Down Among the Dead Men", one of the suspects is a kleptomaniac cleaning woman who is being blackmailed by one of her clients. When Barnaby discovers her secret, she shows him a room crammed to the brim with objects she has stolen from her employers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Midsomer Murders / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: In "Hidden Depths", Barnaby and Scott get locked in a cellar where there is no cell reception.
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Midsomer Murders / int_75196a1d	type	Translation by Volume
Midsomer Murders / int_75196a1d	comment	Translation by Volume: Tom Barnaby once mentions that it used to be all you had to do to be understood by a foreigner: speak loudly and slowly or shout.
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Midsomer Murders / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
Midsomer Murders / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: In "The Ballad of Midsomer County", a murderer is accidentally Caught on Tape when he commits a murder in a recording studio; not realising that the victim had been recording at the time.
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Midsomer Murders / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Midsomer Murders / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Sergeant Troy is promoted and transferred up north. He returns for the episode "Blood Wedding". Similarly, Sergeant Scott goes on a Long Bus Trip — Barnaby mentions that he "called in sick" but the character is never heard from again. This was more a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. The actor playing Scott was ill and couldn't film one episode, and Jones was written in as what was meant to be a temporary replacement. However, when Scott's actor ended up seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia, it became obvious that he wasn't going to be able to return to finish the filming of that series, and thus Jones became a permanent character instead. Sgt. Jones leaves identically to Troy, with a promotion and transfer, but like Troy returns for the episode "Last Man Out." Sgt. Nelson is recruited for a long-term undercover operation.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7623e172	type	Corpse Temperature Tampering
Midsomer Murders / int_7623e172	comment	Corpse Temperature Tampering: "With Baited Breath": Following killing the third victim, the murder stashes their body within a freezer to disguise the time of death. Then using their stolen mobile phone, makes it appear they were still alive hours later whilst he was having dinner with Inspector Barnaby. It only falls apart when Doctor Fleur Perkins manages to use other methods to determine how long they were dead for.
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Midsomer Murders / int_766cf8e3	type	Beachcombing
Midsomer Murders / int_766cf8e3	comment	Beachcombing: In "Saints and Sinners", an archeological dig searching for the bones of a local saint is threatened by a group of detectorists camped in the next field looking to raid the site for the trove the saint was supposedly buried with.
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Midsomer Murders / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Midsomer Murders / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: In "The Dagger Club", the first two victims are electrocuted by booby-trapped roulette wheels. In "With Baited Breath", the first Victim of the Week is killed when an obstacle on an endurance trail that is set to give a mild electric shock is cranked to the maximum while he is in contact with it. In "A Tale of Two Hamlets" the second victim is electrocuted on his exercise bike.
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Midsomer Murders / int_77073274	type	Monster Protection Racket
Midsomer Murders / int_77073274	comment	Monster Protection Racket: In "Crime and Punishment", the neighbourhood watch in a remote village faces having its funding cut as crime has dropped 70%. The organizer of the watch bullies one of her subordinates into staging a series of burglaries so the watch can justify its continued existence.
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Midsomer Murders / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Midsomer Murders / int_771f6307	comment	A character in "Dark Secrets" immediately vomits upon learning the employee she'd been having an affair with was her nephew, the nephew himself being the product of Brotherâ€“Sister Incest.
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Midsomer Murders / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Midsomer Murders / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: A cricket bat is used as a murder weapon in "Dead Man's Eleven". Jones gets knocked out with a cricket bat in "Last Man Out", and the killer would have beaten him to death with it had Barnaby not showed up.
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Midsomer Murders / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Midsomer Murders / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: DS Nelson and Kate Wilding. They're best of friends, but Kate eventually worries she's stifling him and ships him with a junior policewoman.
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Midsomer Murders / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Midsomer Murders / int_786bf97f	comment	This was more a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. The actor playing Scott was ill and couldn't film one episode, and Jones was written in as what was meant to be a temporary replacement. However, when Scott's actor ended up seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia, it became obvious that he wasn't going to be able to return to finish the filming of that series, and thus Jones became a permanent character instead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Midsomer Murders / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In "Blood Will Out", the Victim of the Week (an Asshole Victim if ever there was one) is threatening to thrash the killer with his belt. The killer grabs the loaded shotgun that was laying on the desk to defend herself. The victim makes his final mistake by goading her that she doesn't have the guts to pull the trigger. Wrong.
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Midsomer Murders / int_79574c48	type	CrackingUp
Midsomer Murders / int_79574c48	comment	One episode has Scott Cracking Up on learning they're dealing with an annoying suspect. Barnaby stops the car and makes it very clear he won't tolerate that sort of behavior.
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Midsomer Murders / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Midsomer Murders / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: In "Country Matters", The Vicar confesses to meeting her (married) lover in his van in a field. Although she claims they were just talking, the flashback shows the van start rocking almost as soon as they get in.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Midsomer Murders / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: The Inkpen family in "Garden of Death", which had to sell their manor (which had been in the family since the reformation) 25 years earlier (but were able to buy it back five years before the episode). They got the money to buy back the manor from the father of a bishop, which (unknownst to the bishop) had a illegimate child with Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Midsomer Murders / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: "Picture of Innocence". The plot revolves around Digital vs Traditional Photography. Subverted in which both sets of photographers are as bad as each other.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Midsomer Murders / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: The second Victim of the Week in "Point Of Balance," who had served in Afghanistan, and lost a leg.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Midsomer Murders / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: DS Winter totally fails to get a Hamlet reference in "The Ghost of Causton Abbey":
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Midsomer Murders / int_7a32312a	type	Rain of Blood
Midsomer Murders / int_7a32312a	comment	Rain of Blood: A church bellringer starts pulling on a rope during bellringing practice, only to be splattered with blood dripping through the ceiling from the belfry.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7b086e53	type	Hatedom
Midsomer Murders / int_7b086e53	comment	Another episode, "Picture of Innocence," has the local photography club divided into love and hate of digital photography. Both sides take every single opportunity they can find to disparage the other, making even the Hatedom Serious Business.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
Midsomer Murders / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: In "The Curse of the Ninth", the first Victim of the Week (who is a classical violinist) rents a safe deposit box using the name of composer Anton Bruckner.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7c4ae6b0	type	Hot Librarian
Midsomer Murders / int_7c4ae6b0	comment	Hot Librarian: Sarah Sharp, the village librarian in "The Silent Land". She deliberately dresses to invoke this trope because she knows the effect it has on one particular man who is obsessed with her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Midsomer Murders / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: In "The Dogleg Murders", golf club steward and Loan Shark Eileen Fountain has two sons; her older son Colin is a groundskeeper, while her younger son Darren is a golf instructor. Eileen dreams of Darren being accepted as a full member of the golf club and dating the owner's daughter (to whom he is giving golf lessons), and has blackmailed most of the membership committee into approving his membership while she drills him in which cutlery he will be expected to use at the ceremonial dinner. Colin, however, is the Dumb Muscle in her loan organisation, and he is treated with utter contempt and fed beans on toast while Darren eats the sort of food he will have at the golf club.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Midsomer Murders / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: In "Schooled in Murder", Helen tells Jim she loves him right before they're both trampled to death.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7cf49932	type	Doomed Appointment
Midsomer Murders / int_7cf49932	comment	Doomed Appointment: In "The Noble Art", one of the suspects finds her flat broken in to and ransacked. She calls Barnaby and tells him she will tell everything about what is going on, but that she is too scared to stay in her flat, and arranges to meet Barnaby at the statue of a local boxer. As she hangs up, she hears someone entering the flat. Barnaby and Jones wait at the statue and, when she doesn't show up, go to her flat and find her dead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Midsomer Murders / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: In "Murder By Magic", one of the victims is shot with a revolver that is later stated to have had a sound suppressor on it to explain why no one heard the shot.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Midsomer Murders / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: DCI John Barnaby gives a very furious and very deserving one to Hayley Brantner during their confrontation in "Schooled in Murder":
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Midsomer Murders / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
Midsomer Murders / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: After an artist is murdered in "The Dagger Club", her dealer immediately triples the price of all of her artworks.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7e4b4b8a	type	Faking and Entering
Midsomer Murders / int_7e4b4b8a	comment	Faking and Entering: In "Drawing the Dead", the wife of one Victim of the Week discovered her husband's body and realised that her son had killed his father. She attempts to disguise the murder as a burglary gone wrong. Barnaby's "Eureka!" Moment comes when a witness describes hearing the sound of breaking glass after she heard the scream of the woman discovering the body.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Midsomer Murders / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: The method used by the murderer to dispose of his two victims in "The Great and the Good".
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Midsomer Murders / int_7e5b0184	type	Time-Delayed Death
Midsomer Murders / int_7e5b0184	comment	Time-Delayed Death: The second Victim of the Week in "Birds Of Prey" takes a couple of hours to die after being hit by a car. Initially, it looks like he will be fine as he manages to walk back to his house, only for him to die from internal bleeding in his sleep.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Midsomer Murders / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: In "Death's Shadow", the first Victim of the Week is decapitated by a single blow from an Indian sword. In "Midsomer Rhapsody" a motorcyclist is decapitated by a length of piano wire strung across the road at neck height. In "The Sword Guillaume", the first two victims are beheaded with a medieval longsword. In "They Seek Him Here", the first victim and second victim are killed with a guillotine.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Midsomer Murders / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: In "Sins of Commission", the co-conspirators in the Jezebelle Tripp hoax figure it'll be easy to kill nice old Camilla. They are very, very wrong.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Midsomer Murders / int_7eebe99c	comment	In "The Axeman Cometh", Jack 'Axeman' McKinley, who is The Alcoholic, avoids falling Off the Wagon when pressed into sharing a bottle of vodka to commemorate a fallen band mate by secretly pouring each glass into the plant beside him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
Midsomer Murders / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death
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Midsomer Murders / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Midsomer Murders / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Inverted when Tom reminisces on an unpleasant country club in "The Dogleg Murders":
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Midsomer Murders / int_80c1d538	type	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle
Midsomer Murders / int_80c1d538	comment	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: In "Shot at Dawn", the murderer uses remote control vehicles several times, either by crashing a vehicle the victim is in or using a vehicle to chase someone down.
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Midsomer Murders / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Midsomer Murders / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: A very convincing 'walt', claiming service in an elite unit in Afghanistan, appears in "The Point of Balance". A mistake concerning the nickname of helicopters, and not wearing a decoration he should have been entitled to, arouse the suspicion of a genuine veteran. Afraid of being exposed, and having his schemes exposed, the 'walt' blackmails an ally into killing the veteran for him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Midsomer Murders / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: In "Sting of Death", a milkman discovers the first Body of the Week, which is covered in bees, and drops the basket of milk bottles he is holding. The bottles shatter dramatically when the basket hits the ground.
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Midsomer Murders / int_816694e7	type	Body of the Week
Midsomer Murders / int_816694e7	comment	The first Body of the Week in "Left for Dead" turns out to be a case of Accidental Murder; suffering Death by Falling Over after being shoved down a flight of stairs during an argument.
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Midsomer Murders / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Midsomer Murders / int_816a4e80	comment	Kenneth Colley, best known for playing Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars trilogy, guest stars in "Electric Vendetta" as a ufologist.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Midsomer Murders / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Especially if she was a secret war hero.
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Midsomer Murders / int_823769b7	type	Night-Vision Goggles
Midsomer Murders / int_823769b7	comment	Night-Vision Goggles: In "The Christmas Haunting", the killer lures the person they intend to be their final victim into a set of caves, and then turns off the lights and dons a set night-vision so they can pick them off in the darkness. Nelso arrives and, realising what is happening, switches the lights back on, blinding the killer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_833d49b2	type	Broken-Window Warning
Midsomer Murders / int_833d49b2	comment	Broken-Window Warning: In "Send in the Clowns", one of the suspects receives a threatening note written in pig's blood tied to a brick and thrown through the window of their restaurant.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Midsomer Murders / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: On more than one occasion a member of the Barnaby family has been present for the discovery of a murdered body, if not discovered it themselves. That alone should have disqualified DCI Barnaby (both of them) from being involved the investigation, as a police detective working a case where their closest relatives are key witnesses would be a glaring conflict of interest, but this is almost never brought up. On the rare occasions it does come up, it ends up being glossed over, with the exception of "Painted in Blood" where it's used as justification to remove Barnaby from the case, while being treated as if this is an extremely harsh and over the top decision. While this improves in later series where they wear appropriate gear, multiple episodes have Barnaby and company walking around crime scenes and handling items without the protective clothing needed to avoid contamination and accidental destruction of evidence, which would effectively render it worthless and inadmissable in court. This is perhaps particularly hilarious when they arrive on a scene where their colleagues are already suited up only to go trapsing over themselves unprotected. Maybe George told Tom eventually to stop doing it! Several times during his run, Tom Barnaby and his sergeants break into a suspect's house without a search warrant to go snooping around. Even when they're caught in the act by the irate suspect in question, they're never suggested to face any consequences for this breach of procedure, despite the fact that it's illegal in the UK unless it can be proven that waiting for a warrant would allow the suspect to remove or destroy evidence.
