As soon as the main cast is introduced, you know it won't be the best episode. It is like they had swept up leftovers into a pile and then dumped them into roles in this episode. Lack luster... mediocre...out of sorts...not the sort of quality usually seen in Midsomer. I don't know why they would go ahead with such a haphazard collection of characters and disjointed ideas. Whatever they were trying to prove or appease it was a dismal failure. No depth to most of the characters, like a raindrop on a windshield. There is no doubt as to why they are seldom seen in the county. Barnaby & Winter unfortunately can only do so much to pull such twaddle together. Whatever or whoever was responsible should have been chucked, like the water being bailed in the episode, into the bin barrel and poured out elsewhere. Poorly written with lackluster additions leaves a pile to be shoveled away. Not the usual Midsomer at all.