Roald Dahl Museum, High St, Great Missenden, Bucks, UK – Midsomer Murders, Painted In Blood (2003) - Movie Locations on Waymarking.com

Barret Filby is running an art class on the green of Midsomer Flory. The paintings are to be raffled for charity. Joyce Barnaby is one of the painters. At lunch time Joyce finds one of the other painters, Ruth Fairfax, dead under a bush at the back of the green. When Troy searches Fairfax’s room he finds theatrical make up. The pathologist finds that she is not the old woman she appeared, but a young woman made up to look old.

Meanwhile Major Godfrey Teal comes across a woman who has her bag snatched by a motorcycle gang on a country lane above the village. The woman had been taking photographs of Tony Carter and had a bank vault receipt. The photographs and bank receipt were in the stolen bag. Strangely, whilst Major Teal reported the incident to the police, the woman did not.

Whilst Barnaby and Troy are away from the murder scene two National Intelligence Team officers take over the case. They take away the woman’s body and tidy up her room. They later commandeer Troy to the investigation. Barnaby is instructed not to investigate, due to Joyce’s involvement. The two officers are under the command of DCI Gudgeon, who is always too busy to be contacted.

Undetered Barnaby has another look at Fairfax’s room and finds a bottle of pills in a space behind the sink. The name on the bottle is Angela Browning. A search on the police database reveals she was an undercover officer for the National Intelligence Team.

The murder weapon, a chisel belongs to a local builder. He is arrested by the NIT officers, but Barnaby knows he is innocent because Joyce had been painting him at work all morning. Barnaby goes on to investigate the bag snatching and manages to find the bag with the photos and bank receipt. He works out that Tony Carter was a police informant on a bank robbery and that the woman is the wife of one of the convicted robbers. Obviously Carter and the woman are going to get some of the proceeds of the robbery from the bank vault.

The bank is about to be closed at the end of the week so Barnaby goes to see the bank manager. In the vault is a wardrobe with five million pounds in it. Whilst Barnaby is in the vault Carter arrives with a gun and demands the money. Troy arrives and overpowers Carter. Barnaby stays in the vault after Carter is arrested and waits for the NIT officers to arrive. Barnaby arranges for the bank manager to look him and the NIT officers to be locked in the vault until Gudgeon arrives. When Gudgeon arrives it turns out that he is one of the artists, Alan Pinkney. Barnaby had worked out that Pinkney had killed Fairfax, because one of Pinkney’s brushes was under her body, and that Pinkney kept his brushes behind his ear. Gudgeon, aka Pinkney, had murdered Fairfax because he and the other two officers wanted the money from the bank vault for themselves.

Movie or TV Show: Midsomer Murders - Painted in Blood Year Released or First Aired: 2,003.00 IMDB Link: [Web Link]

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