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Midsomer Murders / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Midsomer Murders / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Chief Superintendent John Cotton, coupled with Beware the Nice Ones. Or vice versa. Olivia Dent in "Dressed to Kill," forced to compromise hither and yon. She did it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Midsomer Murders / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Dudley Carew in "Murder on St. Malley's Day" is a Conspiracy Theorist who believes that there's a secret and sinister purpose behind the Pudding Club at the Devington School, claiming they're an Illuminati-esque group responsible for murder and mayhem on a global scale. He's right about there being a sinister purpose, alright, but it's nothing so grand as that: it's art-smuggling under a guise of diplomatic immunity.
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Midsomer Murders / int_850efb04	type	Cloth Fu
Midsomer Murders / int_850efb04	comment	Cloth Fu: The first Victim of the Week in "The Point of Balance" dies when their killer shoves a length of tulle in their mouth during a struggle: causing them to choke and triggering a fatal heart attack.
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Midsomer Murders / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
Midsomer Murders / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: Father Behan in "A Sacred Trust". Being Catholic, however, does not spare him from the same fate as so many of his Anglican counterparts.
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Midsomer Murders / int_860b267a	type	Kinky Spanking
Midsomer Murders / int_860b267a	comment	Kinky Spanking: There is an episode where three women offer specific roleplaying sex scenarios, one of which involves the woman finding the guy in her stables and deciding to punish the thief then and there with her riding crop. Crosses over with Comedic Spanking when Barnaby finds a client while holding the crop. The client, unaware the dominatrix is unavailable due to the murder investigation, sees nothing wrong and bends over, giggling all the while.
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Midsomer Murders / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Midsomer Murders / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Cully's husband, Simon, is rarely seen or heard from after their wedding.
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Midsomer Murders / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Midsomer Murders / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Tom Barnaby goes through a few of these. Including one where a police inspector (married to a former sergeant) singlehandedly arrested an old lord for bashing his wife's head in, then quit the force to become a psychologist and attempt to rehabilitate the murderer. Except she'd killed the wife (who'd been sleeping with her husband) and pinned it on the lord, then killed the people who might have brought the matter back up: a blackmailer and her husband, who had slept with the lord's wife while she was in the cells... Another episode had Barnaby's favourite band at the centre of a series of murders. Needless to say, by the time the case was closed, he wasn't so keen on the band any more. In one episode, he meets a retired cop. They hit it off so well Tom starts taking his advice when looking into buying a new home, to Jones' consternation. So of course, it turns out the guy was a human trafficker.
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Midsomer Murders / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
Midsomer Murders / int_86f2d483	comment	Frying Pan of Doom: In "Sins of Commission", an intruder in the hall is knocked out by the housekeeper wielding a frying pan. In "Last Year's Model", the Victim of the Week is murdered by being bludgeoned to death with a heavy saucepan.
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Midsomer Murders / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Midsomer Murders / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "Ghosts of Christmas Past", Jerkass Digby lights a cigar from one the candles on the dinner table as a taunt at one of the other guests who is not allowed to smoke.
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Midsomer Murders / int_87af3e94	type	Start to Corpse
Midsomer Murders / int_87af3e94	comment	Start to Corpse: Extremely varied, with some episodes starting with a murder (Death of a Hollow Man) and others taking almost 45 minutes before anybody is murdered (Faithful unto Death).
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Midsomer Murders / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Midsomer Murders / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Regularly, especially in upper-class families where the Heir Club for Men is in effect. A particularly sad example is the family in "Habeas Corpus," where the mother clearly favours her son over her daughter...to the point that she let her daughter blame herself for her father's life-changing climbing accident when he scaled a rope to rescue her after she froze up...despite knowing that her son had deliberately greased the rope to sabotage his sister in a climbing race they often ran. She wails that he couldn't possibly have known the consequences of his actions, and didn't want him to live with that guilt, or for his sister to hate him. Instead, she lets her daughter live with the self-loathing and give up her beloved climbing hobby as a result. Everyone present at this confession is thoroughly disgusted with her. Another sad example is "Garden of Death", where Hilary, the illegitimate daughter of the Inkpen family (who was given up for adoption) is treated like a servant by the other members of the family, including her half-sister. Turns out they only brought her back into the family to use her DNA to blackmail her wealthy paternal grandfather, who wouldn't want people finding out his son had fathered an illegitimate child. When Hilary found out, she snapped and started wiping out the Inkpens in revenge.
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Midsomer Murders / int_88a5b2e6	type	Circle of Standing Stones
Midsomer Murders / int_88a5b2e6	comment	Circle of Standing Stones: In one episode, the (first) Victim of the Week is found in a stone circle. A local Druid sect that uses it as a holy place is quickly suspected.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
Midsomer Murders / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: A dismembered body is placed in a wicker hamper and left in a railway station in "Echoes of the Dead". In "With Baited Breath", the body of the third Victim of the Week is found stuffed into a chest freezer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8a677d70	type	Naked Apron
Midsomer Murders / int_8a677d70	comment	Naked Apron: "Destroying Angel". Barnaby arrives to question a middle-aged, male suspect only to find him doing a spot of baking wearing nothing but an apron.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Midsomer Murders / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: In Strangler's Wood Troy questions a South American maid in Spanish - much to Barnaby's surprise.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8b13fbc9	type	Inescapable Net
Midsomer Murders / int_8b13fbc9	comment	Inescapable Net: In "A Rare Bird", the killer uses birding nets to entangle his first two victims before killing them. Justified as birding nets have a very fine, almost unbreakable mesh, and the killer only needs them to hold long enough for him to deliver the killing blow/shot.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8b3e2519	type	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands
Midsomer Murders / int_8b3e2519	comment	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands: Many an episode features characters whom Barnaby has known for years, but whom the audience has never seen before and for the most part will never see again.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8bce92b0	type	Buzzing the Deck
Midsomer Murders / int_8bce92b0	comment	Buzzing the Deck: Done with murderous intent in "The Flying Club". The murderer is flying a light plane and chases the second Victim of the Week, who is on the ground. The murderer buzzes him low enough to strike his head with the landing gear of the plane, killing him. During the Motive Rant at the end, Barnaby acknowledges it was an exceptional piece of flying.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8be2ef8d	type	Grammar Correction Gag
Midsomer Murders / int_8be2ef8d	comment	Grammar Correction Gag: In "Death and Dust", a woman (a retired English teacher) receives an anonymous note, warning her about her fiancÃ©'s past affairs. The note turns out to be from her children who do not want her to remarry. When she finds out, she delivers a stinging response that ends with:
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Midsomer Murders / int_8c52888c	type	What a Drag
Midsomer Murders / int_8c52888c	comment	What a Drag: One victim in "Blood on the Saddle" is killed by being lassoed and dragged along behind a horse.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
Midsomer Murders / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: The victim in "Judgement Day" was sleeping with at least three different women (one of whom was paying him for it) until he got pitchforked through the chest in the first five minutes. He was also a petty thief and a vandal with a serious attitude problem, so there are plenty of suspects.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Midsomer Murders / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Relatives of two characters from "The Killings At Badger's Drift" appear in "Dead Letters", played by the same actors.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8ea29181	type	Raised Hand of Survival
Midsomer Murders / int_8ea29181	comment	Raised Hand of Survival: As the first Victim of the Week is being Buried Alive in "Saints and Sinners", her hand thrusts up through the earth in a desperate attempt to escape. But it is a futile gesture, and the hand collapses even as the next scoopful of earth buries her completely.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Midsomer Murders / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	The truly unfortunate cases, though, are the ones where the murderer goes after the Asshole Victim's (usually but not always) innocent family instead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8ee710e7	type	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
Midsomer Murders / int_8ee710e7	comment	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: In the backstory for "Death in a Chocolate Box", this led to Lord Holm's arrest for murder. Finding his wife dead, he picked up the murder weapon and was immediately arrested by the police officer who committed the murder. He was confused enough that he allowed himself to be convinced that he had committed the crime and then blacked it out.
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Midsomer Murders / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Midsomer Murders / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: In "Death in Disguise", Barnaby is puzzled by how the Victim of the Week was stabbed while all of the suspects were on the other side of the room. After a "Eureka!" Moment while watching a game of darts, he realises the victim was killed with a thrown knife, and then learns that one suspect had been a knife-thrower in a circus.
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Midsomer Murders / int_901bb4c3	type	Suspiciously Prescient Planning
Midsomer Murders / int_901bb4c3	comment	Suspiciously Prescient Planning: In a season 2 episode, while investigating the Victim of the Week's murder, Barnaby learns that the Asshole Victim in question had a rough relationship with his stepdaughter, who'd been hoping to move to New York for a while to get away from him but lacked the funds. Later into the investigation, the stepdaughter announces she'll be going to Milan instead and that her flight's tomorrow. Barnaby soon realizes that she must be the culprit: she wouldn't suddenly change her longstanding plans to move to the States unless she was trying to leave the UK to avoid being arrested and needed somewhere that wouldn't require her to go through the lengthy process of arranging visas.
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Midsomer Murders / int_90c70630	type	Fatal Method Acting
Midsomer Murders / int_90c70630	comment	Fatal Method Acting: In "Death of a Hollow Man" the actor playing Salieri in a production of Amadeus accidentally cuts his own throat when the prop razor he was supposed to use is switched out for a real one backstage. For extra irony, Salieri in the play survives having his throat cut. invoked
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Midsomer Murders / int_912714cc	type	Edible Bludgeon
Midsomer Murders / int_912714cc	comment	Edible Bludgeon: In "Schooled in Murder", the first Victim of the Week is pinned beneath a set of shelves and has a large wheel of cheese dropped on her head.
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Midsomer Murders / int_91b55fe	type	Pop-Star Composer
Midsomer Murders / int_91b55fe	comment	Pop-Star Composer: Famous English folk singer Seth Lakeman wrote the titular song in "The Ballad of Midsomer County". It was even available to download at one point.
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Midsomer Murders / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
Midsomer Murders / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Shows up a few times, whether as "sleeping up the ladder" or actual romance.
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Midsomer Murders / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Midsomer Murders / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: After appearing regularly from Series 9 onwards, Jones left after the end of Series 15, but he made a guest appearance in "Last Man Out", the third episode of Series 19. After appearing regularly throughout the first six series, Troy was seen leaving in the first episode of Series 7, but he made a brief guest appearance at the end of "Blood Wedding", the second episode of Series 11. Detective Poulsen, who appeared in "The Killings of Copenhagen," also reappeared in "Death of Small Coppers."
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Midsomer Murders / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Midsomer Murders / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nonlethal variation: The wife of an aristocrat has been cheating on him with his brother, and several murder victims were trying to tell him this. Once the murderer (the husband, who truly loved her to the point of not wanting people to reveal her affairs) is caught, the brother is eager to continue the relationship in the open, only to be told that she's now very rich, and has no intention of going down in rank.
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Midsomer Murders / int_92c112f7	type	Bitter Almonds
Midsomer Murders / int_92c112f7	comment	Bitter Almonds: In "The Village That Rose From the Dead", the second Victim of the Week is murdered by being forced to drink from a cyanide-laced flask. Barnaby, Winter and Kam all notice the smell of bitter almonds.
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Midsomer Murders / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Midsomer Murders / int_930e1bd4	comment	Absurdly High-Stakes Game: In "The Dagger Club", The Gambling Addict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts, and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.
