It is the first day of Apple Oak Week in Midsomer Barton and Marion Slade, a loner suffering from depression, is found drowned. Barnaby and Jones investigate but was it suicide or murder?

During the investigation Barnaby comes across Ursula and Alistair Gooding. He is convinced he has seen them before in Badger’s Drift, however this is not possible as the mother and son he knew were brutally murdered…