History Monster / MidsomerMurders

-->--"[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]"

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* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": [[EgocentricallyReligious David Orchard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, luring in his victims with his friendly façade and, after killing them, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even sadistically stalking and trying to bludgeon to death his last victim before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play himself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

->''' DCI John Barnaby''': A recreation of a dead bride in the bath and a trunk murder. Why?\\
'''David Orchard''': I-I teach modern history from 1792 to the Age of Enlightenment up until the 1950s.\\
'''Barnaby''': And?\\
'''Orchard''': Er, well...Sensational murder stories of the past have always appealed to me. I love the newspaper headlines of the day. They were so graphic, so ''detailed''. And those marvelous crowds outside the prison gates on execution days.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS15E6 Schooled in Murder]]": [[ItsAllAboutMe Hayley Brantner]], to assure she isn't seen as "weak" by the town, turns to murder to feel empowered. Hayley targets everyone whom she feels has put her down in the past, crushing an old schoolmate's skull with a wheel of cheese; garroting another man to death; [[TilMurderDoUsPart stabbing her husband]] through the heart with a cheese needle; and leaving a woman and her guiltless husband to be trampled to death by cows. After her final two attempted murders are foiled, Hayley's self-pitying MotiveRant is [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse thrown right back in her face as a shallow excuse]] for her uniquely long line of victims.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": [[EgocentricallyReligious David Orchard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingl kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, luring in his victims with his friendly façade and, after killing them, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even sadistically stalking and trying to bludgeon to death his last victim before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play himself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": [[EgocentricallyReligious David Orchard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, luring in his victims with his friendly facade and after killing them, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even sadistcally stalking and trying to bludgeon to death his last victim before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play himself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E7 A Sacred Trust]]": [[SociopathicSoldier Matthew Hendred]] is a smug, boorish man who regularly mistreats his family and is secretly a former mercenary who in his youth fought in a Sub-Sahara war. In 1978 he participated in the attack of an African village where twenty-three unarmed civilians were massacred. After the war, using the connections he'd developed Hendred set up a "[[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security]]" company, making himself very rich. Blackmailed by a survivor of the massacre, now an elderly nun at Midsomer Priory, who wanted him to donate a portion of his fortune to a charity for war victims as penance, Hendred opts to simply [[HeKnowsTooMuch silence her]]. Breaking into the Priory he mistakenly strangles the wrong nun. Then thinking he also knew the truth, he strangles the local priest, and upon realizing his mistake tried again to kill the nun, willing to murder anybody to hide his DarkSecret.
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS15E6 Schooled in Murder]]": [[ItsAllAboutMe Hayley Brantner]], to assure she isn't seen as "weak" by the town, turns to murder to feel empowered. Hayley targets everyone whom she feels has put her down in the past, crushing an old schoolmate's skull with a wheel of cheese; garroting another man to death; stabbing her husband through the heart with a cheese needle; and leaving a woman and her guiltless husband to be trampled to death by cows. After her final two attempted murders are foiled, Hayley's self-pitying MotiveRant is [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse thrown right back in her face as a shallow excuse]] for her uniquely long line of victims.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E6 The Straw Woman]]": [[{{Pyromaniac}} Agnes Waterhouse]] is a sociopath obsessed with the "perfect death" with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning her victims alive]]. To eliminate potential obstacles, Agnes traps the local consulate in a straw woman to have him burned alive and screaming; murders the consulate's gay lover and attempts to take the life of a doctor by setting their clothes alight with phosphorous; and murders the innocent schoolteacher Liz Francis by bludgeoning her with a candlestick and setting her alight. Agnes tosses the blame on her rival and nearly commits MurderSuicide with her ward Alan Clifford. When asked why she murdered Liz by a grieving Dan Scott, Agnes's only response is a cheerful smile and a remorseless affirmation of "I had to".
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E7 Talking to the Dead]]": Stanley [[IronicName Goodfellow]] is a callous, selfish man who, knowing his employer's secrets, spent years enriching himself by stealing from him knowing he wouldn't risk being exposed. Upon a theft being interrupted by another burglar Goodfellow stabbed him death. Learning his accomplice and their wife Molly wanted to go to the police, Goodfellow kidnapped them along with his own wife Nesta. Shooting the accomplice for attempting to overpower him; he murdered Molly for trying to escape; and [[BunkerWoman imprisoned Nesta in a disused well for several days]], leaving her to slowly die of dehydration. Following a confrontation with his wife's lover, Goodfellow murdered him with an IronMaiden specially designed so [[HumanPincushion the spikes would slowly extend out gradually impaling the victim]], mockingly dismissing it as "he wasn't quick enough" to escape him. Caught and confessing to everything, Goodfellow admitted to finding entire situation amusing, having no remorse and [[NeverMyFault taking no responsibility]] for the deaths his selfish choices caused.
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": [[TortureTechnician Patricia Blackshaw]] seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, [[WouldHarmASenior an old woman in her 80s]], and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses nearly all other killers.
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 Master Class]]": [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sir Michael Fielding]] is a seemingly genial, supportive figure who in fact is a twisted eugenicist. Convinced that concentrating his genes would breed a superior child, Fielding repeatedly [[ParentalIncest raped his daughter]] Molly, who [[DrivenToSuicide drowned herself to escape]]. Eighteen years later, Fielding is obsessed with impregnating his daughter/granddaughter, eliminating anyone whom he perceives as an obstacle: almost crushing Tom Barnaby to death; hanging a young student for flirting with the granddaughter; [[SlashedThroat slits a kindly priest's throat]] for attempting to protect her; and [[VehicularSabotage engineers a car crash]] in an attempt to kill her adopted parents. Caught, the remorseless Fielding boasts his elitism, claiming the country is descending into idiots and degenerates, and "someone had to take a stand".

