The English Inspector Linley TV series is a delight, filled with interesting character actors and unusual crimes. In this episode, a woman is killed, shot in the back with a shotgun in her kitchen as she is looking out of a window at a man who is watching her house. The murderer curiously lugs her body out to the field where it is discovered by a poacher. Why did he remove the body? The poacher calls the local policeman, a somewhat elderly, seemingly incompetent man, who walks all over the site and trampled it with his foot print before summoning Linley and his sergeant Havers. Both Linley and Havers have personal problems. Linley's pregnant wife was in a car accident and lost her child. Havers is recovering psychologically from a gunshot wound.
Beside the question of the removal of the body, Linley needs to discover answers to other questions before he can solve the murder. The murdered victim was having sex moments before her murder. Someone sends Linley a picture of the murdered woman and a man in the middle of a field. The sister of the victim committed suicide some years back and the coroner's report indicates that while she clearly committed suicide, she has marks on her body indicating she struggled with someone. A man disappeared within a very short time after the suicide and everyone tells Lindley that he moved to somewhere in the north of England. Someone breaks into the victim's house after the murder and writes a strange word on the wall. What is the relevance of these facts?