Left for Dead

Season Eleven, Episode Three

Left for Dead

Airdate

20 July 2008

Village or Location

Dunstan

Writer

Michael Crompton

Director

Renny Rye

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Left for Dead is the third episode of the eleventh series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and first aired 20th July 2008.

Synopsis

Jones is brought back to his home town to help investigate a series of murders linked to childhood friends and events that occurred years earlier.

Plot

DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the deaths of Ron and Libby Wilson who are found dead in their cottage. They were found by Lynne Fox, a friend who claims to be a psychic and who offers to help the police. The cottage has been ransacked and they may be victims of a break-in gone bad. Soon after, Jack Purdy is killed and then dragged to his parked car. He had been out celebrating the previous evening for his brother Mark's stag night. He was also the man in charge of building a bypass around the town, which had lead to encounters with protesters including Alyssa Bradley, the owner of a home slated for destruction. There's a connection between the Wilsons and the Purdys: Jack and Mark Purdy's father who drove and accidentally killed the Wilson's only son, Michael. As for Alyssa Bradley, her son Patrick disappeared 19 years ago and she is convinced that he will return. When a third person is killed, Barnaby begins to unravel the mystery that dates back nearly 20 years.