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Midsomer Murders / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Midsomer Murders / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: In "Send in the Clowns", Midsomer is terrorized by sightings of a scary looking clown roaming the streets carrying a bunch of balloons (or a lollipop) in one hand, and a machete in the other.
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Midsomer Murders / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Midsomer Murders / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: In "Night of the Stag", Barnaby has to talk down an angry mob that the murderer has whipped into a frenzy and is sending to kill Barnaby and Jones. By revealing the murderer's true motivation for the crimes, he is able to buy enough time to regain control of the situation. One episode has a bunch of ex-military thugs brought in by a local landowner to scare Irish Travellers off the village commons. Barnaby is warned in time and points out that what they are doing is highly illegal, and threatens to have an Armed Response Unit sent in. The goons back off and Barnaby later tells an admiring Troy that Midsomer doesn't have such a unit.
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Midsomer Murders / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Midsomer Murders / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: Provides the motive for murder in "Death's Shadow". A group of schoolboys decide to haze an unpopular boy who wanted to join their gang by making him undergo an initiation. They make him stand on a rickety chair, blindfolded, with his hands tied behind his back and a noose round his neck. They then leave him for hour, planning to make him think they had abandoned him and panic. However, when they return, they discover he has fallen off the chair and slowly strangled. They remove the blindfold and untie his hands so it looks like he committed suicide. Decades later, these events will come home to roost...
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Midsomer Murders / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Midsomer Murders / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: A classic example is Sam Quested the main killer, in "Night of the Stag". He has the thinnest veneer of Affably Evil charm.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Midsomer Murders / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Barnaby manages to pull off this trope from time to time. One notable instance occurs in the Series 7 episode "Sins of Commission".
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Midsomer Murders / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Midsomer Murders / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Most of the nobility/very old established families are complete assholes, more obsessed with their lineage and money than with murders.
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Midsomer Murders / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Midsomer Murders / int_970c790a	comment	One of the murders in Night of the Stag is the murder of St Thomas Becket in all but name. The episode's Big Bad even orders the killing by asking his two henchmen "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"
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Midsomer Murders / int_972142db	type	Headless Horseman
Midsomer Murders / int_972142db	comment	Headless Horseman: In "The Dark Rider", a character masquerades as the headless horseman from local legend in order to frighten the aristocrats.
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Midsomer Murders / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Midsomer Murders / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: The killer in "The Stitcher's Society" really takes the cake, blaming everything on the man she was attempting to frame. When Baranaby arrests her, she says that if her fall guy had just been found guilty and gone to prison like she planned, then she wouldn't have had to murder all of those other people, so the whole thing is really his fault if you think about it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_977ddbc	type	The Upper Crass
Midsomer Murders / int_977ddbc	comment	The Upper Crass: A modern, realistic example: in the season 13 episode "The Noble Art", Gerald Farquaharson is the local lord of the manor, but (in stark contrast to almost all other gentry in the series) he is an affable man of the people with no pretentiousness or interest in status who loves nothing more than gambling and boxing, while trying to do what is right by the people of the village.
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Midsomer Murders / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Midsomer Murders / int_97aaa7f3	comment	Subverted in the episode "Second Sight" when Barnaby shows up one family of faking ESP but then members of a different family in the village are shown to be able to predict many things that come to pass. The fact that this psychic talent seems to be In the Blood helps solve the parentage of one of the murder victims.
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Midsomer Murders / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
Midsomer Murders / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: The third Victim of the Week in "Let Us Prey" is shackled to a bed and then impaled by a falling chandelier.
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Midsomer Murders / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Midsomer Murders / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: A plot point - and the motive - in Vixen's Run.
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Midsomer Murders / int_99301367	type	Trust-Building Blunder
Midsomer Murders / int_99301367	comment	Trust-Building Blunder: DCI Tom Barnaby's (predictable) contempt towards team-building exercises is on display in "Days of Misrule" when he is forced to go on one by the new chief superintendent. Hilarity Ensues.
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Midsomer Murders / int_997bd551	type	Home Nudist
Midsomer Murders / int_997bd551	comment	Home Nudist: One such person appears in an episode, to Barnaby's surprise and Troy's horror. Then it turns out the guy is an outdoor nudist as well, which compromised the murderer's plans as he thought he'd been spotted
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Midsomer Murders / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Midsomer Murders / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: In "Midsomer Rhapsody", a piano wire is strung across a road at head height and decapitates a motorcyclist.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Midsomer Murders / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Some murderers have a dark sense of humour in addition to a malicious streak, so many victims are killed either by what they loved, or what they had used to torment others.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Midsomer Murders / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: In "A Dying Art", the killer places the bodies of their victims as parts of sculptures on display in a sculpture park.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Midsomer Murders / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Some. Though everybody's depraved, so it's kind of hard to tell...
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Midsomer Murders / int_9cfe57cf	type	Idyllic English Village
Midsomer Murders / int_9cfe57cf	comment	Idyllic English Village: The titular county of Midsomer is filled with numerous villages, perhaps most famously Badgers Drift, all of which invoke this trope to varying degrees. The series overall severely plays with the image, as this idyllic front is usually presented as merely a cover for hotbeds of corruption and petty rivalries, which often result in numerous murders.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Midsomer Murders / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In episode one of series 2, a minor character, Miss Beauvoisin, works as an assistant at an estate agents. In a later episode she turns up, having taken over the business. By later series, every time someone is selling their house and a sales board is put up, it's for the Beauvoisin Estate Agent. In "The Death of the Small Coppers", one of the suspects is listening to "The Ballad of Midsomer County"; the folk song at the centre of the episode of the same name. In fact this is one of many continuity nods in this episode; others include a delivery man delivering the magazine Midsomer Life and on the pub wall a print of one of the paintings from the episode "The Black Book".
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Midsomer Murders / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
Midsomer Murders / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: In "Happy Families", one suspect is the Victim of the Week's Beleaguered Assistant, who has been commiting fraud by charging extravagant purchases to his boss's corporate credit card, knowing that his boss never checks the statements. However, an insurance company check about why a purchased item was not showing up on the policy threatens to expose him, thereby giving him a motive for murder.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9fa4bb34	type	Hillbilly Moonshiner
Midsomer Murders / int_9fa4bb34	comment	Hillbilly Moonshiner: The British equivalent (yokel moonshiner?) appears in "Night of the Stag", brewing a particularly potent hooch known as 'the Beast'.
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Midsomer Murders / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Midsomer Murders / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: In â€œBlood On The Saddleâ€� Susan Fincher seduced Adam Burbage, taking advantage of his love of Westerns and the Old West meaning that he secretly owned and knew how to use several illegal guns, to murder her husband and anyone else who stood in her way of gaining the disputed land in Ford Forley; planning to simply have Adam take the fall. However, she underestimated how unstable Adam was, thus upon realising sheâ€™s betrayed him Adam turns up intending to kill her next. Sheâ€™s only saved by the intervention of Inspector Barnaby and Sergent Jones.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Midsomer Murders / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Much of the action of "The Silent Land" centres around a supposedly haunted abandoned TB hospital.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Midsomer Murders / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: In "The Oblong Murders", a woman walks in on Jones while he is in the shower and is obviously enjoying the view. He hurriedly grabs a washcloth to cover himself.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
Midsomer Murders / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: "Secrets and Spies"
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Midsomer Murders / int_a19e2ff0	type	Little Dead Riding Hood
Midsomer Murders / int_a19e2ff0	comment	Little Dead Riding Hood: In "The Ghost of Causton Abbey", Barnaby is reading Little Red Riding Hood to his daughter. As he reads, the scene cuts to a female suspect wearing a long red scarf/cape being stalked by the murderer through the overgrown gardens of the abbey at night. Barnaby's narration of the story continues over the top of the action as the woman is killed.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Midsomer Murders / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The killer in "A Vintage Murder" has this reaction when she finds out who really killed her daughter in a hit-and-run, meaning she murdered two innocent people.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Midsomer Murders / int_a1d70162	comment	In "Send in the Clowns", Terry Bellini is shot mid-performance with a hidden rifle, fired at just the right angle and time to give the illusion that Les Morrison accidentally killed him with a loaded gun during a prank Gone Horribly Wrong.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Midsomer Murders / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In "Market for Murder", the password on the Reading Group's secret share market account is 'Gerald'; the name of the late husband of the group's founder (whom she could not go five minutes without mentioning in conversation). Somewhat more acceptable than normal, given that she was borderline obsessed with his memory and probably could not help herself in using his name as her password.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
Midsomer Murders / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: Every single episode involves Barnaby and his sergeant having a pint. Gotta wonder if they might solve the mysteries faster if they weren't perma-buzzed...
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Midsomer Murders / int_a46881f2	type	Believer Fakes Evidence
Midsomer Murders / int_a46881f2	comment	Believer Fakes Evidence: In "The Incident at Cooper Hill" had the local UFO enthusiast (and murder victim) plant evidence because he just wanted other people to believe as he did (his murder had nothing to do with the UFO thing).
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Midsomer Murders / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In "Send in the Clowns", things take a gruesome turn when Ferabbees Circus comes to town, bringing with it a chain of sinister clown sightings, threatening notes and deathly dangerous circus acts.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a5c56581	type	IKnowKungFu
Midsomer Murders / int_a5c56581	comment	I Know Kung Fu: A particularly silly example occurs in "Death in a Chocolate Box". Barnaby and Jones enter a room to find the elderly Lord Holm assaulting a woman. Lord Holm drops in a boxing stance:
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Midsomer Murders / int_a5fa9313	type	Faked Kidnapping
Midsomer Murders / int_a5fa9313	comment	Faked Kidnapping: In "Faithful Unto Death"
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Midsomer Murders / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Midsomer Murders / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: At least two episodes have had children as the murderer (though one just masterminded the whole thing using his mentally-retarded uncle to do the killing).
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Midsomer Murders / int_a66b0789	type	Fingertip Drug Analysis
Midsomer Murders / int_a66b0789	comment	Fingertip Drug Analysis: In "Happy Families", Winter tests a bottle of poison he finds in the kitchen by dipping his finger it and touching it to his tongue. It turns out to be a prop for the murder mystery game that was supposed to be played at the party.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a73c667a	type	Captivity Harmonica
Midsomer Murders / int_a73c667a	comment	Captivity Harmonica: A flashback in "Death in a Chocolate Box" to when the second Victim of the Week was in prison shows him playing the harmonica. When his new probation officer (the first Victim of the Week) enters, he pays a mocking note.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
Midsomer Murders / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: In "The Great and the Good", the first victim of the week is a peeping tom who is spying on the attractive local schoolteacher. As his turns out, his voyeurism is only tangentially connected to the reason for his murder, but it does serve as a useful Red Herring.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Midsomer Murders / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: A highly successful and kind-hearted psychiatrist is oblivious to the fact that all three of her children are sociopathic, gleeful serial killers who murdered her husband (their own father) because they wanted her all to themselves, and hated him for wanting to spend time alone with her. They repeat the process for anyone they deem is getting too friendly with their mum - including Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
Midsomer Murders / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: In "Crime and Punishment", it's revealed that Frank was killed because of his abusive nature towards Maxine. Barbara couldn't stand seeing her friend getting hurt by Frank and chose to run him over with her husband's car.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Midsomer Murders / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: In "Drawing Death", the first Victim of the Week is a woman in a coma. The murderer enters her room and shuts off her life support. When the victim awakes and sits up, the murderer finishes the job by shoving a comic book down her throat, choking her to death.
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Midsomer Murders / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Midsomer Murders / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: A common trait among the gentry and "old families" of Midsomer County. In one episode, one such gentleman brushes off accusations of conspiracy to commit murder by saying that, as a scion of England's old wealthy families, "we make our own rules." (And he has nothing on the episode's murderer.)
