Synopsis
Lewis (2007), Season 5 is an Oxford crime drama, four episodes, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Robert Lewis and James Hathaway return in 2011, with mysteries that keep tangling up the city's academic life.
The cases here are odd even by the show's standards. A reunion at Oxford's last all-female college ends in murder, and the trail reaches back to an assault from years before. A visiting woman bishop is poisoned, then further deaths echo, scene for scene, the bloody set-pieces of Jacobean revenge tragedy. One story digs into a campus antidepressant trial and the shaky ethics of the psychiatry professor running it. The finale looks like blackmail gone wrong until a secret decades old surfaces underneath.
An ITV production set in the Inspector Morse universe. What gives Season 5 its edge is how literary and scientific its crimes turn out to be. Stream Lewis Season 5 online on iFILM.
4 episodes
S5·E1Old, 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 believes 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.
S5·E2Wild Justice
Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
S5·E3The Mind Has Mountains
The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
S5·E4The Gift of Promise
When a local businesswoman is bludgeoned to death, it appears to be a blackmail plot gone wrong. As the body count rises, Lewis and Hathaway realize there is a decades-old secret at the heart of the case, which they must uncover to bring the present-day murders to a halt.
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