SummaryA spin-off of Inspector Morse, Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately), returns to Oxford with a new partner in Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) after his wife's death and working in the Virgin Islands for five years.
SummaryA spin-off of Inspector Morse, Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately), returns to Oxford with a new partner in Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) after his wife's death and working in the Virgin Islands for five years.
From the victim's unhappy wife to a classmate who clearly had the hots for him to--no surprise here--a troubled tarot-card reader, the well-woven episode teases all the possibilities.
All in all, it's astounding how many plot elements can be packed into 90 or so minutes and how well all of them can be resolved in the hands of a competent writer like Stephen Churchett.
The case involves a body found in a wood and the mysteries of a Lewis Carroll manuscript, all of it strangely satisfying in its own familiar, unsuspenseful way.