Lewis and Hathaway face three new mysteries inspired by the Inspector Morse
novels of Colin Dexter. Episodes include... Down Among the Fearful - Reuben
Beatty, a research fellow from Oxford's Department of Psychology, is found dead
in the offices of psychic Randolph James. Lewis and Hathaway soon discover that
Reuben had been leading an elaborate double life, moonlighting as a clairvoyant.
Can a fellow psychic help solve the investigation? The Ramblin' Boy - While
Hathaway takes time off in Kosovo, Lewis is assigned a temporary sidekick, young
constable Alex Gray. Together, Lewis and Gray investigate the discovery of an
embalmed body of a man who died of cancer. However, the crematorium confirms
that a body was burned, leaving Lewis with one question-who was buried in the
coffin? Intelligent Design - Recently released from prison after killing someone
in a driving accident, Richard Seager, a former biochemistry professor, is
murdered-crushed to death by his own car. Between Seager's wife, his victim's
family, and his colleagues at the university, Lewis and Hathaway have a long
road to travel and a great deal to investigate.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Lewis is one of the few `must see' offerings on TV these days so it is so sad that it appears that Season 6 will also be the last. When this series was announced, Laurence Fox (Hathaway) said that there would be no more and stated that both he and Kevin Whately (Lewis) now wanted to pursue other interests. There are just three stories in this series whereas there have normally been four. However, in a break with the previous custom, each is split into two parts.
It is hard to believe that the character of Lewis was introduced in the long running Morse series as long ago as 1986! The chemistry between Morse and Lewis was an obviously significant factor in the success of that series, just as Lewis and Hathaway complement each other in Lewis and the relationship has grown as time has gone on. It is hard to imagine Lewis without Hathaway in the same way that it was hard to imagine Morse without Lewis.
The stories in this series are interesting and well thought out and the plots are quite varied. Down Among the Fearful involves a psychic who has been murdered, in Ramblin' Boy a corpse is discovered which has an interesting background (the corpse not the person) and finally in Intelligent Design, a man is released from prison after serving time for causing death by dangerous driving but it appears that not everyone has forgiven or forgotten his crime. Interesting developments in Lewis' personal life too!
We are up to 27 episodes of Lewis (not quite as many as the 33 Morse managed), and we often watch the earlier ones as they are a joy to revisit. It does rather look as though that is going to be it, and the end of the last episode did have a certain finality about it. However, we can only hope that those involved do have a change of heart. Incidentally Season 6 is known as Series 7 in the UK so if you see that advertised it is one and the same thing and contains the same episodes - the Brits have not sneakily added another series without telling anyone about it!
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