The reviews on this site delve into some technical errors in "The Sleeper on the Hill" from season 14, but fortunately or unfortunately, those aren't things I could pick up on.
This is a case where Alex Preston, a local farmer, is murdered and his corpse placed in the Crowcall stone circle in a field on his land. He intention to plow the field was against the New Dawn druids, but when Barnaby investigates, they all seem to have alibis. Preston's wife was having an affair with her fencing instructor, but a friend of Jones', Trevor Gibson, a local police officer, proves that alibi false. A major druid, Leticia, is killed as Alex was. So a crime of passion is out anyway.
Barnaby thinks Gibson is hiding something and Jones violently disagrees. Barnaby speaks with a local historian, Caradoc Singer, trying to discover if the killings have to do with druid superstition or just plain greed.
This is pretty good, with Neil Dudgeon showing more personality than previously. Barnaby and his wife and dog are younger and have a different lifestyle from Barnaby and his wife Joyce -- maybe the producers were trying for a slightly different demographic, probably figuring the people who started watching the show 14 seasons ago are dead.
What I like about these episodes is that Jones seems to have a bigger part in them, not just in screen time, but in a more active way, and he's delightful.
"Sleeper on the Hill" is a good episode with enough goings on to keep one interested.
This is a case where Alex Preston, a local farmer, is murdered and his corpse placed in the Crowcall stone circle in a field on his land. He intention to plow the field was against the New Dawn druids, but when Barnaby investigates, they all seem to have alibis. Preston's wife was having an affair with her fencing instructor, but a friend of Jones', Trevor Gibson, a local police officer, proves that alibi false. A major druid, Leticia, is killed as Alex was. So a crime of passion is out anyway.
Barnaby thinks Gibson is hiding something and Jones violently disagrees. Barnaby speaks with a local historian, Caradoc Singer, trying to discover if the killings have to do with druid superstition or just plain greed.
This is pretty good, with Neil Dudgeon showing more personality than previously. Barnaby and his wife and dog are younger and have a different lifestyle from Barnaby and his wife Joyce -- maybe the producers were trying for a slightly different demographic, probably figuring the people who started watching the show 14 seasons ago are dead.
What I like about these episodes is that Jones seems to have a bigger part in them, not just in screen time, but in a more active way, and he's delightful.
"Sleeper on the Hill" is a good episode with enough goings on to keep one interested.