Orchis Fatalis

"**Orchis Fatalis**"
"Orchis Fatalis"
Midsomer Murders episode
Episode no.	Season 8; Episode 3
Directed by	Peter Smith
Written by	Terry Hodgkinson
Original air date	9 January 2005
Guest appearances
	Harriet Walter (Margaret Winstanley); Matt Bardock (Harry Rose); John Nettleton (Munro Hilliard); Geoffrey Chater (Brother Robert); Sai Kit-Yung (Jimmy Fong)
Episode chronology
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"Orchis Fatalis" is the third episode of the eighth season of British television show Midsomer Murders and the thirty-eighth episode overall. It stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and John Hopkins as Detective Sergeant Dan Scott. It concerns the discovery of a very rare orchid, the yellow roth, and a number of murders seemingly committed in an attempt to acquire it.

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Episodes	"Destroying Angel" "Electric Vendetta" "Market For Murder" "Ring Out Your Dead" "Dead in the Water" "Orchis Fatalis" "The Christmas Haunting" "The Killings of Copenhagen"
Characters	Tom Barnaby
Novels by Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) Death of a Hollow Man (1989) Death in Disguise (1992) Written in Blood (1994) Faithful unto Death (1996) A Place of Safety (1999) A Ghost in the Machine (2004)