The Killings of Copenhagen

Killings of Copenhagen is the name of the 100th episode of the British world famous TV-series Midsomer Murders.[1] The episode is also the first ever where a murder takes place outside the fictitious but indeed very dangerous County of Midsomer. It was filmed and produced during the later autumn 2014 (at least the Copenhagen filming). In Britain the episode was first aired on 12 February 2014, as the fifth of the sixteenth season. Why this 100th episode was partly filmed in Denmark, has not been explained. However ever since the series began back in 1997, it has been aired on DR1 on prime time Friday or Saturday. And perhaps with exception for a part of the summer, is it constantly aired. When new episodes become available then they are aired at best possible time, but doesn't prevent DR1 from also airing earlier episodes. This may not be unique for Denmark, but in Denmark has "Barnaby" as Midsomer Murders is labeled there, stayed at the commercial free and most watched channel. It can't be ruled out that ITV or their production company Bentley has made a special deal, but that is nothing we can be certain of.

Plot

Mr Harry Calder stays at a hotel located at the large City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) during a visit to the Danish Capital. As he gets his key, the concierge has a package to deliver to him. In his room, Harry Calder first opens the consignment and discovers that its only content is an empty biscuit tin. But as he thereafter opens the window in order to get some fresh air at the small balcony, he begins to hallucinate and is feeling dizzy. And he then discovers that his hands are ulcerated and red, as if he had been burnt or got some strong acid at the inside of his hands, but which has to be some kind of poison. After an attempt to wash his hands, Mr Calder falls down dead. The Danish police begins the investigation, and they are instantly certain of murder. The almost empty biscuit box did after all contain something, a poison that works through the skin (which actually isn't that odd, as there are several species of frogs in Amazonas which are deadly to touch.[2]) And on the biscuit box is written "Greetings from Badger's Drift" (a fictional name which lead most Midsomer Murders watchers to Midsomer). The Danish counterpart to a British DCI, Birgitte Poulsen has then to make contact with her British colleague, DCI John Barnaby. After their very first conversation through the phone does Mrs Poulsens colleague, is sergeant Anna Degn asking her superior "Han lød distraheret !?" and receives the answer "Alle englændere lyder altid distraheret !". Whether this Danish reply was translated to the British viewers are not known - but far worse things has been said about other people. Since the case is about a killed Englishman, who became poisoned from Midsomer, the main responsibility for solving the case falls on Barnaby and sergeant Charlie Nelson. But they need to start their investigation at home. But when a second murder happens at the Calder Family's biscuit bakery, they have to take a flight across the North Sea.

They arrive at Copenhagen after a short flight, but Barnaby's Danish counterpart, the good looking Birgitte Poulsen doesn't initially allow Barnaby and Nelson to investigate as they normally would. Oh no, Danish soil means Danish police rules. But the largest trouble for Barnaby is the fact that Mrs Poulsen is a whole lot tougher than what he had expected from a woman. But as soon as the matter of where they stand, regarding each other, is solved, can progress be made. And the first victim, Harry Calder, turns out to be one of many in a long blood line of bisquit manufacturers. When Barnaby and Nelson returns to Midsomer are they following a complicated thread, but still a thread which appear to be the best possible way in order to solve both murders. However, sometimes people cannot see the woods for all the trees... And the mystery has a not so very complicated solution, after all...

Cast and other credits

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References

  1. ↑ "Midsomer Murders - Episode Guide". midsomermurders.org. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Administrator. "THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IS A FROG". parcplace.org. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Midsomer Murders - The Killings at Copenhagen". midsomermurders.org. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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