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Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
	Charlie Cox	...	Danny Griffon
	Sophie Winkleman	...	Regan Peverill
	Colin Starkey	...	Bernard Beech
	Jack Ellis	...	Rex Griffon
	Jemma Redgrave	...	Trudi Griffon
	Dennis Matsuki	...	Mr. Tanigaki
	Flora Spencer-Longhurst	...	Jessica Pollock
	Danny Webb	...	Tom Pollock
	Laurence Fox	...	DS Hathaway
	Kevin Whately	...	DI Robert Lewis
	Rosalyn Wright	...	Air Stewardess
	Alex Knight	...	DI Knox
	Clare Holman	...	Dr. Laura Hobson
	Lizzy McInnerny	...	Kate Jekyll
	Rebecca Front	...	Ch. Supt. Innocent

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Storyline

DI Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murders occur, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse. Written by garykmcd

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Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Trivia

Kate Jekyll was intended to be a recurring character and, in the longer term, a love interest for Lewis. For various reasons--including Kevin Whately's objecting to killing off Valerie Lewis only to immediately replace her with a substitute character--she never appeared again in the full series. See more »

Goofs

Danny Griffon's body is shown sitting upright in a single sculling boat, with one oar blade in the air, and DS Hathaway correctly observes that the oar has been put in on the wrong side. But a sculling boat is inherently unstable and it is almost impossible for a even the most experienced sculler when alive and awake to sit upright and motionless in a boat with one oar in the air, let alone when dead with a bullet hole in the head. The boat would have certainly capsized. See more »

Quotes

DI Lewis: Listen, You grab a table. I'll get them in.
DS Hathaway: Thanks, Sir. Mine is a pint.
DI Lewis: Mine is a pint, sergeant. You are driving.
[Throws car keys at Hathaway who catches easily]
DI Lewis: Orange juice or what?
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Featured in Lewis... Behind the Scenes (2007) See more »

Soundtracks

Hysteria
By Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard and Matt Bellamy
Performance by Muse
Taste Music Ltd/A&E
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User Reviews

A worthy successor to Morse

13 February 2008 | by janwells1 – See all my reviews

This is the answer to a Morse fan's prayer - a brilliantly directed and witty pilot that resurrects the feel of the Morse series. Lewis' sidekick (Lawrence Fox as DS Hathaway) provides the enigmatic human element that Morse used to supply yet there is never any doubt that Lewis is the key sleuth now. Brief shades of Morse pop up in the story to amuse the fans and the overall plot maintains the 'brand' of cryptic clues. Shakespeare aficionados will quickly pick up the Hamlet allusions, but they will not necessarily help in sussing the killer. "Lewis" is a first class production that promises much for the fans of classic British murder mysteries.

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