Midsomer Murders

Charlie One to 912 rescue.

We've identified a heat signature, over.

Charlie One, what's your location? Over.

Our current position is 51 degrees, 31 minutes north,

zero degrees, 51 minutes west. Over.

That's Bryce Farm.

All right, let's go. Reece, come on.

This way, this way.

It is something. Right. She's definitely in there.

There's a heartbeat. Reece.

Hello, lovely girl.

You've had your family worried sick.

There. You got her?

Charlie One, subject located unharmed. Over.

It's going to be tight if you want to get changed.

What? You don't think this is a good look?

That's up to you. It's your award.

Are you coming to this lunch? - I don't think so.

Go on. Daniella's waitressing.

I help him find the dogs,

I'm not going to sit there bigging him up.

All right. It's okay.

Hello! Kitty, kitty, kitties! Kitty, kitty, kitties!

Mummy's home. Hello!

Look at you.

Are you greeting party? A little greeting party.

Aren't you lovely? Hey, darling.

Ooh.

Look what mummy's bought for you?

Ooh.

There you go.

Don't you look handsome?

Hmm?

Okay, Frank. That's great. Nice smile, Frank.

Yeah. Just chin up a little bit.

Yeah. Perfect. Great. Yeah. Lovely.

Are you serious? I am so sorry.

This is brand new.

I really am sorry. I tripped.

It runs in the family.

What? Being clumsy.

Are you talking about my brother?

No, of course not. I just meant what your mother's always...

You meant Edison. His accident.

Come on, sweetheart. Just... Just calm...

No, Mum. Why are you defending him?

I'm not defending him. No, you are.

Okay, Daniella, go and get some fresh air.

I'm really sorry about that.

It's fine. Let me help you with that.

I said, I'm fine. Thank you.

Daniella. I said, go outside.

You okay?

Not really.

So sorry. Can I... Can I help?

Excuse me, but I just need to...

No, it's ruined. Sure. Yeah. Thank you.

I'm really, really sorry. Sh-She didn't mean it.

It was an accident.

Paddy! Paddy.

Look, through the tunnel. Through!

Paddy. Through the tunnel.

Such authority.

Paddy's determined to enter.

Dog agility competition?

Well, it's for a good cause, I suppose.

Then let's donate the money and skip the humiliation.

I've had enough of that for one morning.

Forensics training with Fleur?

She was in such a bad mood.

Quit the dating apps, apparently.

Sworn off men.

She should get a dog.

Less work and better standards of...

hygiene.

No luck on that stain?

What? Yeah. No.

H-Has Frank not come back yet?

No. Should someone check the gents? He's been...

Tai!

Tai, what's happened?

Sir. Frank Bailey, 47.

Private investigator,

specializes in missing pet cases.

A pet detective? A very successful one.

He was here with his wife collecting a local hero award.

Hello there. How's it, um...

Stab wound to the neck.

Right. Medium-sized blade.

Dead less than an hour.

You want more than that? You'll have to wait.

I'm still looking for the weapon.

I've got multiple witnesses

inside that said that Frank was at his table

until a few minutes before his body was found.

So he was stabbed almost as soon as he went outside.

Yeah. I assume.

There would drag marks into the kennel.

Difficult to do that without getting covered in blood.

Difficult, but not impossible if you have something

to cover your clothes. Are these his?

Yes. Mainly camera equipment.

Well, find out what's on there.

Who found him? - Tai Yang over there.

He's a delivery rider who spotted the body

when he came to collect a lunch order.

He's also the victim's nephew.

The girl that he's with is a waitress, Daniella Saunders.

Apparently, Frank had an altercation with her.

Really? - huh.

They've both given DNA samples

and agreed to be interviewed at Daniella's home.

Okay. You said the victim had a wife.

I told him it would end like this.

Those people who steal dogs are dangerous.

Do you think this is linked to Frank's PI work?

His body was found inside the kennel of the dog

we were searching for. Yes.

I think it might be connected.

The family that owned this restaurant have

a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, Storm.

She's been missing for four days.

Frank was working the case.

Did he have any leads?

Sorry, I... I wasn't trying to be funny.

We went hard on social media, press, posters.

There's so much money in dog theft now.

There's organized gangs involved.

Pet detection is quite niche.

How did Frank get into it?

He used to be in tech.

He launched an e-signature app type thing.

I don't know how it works.

I just know that, by the time I'd met him,

it had made a lot of money.

He was supposed to retire after he sold the company.

Then our dog, Mabel, she was stolen.

Well, no offense, but the police

would have done more for a stolen mobile phone.

So he found her? - Yeah. Eventually.

She was being used for breeding

on a farm near Cambridge. It went in the local paper.

Some other people started to ask for help.

It just went from there, really.

Was there anyone outside of his PI work

that Frank had a problem with?

No.

He had a...

a feud with our next door neighbor, William Fleming.

He's getting quite old. He's getting slightly...

But he's harmless.

What about your relationship with Frank?

Were you happy?

We were just...

normal.

I think.

I loved him.

Do you know why he left the restaurant?

No. No, I thought he'd gone to the loo.

We heard that Frank had an argument

with one of the waitresses.

He was a bit offhand when she spilled

some food on me. It was nothing.

Look, I know that you need to tick your boxes or whatever,

but Frank's body was found inside Storm's kennel.

If you want to find Frank's killer,

you need to find that dog.

Take it back. Can I see that again?

So he went out the back door into the car park.

We don't have any coverage out there, I'm afraid.

It's a lot, you know, living next door.

This is our home.

I'm okay.

You didn't see or hear anything unusual?

No, we were short-staffed.

We were both dashing around.

You ran this place together?

It feels like it sometimes,

but this is Eshani's thing. I'm a mortgage broker.

And you own Storm, the dog Frank was searching for.

Is that right?

Can you imagine what our kids are going through?

We did report it to the police, but...

Was Storm taken from the kennel outside?

No. From the cemetery.

I usually pop back and walk her in my lunch break.

There was a noise from the bushes.

She ran towards it, and the next thing I knew,

she was gone.

It wasn't your fault. It happened on my watch.

That's why I agreed to use Frank.

It was awkward, obviously.

Kim wasn't happy,

but under the circumstances...

Sorry. Um...

I assumed somebody'd already told you.

I'm Frank's ex-wife.

W-We weren't even close.

It's... It's just the shock of it.

I... I thought he was still alive, so I tried to help him,