Red in Tooth & Claw is the fourth episode of the nineteenth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired 18th January 2017.
Synopsis[]
At the annual Bellville Hall Small Pet Show, a local estate agent is found stabbed to death amid a herd of escaped rabbits. Could the killer have been an animal-rights activist, or was he or she after one of the prize-winning pets?
Plot[]
Delphi Hartley's annual summer pet show comes to Bellville Hall, and local businessman Timothy Benson is once again working hard to ensure his prize-winning rabbit, Hercules, claims Best in Show. However, shortly after opening, the show is rocked by the murder of local estate agent Seb Huntington, who is found inside the central marquee, covered in live rabbits. His girlfriend, Tegan Langton, who is Delphi's second in command, is left distraught by his death. Meanwhile, Benson is shocked to discover that Hercules appears to have disappeared without trace. Suspicion immediately falls on him and his wife Ailsa after DCI Barnaby and DS Winter discover that they both have conflicting alibis for the time of the murder. When Huntington's boss, and Tegan's mum, Cleo, is found dead in her car, having asphyxiated from an allergic reaction to rabbit hair which is found inside her air conditioning system, it soon appears that someone has a motive for harming everyone close to Tegan.
Cast[]
- Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby
- Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter
- Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby
- Navinder Bhatti as Jayesh Varma
- Sara Crowe as Ailsa Benson
- Maxim De Villiers as Seb Huntington
- Stirling Gallacher as Cleo Langton
- Sean Gallagher as Errol Judd
- Susan Hampshire as Delphi Hartley
- Vanessa Hehir as Belinda Tressel
- Aisling Loftus as Tegan Langton
- Simon Nagra as Dhruv Varma
- Michael Obiora as Dr. Oliver Marcet
- Steve Pemberton as Timothy Benson
- Tom Price as Perry Tressel
- Amit Shah as Shray Varma
- Raj Awasti as Villager (uncredited)
- Kishore Bhatt as Pet Handler (uncredited)
- Stephen Hawke as Midsomer Police Officer (uncredited)
- Glenn Webster as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Jo Wheatley as Villager (uncredited)
- Anick Wiget as Villager (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)
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Body Count[]
Stabbed in the neck with monogramed scissors stolen from Cleo, which pierced his carotid and bled him to death, before the scissors were replaced in Cleo's home.
Rabbit fur was placed in her car's ducts and as she was driving and turned on the A.C. system with the windows closed it triggered her allergy to rabbits. The allergy medication was removed from her purse, resulting in her death by respiratory failure.
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Notes[]
- First appearance of Dr. Oliver Marcet who is filling in for Dr. Kam Karimore while she is away for a month teaching a training course.