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 passing, 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 cuddle of an American college student.

It is soon discovered that one of the suspects has had past dealings with the late Inspector Morse.

The cuddle of an Oxford graduate sees Lewis and assistant Hathaway investigating the crime. The investigation leads to them to some ex students who are hiding a deadly secret.

An ambitious Oxford student is found dead in her hotel room after inviting a reformed computer hacker to speak at the union. Lewis and Hathaway investigate.

Lewis investigates the passing of a housewife who supposedly hanged herself in her own house. Lewis has to work out whether it was a sleeping or whether foul play was involved.