Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

The Electric Vendetta (2001)

John Nettles: DCI Tom Barnaby

Quotes 

• Michael Rycroft : [standing over dead body on autopsy table]  You're right. He was electrocuted.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Whatever happened to good old-fashioned shooting?

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : [sarcastically]  Maybe this is the new green way to zap your victims - no blood, no guts, just fried brains.

• Sgt. Gavin Troy : The wheat in the circles was burnt by butane gas. It comes in cylinders for gas blow torches. You can get it at any DIY store.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : [ironically]  Oh, not some derivative of kryptonite from the planet Zog?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : What's your opinion of Lloyd's beliefs, Lady Isabel?

  Lady Isabel Aubrey : All men are credulous animals.

  Lady Isabel Aubrey : We must all believe in something.

• Sgt. Gavin Troy : UFOs and ETs, sir, how did we get shunted into this siding?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : A suspicious death, Troy. And if we want to keep our pensions, we'd better find a better reason than that for Ronnie Stokes' death.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : [last lines]  Hey, look. The Mekon, now that was a real alien to me when I was a kid. Every night - every night before I turned out the light I used to look under the bed, see if he was there to capture me, carry me off to some God knows what galaxy, other side of the universe.

  Joyce Barnaby : What are you gonna do with these?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Well, saved 'em for Cully. It's boys stuff, isn't it, really? Think I' just bin the lot.

  Joyce Barnaby : Oh no, you don't. These'll fetch a fortune at Causton Charity Shop. UFOs are all the rage around here. Or didn't you know?

• Lloyd Kirby : How you goin' to arrest an extraterrestrial then?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : If they're guilty, everyone has to come back down to Earth.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : [sarcastically]  And in your case, Mr. Kirby, it'd be a very large bump.

• Lloyd Kirby : This has nothing whatever to do with extraterrestrial forms of life.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : I agree with you, Lloyd. This is murder.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Hello Troy. You're just in time. About to push the boat out.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : Evening, Mrs. Barnaby.

  Joyce Barnaby : Evening, Gavin. I get the feeling this is one of those "Tom can't have another drink " moments. Is that it?

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : Afraid so. Another body's been discovered, sir, in a second crop circle.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Another one?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : What about his hair? Look, there's a chunk cut out.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : Looks like he's been to my barber, sir.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Thank you, Sergeant.