Season 5

2011 · 4 episodes

Episodes

1Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things3 Apr 2011 · 1h 33mOxford'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.
2Wild Justice11 Apr 2011 · 1h 34mLewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
3The Mind Has Mountains17 Apr 2011 · 1h 33mThe ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.
4The Gift of Promise24 Apr 2011 · 1h 34mWhen 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.