A spin-off of the popular series Inspector Morse, a special two-hour drama picked up five years after the series ended. It is now continuing in its own series, with Lewis and Hathaway investigating in Morse's old stomping ground of Oxford.
Lewis is back five years after the death of his long-time police partner Morse. Now an inspector, he returns to Oxford and finds himself teamed up with younger colleague, Det Sgt James Hathaway and with a new boss, Chief Supt Jean Innocent.
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.