Destroying Angel (Midsomer Murders episode)

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“Destroying Angel”
Midsomer Murders episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 2
Written by	David Hoskins
Directed by	David Tucker
Original airdate	26 August 2001
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Destroying Angel is the second episode of the fourth series of Midsomer Murders and the fifteenth episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy.

[edit] Plot

The will of late hotelier Karl Wainright causes ructions amongst his staff, and soon a serial murderer begins hunting down the beneficiaries, dispatching of them in increasingly gruesome and imaginative ways. Meanwhile, Barnaby and Troy discover the bizarre village tradition of exposing dark secrets - through cryptic Punch and Judy shows.

[edit] The deaths

1. Karl Wainright - smothered with a pillow.
2. Gregory Chambers - shot with an arrow.
3. Tristan Goodfellow - poisoned by mushrooms.
4. Kenneth Gooders - crushed by a falling drinks cabinet that had been unscrewed from a wall.
5. Suzanna Chambers - blasted with a shotgun.
6. Evelyn Pope - overdosed on pills (suicide).