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Midsomer Murders / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Midsomer Murders / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability
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Midsomer Murders / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Midsomer Murders / int_aaf19fae	comment	Inspector Barnaby and pretty much any other standard police detective in Midsomer county. Goes hand in hand with the very British attitude of Doesn't Like Guns.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Midsomer Murders / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: In "The Glitch", Tom steals the murder weapon (a rally car) in order to get to where the killer is about to strike next as fast as possible.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
Midsomer Murders / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: The series is famous for its ridiculously high murder rate (even for a detective series). Depending on population estimates, the rural county of Midsomer has a crime rate beaten only by a few countries. At least once a character managed to survive being involved in one case... only to get murdered when he gets involved in a second case a few years later.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ab8bc2fe	type	Agents Dating
Midsomer Murders / int_ab8bc2fe	comment	Agents Dating: It has a Running Gag around this: every time Sergeant Jones goes out for dinner with his officer girlfriend, Barnaby (either the old one or the new one) calls him because there's been a development in the case, usually another murder. Apparently the Running Gag of Tom Barnaby's "Eureka!" Moment striking whenever he's out with his wife is contagious.
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Midsomer Murders / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Midsomer Murders / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: They run into quite a few of these, as is the standard in a British mystery, nearly all of whom are Upper-Class Twits - or the murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_abfa92a3	type	Jack the Ripoff
Midsomer Murders / int_abfa92a3	comment	Jack the Ripoff: In the episode "Echoes of the Dead", Barnaby recognises the murders as recreations of famous murders of the early 20th century, except for the last one, which he's not able to place. When the murderer is caught, Barnaby asks about it, and the murderer shrugs and says, "I was in a hurry and I couldn't think of anything".
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Midsomer Murders / int_aca54dad	type	Discreet Drink Disposal
Midsomer Murders / int_aca54dad	comment	Discreet Drink Disposal: Barnaby does this with a cup of acorn coffee in "Death in Disguise". Leads to a That Poor Plant moment. In "The Axeman Cometh", Jack 'Axeman' McKinley, who is The Alcoholic, avoids falling Off the Wagon when pressed into sharing a bottle of vodka to commemorate a fallen band mate by secretly pouring each glass into the plant beside him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ad902899	type	Constructive Body Disposal
Midsomer Murders / int_ad902899	comment	Constructive Body Disposal: In "Red in Tooth & Claw", the killer attempts to bury his final victim (while still alive) in the concrete being poured for the foundation of a new heating oil tank, but is stopped by Barnaby and Winter. In "Garden of Death", the body of a woman killed five years earlier is found buried in a Memorial Garden (which was under construction at the time of the murder).
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Midsomer Murders / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Midsomer Murders / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Barnaby's are this, at times. In "Midsomer Life", the village of Midsomer Sonning is full of these.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ae5ab58b	type	Luck-Based Search Technique
Midsomer Murders / int_ae5ab58b	comment	Luck-Based Search Technique: In "Faithful Unto Death", Troy is searching an attic when backs into a wall, and falls straight through the secret door he was searching for.
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Midsomer Murders / int_aec9eb4a	type	Fictional Province
Midsomer Murders / int_aec9eb4a	comment	Fictional Province: The show is set in the fictional Midsomer County.
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Midsomer Murders / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Midsomer Murders / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: In the episode "The Killings of Copenhagen", the murderer is the daughter of the real creator of the Calder Cookie Factory's most famous creation. They felt that their mother had been bought out and never received the fame and fortune that was deserved. However, after the creative director confesses that it's the truth and is spared being the fifth victim, he drops the best bombshell ever: her mother had given her daughter a job for life, for a loved one's future was more important. Upon hearing this, the murderer realised their terrible mistake.
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Midsomer Murders / int_aed924dc	type	You Do Not Have to Say Anything
Midsomer Murders / int_aed924dc	comment	You Do Not Have to Say Anything
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Midsomer Murders / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Midsomer Murders / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Barnaby, flustered after seeing his ex-Sergeant in "Last Man Out," calls Winter 'Jones' by mistake.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b063ec7d	type	Skeleton Key Card
Midsomer Murders / int_b063ec7d	comment	Skeleton Key Card: One episode has Barnaby and Jones trying to get inside a closed building in a hurry (his daughter's wedding is coming up). Jones tries to open the lock with Barnaby's credit card, leading to a still-locked door and a very annoyed Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b14ce563	type	Pinned to the Wall
Midsomer Murders / int_b14ce563	comment	Pinned to the Wall: The first Victim of the Week in "Blood Wedding" is pinned to the wall with an antique sword. The second Victim of the Week in "Last Man Out" is nailed to a tree with a cricket stump. The first Victim of the Week in "Death of Small Coppers," is pinned to wall mural of a butterfly (He was a butterfly collector) and then run through with an industrial drill.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Midsomer Murders / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Usually Averted due to the show's rather classic detective approach. There's one in "Days of Misrule", though.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Midsomer Murders / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: The murders in "The Sword of Guillaume" ultimately stem from Lady Matilda's bizarre attempt to secure an heir for her son, who is a brain-damaged quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair following an accident. The plan involved arranging a marriage then extracting sperm to impregnate the wife.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b3a8053f	type	Never a Runaway
Midsomer Murders / int_b3a8053f	comment	Never a Runaway: "With Baited Breathe" features a variation, the entire village of Solomon Gorge believes Lola Silverman ran away after she left with her suitcase following a major fight with her mother Isobel ten years ago. Isobel likewise regularly receives postcards from all over the world from Lola to tell that she's safely traveling. In reality Lola was killed in a road accident whilst coming back to her mother, with the killer hiding the body and writing the postcards to sell the illusion.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
Midsomer Murders / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: A hallmark of the show, typically there are about three murders an episode, with Barnaby rushing to prevent a fourth at the end of the episode. The following examples are mostly noticable for being exceptions. Subverted in "Painted in Blood," when there really was only one murder. "Dead in the Water" is another exception, although there was a second attempted murder. Also played with in "Blue Herrings". Though there are many deaths, most were natural or accidental. Only one was a murder, and it was played as a Mercy Killing. "Country Matters" also has only a single murder. "Sauce for the Goose" only has one murder as well. Subverted in "Habeas Corpus" which managed to have no murders. At all! Lampshade Hanging on this in "Bad Tidings": In the atypical episode "Last Year's Model" there is only one murder and that happened ten months prior to to the events of the episode. A BBC radio show called More or Less calculated that Midsomer County's murder rate was on par with Chile and Latvia per a year, and was three times higher than any similar rural English county with the roughly the same population.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Midsomer Murders / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: In "Strangler's Wood", The first murder victim, Carla Constanza, only had a couple years left to live due to pulmonary emphysema she got from smoking.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
Midsomer Murders / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: In "Left for Dead", the murderer attempts to kill one victim by firebombing her house with a Molotov cocktail. The attempt fails, but only just, and the victim is hospitalized.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
Midsomer Murders / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: In "Till Death Do Us Part", a new bride is murdered when she leaves the wedding reception to change out of her wedding dress. Also happens in "Ring Out Your Dead," where the bride is killed outside the church after saying her vows, whilst waiting to pose for the wedding photo's. In "Left For Dead," a bride is murdered at her wedding reception after popping outside for a cigarette.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Midsomer Murders / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: In "Talking to the Dead", the murderer pretends to have gone gibberingly mad; having been driven into a dissociative state by something he encountered in the woods. His act is very convincing, and it takes Barnaby some time to rumble him. By the end of the episode (after the murderer confesses), Barnaby starts to think he may no longer be acting and may be genuinely going mad.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b4fddee	type	McGuffin
Midsomer Murders / int_b4fddee	comment	McGuffin: In "Shot at Dawn", Tom Barnaby has proof of who the murderer is in a box, and even refers to it as a "McGuffin" when Ben Jones asks him what it is.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Midsomer Murders / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Illicit affairs probably make up half the secrets Barnaby uncovers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Midsomer Murders / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: This is generally a problem in Midsomer: apparently its residents are so used to murder and mayhem that they completely disregard personal safety, even when they know they may be a target. A knock on the door in the middle of night, or with nobody in view? Go outside and investigate! Hear the obvious sounds of a break in? Loudly shout "who's there?", giving away your location in the process, and go to confront them, unarmed. Have a phone in your hand when you're under threat? Don't use it — just drop it immediately or, if you can't manage to be that clumsy, leave a cryptic voicemail just before your imminent death. Suspect you know who the murderer is? Don't phone the police — go and talk to the possible killer privately, revealing that you know their identity as you do so. The second victim is frequently someone who knows who the killer is and tries to blackmail him or her. Because what could possibly go wrong when you blackmail a cunning, ruthless murderer? The first victim in "Blood will out".Rushing a person who is pointing a loaded shotgun at your chest? Not a good idea, Bridges. Then again, it was never explained why Bridges had a loaded shotgun lying on his desk, and it is entirely possible that he was thinking of killing himself anyway.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
Midsomer Murders / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: In "Murder by Magic", the killer uses the sound of a gunshot being used in a magic trick to mask the sound of the gunshot they used to kill one of their victims. In "Blood on the Saddle", the killer uses the noise of a mock gunfight being conducted in the main arena to cover the rifle shot he uses to murder the first Victim of the Week.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b7c574a3	type	Dry Crusader
Midsomer Murders / int_b7c574a3	comment	In "Night of the Stag", the fanatical leader of the local Dry Crusaders is a recovering alcoholic. He falls off the wagon hard when the local Hillbilly Moonshiner leaves him a jar of the local hooch: an exceptionally powerful brew known as 'the Beast'.
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Midsomer Murders / int_b9918c48	type	Nobody Here but Us Statues
Midsomer Murders / int_b9918c48	comment	Nobody Here but Us Statues: In "The Scarecrow Murders", a killer sneaks on to the grounds of The Vicar's mansion and hides by posing as one of the scarecrows set for the festival. When the vicar goes out to check the gate that night, the killer ambushes him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
Midsomer Murders / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: In "Last Man Out", a match-fixing ring is rigging the outcome of games in a semi-professional cricket tournament. The match fixers are initially suspected when two cricket captains are murdered, but the match fixing is a Red Herring and has nothing to do with the killings.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ba950781	type	Ball Cannon
Midsomer Murders / int_ba950781	comment	Ball Cannon: In "Last Man Standing", the first Victim of the Week is killed by being tied in the cricket nets in front of a bowling machine, which is then used to bowl twenty cricket balls at him at high speed and batter him to death.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Midsomer Murders / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: The first two victims in "The House in the Woods" are garroted by a killer hiding in the backseat of their car.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Midsomer Murders / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Inspector Martin Spellman in "Picture of Innocence".
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Midsomer Murders / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
Midsomer Murders / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: Happens when the first Victim of the Week is poisoned in "The Killings of Copenhagen".
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Midsomer Murders / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
Midsomer Murders / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: In "With Baited Breath", the killer attempts to dispose of his final intended victim by tying her to a large rock, rowing her into the middle of the lake, and dumping her out of the boat, but is thwarted by the arrival of Barnaby and Winter.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bcfc7495	type	Cowboy Episode
Midsomer Murders / int_bcfc7495	comment	Cowboy Episode: "Blood on the Saddle". It becomes rather hilarious to southern/western residents of the United States as well...
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Midsomer Murders / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
Midsomer Murders / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: Classic case in "The Glitch". The mechanic leaves a message for a friend indicating he knows who the murderer is, but he's murdered before they can talk. He leaves a cryptic Dying Clue at least.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bd7d0416	type	Beleaguered Bureaucrat
Midsomer Murders / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: In "Dark Secrets", the Victim of the Week is a poor beleaguered social services inspector. Dealing with the eccentric inhabitants of Midsomer would be enough to drive anyone crazy, but what he discovers while trying help an elderly couple gets him murdered.
