Jolly Woodman, Littleworth Common, Bucks, UK – Midsomer Murders, Shot At Dawn (2008) - Movie Locations on Waymarking.com

In Midsomer Parva there is a ceremony at the war memorial to commemorate the placing of Tommy Hick’s name on the war memorial. Tommy Hicks was shot for cowardice in World War 1 by an officer called Hammond. There has been animosity between the Hicks and Hammond families ever since.

Two of the chief protagonists are Colonel Henry Hammond and Lionel Hicks, both wheelchair bound, but combative as ever. Henry’s son Johnny is running a Midsomer Yeomanry re-enactment group. Some of the group have a few too many beers at the local hostelry and kidnap Henry and put him through a mock firing squad. The group leave Henry tied up and someone shoots him and send his wheel chair into the path of a milk float. Barnaby and Jones investigate the murder.

For all the antipathy of the two families, there are various inter family liaisons. Will Hicks, Lionel’s grandson, is intent on marrying Sophie Hammond, Henry’s granddaughter, and Bella, Johnny’s wife, is having a secret affair with Dave Hicks, Lionel’s son.

Whilst Lionel Hicks and Mickey Ryan are at the war memorial a radio controlled car comes to meet them. Mickey picks it up and realises that there is a bomb underneath it. He throws it away just as it explodes. Slightly later Johnny Hammond is killed by a Gatling gun as he goes to his garage. The Gatling gin had been triggered by radio control when Johnny used the remote control on the garage doors.

Barnaby finds out that Johnny was on the way to the solicitor’s office to see about the will, and that whoever killed him knew that. Barnaby and Jones visit the solicitor and find out that the Hicks will inherit Hammond land when Bella dies. Barnaby rushes off to save Bella from being murdered by a remote controlled combine harvester in a nearby field.

The common threads of the murders are knowledge of electronics, munitions and explosives. Barnaby correctly surmises that Lionel Hicks fits the bill, having been in the army and run a TV repair business. But Lionel is in a wheel chair. Barnaby roots out that Lionel has been fiddling benefit and is capable of walking and arrests him.

Movie or TV Show: Midsomer Murders - Shot At Dawn Year Released or First Aired: 2,008.00 IMDB Link: [Web Link]

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