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Inspector Lewis Returns to "Masterpiece Mystery!"
Inspector Robbie Lewis, the one-time partner of the late and enigmatic Inspector Morse, takes center stage in the encore of the first season of Inspector Lewis mysteries, with five new episodes following.
The San Francisco Chronicle said of the first episodes, "Inspector Lewis is more than just a homage to ‘Morse’: With (Kevin) Whately and (Nathaniel) Fox in the leading roles, it works quite well on its own.”
Back in Oxford following the death of his wife in an unsolved hit-and-run two years earlier, Lewis is working to rebuild his life—confronting his past, his future, even his fear of public speaking. He’s stepped out of the late Morse’s long shadow and with his younger sidekick, the cool, cerebral Detective Superintendent James Hathaway (Laurence Fox, Gosford Park), is bent on proving himself to his dubious new boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent.
As they rack up professional successes, Lewis and Hathaway find themselves developing a growing respect and personal fondness for one another. Lewis learns that Hathaway, a former seminarian, isn’t quite as straight-laced as he seems, while Hathaway discovers that behind Lewis’s bluster there’s a broken heart trying to heal.
Encores include “Old School Ties” and “Expiation.” New episodes, beginning Sunday, August 30, include "And The Moonbeams Kiss the Sea” (focusing on rare stolen books from the Oxford library); "Music to Die For" (where boxing, academia and the Cold War come together); "Life Born of Fire (in which a serial killer is targeting a religious group); "The Great and the Good (the team searches for the person who assaulted a teen within the Oxford elite); "Allegory of Love (in which literary whimsy becomes a murderous reality), and "Quality of Mercy" (where in a young actor is murdered during a Shakespeare production.
The series ends in October with “The Point of Vanishing.” The murder of a small-time criminal leads Lewis and Hathaway to a prominent Oxford don-turned-celebrity atheist, who years earlier had been the intended target of a botched murder attempt.
published: August 12, 2009
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