But the team’s abilities will be sorely tested when the team begin to investigate the brutal murder of an American classics student, Rose Anderson (Alisha Bailey), whose body is hauled from the canal with stab wounds to the neck and abdomen. DS Maddox (Angela Griffin) has become integral to the team, and even Hobson (Claire Holman), initially sceptical, seems to be at peace with sharing her supposedly retired partner with Hathaway and the Oxfordshire Police. What follows is a second murder, an unfolding tragedy, and the unraveling of a long-running hate campaign... But can Innocent’s experiment – throwing Hathaway and Lewis together again – be sufficient to solve the mystery and stop the killings?Įpisode 3: ‘The Lions Of Nemea (Part One)’Įpisode 4: ‘The Lions Of Nemea (Part Two)’Īfter a difficult start, the Lewis/Hathaway partnership seems to have achieved some semblance of normal. It soon becomes clear that the case has everything to do with Alastair’s failure to save a badly injured teenager, Nabeel Sira, in the operating theatre but the hospital staff seem to be closing ranks and the boy’s parents Ayesha (Thusitha Jayasundera) and Rizwan (Ace Bhatti) are considering their options – some of them not entirely legal... What is Alastair’s glamorous widow Erica (Kara Tointon) hiding, and what is the nature of her relationship with Alastair’s younger rival in the operating theatre, Simon Eastwood (Leo Staar)? Does the original owner of the farmland, Gillian Fernsby (Anna Carteret), harbour homicidal urges? What of her daughter Lorraine (Elizabeth Rider), Alastair’s loyal scrub nurse, and chippy grandson Chris (Michael Peavoy), a porter at the hospital? What plans does student activist Jessica Tallison (Francesca Zoutewelle) have for Alastair and Tom’s failing business empire? Alastair Stoke (Jonny Phillips) was shot in the head on the farmland he co-owned with his troubled business partner Tom Marston (Aden Gillett), but as Hathaway delves into the network of fear and loathing that surrounds the surgeon, the case begins to careen out of control. It started with an arson attack on a hunting lodge, but soon enough Hathaway and DS Maddox (Angela Griffin) have a dead neurosurgeon on their hands. Meanwhile Hathaway (Laurence Fox) is wading into his first murder mystery – a tricky case that bridges the worlds of neurosurgery, blood sports and animal rights. So when the call comes from Innocent to take up his badge and rejoin the force, he jumps at the chance. It’s not Hobson’s fault, but retirement plainly doesn’t suit him. There’s something missing in Lewis’s life. > Buy the complete Season 1-7 boxset on Amazon. Add to this a severe manpower crisis – plenty of troops, not many veterans – and Innocent (Rebecca Front) has a crisis unfolding.
Maddox, desperate to learn – to help – is getting nowhere.
Diligent as ever, always the brilliant detective, Hathaway is too introverted and solipsistic to work as a boss.
We pick up four weeks into his new career as DI Hathaway of the Oxfordshire Police, and he’s already onto his second sergeant, DS Lizzie Maddox (Angela Griffin), having acrimoniously parted with his first. He’s been fast-tracked through the promotion boards and two months ago, on Innocent’s advice, he took his inspector’s exams in London. Hathaway, after a year spent ‘taking a walk’, decided that a policeman’s life was something worth committing to. ITV’s detective team of Lewis and Hathaway return this autumn for six new episodes of crime drama Lewis.Ī year and a half after the conclusion of the previous season – which left Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately) focused on his retirement plans and James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) abandoning the Oxfordshire Police for an uncertain future – we find Oxford not quite as we left it.