Crime and Punishment is the second episode of the nineteenth series of the popular British crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired 4th January 2017.
Synopsis
The Bleakridge Watch patrols the streets of their remote village, exposing anyone who steps outside the law. When one of their members dies, DCI Barnaby and new partner DS Jamie Winter uncover just how far some people will go for power.
Plot
The Bleakridge village watch are a Draconian bunch, penalizing the pettiest of offences. Barnaby and Winter investigate when one of their number, butcher Angus Colton, is murdered whilst looking into a spate of burglaries and his sister-in-law, the fearsome Ingrid Loxton explains that the group was established after her brother was killed in an unsolved hit and run. Not everybody supports the watch, notably landlord Mitch McAllister, who is attacked and his pub vandalized and who is prime suspect when another member of the group is killed. When Ingrid relents by asking Barnaby to help catch the murderer he discovers not only a burned out car stolen two years earlier from café owners Barbara and Duncan Walton for the hit and run but the identities of the burglar, putting Ingrid in a bad light, and the driver - who has cause to silence those watch members likely to expose their own form of crime and punishment.
Cast
- Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby
- Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter
- Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby
- Manjinder Virk as Dr Kam Karimore
- Frances Barber as Ingrid Lockston
- Marty Cruikshank as Cecily Hope
- Clive Swift as Felix Hope
- Neil Morrissey as Mitch McAllister
- Katy Cavanagh as Lena Ferrera
- Emilio Doorgasingh as Azeem Meer
- Joe Sims as Adrian Peck
- Sara Powell as Maxine Lockston
- Phoebe Campbell as Tara Lockston
- Philip Bird as Duncan Walton
- Vicki Pepperdine as Barbara Walton
- James Atherton as Jensen Marsh
- Sam Troughton as Henry Marsh
- Bern Collaço as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Susan Fordham as Passerby (uncredited)
- Harriet Garside as Bleakridge Watch (uncredited)
- Stephen Hawke as Midsomer Police Officer (uncredited)
- Ty Hurley as VIP Parish Councillor (uncredited)
- Shaun Lucas as Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Mike Ray as Pub Punter (uncredited)
- Deborah Rock as Bleakridge Neighbourhood Watch Officer (uncredited)
- A.k. Steppa as Passerby (uncredited)
- Glenn Webster as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Jo Wheatley as Neighbourhood Watch (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)