Dead in the Water (Midsomer Murders)

"**Dead in the Water**"
"Dead in the Water"
Midsomer Murders episode
Episode no.	Season 8; Episode 2
Directed by	Renny Rye
Written by	Douglas Watkinson
Original air date	17 October 2004
Guest appearances
	Adrian Lukis (Phillip Trent); William Scott-Masson (John Parkway); Benedick Blythe (Guy Sweetman); Diana Quick (Claire Bonavita); Clemency Burton-Hill (Hettie Trent); Mark Frost (Vic Lynton); Owain Yeoman (Henry Charlton)
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"Dead in the Water" is the second episode of the eighth season of British television show Midsomer Murders and the thirty seventh episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and John Hopkins as Detective Sergeant Dan Scott. The boating scenes were filmed in Henley, Oxfordshire.^[1]

Plot

Barnaby is persuaded by his wife to take a day out at the Midsomer Regatta. He is soon called into action however, when a body appears during a race. He discovers it is Guy Sweetman, a member of the club, and something of a ladies man. Barnaby tries to solve both the murder, and a spate of robberies in the area, which ultimately prove to be connected.

References

^ "Midsomer Murders" Dead in the Water (2004) - Filming locations

[1] "Midsomer Murders" Dead in the Water (2004) - Filming locations

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v t e Midsomer Murders
Episodes	"Destroying Angel" "Electric Vendetta" "Market For Murder" "Ring Out Your Dead" "Dead in the Water" "Orchis Fatalis" "The Christmas Haunting" "The Killings of Copenhagen"
Characters	Tom Barnaby
Novels by Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) Death of a Hollow Man (1989) Death in Disguise (1992) Written in Blood (1994) Faithful unto Death (1996) A Place of Safety (1999) A Ghost in the Machine (2004)