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Midsomer Murders / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Midsomer Murders / int_be81113b	comment	Lost in Character: Revealed to be the case in â€œBlood On the Saddle.â€� Originally the killers outlaw persona of Billy the Kid for the Old West show was simply a form of escapism from there otherwise dull life. However, following committing several murders in the role, by the end he honestly believes he is Billy the Kid. In the episodeâ€™s climax, he hallucinates that the Fincher farm is a saloon and believes Inspector Barnaby is Marshal Wyatt Earp.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Midsomer Murders / int_bec0417c	comment	There are a few other Happily Married couples, they're often the murderers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Midsomer Murders / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: John Barnaby's MO to many of his more Smug Snake murderers, and is awesomely done in "The Night of the Stag" as he and two others turn an entire community against the main murderer by revealing the bastard for what he is.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bfc73a49	type	Shoot the Rope
Midsomer Murders / int_bfc73a49	comment	Shoot the Rope: In "The Death of the Small Coppers", a half-blind old woman with a shotgun shoots through the rope holding Winter in a Death Trap just in time for him to free himself before the crossbow triggers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Midsomer Murders / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: "Dance with the Dead" begins with what appears to be a suicide pact gone wrong. Of course, being Midsomer, it is Never Suicide.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c019a6c2	type	Mockspiracy
Midsomer Murders / int_c019a6c2	comment	Mockspiracy: In one of the episodes, a Conspiracy Theorist believes the Pudding Club (an association of college students and alumni, started when the students pooled their funds to afford desserts) is an Illuminati-esque organization that secretly controls the world. Naturally, this is dismissed by Barnaby, even when the theorist is murdered. It turns out the club is a conspiracy, but nothing so grand as world domination: the students tend to end up in diplomatic positions around the world, and use them to smuggle cultural artifacts back to the school, which sells them off to keep itself funded.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Midsomer Murders / int_c10da874	comment	In "Picture of Innocence", Liza Goddard guest stars as a character who partly drives the plot, but only actually appears in the last couple of minutes of the episode. She's someone who Tom Barnaby says he used to date, briefly, about 30 years ago. In The '80s, Liza Goddard had a recurring role opposite John Nettles in Bergerac as someone who had a flirtatious relationship with Jim Bergerac.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Midsomer Murders / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: Kind of. It's clearly set in the Present Day (mid 1990s-early 2000s), but the atmosphere is very rustic.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Midsomer Murders / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: When the UK's secret service gets involved in a case involving an ex-spy, Barnaby's job becomes infinitely more difficult, as they can cut off his investigation at any time, with no reason required or given.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
Midsomer Murders / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: There's one, "Hidden Depths," where a snobby wine lover is tied to his lawn while the murderer is catapulting wine bottles at him. His wife has been taken to the window and her wheelchair disabled in order to make her watch the whole thing (though the murderer remains unidentified). When she sees the bottle miss, she calls out corrections in aim to the murderer. The next morning, the police arrive but she of course didn't see anything. The second Victim of the Week in "Death in Disguise" is killed when the murderer deliberately withholds their heart medication as they suffering a heart attack.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Midsomer Murders / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: The first Victim of the Week in "Death and Dust" gets out of his car to clear a fallen tree on the road, and is run down by the car that has been tailing him. It later turns out to be a case of Murder by Mistake. In "The Glitch", the first Victim of the Week is knocked off her bike by a car. The driver then reverses over the top of her, killing her. This also turns out to be a case of Murder by Mistake. In "Death in the Slow Lane", the first Victim of the Week is killed when the murderer puts the vintage car he had just started in gear; causing it to move forward and resulting in the victim being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on the crank handle. In "A Vintage Murder", the first Victim of the Week is knocked unconscious by a car, before being dragged off to her death in the vineyard. The second Victim of the Week in "Birds Of Prey," is knocked over by the killer after he discovers a body in the freezer while trying to steal some birds eggs. Initially he appears to be fine, as he manages to walk away from the accident, only for him to die in his sleep from internal bleeding.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Midsomer Murders / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The show never actually explains what happened to Scott. His absence in the episode that introduces his replacement Jones is explained (he called in sick — Jones was a temporary replacement), but by the next episode Jones is there to stay without Scott being mentioned again. note Scott's actor in real life ended up in hospital seriously ill with pneumonia and unable to film any more episodes.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c439078a	type	Life's Work Ruined
Midsomer Murders / int_c439078a	comment	Life's Work Ruined: In "Orchis Fatalis", someone takes revenge on an orchid collector by pouring weedkiller over his priceless orchid collection.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Midsomer Murders / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: In "Death in the Slow Lane", one of the murders was committed by shearing through the steering linkage on a car, causing it to crash while going round a sharp bend. And in the episode "Master Class", one couple's car has its brake-line cut, leading to a near-fatal crash. The episode "Death and the Divas" from season 15 also had a death involving this. In "The Flying Club", the fuel line on a stunt plane is cut during an airshow.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c52a5525	type	Gulliver Tie-Down
Midsomer Murders / int_c52a5525	comment	Gulliver Tie-Down: In "Small Mercies", the first Body of the Week is found in a miniature village: staked down and tied to the ground like Gulliver.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Midsomer Murders / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: A downplayed example, but in several cases Tom Barnaby overlooks the murderer as a suspect due to personal attachment and invariably ends up with a Broken Pedestal, though he's at least aware of it enough to catch himself in "The Noble Art" and point out that he's been dismissing his friend Gerald as a suspect. Gerald is of course the murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c58daf16	type	The Pen Is Mightier
Midsomer Murders / int_c58daf16	comment	The Pen Is Mightier: In "Death by Persuasion", the first Victim of the Week is stabbed in the neck with a poisoned quill pen.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c65b7731	type	Driver Faces Passenger
Midsomer Murders / int_c65b7731	comment	Driver Faces Passenger: Troy sometimes does this with realistic results (see below).
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Midsomer Murders / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Midsomer Murders / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The killings in "Murder by Magic" ultimately centre around an ancient human sacrifice, and someone's attempt to recreate in the present-day although this is a misdirection.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c6fa273c	type	Knights and Knaves
Midsomer Murders / int_c6fa273c	comment	Knights and Knaves: In "The Death of the Small Coppers", DS Winter, who hates riddles, is captured by the killer who places him in a Death Trap and offers to let him live if he can solve this puzzle in five minutes. Ironically, one of the suspects had offered to tell him the answer to this earlier in the episode.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c70aceaa	type	Baguette Beatdown
Midsomer Murders / int_c70aceaa	comment	Baguette Beatdown: In "Shot at Dawn", a pair of wheelchair-bound old duffers from Feuding Families get into a jousting match with baguettes that interrupts Inspector Barnaby's dinner.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Midsomer Murders / int_c75df49a	comment	The optician in "Blood on the Saddle" asks Barnaby "Is it safe?" while examining him, a Shout-Out to the famous torture scene in Marathon Man.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Midsomer Murders / int_c868a42a	comment	Nastily subverted, however, in "Death and Dreams", where the someone appears to have a trope-type Freudian Excuse, but doesn't...The three children of Banraby's psychiatrist friend saw their father die in a climbing accident, which we're lead to believe is the cause of their obsession with keeping their mother with them. Then it turns out the two older children killed their father for daring to be affectionate with their mother!
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Midsomer Murders / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Midsomer Murders / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The third Victim of the Week in "The Ballad of Midsomer County" is killed by having a beach umbrella thrust through his chest. One victim falls from a sawed floor onto a farming device, sending three or four spikes through his torso. The first Victim of the Week (A pre The Lord of the Rings fame Orlando Bloom) in "Judgement Day," is done in by a pitchfork to the chest. Within the first 10 minutes. The second Victim of the Week in "A Vintage Murder", is pushed out of a hotel window and lands onto the pointed wooden stake that is holding up the flower trellis, killing him instantly.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Midsomer Murders / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: In "The Straw Woman", Reverend Hale dies when his cape mysteriously catches fire. It turns out that the killer had drenched it in a solution of phosphorous in toluene, which started to burn when the toluene had evaporated. However, toluene has a strong gasoline-like smell which the reverend would have noticed, and furthermore the evaporation would take heat from the surroundings, making the cape icy cold and near-impossible to wear. The murders in "The Sword of Guillaume" are committed with the eponymous sword, which dates back to the Norman Conquest and has been inside a tomb for centuries. In real life the sword would've rusted to such a degree that it would be useless as a blade.
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Midsomer Murders / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Midsomer Murders / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: "A Sacred Trust" involves some romantic liaisons, including one girl shamed by her involvement with a jock for telling the police about it. A plot point of "Schooled in Murder" is that a victim's daughter was about to be expelled from school, as she was on a scholarship from her mother's employer, but the scholarship contained "moral terms" which the victim had broken by having an affair.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Midsomer Murders / int_ca22ca46	comment	Madwoman in the Attic: As alluded to in the title "Left For Dead", a kid who was seemingly killed 19 years prior turns out to be alive, brain-damaged, and locked in a cellar convinced by a couple that he was their lost child. When he finally figures out his true identity, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ca68d759	type	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology
Midsomer Murders / int_ca68d759	comment	Artistic License â€“ Pharmacology: The episode "King's Crystal" has a victim die from ingesting ground glass (quite ironically). Not only was the time it (apparently) took him to die ridiculously short (20 minutes), but according to a variety of literature sources, ground glass isn't deadly (or poisonous) upon ingestion, unless the slivers are large enough that the victim would sense them as he was chewing his food (and they would cut up the inside of his mouth as a result). The odds of dying to ground glass poisoning are, hence, slim to none, unless the victim truly wanted to die (which he didn't).
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Midsomer Murders / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Midsomer Murders / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Given the large amount of nefarious activities that takes place in Midsomer, it's not surprising that a lot of said activities take place at night. While very occasionally a blue filter is used, many of the night scenes are actually shot at night, but with strong ambient lighting that would in reality make our local criminals very conspicuous. If you imagine a full moon turned up by a factor of a thousand, you'll get a general idea.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Midsomer Murders / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: The phrase is used when Barnaby figures out one suspect had children not by her husband but his father. He won't tell, leading to her saying the phrase... and it's all moot since one of the daughters was listening at the door.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ca8a5ba2	type	One-Track-Minded Artist
Midsomer Murders / int_ca8a5ba2	comment	One-Track-Minded Artist: In "Picture of Innocence", one of the photographers' entire body of work consists of photographs of every meal he has eaten. When Joyce comments on how similar all of his photos are, he says that he has eaten the same meal every day for more than a decade.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cb410941	type	No Badge? No Problem!
Midsomer Murders / int_cb410941	comment	No Badge? No Problem!: One episode has Barnaby be removed from a case because his wife is tangentially connected to it. His replacement being a perfectly intolerable little dipstick, Barnaby gets to the witnesses first without mentioning he's not on the case. In "Picture of Innocence", he's removed because he himself is connected to the case by an attempted Frame-Up. Once again his replacement is intolerable (and seemingly preoccupied planning his wedding) so Barnaby proceeds to get to all the witnesses two steps ahead of the other inspector.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Midsomer Murders / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The baby in "Second Sight", whose mother insists she can't possibly have psychic powers although her father's family claim they do, screams her head off every time she's in the vicinity of someone who means harm (or her mother thinks is a threat). In "Talking to the Dead", Barnaby repeatedly accuses supposed psychic medium Cyrus LeVanu — who claims to be having visions of the Monksbarton Abbey massacre, where all the monks were hunted down and killed by Henry VIII's soldiers, and who has been poking his nose into the murder investigation of the week — of being a fraud who preys on people's anxiety and pain. It gradually becomes clear to the audience, however, that at the very least LeVanu's belief in his supposed abilities is real, and he has been having visions of the massacre — though whether he's actually seeing ghosts or just deluded is left ambiguous. At the end, LeVanu sees a ghostly soldier attack him and cut his head off, which causes him to die of fright.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cd01a310	type	LampShade
Midsomer Murders / int_cd01a310	comment	When John Nettles left the series, DCI Tom Barnaby retired, to be replaced by his decades-younger and somewhat more energetic cousin DCI John Barnaby, who still looks fairly close in age. They did hang a lampshade on it in the episode where John Barnaby was introduced, but really, it's like they're not even trying. The name at least might be chalked up as an Enforced Trope due to the show being called "Inspector Barnaby" in certain other markets (France, Italy, Germany, and Japan according to The Other Wiki).
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Midsomer Murders / int_cd6a97e	type	Caught in a Snare
Midsomer Murders / int_cd6a97e	comment	Caught in a Snare: Happens to Winter in "The Death of the Small Coppers".
