The worst episodes of Lewis
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- 01
In 2001, Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis arrested Graham Lawrie for the brutal murder of three police officers. The murders ceased; Lawrie was given a whole life sentence. During the trial, however, he was incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital. For Lewis it felt as if the nightmare was over. However thirteen years later, the prosecution's case is falling apart. The forensics that were used to convict Lawrie have come into question and an appeal is launched for him to walk free. Lewis is fearing the worst will happen but nothing can prepare him for the resurrection of the original murders.
- 02
It soon becomes obvious that the case has everything to do with Alastair's failure to save the life of a badly hurt teenager, Nabeel Sira, during surgery. The hospital staff have closed ranks and the boy's parents are considering their options.A second murder then happens.
- 03
After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?
- 04
Retirement does not seem to be suiting Lewis, so when a call comes from Innocent to take up his badge and rejoin the force, he doesn't hesitate. Elsewhere, Hathaway is wading into his first murder mystery. It began with an arson attack on a hunting lodge but soon enough Hathaway and DS Maddox have a dead neurosurgeon to deal with.
- 05
The team start to investigate the shocking murder of an American classics student called Rose Anderson whose body is discovered in the canal with stab wounds to the neck and abdomen.
- 06
Hathaway and Maddox continue to investigate the murder of Travis as the trail leads back to Lewis's original case. The two detectives attempt to prevent another murder and Lewis sees himself isolated and alone with his reputation in jeopardy.
- 07
When College Dean Phil Beskin is found brutally bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called to investigate.
- 08
Hathaway is struggling to cope with his father's illness, as he begins his search to find out who he was before the dementia kicked in.
- 09
Thirty-five years after she supposedly drowned herself, rock star Esme Ford returns to Oxford to secretly re-establish her band Midnight Addiction with former members Richie, Mack and Franco. The secrecy extends to the band's reaction when an orphaned teenage boy is killed outside Richie's house. Then ex-roadie Bone and Richie's daughter's music tutor, who used to write the band's sleeve-notes, are also murdered. Midnight Addiction may well once have been the real thing but several people are definitely not what they first seem to be.
- 10
Six couples arrive at out of term Chaucer College for a quiz weekend with a five grand prize. One of the contestants,womanizing know-all Ethan Croft,is murdered and another,Robyn Strong, is an old flame of his, disappointed he failed to recognize her. Ethan was a brilliant linguist but he was sacked from the college years earlier after an affair with a student, now married to another quizzer,whilst Eve,Robyn's quiz partner, is the next victim,after she has been heard arguing with Ethan. Passion, however, is not the motive, the killer being one whose guilty secret was exposed by Ethan's language skills over a past business transaction - with at least two suspects in the frame.
- 11
During a Halloween one of Dr. Hobson's old college roommates is found with a stake through her heart and a garlic bulb in her mouth.
- 12
As the last remaining all-women's college in Oxford is bidding farewell to one of its most distinguished professors, murder rears its ugly head.
- 13
During an ecumenical conference in formerly Catholic St. Gerard's college, the poisoning of a female black American bishop triggers a series of bizarre murders.
- 14
Andrea De Ritter, founder of an organization that supports gifted children, is murdered after making a presentation to Zoe Suskin, only fifteen but an Oxford student. That night Andrea had resisted the advances of young student Elmo Woodeson as well as sending a copy of the autobiography of former spy mistress Dame Grace Orde to Zoe's publisher father Leon. She had added inside the book "Who Killed Mary? See Chapter 8." Both Leon and Elmo are killed shortly after and Zoe's tutor Donald Voss is poisoned though not fatally. Suskin had punched Liam Cullen, Andrea's lover...
- 15
When lonely feminist lecturer Miranda Thornton is found dead after a video she submitted to a dating agency is viciously made public on a scurrilous website,the first conclusion is suicide. But,with her answer phone removed and finger prints wiped,foul play is suspected. Miranda opposed property developer David Connelly buying land belonging to her college and had been visited,via the website by unhappily married journalist Francis Mitchell, though he states that Miranda was dead when he visited her. Embittered ex-student Sebastian Dromgoole admits to posting the ...
- 16
Nick and Honey Addams return home to find their baby-sitter,Jess Lake,murdered. She was tied to a bed and indeed often posed for bondage and fetish shots for photographer Marion Hammond. She also worked in a university lab with her boyfriend Gideon's father Dr. Massey,who is divorced from his unfeeling wife Stanza. Honey admits that Nick does not have an alibi but he seems to have no link to the next victim,Jess's house mate Silas,whose corpse is also arranged in the style of one of Marion's photos. Lewis finds himself tracking a killer who is a seemingly respectable ...
- 17
American academic Paul Yelland faces accusations of racism when he presents his theory on Criminal Dangerousness to an Oxford college and is later found murdered. Married professors Anne and Robert Fraser claim they invited him to raise their department's profile and Robert,who is having an affair with student Nina, points Lewis towards Myra Bennett's anti-fascist group. Yelland also dealt in antiques and had angered two clients with a forgery and furthermore turned out to be the father of a staff member,whose mother he deserted when pregnant. Then Nina is killed
- 18
Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the death of Reuben Beatty who works at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychology. He has been discovered dead injected by etorphine, a paralysing agent in the offices of psychic ‘Randolph James'.
- 19
Lewis and Hobson are looking at the body of Vicki Walmsley as a theft of etorphine is reported by the Garsington Equine Centre. The drug was last used a year earlier on a horse that hurt its teenage rider, Joshua, the brother-in-law of Reuben Beatty, the first murder victim. Joshua's mother Jane ends up admitting that she saw Reuben on the day of his murder. Polly, Reuben's wife, hands over her husband's appointment book, which reveals an unknown client who went by the initials of ‘K.D.' Lewis and Hathaway look through Crane's files and find a vital clue that leads them towards the murderer.
- 20
Hathaway is away enjoying a holiday in Kosovo and Lewis goes to see Louise Cornish, who is upset that her husband Jack has walked out on the family. An embalmed body is found dumped by an isolated farm track and Funeral director, Brian Miller identifies the body with local doctor Matt Whitby, confirming the man died of cancer. After the crematorium confirms that a body was burned, Lewis is left with one burning question, who was actually inside the coffin?
- 21
Liam Jay is in intensive care and Lewis and Alex believe that he has information about the death of Matt Whiby and the mysterious cremation. It is revealed by Emma Barnes that Johnny Jay, Liam's father, was at the fateful supper party and he missing as well.
- 22
The body of Richard Seager a former Biochemist, is found under a Jaguar Mark 2. The day before, the victim had been collected from prison by his wife, Martha Seager after serving a year for causing death by dangerous driving. Before his death, Seager managed to scratch the number ‘500' into the car's paintwork.
- 23
Lewis, Hathaway and Hobson look around the new crime scene as Carl Drew, Stella Drew, Martha Seager, Adam Tibbit, Graham Yardley and Adam's girlfriend Rachel Cliff wait anxiously. The body is revealed to be that of Soo-Min Chong, a Korean student who vanished 15 years ago. Seager was the last person to see her alive, Carl Drew was her boyfriend, and she was Martha's organ scholar at the chapel. Hathaway is later shocked to discover Adam's body at the school, with a simple suicide note. Carl, Adam's former teacher believes that he must have pushed the boy too hard. Forensics end up revealing a close relative of Adam's had been in Seager's car. After Martha is found stabbed to death, Lewis and Hathaway start to close in on the killer who is becoming more desperate to cover their tracks.
- 24
Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.
- 25
When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate
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