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E7 Talking to the Dead]]": Stanley [[IronicName Goodfellow]] is a callous, [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] man who, knowing his employer's secrets, spent years enriching himself by stealing from him knowing he wouldn't risk being exposed. Upon a theft being interrupted by another burglar Goodfellow stabbed him death. Learning his accomplice and their wife Molly wanted to go to the police Goodfellow kidnapped them along with his own wife Nesta. Shooting the accomplice for attempting to overpower him; he murdered Molly for trying to escape; and [[BunkerWoman imprisoned Nesta in a disused well for several days]], leaving her to slowly die of dehydration. Following a confrontation with his wife's lover, Goodfellow murdered him with an IronMaiden specially designed so [[HumanPincushion the spikes would slowly extend out gradually impaling the victim]], mockingly dismissing it as "he wasn't quick enough" to escape him. Caught and confessing to everything, Goodfellow admitted to finding entire situation amusing, having no remorse and [[NeverMyFault taking no responsibility]] for the deaths his selfish choices caused.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E6 The Straw Woman]]": [[{{Pyromaniac}} Agnes Waterhouse]] is a sociopath obsessed with the "perfect death" with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning her victims]] alive. To eliminate potential obstacles, Agnes traps the local consulate in a straw woman to have him burned alive and screaming; murders the consulate's gay lover and attempts the life of a doctor by setting their clothes alight with phosphorous; and murders the innocent schoolteacher Liz Francis by bludgeoning her with a candlestick and setting her alight. Agnes tosses the blame on her rival and nearly commits murder-suicide with her ward Alan Clifford, and when asked why she murdered Liz by a grieving Dan Scott, Agnes's only response is a cheerful smile and a remorseless affirmation of "I had to".
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E7 Talking to the Dead]]": Stanley [[IronicName Goodfellow]] is a callous, [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] man who, knowing his employer's secrets, spent years enriching himself by stealing from him knowing he wouldn't risk being exposed. Upon a theft being interrupted by another burglar Goodfellow stabbed him death. Learning his accomplice and their wife Molly wanted to go to the police Goodfellow kidnapped them along with his own wife Nesta. Shooting the accomplice for attempting to overpower him; he murdered Molly for trying to escape; and imprisoned Nesta in a disused well for several days, leaving her to slowly die of dehydration. Following a confrontation with his wife's lover, Goodfellow murdered him with an IronMaiden specially designed so [[HumanPincushion the spikes would slowly extend out gradually impaling the victim]], mockingly dismissing it as "he wasn't quick enough" to escape him. Caught and confessing to everything, Goodfellow admitted to finding entire situation amusing, having no remorse and [[NeverMyFault taking no responsibility]] for the deaths his selfish choices caused.
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": [[TortureTechnician Patricia Blackshaw]] seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses nearly all other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E7 A Sacred Trust]]": [[SociopathicSoldier Matthew Hendred]] is a smug, boorish man who regularly mistreats his family and is secretly a former mercenary who in his youth fought in a Sub-Sahara war. In 1978 he participated in the attack of an African village where twenty-three unarmed civilians were massacred. After the war, using the connections he'd developed Hendred set up a "[[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security]]" company, making himself very rich. Blackmailed by a survivor of the massacre, now an elderly nun at Midsomer Priory, who wanted him to donate a portion of his fortune to a charity for war victims as penance, Hendred opts to simply silence her. Breaking into the Priory he mistakenly strangles the wrong nun. Then thinking he also knew the truth, he strangles the local priest, and upon realizing his mistake tried again to kill the nun, willing to murder anybody to hide his dark secret.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E7 A Sacred Trust]]": [[SociopathicSoldier Matthew Hendred]] is a smug, boorish man who regularly mistreats his family and is secretly a former mercenary who in his youth fought in a Sub-Sahara war. In 1978 he participated in the attack of an African village where twenty-three unarmed civilians were massacred. After the war, using the connections he'd developed Hendred set up a "[[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security]]" company, making himself very rich. Blackmailed by a survivor of the massacre, now an elderly nun at Midsomer Priory, who wanted him to donate a portion of his fortune to a charity for war victims as penance, Hendred opts to simply silence her. Breaking into the Priory he mistakenly strangles the wrong nun. Then thinking he also knew strangles the local priest, and upon realizing his mistake tried again to kill the nun, willing to murder anybody to hide his dark secret.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": [[TortureTechnian Patricia Blackshaw]] seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses nearly all other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": Patricia Blackshaw seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses nearly all other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": Patricia Blackshaw seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses many other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": Patricia Blackstone seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure her own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses many other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": [[ThemeSerialKiller David Orchard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even attempting one last kill before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play himself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E2 The Black Book]]": Patricia Blackstone seeks to [[{{Greed}} increase the value]] of their collection of paintings by the famed artist Hogson. After being outbid on a Hogson painting, Patricia tracks down the seller, an old woman in her 80s, and tortures her hideously by burning her on a stove before murdering her after prolonged torture. Tracking down a man involved in a forgery ring, Patricia ties him up and spends a long while working on him with a knife to get information before dispatching him as well. Finally [[SlashedThroat slashing the throat]] of an art dealer, Patricia confesses her intention was to make sure their own collection was worth more by eliminating forgeries, showcasing a penchant for ColdBloodedTorture that surpasses many other killers.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": [[ThemeSerialKiller David Orchard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even attempting one last kill before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play themself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