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Midsomer Murders / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Midsomer Murders / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: In a murder that is unusual even by Midsomer standards, the first Victim of the Week in "The Village That Rose From the Dead" is run over by a tank.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Midsomer Murders / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: The producer, Brian Tru-May, voluntarily stepped down for telling the Radio Times that the series had no characters portrayed by non-white actors because the show was a "bastion of Englishness". When challenged about the characterization, Tru-May responded that he was simply "politically incorrect". The very next series after Tru-May left the show, a British Asian actor portrayed a lead role.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ce6652e5	type	Classy Cat-Burglar
Midsomer Murders / int_ce6652e5	comment	Classy Cat-Burglar: In "The Creeper", the B-plot (which is tangentially related to the murders) concerns a burglar known as the Creeper who has been robbing wealthy country homes, including that of the Chief Constable. When Barnaby finally identifies the Creeper, it turns out to be this trope.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
Midsomer Murders / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: In "The Dark Rider", Sarah Barnaby is plagued by feedback while attempting to narrate the Civil War reenactment. She keeps yelling at her sound engineer Andy to fix the problem.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Midsomer Murders / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The killer's motive of 'Ghosts of Christmas Past'. His sister Claire married into the family the story revolves around where she drew the suspicion of her sister-in-law, Jennifer, who hired a private detective to go into her past where it was revealed Claire had a criminal record of possessing drugs and stealing. To try and get her away from Lydia, Jennifer forced her mother to claim several family heirlooms were stolen and put on sale in auctions without her knowledge, causing Claire to be charged before she was Driven to Suicide. When her brother found out, he murdered both of them. The motive for Death's Shadow, where the murderer wanted to avenge the accidental death of his illegitimate son by killing the boys who had accidentally killed him 30 years earlier.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
Midsomer Murders / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: In "The Killings At Badger's Drift", Barnaby and Troy notice that Dennis Rainbird is driving an awfully fancy car, with Troy commenting that he didn't think undertakers made that much. They don't: Dennis and his mother have been routinely profiting from Blackmail.
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Midsomer Murders / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Midsomer Murders / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: "Dance with the Dead" begins with what appears to be a Suicide Pact gone wrong. Of course, being Midsomer, it is never suicide. The first Victim of the Week in "Birds Of Prey" looks like he has driven his car into a local lake due to being depressed over his financial situation, but Barnaby is suspicious when he notices that he didn't appear to have washed his hair properly, and is bathroom is spotless clean in an otherwise untidy house.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Midsomer Murders / int_d129e13e	comment	One murderer takes a small boy who he knows to be the witness to his crime out on a boat ride. Then Barnaby has his "Eureka!" Moment and heads for the dock, expecting the worst... only to find the kid unharmed, with the murderer saying he couldn't kill him.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Midsomer Murders / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: In "The Scarecrow Murders", instead of the usual one murderer, there were three working in concert. They had met in an online support group for gamblers and, on discovering they had all had their lives ruined by one particular online gambling company, moved to the village where it was based to extract revenge. Each of them killed one of the principals involved in the company, and teamed up in an attempt to kill the last but were arrested by Barnaby and Winter. They attempted to dress the murders up as the work of serial killer, but the methods of killing were so different that Barnaby was convinced there had to be more than one killer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d177a22c	type	Dominatrix
Midsomer Murders / int_d177a22c	comment	Dominatrix: In "Crime and Punishment", one of the suspects is secretly a dominatrix; operating her service under the cover of a mobile beauty salon.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Midsomer Murders / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: In "Schooled in Murder", Sarah is teasing John about his current case and the Stepford Smilers at the centre of it, claiming that she could be a perfect wife as well. He replies:
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Midsomer Murders / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
Midsomer Murders / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: In "Blood Wedding", the murderer clamps a hand over the mouth of the third Victim of the Week before killing her by thrusting a hatpin into her ear.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Midsomer Murders / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: DS Ben Jones' all-knowing Gossipy Hens gran is considered this by DCI John Barnaby.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Midsomer Murders / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: One guy is caught in bed with a young man. His next words during the interrogation are "I'm not gay".
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Midsomer Murders / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Midsomer Murders / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Murderers with a sense of poetic justice deliberately invoke this. For example, a malicious game show host who thinks of himself as a wine connoisseur gets a taste of his own medicine when his victims force him to take part in a deadly quiz show where they slowly drown him. In wine.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d39771a4	type	Long Bus Trip
Midsomer Murders / int_d39771a4	comment	Similarly, Sergeant Scott goes on a Long Bus Trip — Barnaby mentions that he "called in sick" but the character is never heard from again. This was more a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. The actor playing Scott was ill and couldn't film one episode, and Jones was written in as what was meant to be a temporary replacement. However, when Scott's actor ended up seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia, it became obvious that he wasn't going to be able to return to finish the filming of that series, and thus Jones became a permanent character instead.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d3c6cf4f	type	Unwilling Suspension
Midsomer Murders / int_d3c6cf4f	comment	Unwilling Suspension: Happens to John Barnaby in "Death in the Slow Lane". Also happens to DS Winters at the end of "Death of Small Coppers."
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Midsomer Murders / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Midsomer Murders / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: In "The Lions of Causton", the first Victim of the Week is shut in a cryo room intended to treat soft tissue injuries. Patients are usually subjected to -60 degrees for 5 minutes. The killer sets the temperature to -150 degrees and leaves the victim in there overnight.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d4ca1a40	type	Twang Hello
Midsomer Murders / int_d4ca1a40	comment	Twang Hello: In "Blood Wedding" one of the suspects puts a longbow arrow into a tree next to Barnaby's head. He claims it was an accident, but there is every indication it was intended as a warning.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d62184c3	type	Theme Serial Killer
Midsomer Murders / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: "Echoes of the Dead" featured a killer who based his murders on old murder cases, such as George Joseph Smith. In "Death and the Divas", the killer's theme is the horror movies of a particular actress. In "The Ballad of Midsomer County", the killer leaves items associated with the eponymous folk song with the bodies of his victims. In " Ring Out Your Dead," the murder kills the village bell ringers as per a local nursery rhyme.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d67239d2	type	Even Evil Can Be Loved
Midsomer Murders / int_d67239d2	comment	Even Evil Can Be Loved: The episode "The House in the Woods" is driven by this trope. A murderer is shielded by his twin brother, who bitterly complains that the murderer was "born wrong" and can't help being what he is. He even Took The Heat and served his brother's prison sentence for killing a police officer, then doesn't defend himself against further murder charges that his brother frames him for. For his pains, the murderer tries to garrote him as soon as he stops being a useful scapegoat.
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Midsomer Murders / int_d6901d5a	type	Dress Hits Floor
Midsomer Murders / int_d6901d5a	comment	Dress Hits Floor: Happens in "The Curse of the Ninth" as young woman prepares to take a shower, unaware that an intruder has just broken into her home. Happens in the "Point Of Balance," as one of the dancers goes to take a shower, then the camera pans to the secret spy camera someone has hidden in the bedroom....
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Midsomer Murders / int_d80fb43b	type	Murder Simulators
Midsomer Murders / int_d80fb43b	comment	Murder Simulators: Discussed and played literally in "Bantling Boy".
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Midsomer Murders / int_d9cfb922	type	The Catfish
Midsomer Murders / int_d9cfb922	comment	The Catfish: In "With Baited Breath", fishermen flock to Solomon Gorge desperate to catch a giant fish that is said to lurk in the lake. Their plans are threatened when hundred of others appear for the Pyscho Mud Run.
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Midsomer Murders / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
Midsomer Murders / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Standard formula for a British cop show.
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Midsomer Murders / int_da6d888c	type	Secretly-Gay Activity
Midsomer Murders / int_da6d888c	comment	Secretly Gay Activity: When John Barnaby moves to Causton in "Death in the Slow Lane", he is approached by a man from the local rugby club who tries to entice him into joining, and explains how several members get together to enjoy each other's company. He beats a hasty retreat when John asks if his wife would be welcome at these evenings.
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Midsomer Murders / int_db015585	type	False Confession
Midsomer Murders / int_db015585	comment	False Confession: In "Death of a Hollow Man", Colin Smy confesses to killing Esslyn after he thought he saw his son David change the blade of the razor used. He shortly afterwards withdraws the confession after David is cleared.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Midsomer Murders / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: All over the place — it's a murder mystery after all. Special mention must go to the aptly named "Blue Herrings", where the initial deaths are accidents, not murders: the sad but understandable reality of a retirement home. The only real murder is a Mercy Kill by a very Sympathetic Murderer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Midsomer Murders / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: The third Victim of the Week in "Blood Wedding" is killed by having a hatpin thrust into her ear.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Midsomer Murders / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: In "Fit for Murder", Barnaby and Jones find a large amount of incriminating evidence when they search the house and vehicle of a pair of suspects. Barnaby points out the murders were methodical and carefully premeditated, and scarcely the work of someone who'd leave incriminating evidence (that they had no reason to keep) where any search would reveal it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Midsomer Murders / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Many murders in the show are motivated by highly unlikely circumstances, but a particularly egregious example takes place in the episode "A Sacred Trust" where the villain of the piece participates in the massacre of a village in an unnamed African country, makes a fortune and over 33 years later settles in one of the Midsomer villages with his wife and son... a village that just so happens to include a convent where the prioress is the sole witness to his crime. And the kicker? He still would've gotten away with it if his Identical Son hadn't snuck into the convent with a girl to have sex and run into the prioress.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Midsomer Murders / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: In Bad Tidings, Joyce mentions that one of Cully's old schoolfriends used to bully her. Guess who the murderer turned out to be...
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Midsomer Murders / int_dd7cfe55	type	Apophenia Plot
Midsomer Murders / int_dd7cfe55	comment	Apophenia Plot: One episode features a Conspiracy Theorist who believes a local university has ties to the Illuminati and are secretly controlling the world, and aren't afraid to kill people who get to close to the truth. He is right that they kill people (he ends up among their victims), but it's for far more mundane reasons than world domination: the school actually depends on its alumni getting cushy diplomatic jobs in foreign countries, smuggling art and precious statues back to Britain via diplomatic channels, and then the school uses the art to keep funding itself. There's another, even more mundane one in the same episode where the school canteen gets its food from a local high-end restaurant for cheap.
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Midsomer Murders / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Midsomer Murders / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Happens in "A Rare Bird" when Jones is searching a taxidermy studio. One cat turns out to be alive and makes Jones jump when it moves.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ddb8ba26	type	Shot at Dawn
Midsomer Murders / int_ddb8ba26	comment	Shot at Dawn: "Shot at Dawn" opens with a soldier being executed by firing squad during World War One for cowardice and desertion. His CO administers the Coup de GrÃ¢ce, then throws up.
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Midsomer Murders / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Midsomer Murders / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: In the beginning of one of the episodes, a statue was burned with a victim inside. A series of stock screams were played.
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Midsomer Murders / int_de10dda2	type	Caught on Tape
Midsomer Murders / int_de10dda2	comment	Caught on Tape: In "The Ballad of Midsomer County", the killings all centre around a murder accidentally recorded on a master tape 20 years earlier, with the master tape then being hidden.
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Midsomer Murders / int_de80e030	type	Social Climber
Midsomer Murders / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber: Midsomer County is positively littered with people who would do anything to ingratiate themselves with the local gentry and become part of them... up to and including murder.
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Midsomer Murders / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Midsomer Murders / int_deecc9eb	comment	There's one, "Hidden Depths," where a snobby wine lover is tied to his lawn while the murderer is catapulting wine bottles at him. His wife has been taken to the window and her wheelchair disabled in order to make her watch the whole thing (though the murderer remains unidentified). When she sees the bottle miss, she calls out corrections in aim to the murderer. The next morning, the police arrive but she of course didn't see anything.
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Midsomer Murders / int_df6c8f80	type	NotInMyBackYard
Midsomer Murders / int_df6c8f80	comment	Not In My Back Yard: The title (and main theme) of an episode. Unpopular development plans often end in murder in Midsomer. In "Country Matters" a group of locals was willing to go to the European Court of Human Rights in order to stop a supermarket from being built in a village.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e064dc5a	type	Plot Allergy
Midsomer Murders / int_e064dc5a	comment	Plot Allergy: In "Red in Tooth & Claw", someone places rabbit fur in the ducts of Cleo Langton's car. Turning on the A.C. system with the windows closed triggers her allergy to rabbits, and someone has removed the allergy medication from her purse, so she dies by respiratory failure.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Midsomer Murders / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: Jones disguises himself as a nun to trap a murderer in "A Sacred Trust".
