- Neil Dudgeon (DCI John Barnaby)
- Nick Hendrix (DS Jamie Winter)
- Fiona Dolman (Sarah Barnaby)
- Annette Badland (Fleur Perkins)
Episode: Country Matters
Air Date: 2006-09-10
Runtime: 90 min
Frank Hopkirk, an environmental adviser on the proposed site of a controversial Goodfare supermarket in Elverton-cum-Latterly, is found stabbed to death in an old farm building on the site. Barnaby & Jones question locals on both sides of the debate over the plans, and find that Mr Hopkirk had extra-curricular dealings with a number of the local ladies and their businesses. But which one of these caused passions to be stirred up to such a murderous extent?