Really liked this episode. Barnaby and Jones tries to solve the murder of a man who turned out being a blackmailed, in his own home. Shot by a shotgun with homemade bullets. Turns out, he was a blackmailing people left and right. Did he deserve to get shot with a blast in the chest? Hell yea he did!! Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow! And who would kill him? The pub owner who was being blackmailed because of his lying about his paying inheritance tax? The woman he loves who turns out being a klepto, who was blackmailed by him due to her being caught stealing from him? The ex cop who was knighted for helping wayward girls with his late wife, for the lie told that it was more than that and his fear of people speculating about his character? The possibilities are endless!! Also, there's Cully's friend, former reform school girl (who was trying to blackmail the good Samaritan ex cop), another ex cop and his wife who owns a fish store, and the well to do scuba diving couple who are diving for gold...soo many different people. All with motives. The scenes I love is the humour/banter between Jones and Tom. The scene where Tom cooked the rabbit and after all that talk about Joyce and her inability to cook, Tom isn't any better (and yet, Cully seems the best cook of them all) with him forgetting to take the pellets out of the dry cooked rabbit. The beautiful scenery. Tom going into the freezing water (and Jones wishing he had a camera)....and the shooting of the creep! There was no cons here. This was a great episode. Kind of sad the murderer was whom it turned out to be, because he and his wife would have made great friends with Joyce and Tom (and maybe George and Cath).
I could watch this again and again and still be entertained and applaud his death!!
I could watch this again and again and still be entertained and applaud his death!!