'''Orchard''': Er, well... Sensational murder stories of the past have always appealed to me. I love the newspaper headlines of the day. They were so graphic, so ''detailed''. And those marvellous crowds outside the prison gates on execution days.

-->--''Series/MidsomerMurders''

->''' DCI Tom Barnaby''': A recreation of a dead bride in the bath and a trunk murder. Why?\\

->''' DCI Tom Barnaby''': A recreation of a dead bride in the bath and a trunk murder. Why?//
'''David Orchard''': I-I teach modern history from 1792 to the Age of Enlightenment up until the 1950s.//
'''Barnaby''': And?//

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 Master Class]]": [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sir Michael Fielding]] is a seemingly genial, supportive figure who in fact is a twisted eugenicist. Convinced that concentrating his genes would breed a superior child, Fielding repeatedly [[ParentalIncest raped his daughter]] Molly, who [[DrivenToSuicide drowned herself to escape]]. Eighteen years later, Fielding is obsessed with impregnating his daughter/granddaughter, eliminating anyone whom he perceives as an obstacle: almost crushing Tom Barnaby to death; hanging a young student for flirting with the granddaughter; [[SlashedThroat slits a kindly priest's throat]] for attempting to protect her; and [[VehicularSabotage engineers a car crash]] in an attempt to kill her adopted parents. Caught, the remorseless Fielding boasts his elitism, claiming the country is descending into idiots and degenerates, and "someone had to take a stand".

