The following is a list of episodes for the British drama Lewis that first aired in 2006. As of 10 November 2015, 33 episodes have aired. DI Lewis returns to Oxford after two years’ secondment to the British Virgin Islands to recover from his wife’s death, and is reluctantly assigned by val gift for boyfriend new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who is shot while participating in a sleep study. Trudi Griffon knew Morse and says: “He was a man you could talk to”.
The plot bears some self-conscious parallels to Hamlet, and there are references to King Lear – the first victim is called Regan Peverill – and “A Tale of Two Cities”. DI Lewis and DS Hathaway investigate the murder of Dean Greely. As the investigation continues, they discover that Greely and three other men had formed a club during their Oxford student days, the Sons of the Twice Born. Today, the men have little contact with one another and initially deny that their club existed. Theodor Platt, last remnant of a wealthy family, failed author and cocaine user.
Dean Greely, a failed painter staying in a houseboat. The group keep their ex-membership of this disreputable club secret, although they each have a gold ring bearing the image of Dionysus. It transpires that the murders have been masterminded by two women. Tina Daniels used to be a prostitute who recommended her colleague Patsy Worth to Harry Bundrick. However Harry Bundrick is to be spared as he has shown remorse.
Anne therefore telephones him, pretending to be being held hostage and that her abductor will release her only if he tells her where her mother’s grave is. He tells her she is buried by the statue of Dionysus in their park. She then reveals the plot and sets their two Belgian Shepherd dogs on him, which tear him to shreds. A further erudite classical detail is that Dean signs his paintings in Greek. Lewis and Hathaway consult Professor Margaret Gold, who immediately deciphers them as telephone numbers written in Greek numerals.
DI Lewis is less than pleased when he and DS Hathaway are assigned to protect Nicky Turnbull, a former criminal turned successful author. Turnbull had actually cheated two Oxford colleges in his computer scam and had received death threats. Turnbull is everything Lewis dislikes but he grits his teeth and does the job. Rock and roll hacker’ Nicky Turnbull is invited to speak at the Oxford Union. Lewis and Hathaway are tasked with babysitting him. He is met by a welcoming committee composed of Caroline Morton, president of the Union, Jo Gilchrist, unscrupulous student journalist with ambitions to be a tabloid editor, Stephen Gilchrist, her brother who is a serious scholar, and David Harvey, a rugby player who has had to retire because of an injury.
Turnbull gives his lecture and afterwards treats his audience to champagne in his hotel, which is housed in the converted prison in Oxford Castle. On the way there he is nearly run over by a jeep. Next morning he is shot dead by a sniper while talking to Lewis in the hotel courtyard. Later that day, Jo Gilchrist is found strangled in the hotel room next to Turnbull’s, which had been booked in Lewis’s name. Turnbull’s wife Diane, also his agent, comes to identify his body.
By an amazing coincidence, she was at school with Lewis and he was indeed her first boyfriend. By another coincidence, David Harvey was at the same public school as Hathaway, and remembers him as the head boy. Wolfgang Christ’, as they couldn’t work out whether he wanted to be Mozart or Jesus. It is revealed that Hathaway plays the guitar, specifically world music mixed with jazz, rock and mediaeval madrigals.