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Midsomer Murders / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Midsomer Murders / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: In "Happy Families", Barnaby and Winter go to investigate a murder in a mansion on island accessible only by a chain ferry. After the body is removed, a storm wrecks the ferry, stranding Barnaby and Winter on the island with the suspects.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Midsomer Murders / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Sports: Not entirely sure why the sabre fencing in "The Sleeper Under The Hill" is done with the pointy end when sabre is a slashing weapon. The coach's technique is also awful.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e47e0eb	type	Scary Scarecrows
Midsomer Murders / int_e47e0eb	comment	Scary Scarecrows: In "The Scarecrow Murders", the bodies of the Victims of the Week are dressed up and posed as scarecrows and placed among the scarecrows on display the village's scarecrow festival.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
Midsomer Murders / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: In "Last Man Out", an undercover Jones wins the cricket match for his team by hitting a six off the last ball, despite having been knocked unconscious with a cricket bat earlier in the game.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e56e3e0f	type	Stripping the Scarecrow
Midsomer Murders / int_e56e3e0f	comment	Stripping the Scarecrow: In "The Scarecrow Murders", a killer takes the clothing and hessian bag head from a scarecrow, and uses them to pose as a scarecrow to ambush and murder The Vicar.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e8115574	type	Bookmark Clue
Midsomer Murders / int_e8115574	comment	Bookmark Clue: In "The Stitcher's Society", the SOCO team find an important clue—a newly signed lease—in a book in the first Victim of the Week's house.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Midsomer Murders / int_e83f211c	comment	In one episode, he meets a retired cop. They hit it off so well Tom starts taking his advice when looking into buying a new home, to Jones' consternation. So of course, it turns out the guy was a human trafficker.
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Midsomer Murders / int_e906fcc0	type	1-Dimensional Thinking
Midsomer Murders / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: In "Shot at Dawn", a woman being chased by a hay baler attempts to flee directly away from it. Granted that turning may not have helped as the baler was being steered, but she could have at least tried, as it would have taken time for the baler to turn.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ea076439	type	MercyKilling
Midsomer Murders / int_ea076439	comment	Also played with in "Blue Herrings". Though there are many deaths, most were natural or accidental. Only one was a murder, and it was played as a Mercy Killing.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
Midsomer Murders / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: In "Blood Wedding", Barnaby finds a priest hole/secret passage concealed behind a bookcase. Most tellingly, the passage leads to the room where the first murder was committed.
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Midsomer Murders / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Midsomer Murders / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: DI Mark Gudgeon and his NIS underlings in "Painted in Blood". Sgt. Trevor Gibson in "Sleeper Under the Hill". The Debt of Lies features several different variations of this (although none of them are actually active by the time they first appear), from borderline to clear and regulars at crookedness to cops that slipped up once or twice.But all of it is irrelevant to the actual motive for the murders, which is much more personal.
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Midsomer Murders / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Midsomer Murders / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: In "Left for Dead", the murderer leaves Tom Barnaby bound and gagged on a mattress in the cellar. He has to be rescued by Jones. In "The Dark Rider", the killer attempts to remove someone who is afraid of the dark from the line of succession by driving them into a permanent state of trauma by leaving them bound and gagged inside a priest hole. In "Sting of Death", the killer places their third victim inside a sarcophagus which they start to fill with honey.
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Midsomer Murders / int_eb48170d	type	Cramming the Coffin
Midsomer Murders / int_eb48170d	comment	Cramming the Coffin: The 'body buried in the grave beneath a coffin' is used in "Beyond the Grave". This is attempted in "Four Funerals and a Wedding", but rain washes away the dirt and exposes the body before the coffin can be placed in the grave. Also, the victim was the deacon who was supposed to be performing the funeral service.
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Midsomer Murders / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Midsomer Murders / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In a flashback scene in "Second Sight", a supporting character bursts into a school classroom and tells the kids they're going to play a game that involves them all running out of the opposite door... moments before a runaway truck crashes through the wall. He tells the local paper he can't explain what made him do this, but he saved all 27 kids and their teacher.
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Midsomer Murders / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Midsomer Murders / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A positive example in "Point of Balance". A conman's one moment of genuine altruism, calming down a PTSD victim from a panic attack, is what outs him and prevents him from completing his latest scheme.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ebfaf704	type	Scary Stinging Swarm
Midsomer Murders / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: In "Sting of Death", the first Victim of the Week is doused in a synthetic pheromone that is used as a swarm lure, and stung to death by a swarm of honeybees. The bees are still swarming the body when the police arrive.
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Midsomer Murders / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
Midsomer Murders / int_ed43de19	comment	"The Killings At Badgers Drift" in the very first episode whilst investigating a series of murders in the village, its established that the wealthy Henry Trace's first wife Bella died in a Hunting "Accident" two years previously. We're led to believe that she was killed by Phyliss Cadwell who was besotted with Henry in a moment of desperation. However, at the climax Inspector Tom Barnaby concludes that Phyliss's attempt failed, and Bella was actually murdered by the episodes killer who had their eye on Henry's money.
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Midsomer Murders / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Midsomer Murders / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: In "The Night of the Stag", John Barnaby ducks behind a stack of barrels before throwing up after drinking a pint of cider from a barrel with a body floating in it.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f0a6a09d	type	Mistaken for Servant
Midsomer Murders / int_f0a6a09d	comment	Mistaken for Servant: Troy does this to a local lord in "Market for Murder".
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Midsomer Murders / int_f0e48274	type	Taken Off the Case
Midsomer Murders / int_f0e48274	comment	Taken Off the Case: One episode had a case where Barnaby was taken off a case because his wife was a witness. He investigated anyway, as his replacement was a jumped-up little jerkass more interested in planning out his wedding than handling the case and due to his using Barnaby's name at a restaurant, caused Barnaby to be stalked by the murderer who was obsessing over the asshole's fiance.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f0f7ac01	type	Letterbox Arson
Midsomer Murders / int_f0f7ac01	comment	Letterbox Arson: In "Murder of Innocence", a murder is attempted by pouring petrol through the letterbox of a cottage and following it with a flaming rag.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f1029720	type	Rising Water, Rising Tension
Midsomer Murders / int_f1029720	comment	Rising Water, Rising Tension: The final denouement in "Let Us Prey" takes place during a flood that is threatening to engulf the village, and in particular destroy the crypt that lies at the centre of the mystery.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f10cc97f	type	Bludgeoned to Death
Midsomer Murders / int_f10cc97f	comment	Bludgeoned to Death: In "Crime and Punishment", the second Victim of the Week has his head smashed in with a hammer taken from the display in his own hardware store.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
Midsomer Murders / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: In "Fit for Murder", we learn that Tom's father died on his birthday. As Tom approaches the age his father was when he died, he starts to worry that he is going to die on his own birthday.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
Midsomer Murders / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Dr George Bullard, Dr Kate Wilding, Dr Kam Karimore, and Dr Fleur Perkins are the poor old pathologists finding themselves knee deep in bodies to autopsy at various times.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f19ccfee	type	Uranus Is Showing
Midsomer Murders / int_f19ccfee	comment	Uranus Is Showing: In "Written in the Stars", Jones in researching astronomy as background to the case. He uses the opportunity to tell Barnaby "Did you know Uranus is 14 times larger than the Earth?".
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Midsomer Murders / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
Midsomer Murders / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: "Not In My Back Yard" opens with a heated argument about an experimental design house being built in a traditional village where a woman hurls a glass of champagne in the architect's face. Needless to say, she becomes the first Victim of the Week. In "Death in Chorus", a dispute between two choir directors erupts into a brawl when one of them (played by Peter Capaldi) throws a drink in the other's face in the pub.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Midsomer Murders / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: In "Faithful Unto Death," Barnaby unwittingly eats some cake laced with marijuana. Hilarity Ensues.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
Midsomer Murders / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Pretty much everybody but the recurring characters is a lying, perverted, murdering hypocrite.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f33316f1	type	Crazy People Play Chess
Midsomer Murders / int_f33316f1	comment	Crazy People Play Chess: "The Sicilian Defence" revolves around a chess tournament and a computer chess game. As it takes place in Midsomer, needless to say there are more than a few unbalanced personalities involved. The killer leaves chess notations in the pockets of the victims.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Midsomer Murders / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: While still murder under UK law, the killer in "Blue Herrings" was actually performing one of these. The killer's aunt faced a slow, undignified and agonising death from her terminal illness, and as the closest thing to a daughter the older woman had, her niece couldn't bear to watch her suffer.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Midsomer Murders / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Midsomer tends to adhere to "if they're not from England, they're a bad 'un," but there's a particularly high chance that if you hear a Scottish accent, you've found the killer. Or at least an abusive spouse/con man/local thug. Which makes it mildly hilarious when an English killer adopts a Scottish persona because "everybody trusts a Scot."
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Midsomer Murders / int_f49d8bf7	type	Crime Magnet
Midsomer Murders / int_f49d8bf7	comment	Crime Magnet: Okay seriously, Tom should just lock Joyce in the house. Every time she goes somewhere, murder ensues.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f5098cb6	type	Life-or-Death Question
Midsomer Murders / int_f5098cb6	comment	Life-or-Death Question: In the episode "Death of the Small Coppers", the killer of the week attempts to pose one to DS Winter, by asking him the riddle of the two guards. He ends up giving the correct answer (with the assistance of several bystanders), only for the killer to not stick to his end of the bargain. DS Winter gets saved in the nick of time by one of the bystanders, nevertheless.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Midsomer Murders / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: When John Nettles left the series, DCI Tom Barnaby retired, to be replaced by his decades-younger and somewhat more energetic cousin DCI John Barnaby, who still looks fairly close in age. They did hang a lampshade on it in the episode where John Barnaby was introduced, but really, it's like they're not even trying. The name at least might be chalked up as an Enforced Trope due to the show being called "Inspector Barnaby" in certain other markets (France, Italy, Germany, and Japan according to The Other Wiki). After Sykes the dog passed away between seasons, the Barnabys later got a new dog in the form of Paddy.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Midsomer Murders / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: In "A Sacred Trust", a flashback to a mercenary attack on an African village shows a girl dropping a doll that is then trampled by one of the soldiers.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Midsomer Murders / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Many episodes feature people who think this.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f7602ddc	type	Handy Cuffs
Midsomer Murders / int_f7602ddc	comment	Handy Cuffs: In "Death in a Chocolate Box", Tom for some reason—possibly lingering respect as the murderer was someone he had once looked up to—handcuffs the murderer the with their hands in front of them. The murderer feigns sickness, then whacks Tom in the face and then dashes away, on to the Railroad Tracks of Doom.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f792ffe4	type	Beleaguered Assistant
Midsomer Murders / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: In "Happy Families", the Victim of the Week's executive assistant complains that he was treated like dirt and never appreciated by his boss, even though he was the one who was really keeping the company running. Of course, as he was Stealing from the Till and about to be exposed, how much of this was true and how much justification is unclear.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Midsomer Murders / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: In the episode "Faithful Unto Death", straight-laced Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby tries some (special) brownies while interviewing a possible witness and subsequently comes over all giggly and walks along the top of an ornamental wall, all the while attracting confused looks from his Sergeant and the Coroner.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f7e60b0d	type	Tag-Along Actor
Midsomer Murders / int_f7e60b0d	comment	Tag-Along Actor: Cully's actor boyfriend rides along with Barnaby and Jones to research the role of a detective sergeant. It's a comment of his that gives Barnaby the "Eureka!" Moment.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f8394279	type	Happier Home Movie
Midsomer Murders / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: In "Hidden Depths", a has been celebrity who used to host a TV quiz show is shown at home watching a video of a command performance where he got to meet Princess Diana. He constantly rewinding and re-watching the part where Diana shakes his hand.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Midsomer Murders / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: The Victim of the Week in "Saints and Sinners" is buried alive in an archaeology trench. In "Drawing Death", the murderer stabs their last victim and then rolls their still living body into an open grave (intended for one of their previous victims) and fills it in. Barnaby and Winter arrive in time to save her.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f910567	type	This Is a Drill
Midsomer Murders / int_f910567	comment	This Is a Drill: In "The Death of the Small Coppers", the first Victim of the Week is strung up on a wall and has a running auger plunged through his chest.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f92c808	type	Sauna of Death
Midsomer Murders / int_f92c808	comment	Sauna of Death: In "The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy", a saboteur attacking a glamping site smashes the control on the sauna; causing the camper trapped inside to almost be cooked alive.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f951f89b	type	Bad to the Last Drop
Midsomer Murders / int_f951f89b	comment	Bad to the Last Drop: While drinking a cup of canteen coffee in "Down Among the Dead Men", Barnaby asks:
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Midsomer Murders / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Midsomer Murders / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: It's a wonder Barnaby kept letting Sgt. Troy drive.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Midsomer Murders / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: The motive in "Breaking the Chain". The killer sets out to eliminate everyone they see as standing between their lover and success; including his brother.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Midsomer Murders / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In "Habeus Corpus", the murderer fakes his own murder, and then fakes his corpse being stolen before the police arrive (It Makes Sense in Context) as part of a particularly elaborate plot to take revenge on someone.
