- An air traffic computer system, based on theories from an eccentric college professor, is denounced by the scientist creating a financial crisis for its backers.
- DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the apparent murder of Emily Harte who was run off the road by a car while cycling late at night. The evidence at the scene also suggests that the driver then backed up over her to make sure the job was done. She was a member of the local cycling club and was in a relationship with George Jeffers a professor at the local college. Barnaby quickly concludes that Jeffers was the driver's intended target. Jeffers had several people who might want to get at him. His ex-wife Melanie felt that she was losing her son as he too was spending more time with his father and Emily. Then there's a disagreement with a local technology firm that has built a new air traffic control system built on his theories. Jeffers thinks there a serious flaw and has threatened to go public and the company's CEO Clinton Finn has already taken steps to get the college on his side by endowing a new research building. Throughout all of this, someone locals have dubbed the bucketman has been throwing buckets of paint mixed with glue on unexpected passersby.—garykmcd
- Abrasive Clinton Finn,boss of an American software company based in Midsomer,fumes at the police's inability to catch the Bucketman,a local who targets speeding drivers from the company,including Finn,and throws red paint over them. Barnaby however has a more pressing case,the murder of schoolteacher Emily Harte,deliberately knocked from her bicycle at night and run over. However Emily had been loaned her cycle cape by boffin George Jeffers,who would seem to be the intended victim. Not only is his ex-wife in a relationship with Finn but he has antagonised the American by withdrawing the extremely costly air traffic control system he designed for Finn's company due to a glitch.—don @ minifie-1
- Midsommer college professor George Jeffers refuses to give in to master (dean) Canning and commercial sponsor Clinton Finn to attend the presentation of the novel air control system being developed based on his computer design concept, rather insisting it must go on hold as he discovered at least theoretically a glitch that may render it fatally unreliable. His latest ex Melanie Jeffers is out of favor with their teen son Tom for opposing Tom meeting George and their common intimate friend, Tom's former teacher Emily Harte, who is fatally run over at night by a car, possibly mistaken for the professor on his bike wearing the t-shirt for the college's annual historical sites cycling route day, which Joyce and Cully enter. Ben has a hard time getting locals to cooperate, especially senior car and bike mechanic Daniel Snape, to solve the case of the vandal who throws paint with glue mixed in on luxury, like one owned by Finn, who two-times Melanie and his own company right hand Daniel Snape. George waves police warnings, even after a masked intruder knocks him down but fails to crack his password-covered PC. Yet danger lurks on while Barnaby looks into academic staff and personal grudges, Snape is crushed in a staged garage accident but leaves a clue to the murder car, even the car vandal case proves complex and not the only secondary crime.—KGF Vissers
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