Jim accepts an unpopular position pushing a transportation bill desired by Number 10, but opposed by everyone else.
Jim and Sir Humphrey collide when Jim acts as an M.P. to sell an art gallery and museum in his district to support a popular local soccer club.
An elderly Queen Elizabeth instructs the Earl of Essex to quell the threat of an Irish uprising, but will she have to deal with a rebellion of her own?
An elderly woman is found dead in her cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not down to natural causes.
When a rare orchid is smuggled illegally into Midsomer Malham it releases the heady scents of passion, jealousy and death.