For a quote Mir said that he had a really good one about David Orchard if a page was ever made, so I imagine he'll give it once he gets back from doing his university application.

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E6 The Straw Woman]]": Agnes Waterhouse is a sociopath obsessed with the "perfect death" with a liking for [[ManOnFire burning her victims]] alive. To eliminate potential obstacles, Agnes traps the local consulate in a straw woman to have him burned alive and screaming; murders the consulate's gay lover and attempts the life of a doctor by setting their clothes alight with phosphorous; and murders the innocent schoolteacher Liz Francis by bludgeoning her with a candlestick and setting her alight. Agnes tosses the blame on her rival and nearly commits murder-suicide with her ward Alan Clifford, and when asked why she murdered Liz by a grieving Dan Scott, Agnes's only response is a cheerful smile and a remorseless affirmation of "I had to".

* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 Master Class]]": Sir Michael Fielding is a seemingly genial, supportive figure who in fact is a [[EvilutionaryBiologist twisted eugenicist]]. Convinced that concentrating his genes would breed a superior child, Fielding repeatedly [[ParentalIncest raped his daughter]] Molly, who [[DrivenToSuicide drowned herself to escape]]. Eighteen years later, Fielding is obsessed with impregnating his daughter/granddaughter, eliminating anyone whom he perceives as an obstacle: almost crushing Tom Barnaby to death; hanging a young student for flirting with the granddaughter; [[SlashedThroat slits a kindly priest's throat]] for attempting to protect her; and [[VehicularSabotage engineers a car crash]] in an attempt to kill her adopted parents. Caught, the remorseless Fielding boasts his elitism, claiming the country is descending into idiots and degenerates, and "someone had to take a stand".
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E3 Echoes of the Dead]]": David Orchard is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly-kindly individual]] who in truth is a depraved and sadistic monster [[HidingBehindReligion hiding behind false piety]]. After being dumped, Orchard snaps and begins a killing spree, posing his victims in the style of famous murder cases. Orchard brutally murders those he deems to have "[[KnightTemplar sinned towards God]]" and drowns a young woman who had been in a relationship outside of marriage; strangles and dismembers another who planned to marry her lesbian lover; and brutally beats to death an elderly couple with a sledgehammer, even attempting one last kill before being stopped. Upon capture, Orchard attempts to play themself as a victim, but is called out by John Barnaby as just a madman with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E7 A Sacred Trust]]": Matthew Hendred is a smug, boorish man who regularly mistreats his family and is secretly a former mercenary who in his youth fought in a Sub-Sahara war. In 1978 he participated in the attack of an African village where twenty-three unarmed civilians were massacred. After the war, using the connections he'd developed Hendred set up a "[[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security]]" company, making himself very rich. Blackmailed by a survivor of the massacre, now an elderly nun at Midsomer Priory, who wanted him to donate a portion of his fortune to a charity for war victims as penance, Hendred opts to simply silence her. Breaking into the Priory he mistakenly strangles the wrong nun. Then thinking he also knew strangles the local priest, and upon realizing his mistake tried again to kill the nun, willing to murder anybody to hide his dark secret.
* "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS15E6 Schooled in Murder]]": Hayley Brantner, to assure she isn't seen as "weak" by the town, turns to murder to feel empowered. Hayley targets everyone whom she feels has put her down in the past, crushing an old schoolmate's skull with a wheel of cheese; garroting another man to death; stabbing her husband through the heart with a cheese needle; and leaving a woman and her guiltless husband to be trampled to death by cows. After her final two attempted murders are foiled, Hayley's self-pitying MotiveRant is thrown right back in her face as a shallow excuse for her uniquely long line of victims.