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Midsomer Murders / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Midsomer Murders / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Barnaby's Once an Episode "Eureka!" Moment (usually interrupts whatever he was doing with his family, like dinner or his daughter's play). Also, Jones getting a call (either from Barnaby or related to the case) forcing him to interrupt his date with his girlfriend. Apart from Troy and Scott, every other Sergeant seems to end up being transferred to Brighton.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
Midsomer Murders / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: In "The Dogleg Murders", Whiteoaks Golf Club steward Eileen Fountain has loaned huge sums of money at exorbitant interest rates to many of the club's members to cover illegal gambling debts; if they fall behind on their payments, she sends her son Colin after them to beat them up.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
Midsomer Murders / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: At least two episodes featuring somebody taking advantage of or inventing a place's haunted reputation have ended with indications that the place really is haunted. In "Things That Go Bump in the Night", one of the suspects is a spirit medium whose assistant turns out to have been buying personal details about the recently deceased from someone at the local funeral home, and is dismissed by Barnaby as a Phony Psychic. However, she genuinely believes in her own gift (as does her assistant, who insists the cribbed details were just to help things along, not the whole story), and a scene at the end of the episode — which Barnaby misses — suggests that her spirit guide is real.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fc024bb3	type	The Grand Hunt
Midsomer Murders / int_fc024bb3	comment	The Grand Hunt: In "Death of a Stranger", Barnaby investigates a murder that takes place during a fox hunt, and has a village full of toffs as suspects.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Midsomer Murders / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: DI Mark Gudgeon from NIS takes over the investigation in "Painted in Blood". Problem is, he was the one who committed the murder. Sgt. Trevor Gibson in "Sleeper Under the Hill" turns out to be involved in the killings and does his best to throw Barnaby and Jones off the trail. He ultimately falls victim to his partner in crime.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fca0525f	type	They Have the Scent!
Midsomer Murders / int_fca0525f	comment	They Have the Scent!: "The Night of the Stag" opens with a Pursued Protagonist being chased through an orchard at night by armed men with hounds.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Midsomer Murders / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: One way to guess correctly who the murderer is with depressing frequency is to pick the one who is the only likable one of the lot.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Midsomer Murders / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: The first Body of the Week in "Left for Dead" occurs as a result of a Staircase Tumble when two characters are struggling at the top of the stairs. Although pushed, it was an accident and no murder was intended. The later murders, however... Played with in "Wild Harvest". The murder of the chef was intentional but the murderer didn't know that the chef's husband (and the murderer's ex-husband) would take up drinking again. It's set up in such a way that Barnaby, while questioning her, is faking that he's still alive to get the name of the poison before the murderer realizes she accidentally killed her ex... before we cut outside to show that both of them are still alive, having been treated for their poison. What is chronologically the first death in "Midsomer Life" was a case of the accidental murder. The victim had been trying to escape from someone who just intended to scare him off when he suffered a fatal heart attack. The attacker hid the body in the woods, and its discovery 10 months later triggered a string of actual murders. The third murder turns out to have been accidental in "Send in the Clowns" — the murderer triggered an alarm system while snooping around a slaughterhouse, and when the victim came around jostled a heavy wagon while trying to hide, which went rolling and knocked the victim on the automatic slaughter line (and left the victim too dazed to move away before the line went to the gassing room). The third Victim of the Week in "Till Death Do Us Part" is shoved by the killer who is trying to intimidate them, only for them to stumble over the edge of the balcony and fall to their death. The first Victim of the Week in "The Point of Balance" suffers a fatal heart attack when her attacker shoves a length of tulle in her mouth and she starts choking. She suffered from an undiagnosed heart defect that made her susceptible to SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death).
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Midsomer Murders / int_fd6eeeb2	type	Crime-Concealing Hobby
Midsomer Murders / int_fd6eeeb2	comment	Crime-Concealing Hobby: On occasion, the crimes are committed because of the hobby, which are Serious Business in Midsomer and cause for any number of reprehensible activities from adultery to blackmail to creative accounting. One episode has a mentally-disturbed woman murder people who might interfere with the local tourist attraction (a miniature village), and in another, a Social Climber murders any potential witnesses that saw her driving drunk (which would have barred her from entering the village social club), etc.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Midsomer Murders / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Most of the villages are "Midsomer blank".
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Midsomer Murders / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Midsomer Murders / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Felicity Gamelin (mother of Suhami and ex-wife of Guy Gamelin) in "Death in Disguise". Her first scene has her passed out on the couch, with a opened bottle of champagne at the table.
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Midsomer Murders / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Midsomer Murders / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Winter and Kam. They don't.
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Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	False Widow / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Family Relationship Switcheroo / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fantasy-Forbidding Father / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fatal Method Acting / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fauxreigner / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fictional Painting / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fictional Province / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	File Mixup / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Finger Framing / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fingertip Drug Analysis / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Food Slap / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Footprints of Muck / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	For Doom the Bell Tolls / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Force Feeding / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Forensic Accounting / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Forklift Fu / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Frying Pan of Doom / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Full-Boar Action / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Gardening-Variety Weapon / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Gas Chamber / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Geek Reference Pool / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Girl on Girl Is Hot / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Glory Hound / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Golf Clubbing / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Gone Horribly Wrong / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Graceful Loser / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Grammar Correction Gag / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Grave Robbing / int_e6318baf
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Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Gulliver Tie-Down / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hand Gagging / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hand of Death / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hand-or-Object Underwear / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Handy Cuffs / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hanging by the Fingers / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Happier Home Movie / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Head-Tiltingly Kinky / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Headless Horseman / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Heir Club for Men / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hero Stole My Bike / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	High-Voltage Death / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hillbilly Moonshiner / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Historical Longevity Joke / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Holier Than Thou / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hollywood Silencer / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Home Nudist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Home Porn Movie / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Honey Trap / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hot Librarian / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Human Sacrifice / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Hunting "Accident" / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	I Know Karate / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	I Reject Your Reality / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Iconic Character, Forgotten Title / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Identification by Dental Records / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	I'll Take Two Beers Too / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Immoral Journalist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Impairment Shot / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	In the Hood / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Incoming! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Incurable Cough of Death / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Inescapable Net / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Inheritance Murder / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Instrument of Murder / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Instrumental Theme Tune / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Interclass Friendship / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Intimate Artistry / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Is This Thing Still On? / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	It Runs in the Family / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Jack the Ripoff / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Javelin Thrower / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Joggers Find Death / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Just One Little Mistake / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Kill It with Fire / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Killer Outfit / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Killing in Self-Defense / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Kinky Spanking / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Knife-Throwing Act / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Knights and Knaves / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Ladies and Germs / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Land Poor / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Last Day to Live / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Last Disrespects / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Lead Police Detective / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Let's You and Him Fight / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Letterbox Arson / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Life-or-Death Question / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Life's Work Ruined / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Lights Off, Somebody Dies / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Little Dead Riding Hood / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Loan Shark / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Locked in a Freezer / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Long Bus Trip / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Long List / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Loser Friend Puzzles Outsiders / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Lost Will and Testament / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Love Forgives All but Lust / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Love Makes You Crazy / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Luck-Based Search Technique / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Machete Mayhem / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Madwoman in the Attic / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Magic Plastic Surgery / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Make It Look Like a Struggle / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Medication Tampering / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mistaken for Junkie / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mistaken for Servant / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Monochrome Casting / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Monster Protection Racket / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	More Criminals Than Targets / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mrs. Hypothetical / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mummies at the Dinner Table / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Münchausen Syndrome / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Murder by Cremation / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Murder Simulators / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Muse Abuse / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mutually Unequal Relation / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	My Girl Is a Slut / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Myopic Architecture / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mystery Magnet / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Mystery of the Week / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Naked Apron / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Never a Runaway / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Never Mess with Granny / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Never One Murder / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	New Job as the Plot Demands / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	New Media Are Evil / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	New Neighbours as the Plot Demands / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Night-Vision Goggles / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	No Badge? No Problem! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	No Communities Were Harmed / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Nobody Here but Us Statues / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Nobody Over 50 Is Gay / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Not in My Backyard! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Not the First Victim / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Nouveau Riche / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Nun Too Holy / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Obsessively Organized / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Off the Wagon / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Old Cop, Young Cop / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Old Maid / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	1-Dimensional Thinking / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	One-Track-Minded Artist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Orgy of Evidence / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Paid-for Family / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Passed-Over Inheritance / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Patricide / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Phoney Call / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Phony Psychic / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Pick a Card / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Pinned to the Wall / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Pizza Boy Special Delivery / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Plot Allergy / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Pop-Star Composer / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Princeling Rivalry / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Prisoner's Dilemma / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Produce Pelting / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Prongs of Poseidon / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Protest By Obstruction / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Psycho Psychologist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Railroad Tracks of Doom / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Rain of Blood / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Raised Hand of Survival / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Ransacked Room / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Razor Floss / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Rescue Equipment Attack / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Resign in Protest / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Retro Universe / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Revealing Injury / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Revive the Ancient Custom / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Rising Water, Rising Tension / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Roasted Alive / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Robbing the Dead / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Rope Bridge / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Royal Bastard / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Runaway Bride / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Running Over the Plot / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sauna of Death / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Scary Scarecrows / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Scary Stinging Swarm / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Secretly-Gay Activity / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shady Real Estate Agent / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shaggy Search Technique / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shameful Source of Knowledge / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shear Menace / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shock Stick / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shoe Slap / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shoot the Rope / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shot at Dawn / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Shovel Strike / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Single Serving Friend / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sinister Minister / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sinister Whistling / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Skeleton Key Card / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Slashed Throat / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sleepwalking / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Small Town, Big Hell / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Smart People Know Latin / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Smithical Marriage / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Social Climber / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Spice Rack Panacea / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Spoiler Title / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Spot the Victim / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Staircase Tumble / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stalker Shrine / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Start to Corpse / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sticky Fingers / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stopped Clock / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Stripping the Scarecrow / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Students' Secret Society / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Suicide Pact / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Suspiciously Prescient Planning / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Symbolic Blood / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Sympathetic Murderer / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tag-Along Actor / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tainted Tobacco / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Taken Off the Case / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tank Goodness / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Taxidermy Is Creepy / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	10-Minute Retirement / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Terrible Trio / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	That One Case / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	That Poor Plant / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Butler Did It / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Casanova / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Catfish / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Dead Guy Did It / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Family That Slays Together / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Grand Hunt / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Great British Copper Capture / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Killer Was Left-Handed / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Killjoy / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Master / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Outsider Befriends the Best / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Peeping Tom / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Perfectionist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Place / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Problem with Pen Island / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Scottish Trope / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Team Wannabe / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Upper Crass / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Vicar / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	The Watson / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Theme Serial Killer / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Theremin / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	They Have the Scent! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	This Bear Was Framed / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	This Is a Drill / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Total Eclipse of the Plot / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Train Escape / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Translation by Volume / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tropical Epilogue / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Trouble Magnet Gambit / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Trust-Building Blunder / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Twang Hello / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	2xFore / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Two Dun It / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Two-Person Pool Party / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Unwilling Suspension / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Uranus Is Showing / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Use Your Head / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vapor Trail / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vehicular Assault / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Victim of the Week / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vigilante Execution / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vigilante Man / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Visual Innuendo / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	War Reenactors / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Widowed at the Wedding / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Witch Hunt / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Wolverine Claws / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Working with the Ex / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Worth It / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Wrench Whack / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Writing Indentation Clue / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	You Do Not Have to Say Anything / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	You Make Me Sic / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Shoot Me / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Baguette Beatdown / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Geographic Flexibility / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	It Always Rains at Funerals / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	Pursued Protagonist / int_e6318baf
Midsomer Murders	hasFeature	School for Scheming / int_e6318baf

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