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Blood Wedding is the second episode of the eleventh series of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and was originally aired on 6th July 2008.
Synopsis[]
Cully is finally getting married and Tom Barnaby is anxious to keep costs down as Joyce brings in a camp wedding planner. More dramatic is the union between aristocrat Ned Fitzroy and Beth Porteous when maid of honour Marina is found skewered to a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. The Fitzroy family's lordly attitude does not help the investigation and then estate manager Robin Lawson and old family servant Peggy are both murdered. Barnaby discovers that both were aware of a sinister Fitzroy family secret, culminating in the events of the Blood Wedding.
Plot[]
Cast[]
- John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
- Jason Hughes as DS Ben Jones
- Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
- Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
- Barry Jackson as Dr George Bullard
- Sam Hazeldine as Simon Dixon
- Daniel Casey as DI Gavin Troy
- Charles Edwards as Ned (Sir Edward) Fitzroy
- Mark Umbers as Harry Fitzroy
- Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Beth Porteous
- Martin Wenner as Robin Lawson
- Nicholas Palliser as Marcus Fitzroy
- Simon Paisley Day as Randall Colquhoun
- Beth Chalmers as Marina Fellowes
- Veronica Roberts as Mary Cooper
- Emma Cunniffe as Sally Fielding
- Denyse Alexander as Peggy Benson
- Kirsty Dillon as WPC Gail Stephens
- Patrick Barlow as Maurice Morrison
- Olivia Llewellyn as Helen
- Perri Snowdon as James
- James Howard as Lord Fitzroy
- Charity Reindorp as Lady Fitzroy
- Sally-Ann Burnett as Young Peggy Benson (as Sally Ann Burnett)
- Daphne Oxenford as Cully's Grandmother (Muriel)
- John Burgess as Cully's Grandfather (Douglas)
- Richard Bailey as Uncle Richard (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)
Galleries[]
Body Count[]
Prior to the Episode
Died of natural causes.
Died of natural causes.
In the Episode
Stabbed with a knife through the chest and pinned to the wall.
Shot in the heart with an arrow.
While she was sitting in her armchair, was held from behind and stabbed with a hat pin that was pushed through her ear.
Supporting Cast[]
Shown in 1971.
Episode Images[]
Cully's Wedding[]
Arrests[]
Lord Edward (Ned) Fitzroy for the murders of:
Notes[]
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have also appeared in the following episodes
- Denyse Alexander - Death of a Hollow Man
- Sam Hazeldine - The Axeman Cometh, Death and Dust and Death in a Chocolate Box
- Mark Umbers - Sins of Commission
- Daphne Oxenford - Ghosts of Christmas Past and Four Funerals and a Wedding
- John Burgess - Ghosts of Christmas Past
- Richard Bailey - They Seek Him Here
- Emma Cunniffe - Habeas Corpus
Trivia[]
Romantic Entanglements:
- Robin Lawson was Lady Fitzroy's illegitimate son. He was half-brother to Ned and Harry Fitzroy.
- Harry Fitzroy, Ned's brother, and Beth Porteous, Ned's fiancée, were having an affair, before and after her wedding.
- Marina Fellowes and Marcus Fitzroy, Ned and Harry's uncle, had a relationship. Marcus was still in love with her, but...
- Marina, Beth's Maid of Honor, was in love with Lord Ned Fitzroy, who married Beth. Marina threatened to out him, so he killed her.
- After Ned got arrested, Harry wanted to continue with Beth, but she was happy being Lady Fitzroy, albeit without husband, who is in jail.
Trials and Tribulations of former DS Gavin Troy:
- Almost runs into Barnaby on the way to Cully's wedding. His car goes off the road, but Troy comes out unscathed.
- The scene where Barnaby and Troy nearly collide is a nod to Tainted Fruit where a similar incident took place right down to a red car being involved, except it was Troy driving the police car that time. Barnaby makes reference to it once Troy is in the car with him by observing Troy was never a very good driver.
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Video[]
Midsomer Murders Series 11 Episode 2 - Blood Wedding Preview