1 :01x01 - Pilot

Kevin Whately returns in his role as police detective Robert Lewis in the anxiously anticipated spin-off to the hugely popular Inspector Morse series.

Five years after his friend and mentor's death, Robert - now promoted to position of inspector - returns to the city of Oxford after working on the British Virgin Islands. Even before he has the chance to get home and settle in, he and his new, vastly younger partner DS Hathaway (Laurence Fox) are called to a crime scene to help investigate the murder of an American college student.

It is soon discovered that one of the suspects has had past dealings with the late Inspector Morse.

2 :01x02 - Whom The Gods Would Destroy

The murder of an Oxford graduate sees Lewis and assistant Hathaway investigating the crime. The investigation leads to them to some ex students who are hiding a deadly secret.

3 :01x03 - Old School Ties

Lewis investigates the death of a student. When a well known criminal talks at the Oxford Union, Lewis wonders if he was involved.

4 :01x04 - Expiation

Lewis investigates the death of a housewife who supposedly hanged herself in her own house. Lewis has to work out whether it was a suicide or whether foul play was involved.

5 :02x01 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

6 :02x02 - Music to Die For

7 :02x03 - Life Born of Fire

8 :02x04 - The Great and the Good

9 :03x01 - Allegory of Love

When a young Eastern European woman is murdered Lewis and Hathaway investigate. Her murder follows the same pattern of that of a woman in a book written by Dorian Crane. Those close to Dorian soon find themselves in danger.

10 :03x02 - The Quality of Mercy

Lewis and Hathaway investigate the death of a new talent on the theatrical circuit in Oxford. The main suspects are the cast of The Merchant of Venice. Hathaway gets a lead on the person who killed Lewis's wife in a car accident several years ago.

11 :03x03 - The Point of Vanishing

After a young man is discovered beaten and drowned in his bath tub, Lewis and Hathaway investigate. The dead man is identified as a person who had previously tried to murder a celebrated atheist. Once further investigations have been carried out it is revealed that the body of the dead man is not that of who they thought it originally was when they discover he had swapped identities with another man.

12 :03x04 - Counter Culture Blues

Lewis meets a former idol of his who performed in a rock band when he has to deal with complaints about to much noise being made. He believed the man had drowned so he is surprised to learn that he is still alive. When the body of a young man is found run over members of the rock band soon become the main suspects.

13 :04x01 - The Dead of Winter

Lewis and Hathaway are lead to Crevecoeur Hall, a sprawling Oxford estate after the body of Dr Stephen Black is found on a local tour bus. Hathaway becomes interested in Scarlett Mortmaigne, the daughter of the owner of the estate. Hathaway's refusal to believe that the family are involved when another body is discovered ends up putting his relationship with Lewis to the test.

14 :04x02 - Dark Matter

After Andrew Crompton, a local amateur astronomer and Master of Gresham College, is found dead at the foot of the University Observatory stairs, Lewis and Hathaway investigate. The staff at the college all are soon suspects in his death.

15 :04x03 - Your Sudden Death Question

During the August Bank Holiday weekend an empty Oxford college is used for a professional quiz contest. After Ethan Croft is found floating dead in the college fountain, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

16 :04x04 - Falling Darkness

A friend of pathologist Laura Hobson is found dead with a stake through her heart on Halloween and Lewis and Hathaway are told by a physic medium that they are in danger. A student who shared the house with Laura at university is then found murdered and a clue at the crime scene leads Lewis and Hathaway to yet another victim. They soon start to think that maybe Laura knows more than she is saying.

17 :05x01 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

Oxford's last all-female college is holding a reunion party to say goodbye to one of its most popular professors. After a guest is found murdered, Lewis beleives the killing is connected to an attack that happened at the same building 10 years ago. He turns to his former DS, Alison McLennan, to help him with the case but it ends up taking a new twist after two more bodies turn up.

18 :05x02 - Wild Justice

A bishopwho was visiting St Gerard's college is discovered dead after he drinks some poisoned wine, and after another couple of killings happen, both copying murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy, it looks like the killer is targeting candidates in the election to become vice-regent. Lewis and Hathaway end up realisingthat the motive is much more twisted after discovering that one of the suspects is hiding a dark secret.

19 :05x03 - The Mind Has Mountains

After a student is discovered dead during a college clinical trial for a new anti-depressant, Lewis and Hathaway find it hard to work out the real reasons for the death. A second student's death ends up leading to the revelation that the trial's participants are all using the mind-altering drug ketamine which has left their minds dangerously blurred.

20 :05x04 - The Gift of Promise

After a businesswoman is murdered, it looks like a blackmail plot has gone wrong. When the body count begins to rise, Lewis and Hathaway soon learn that there is a decades-old secret at the heart of the case.

21 :06x01 - The Soul Of Genius

When botanist Li Nash digs up the body of recently buried English Professor, Muray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway are find themselves involved in an impossible quest. Murray was a man who was possessed with solving the riddle of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". They soon find out that Murray had a rivalry with his brother, who is a lecturer in Theology and Moral Philosophy. They also have to dealwith interference from Michelle Marber who is an amateur detective, who believes that that the killer is local medical researcher Alex Falconer.

22 :06x02 - Generation of Vipers

A super intelligent, but incredibly lonely professor is devastated when she discovers that her internet dating video has somehow found its way onto a subversive media blog. With half her students giggling at the footage on their phones, and a slimy former date seeing her distress as a romantic opportunity, she returns home and is found dead the next morning. In her hand she is clutching a newspaper article about a millionaire businessman, who has been her nemesis for the last couple of years, proposing to buy up much of her college's land for housing development.

23 :06x03 - Fearful Symmetry

When a babysitter is discovered dead, it immediately throws up a number of questions. Was the killing opportunistic or calculated? Was she actually the intended victim, or was the target her employers, or their regular babysitter who cancelled at the last minute?

24 :06x04 - The Indelible Stain

When a controversial American academic is invited to speak at Oxford’s Department of Criminology about his theory of "dangerousness", it stirs up a lot of deep-seated emotions. Many are worried that such ideas could be used to target ethnic minorities. The next morning, he's found strangled in his room. Is it suicide or an anti-hate lynching?