List of Lewis episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the British drama Lewis that first aired in 2006. As of 30 May 2010, 16 episodes have aired, from four series.

Overview

Series	Episodes	Series premiere	Series finale	DVD release date
				Region 2	Region 4	Region 1
1	4	18 February 2007	4 March 2007	12 March 2007	31 March 2008	5 August 2008
2	4	24 February 2008	16 March 2008	7 April 2008	18 May 2009	13 October 2009
3	4	22 March 2009	12 April 2009	13 April 2009	10 March 2010	12 October 2010
4	4	2 May 2010	30 May 2010	31 May 2010	TBA	TBA

Pilot: 2006

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
1	"Reputation"	Bill Anderson	Russell Lewis	29 January 2006 (2006-01-29)	11.31
DI Lewis returns to Oxford after several years' absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's maths tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.

Series 1: 2007

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
2	"Whom the Gods Would Destroy"	Marc Jobst	Daniel Boyle	18 February 2007 (2007-02-18)	8.11
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. When a second member of the foursome is murdered, it becomes apparent the they have a secret, one from 30 years ago and that someone is out for revenge.
3	"Old School Ties"	Sarah Harding	Alan Plater	25 February 2007 (2007-02-25)	7.81
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 does the job. Turnbull is in Oxford to make a speech at the request of the Students Union but things take a serious turn when Jo Gilchrist, a student and a member of Turnbull's reception committee, is found strangled. Gilchrist wrote for a student newspaper and was about to expose a professor's exam scam. When Turnbull is shot in the courtyard of his hotel, Lewis realizes that the man's wife was his first girlfriend. He also learns that they were on the verge of getting a divorce.
4	"Expiation"	Dan Reed	Guy Andrews	4 March 2007 (2007-03-04)	8.85
Lewis and Hathaway investigate a murder in Summertown when an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home. The detectives unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

Series 2: 2008

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
5	"And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea"	Dan Reed	Alan Plater	24 February 2008 (2008-02-24)	8.90
At first the murders of Reg Chapman, a handy man at the Bodleian Library and gambling addict, and Nell Buckley, a popular Art student, seem unrelated. However, it transpires that Chapmen stole parchment from the library upon which Nell and another student persuaded Philip, a brilliant, autistic young painter, to innocently forge letters by the poet Shelley for the international collectors' market. When both victims, for different reasons, threatened to expose the mastermind behind the scam, they were killed.
6	"Music to Die For"	Bill Anderson	Dusty Hughes	2 March 2008 (2008-03-02)	8.50
Whilst investigating the murder of R.G. Cole, and ageing gay lecturer who was strangled at a friend's house, Lewis finds links to bare-knuckle fighting, Wagnerian opera, East Berlin and his old mentor Morse.
7	"Life Born of Fire"	Richard Spence	Tom MacRae	9 March 2008 (2008-03-09)	8.19
Lady Hugh, the intolerant Bible-fanatic president of Oxford's Mayfield college, turns against anything gay. Shortly after popular, decent student Will McEwan shoots himself in the head in St. Mark's church, after waving the revolver at Reverend Francis King, who is himself found tortuously murdered by a hot poker in the head the next day. The link between both victims is The Garden, a pious society offering 'Christian answers to youngsters' contemporary questions', its emblem being a Phoenix, which both Will's suicide note 'I lost my way between Gethsemane and Calvary' and a message on King's door 'Life born of fire' refer to. Lewis's partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, was a friend of gentle gay Will in school and again at university, but his brutally gay-bashing father Henry McEwan apparently repudiates Will posthumously finding out and his mother believed he was getting steady with a nice girl. Lewis keeps digging in all those circles, discovering more secrets and deceit. More blood is to be spilled, and the meaning of names proves crucial.
8	"The Great and the Good"	Stuart Orme	Paul Rutman	16 March 2008 (2008-03-16)	8.70
Following a squash injury Robbie ends up in casualty where he meets the Donnelly family, whose school-girl daughter Beatrice was drugged and woke up in a field, having been raped. Evidence points to Oswald Cooper, who worked at her school and whose prescription drug matches the doping agent. However he has an alibi, a dinner party he gave for three former student friends, now all eminent men. Next day he is found garrotted and castrated. Forensic evidence backs the view that he raped Beatrice and the alibi is proved to be false. A friend of his who is blackmailing the three guests is also garroted. It is clear that Oswald Cooper kept in with the great and the good by organizing scams and deceptions for them but his murderer was preserving a far more personal secret.

Series 3: 2009

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
9	"Allegory of Love"	Bill Anderson	David Pirie	22 March 2009 (2009-03-22)	7.54
Lewis and Hathaway discover that the bizarre murder of a Czech barmaid with an antique mirror was based on a similar killing found in a newly published fantasy novel, by the young Oxford author Dorian Crane.
10	"The Quality of Mercy"	Bille Eltringham	Alan Plater	29 March 2009 (2009-03-29)	7.19
Lewis investigates the murder of a young actor who was just about to premier as Shylock in the Merchant of Venice. Meanwhile, Hathaway makes a shocking discovery.
11	"The Point of Vanishing"	Maurice Phillips	Paul Rutman	5 April 2009 (2009-04-05)	6.83
Lewis and Hathaway investigate Oxford don turned celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury, after the religious fanatic who crippled Rattenbury's daughter is found murdered.
12	"Counter Culture Blues"	Bill Anderson	Nick Dear	12 April 2009 (2009-04-12)	6.61
Lewis is amazed when the lead singer of Midnight Addiction, Esme Ford, comes back from the dead just as a wayward teenager is found dead nearby. Forensic evidence points to a connection with the band.

Series 4: 2010

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
13	"The Dead of Winter"	Bill Anderson	Russell Lewis	2 May 2010 (2010-05-02)	8.46
With Hathaway still reeling from a particularly horrific investigation, he and Lewis, investigate a series of murders at Crevecoeur Hall, the ancestral home of the wealthy Mortmaignes. Lewis and Hathaway must unpick secrets to solve the crimes.
14	"Dark Matter"	Bille Eltringham	Stephen Churchett	9 May 2010 (2010-05-09)	8.03
Lewis and Hathaway investigate the killing of Professor Andrew Crompton, amateur astronomer and college master. Crompton was found dead at the university observatory after making a strange confession to a priest.
15	"Your Sudden Death Question"	Dan Reed	Alan Plater	16 May 2010 (2010-05-16)	7.17
Chaucer College plays host to a quiz weekend over the Bank Holiday. Lewis and Hathaway have another case to solve when two of the competitors are murdered within twenty-four hours.
16	"Falling Darkness"	Nicholas Renton	Russell Lewis	30 May 2010 (2010-05-30)	6.90
Stem cell researcher Ligeia Willard is murdered on Hallowe'en, and Laura reveals that she was an old university friend of hers. Then more murders occur connected to Laura's past, and Lewis wonders whether the pathologist is holding something back.

Series 5: 2011

#	Episode	Director	Writer	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
17	"Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things"	Nicholas Renton	Russell Lewis	3 April 2011 (2011-04-03)	8.46

External links

• List of Lewis episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Lewis episodes at TV.com