| This Article needs additional content. (Remove this when complete.) Needed: Plot |
Secrets and Spies is the third episode of the twelfth series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired on 7th July 2009.
Synopsis[]
After a break-in at Causton Museum where an animal skull was stolen, ex-spy Brenda Packard tells Barnaby that Allenby House, owned by testy ex-spymaster Malcolm Frazer, is a safe house for agents. Geoffrey Larkin, a visiting former agent, has a bitter argument with Frazer, who accuses him of treachery when they were spying in Berlin during the Cold war. Larkin threatens Frazer with a dossier marked "Wolfman" and next day is murdered, seemingly by a wild animal, the legendary Beast of Midsomer. Frazer's drunkard son Nicky, another ex-spy, is killed in identical fashion, but Barnaby realises that the "Beast" is but a cover. The true murderer is seeking revenge for betrayal back in Berlin two decades earlier when they were involved with Secrets and Spies.
Plot[]
Cast[]
- John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
- Jason Hughes as DS Ben Jones
- Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
- Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard
- Kirsty Dillon as WDC Gail Stephens
- Clive Russell as Seth Comfort
- Neil Stuke as Glen Jarvis
- Jack Walker as Harry Fowler
- Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Malcolm Frazer
- Peter Davison as Nicky Frazer
- Alice Krige as Jenny Frazer
- John Bowe as Jimmy Wells
- Anna Massey as Brenda Packard
- Claudia Elmhirst as Amanda Watson
- Clive Wood as Geoffrey Larkin
- Josef Lindsay as Young Boy
- Timothy Carlton as Chief Constable
- Stephanie Jacob as Alice
- Tim Treloar as PC Reg
- Rosalind Drury as Young Jenny
- Tom Rooke as Young Nicky
- Marcus McSorley as Jenny's Lover (uncredited)
- Nick Thomas-Webster as Police Driver (uncredited)
- Chris Wilson as Police Officer (uncredited)
Galleries[]
Body Count[]
Prior to the Episode
Died of natural causes in 16th September 1993.
In the Episode
Stabbed in the neck with a corkscrew and then the area of the wound was mutilated by the fossilized teeth of a Saber-toothed cat to disguise it. His body was then taken to the cricket pitch.
Phoned to lure him outside, then while he was drunk was stabbed in neck and had his face mutilated by the fossilized teeth of a Saber-toothed cat.
Supporting Cast[]
Episode Images[]
Video[]
Midsomer Murders Series 12 Episode 3 - Secrets and Spies Preview
Notes[]
- Gail Stephens is promoted form Woman Police Constable(WPC) to Woman Detective Constable(WDC).
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have also appeared in the following episodes:
- Anna Massey - Written in Blood
- Neil Stuke - Send in the Clowns
- Benjamin Whitrow - Tainted Fruit
- Clive Wood - Blue Herrings and Wild Harvest
- Josef Lindsay - Dead Letters
- Stephanie Jacob - Last Year's Model and Master Class
- Tim Treloar - Birds of Prey, The Fisher King, The Straw Woman and Ghosts of Christmas Past
Trivia[]
- Dorney Court is used in this episode as Allenby House. It is also featured in Strangler's Wood as the Fox and Goose, Bantling Boy as Bantling Hall, Not in My Back Yard as Pelfe Hall, and in Drawing Dead.