Electric Vendetta is the third episode of the fourth season of Midsomer Murders and the sixteenth episode overall.
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 extraterrestrial 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 UFO's do exist.
But when Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy dig deeper, it seems there could be a far more simple explanation for these deaths – cold-blooded murder motivated by greed, love and jealousy. It’s another tangled web to be unravelled in one of the Midsomer villages by Barnaby and his faithful sidekick.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Crop Circles: Features prominently in the episode, with three bodies being found in crop circles.
- High-Voltage Death: Several murders are carried out through electrocution
- Staircase Tumble: Lloyd dies after being pushed down the stairs and breaking his neck.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never explained who moved the body of Eddie Field from the foundry to a crop circle.
