Midsomer Murders

A curse!

A curse upon this place!

For all eternity!

A curse!

No!

No!

Emani, it's time.

- Okay. - Now.

- Okay. - Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for coming.

So, I hope by now that you've had a chance

to sample this little guy,

an India pale ale with a lot of hops thrown in.

I'm really proud to be launching this product

and I'm delighted to tell you that we've just got

our first major order from a supermarket.

Cursed Brew IPA will be on your shelves from Monday.

I'd like to thank my husband, Paul,

for all your incredible support on this journey.

And my little sister, Faiza.

You know, in the last three years,

we've gone from a home brew kit

to an award-winning brewery on a historic site.

I'm really excited about the next chapter,

and I hope you are too!

Thank you!

Yeah, I forgot to mention that there will be a

brewery tour with Faiza in the next ten minutes...

Okay, scruglets, time for bed.

Say night night to Daddy.

Goodnight, kids. See ya later, alright?

Thanks, Mum.

Available to pre-order soon.

Thank you!

Thanking you for your support?

You made the beer.

You should be up there with her.

No, she can do all the talking.

People seem to like what they're tasting.

That's all I need.

No attendance from the Oxford branch.

Very disappointing.

It's their loss.

Yes, well,

I shall be e-mailing their president on Monday.

Old Badger Botherer or Golden Hopportunity.

I'm starting to regret buying you that real ale kit.

Two halves of Old Badger Botherer please.

Coming up.

There's no notes, I'm afraid.

Free samples from your other site.

It's good stuff.

That's an entirely separate event.

Their craft beer has to be given away.

This is real ale.

I was always thought real ale and craft beer

were the same thing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so this is probably my favorite

place in the world.

I love experimenting with new flavors down here,

perfecting a recipe.

I know Emani said earlier that we've thrown

a lot of hops at our latest beer,

but it's actually the timing of the hops

that makes all the difference.

I'll explain more about that in a minute,

but first, I wanted to show you these.

They were found during the excavations.

It's amazing to think that beer has been

brewed here for over 500 years.

Okay, so if you'd like to follow me.

Okay, so back to the barrels.

Sorry, just a sec.

Don't bother will all that.

We've got the cleaners coming tomorrow.

Mum's coming to let them in early.

Where's Emani?

Probably in bed.

Well, I need to speak to her.

Yeah well, she's out of it, so I think

you should wait 'til tomorrow.

I've seen what's in the brew room.

She will speak to me now.

Faiza.

She's had a drink.

I said wait until tomorrow.

Fine.

No! No! No!

I was here yesterday.

They were doing a free beer tasting.

I wouldn't sample their current batch, sir.

Do we know who he is?

Well, the owners think that it's local writer Adam Osoba.

He's been working with them on a book about home brewing.

They've ID'ed him from his signet ring

and his bag's been found, but the actual body...

What?

Oh, they didn't tell you?

It's not just a drowning.

Looks like he's been boiled to death.

It's a kettle vat, apparently.

It was on it's boil cycle overnight.

Perhaps he was drunk, toppled in.

I wondered that, but then we found

drops of blood down there,

and the lady that found him said that the hatch

on the vat had been pulled closed.

Somebody shut him in there and let him boil.

It's medieval.

Yeah, I know.

No, literally.

Death by boiling was used to execute poisoners

in the Middle Ages.

It's what this place is famous for.

The curse of Brother Jozef.

The what?

One of the monks who lived here was accused

of poisoning people with his beer.

They boiled him alive in his own cauldron

and he cursed the place.

Legend has it that anyone who drinks beer here

will come to a bad end.

Did you seriously just use the phrase legend has it?

Whoever did this has gone to lot of trouble

to mimic that legend.

Well, it would explain the monk costume, at least.

All the bar staff were wearing them,

but one of them was stolen.

Is this his bag?

It seems to be.

In it we found his driving license plus

keys, phone and two of these.

God, it's the boiler suit brigade.

Well, we're gonna need your help with the press release.

What press release?

Well, news of this could devastate our business.

We need to be in control of the narrative.

Emani!

What?

It's horrific.

The poor man.

You sure it wasn't an accident?

This was deliberate.

Did he have any family?

Wife?

Girlfriend?

He never mentioned anyone, but you know,

then it was business relationship.

We had maybe five or six meetings about the book.

This is your home brew guide?

Yeah.

Well no, it's more of a lifestyle book, actually.

I worked in PR before I bought this place

and one of my clients recommended him.

He ghost wrote her autobiography.

Who was that?

Sylvia Reynolds.

She's a stage actress.

So, ghost writing was Adam's thing.

Sports stars, actors, enough fame to land

a publishing deal, not enough talent to write it,

that kind of thing.

What time did your event finish last night?

About 11-ish.

It finished at midnight.

You just don't remember anything after 11.

It was a booze up in brewery.

I must have put myself to bed.

Can you think of anyone who might

have wanted to hurt Adam?

Not Adam, no.

Meaning?

A man is found dead dressed as a monk in our vat.

It's hard not to see this as an attack on our business.

Oh come on, he wouldn't go that far.

Who?

There's this guy who works on the council

called Russell Grundy.

He runs the Causton Real-Ale Society.

He's not a fan of what we do.

I think I've come across him.

He's a nasty, petty, sexist little man.

He kept us out of his good beer guide.

He scheduled his Real-Ale Festival to clash

with our launch and he used his position

on the council to stop us from expanding the brewery.

That's a very long way from murder.

I'm just telling you what I know.

Hello, you must be our new pathologist.

Hello?

I'm DCI John Barnaby.

I was hoping for an estimated time of death.

Are you a smoker?

Heavy drinker?

No.

Then I give you another 30 years.