The Lions of Causton is the fourth episode of the twentieth series of Midsomer Murders and was first aired through Acorn TV streaming service to the U.S. on 3rd May 2018. It was later transmitted in the UK, on 26th May 2019.
Barnaby and Winter sift through old grudges, intimate affairs and artisanal chocolates to find the culprit behind a death at a rugby club.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Chemistry: A room full of 100% oxygen cannot explode. Oxygen does not burn by itself. It helps other stuff burn, but then you have to have something that catches fire. Most well-known is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, which will certainly explode.
- Force Feeding: Dominic Braun is stunned, and then the killer pours molten chocolate down his throat until till he drowns.
- Locked in a Freezer: Mark Adler is shut in a cryo room intended to treat soft tissue injuries. Patients are usually subjected to -60 degrees for 5 minutes. The killer sets the temperature to -150 degrees and leaves Mark in there overnight.
