Lewis Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot

Airdate: 2006-Jan-29

Episode summary:

Kevin Whately returns in his role as police detective Robert Lewis in the anxiously anticipated spin-off to the hugely popular Inspector Morse series. Five years after his friend and mentor's death, Robert - now promoted to position of inspector - returns to the city of Oxford after working on the British Virgin Islands. Even before he has the chance to get home and settle in, he and his new, vastly younger partner DS Hathaway (Laurence Fox) are called to a crime scene to help investigate the murder of an American college student. It is soon discovered that one of the suspects has had past dealings with the late Inspector Morse.

About Lewis series:

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.