# Electric Vendetta

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{{Infobox television episode
| series=[Midsomer Murders](/source/Midsomer_Murders)
| season=4
| episode=3
| airdate={{Start date|2001|09|02|df=yes}}
| writer=[Terry Hodgkinson](/source/Terry_Hodgkinson)
| director=Peter Smith
| guests= 
*[John Woodvine](/source/John_Woodvine) (Sir Harry Chatwyn)
* [Ursula Howells](/source/Ursula_Howells) (Lady Isabel Aubrey)
* [Amanda Mealing](/source/Amanda_Mealing) (Sally Boulter)
* [Alec McCowen](/source/Alec_McCowen) (Sir Christian Aubrey)
* [Kenneth Colley](/source/Kenneth_Colley) (Lloyd Kirby)
* [Patrick Baladi](/source/Patrick_Baladi) (Steve Ramsey)
* Donald Gee (Reverend Mr Ellis)
* [Charmian May](/source/Charmian_May) (Marian Leonard)
* [Michael Bertenshaw](/source/Michael_Bertenshaw) (Michael Rycroft)
| prev=[Destroying Angel](/source/Destroying_Angel_(Midsomer_Murders))
| next=Who Killed Cock Robin?
| episode_list = List of Midsomer Murders episodes
}}

"'''Electric Vendetta'''" is the third episode of the fourth season of ''[Midsomer Murders](/source/Midsomer_Murders)'' and the sixteenth episode overall. It stars [John Nettles](/source/John_Nettles) as [Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby](/source/Tom_Barnaby) and [Daniel Casey](/source/Daniel_Casey) as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy, where in a long-held grudge of forty years triggers a series of deaths disguised as [alien abduction](/source/alien_abduction)s.

The episode is notable for the fact that one of the deaths is not adequately explained in the denouement due to a mistake in the editing process.

== Plot ==
The episode involves [crop circles](/source/crop_circles). A man is found in the middle of one such circle, naked, with two puncture wounds on his back and the back of his head shaved. A local Ufologist claims extra terrestrial involvement but DCI [Tom Barnaby](/source/Tom_Barnaby) looks for a more plausible explanation.

When a series of bodies are found in mysterious crop circles in the cornfields of Sir Harry Chatwyn, squire of the village of Midsomer Parva, it looks like a case of extra terrestrial kidnapping. Two bodies, bearing the classic hallmarks of alien abduction – burnt fingers, a puncture wound to the lower back and a chunk cut out of the hair - seem to provide evidence that UFOs do exist.

Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy investigate a series of deaths in a Midsomer village, which are ultimately revealed to be murders connected to personal motives.

== The deaths ==
#Ronald Stokes - accidentally electrocuted himself
#Eddie Field - electrocuted at foundry. His death was never adequately explained in the episode. Producers later revealed the explanation had been forgotten in editing. {{citation needed|date=February 2013}}
#Steve Ramsey - murdered by electrocution
#Lloyd Kirby - thrown down stairs. Body dumped in a crop circle by Dave and Sally.
#Lady Isabel Aubrey - natural causes (She was still alive the last time seen by the audience, as the heart monitor did not flatline.) 
#Dave Rippert - killed in accidental head-on collision with a combine harvester seen earlier

{{Midsomer Murders}}

Category:Midsomer Murders episodes
Category:2001 British television episodes

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