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Alex-deakin.jpg|Rev. [[Alex Deakin]]<br>Drank drugged coffee and then placed inside the Straw Woman which was set on fire. |
Alex-deakin.jpg|Rev. [[Alex Deakin]]<br>Drank drugged coffee and then placed inside the Straw Woman which was set on fire. |
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Jim-hale.jpg|Rev. [[Jim Hale]]<br>Burned alive after clothes were covered in phosphorous. |
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Alan-clifford.jpg|[[Alan Clifford]] |
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Jo-clifford.jpg|[[Jo Clifford]] |
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Agnes-waterhouse.jpg|[[Agnes Waterhouse]] |
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Revision as of 14:11, 20 February 2019
The Straw Woman is the sixth episode of te seventh series of the popular ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders and originally aired on 29 February 2004.
Synopsis
When Alex Deakin, the curate of the local church in Midsomer Parva is burned alive in the effigy of the straw woman, DCI Barnaby and DS Scott find themselves investigating what must be a murder. Many of the villagers lay the blame on Alan Clifford who has made his fortune in the sex industry and has moved into the local manor house. There were others in the village however that objected to what they saw as a pagan festival. When the vicar is also killed - he too is burned to death in what some believe is the result of spontaneous combustion - the police have difficulty keeping some of the villagers from taking justice into their own hands. As the death toll keeps mounting, Barnaby realizes that the solution is to be found in old parish records.
Plot
When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds an orgy at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.
Cast
- John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
- John Hopkins as Sergeant Dan Scott
- Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
- Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
- Barry Jackson as Dr. George Bullard
- Keith Barron as Alan Clifford
- Maggie O'Neill as Agnes Waterhouse
- Kelly Hunter as Kate Malpas
- Susannah Wise as Liz Francis
- Richenda Carey as Margaret Hopkins
- Richard Cordery as Dr. John Cole
- Jemima Rooper as Jo Clifford
- Daniel Weyman as Matthew Cole
- Jonathan Hackett as Rev Jim Hale
- Martin Herdman as Jed Fox
- Caroline Lintott as Sally Middleton
- Sarah Ball as Denise Jenkins
- Madeleine Rakic-Platt as Lucy Middleton
- Alex Belcourt as WPC
- John Warman as Policeman (uncredited)
- Charles Millham as Detective
- Christopher Sutton as Aidan Aged 11
- Gemma Bourne as Phoebe Aged 12 (as Gemma Martin)
- Luke Foster as Howard Aged 4
- Tim Treloar as Drinker in Pub
- Laura Jeffree as Girl
- Zoe Verner as Drunk Girl (uncredited)
Galleries
Body Count
Drank drugged coffee and then placed inside the Straw Woman which was set on fire.
Burned alive after clothes were covered in phosphorous.
Supporting Cast
Episode Images
