Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.
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Duncan Watkinson
- Policeman
- (as Duncan Clyde)
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- TriviaAt about 18:17 Inspector Barnaby refers to the poem by Rudyard Kipling, "Dane-geld", and the famous line, "once you have paid him the Dane-geld/ You never get rid of the Dane". Dane-geld (also spelled Danegeld) was money paid to Vikings and others in the Middle Ages to keep them from raiding England, now what one would call protection money or blackmail.
- GoofsBarnaby checks Hatchard's exemplary Hong Kong Police Service which puzzlingly fails to detail his arrest and imprisonment for people trafficking. Also Hatchard apparently bribed his way out of jail and made it back to England , set up a successful seafood business, but never bothered to change his name or disguise his identity and background.
- Quotes
Detective Constable Ben Jones: Sounds good, sir; a trip to the seaside. Should we toss for it?
DCI Tom Barnaby: I already did. I won.
- ConnectionsReferences The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Featured review
Maybe Concidences Are Too Helpful
Sometimes Barnaby just benefits by a lot of luck. There is a bit too much of it in this offering. A horrible blackmailer, smug a smarmy, has been brutally murdered. Even though he probably had it coming, Barnaby and Jones must try their best to find the killer. There are few suspects and a couple of people finding personal gain in the process. Barnaby finds a likable character in a man who lives by the seaside. He is helpful in the investigation. His wife is kind, and he looks like he could be a good friend for our DCI. He is himself an ex-policeman and very good natured. Anyway, there are a couple victims, not of murder, but of rumors and slander (the blackmailer has left his mark, even in death). The biggest problem with this episode are a series of deus ex machianae that seem to pop up. The final scene in the film is just so far fetched as to be laughable. Could the writers not have come up with a bit more complex clue than what happens? Also, the murder victim is so unlikeable that we are pulling for the murderer half the time.
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- Hitchcoc
- Mar 30, 2016
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- 4:3
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