- Neil Dudgeon (DCI John Barnaby)
- Nick Hendrix (DS Jamie Winter)
- Fiona Dolman (Sarah Barnaby)
- Annette Badland (Fleur Perkins)
Episode: Bad Tidings
Air Date: 2004-01-04
Runtime: 98 min
Barnaby's new partner, Sergeant Dan Scott, arrives from London's Metropolitan Police and expects to have a quiet life. But then the murders begin. The first victim is Fiona Thompson, stabbed several times with a long knife on her way home from a flamenco night at Midsomer Mallow village hall - and a witness reports a mysterious squeaking noise at the scene of the crime...