Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Recap / MidsomerMurdersS12E7

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Gaslighting}}: Howard Richardson uses Connie's boots to plantFootprintsOfMuck on her doorstep as part of a scheme to convince her that she might be the killer. Circumstances intervene to make the bootprints less effective than they might have been, but seeds of doubt are planted in her mind.

to:

* {{Gaslighting}}: Howard Richardson uses Connie's boots to plantFootprintsOfMuck plant FootprintsOfMuck on her doorstep as part of a scheme to convince her that she might be the killer. Circumstances intervene to make the bootprints less effective than they might have been, but seeds of doubt are planted in her mind.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* {{Gaslighting}}: Howard Richardson uses Connie's boots to plantFootprintsOfMuck on her doorstep as part of a scheme to convince her that she might be the killer. Circumstances intervene to make the bootprints less effective than they might have been, but seeds of doubt are planted in her mind.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Sleepwalking}}: Richardson takes advantage of Connie's sleepwalking, combined with a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.

to:

* {{Sleepwalking}}: Richardson takes advantage of Connie's sleepwalking, combined with a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.murderer.
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Nervous teacher Connie Bishop annoys the neighbours with her constant cries that there is an intruder in her house until Jim Hanley is murdered in her garden. Rich bitch Zukie Richardson tells the police Jim was obsessed with Connie and that Jim's reasons for leaving the Frobisher Night Committee, organisers of an annual charity auction subsidised by Zukie's husband, are mysterious and unexplained. Womanising handyman Laurence Mann is killed after telling Connie he knows the murderer's identity and when Justin Hooper, a shy sculptor in love with Connie, stays the night in her house, he sees her sleep-walking. Barnaby pursues his suspect to the Frobisher Night auction to denounce the murderer before The Great and the Good.

to:

Nervous teacher Connie Bishop annoys the neighbours with her constant cries that there is an intruder in her house until Jim Hanley is murdered in her garden. Rich bitch Zukie Richardson tells the police Jim was obsessed with Connie and that Jim's reasons for leaving the Frobisher Night Committee, organisers of an annual charity auction subsidised by Zukie's husband, are mysterious and unexplained. Womanising handyman Laurence Mann is killed after telling Connie he knows the murderer's identity and when Justin Hooper, a shy sculptor {{sculptor|s}} in love with Connie, stays the night in her house, he sees her sleep-walking. Barnaby pursues his suspect to the Frobisher Night auction to denounce the murderer before The Great and the Good.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_great_and_the_good.jpg]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Sleepwalking}}: Richardson takes advantage of Connie's sleepwalking, combined a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.

to:

* {{Sleepwalking}}: Richardson takes advantage of Connie's sleepwalking, combined with a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

'''The Great and the Good''' is the seventh episode of the twelfth series of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' and was originally broadcast on 14th April 2010.

Nervous teacher Connie Bishop annoys the neighbours with her constant cries that there is an intruder in her house until Jim Hanley is murdered in her garden. Rich bitch Zukie Richardson tells the police Jim was obsessed with Connie and that Jim's reasons for leaving the Frobisher Night Committee, organisers of an annual charity auction subsidised by Zukie's husband, are mysterious and unexplained. Womanising handyman Laurence Mann is killed after telling Connie he knows the murderer's identity and when Justin Hooper, a shy sculptor in love with Connie, stays the night in her house, he sees her sleep-walking. Barnaby pursues his suspect to the Frobisher Night auction to denounce the murderer before The Great and the Good.
----
!!Tropes:
* FootprintsOfMuck: Howard Richardson uses Connie's boots to plant muddy bootprints on her doorstep as part of a {{Gaslighting}} scheme to convince her that she might be the killer. Circumstances intervene to make the bootprints less effective than they might have been, but seeds of doubt are planted in her mind.
* ThePeepingTom: [[VictimOfTheWeek Jim Hanley]] is a peeping tom who is spying on the attractive Connie. As it turns out, his voyeurism is only tangentially connected to the reason for his murder, but it does serve as a useful RedHerring.
* SlashedThroat: The method used by Richardson to dispose of his two victims.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Richardson takes advantage of Connie's sleepwalking, combined a little strategic {{Gaslighting}}, to make her believe she might be the murderer.

Top