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Dead Letters is the second episode of the ninth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired on 26th February 2006.

Synopsis[]

Barnaby and Jones investigate the death of Marion Slade who is found face down in a stream just a short walk from the Midsomer Barton village fête. Oddly, Barnaby encounters a woman and her son who bear a striking resemblance to a pair who were murdered eight years before. They soon discover another body, that of Slade's neighbour, Mark Castle. Both victims had been mildly sedated with the same drug, leading to the conclusion that they were killed by the same person. The motive for the crime is related to the death of Slade's daughter Bella many years before and an abortion that everyone has kept secret all these years.

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Midsomer Murders Series 9 Episode 2 - Dead Letters Preview

Quotes[]

DCI Barnaby: "Good God."
DC Jones: "Anything wrong, sir?"
DCI Barnaby: "Yeah. You see those two on the stage, lady with the red hat and the fellow with the ponytail? I could swear I had met them before, some years ago. But it's not possible."
DC Jones: "Why?"
DCI Barnaby: "Well, because the people I knew were both brutally murdered."
— DCI Barnaby to DC Jones when he sees Ursula and Alistair Gooding on stage.


DC Jones: "Then there's this. <points to a knife stuck in a tree>"
George Bullard: "If that was the knife that killed him, then he didn't kill himself."
DC Jones: "No, the knife would still be in his hand. <reaches for the knife>"
George Bullard: "Don't touch! Now, only a CID man would think of that."
— Pathologist George Bullard needling DC Jones in front of DCI Barnaby as Jones and Barnaby arrive at the crime scene.


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The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have appeared in other episodes:

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