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 math 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.

英国知名编剧Jimmy McGovern( Accused, The Street, Cracker）带有个人经历色彩（虽然不太多）的争议剧（与当年RTD的Queer as Folk比投诉量……），描写的是利物浦小青年Danny Kavanagh热爱诗歌，心地善良但嗜赌成性，离家出走前往湖区寻找新的开始，与当地少女Emma相爱并结婚。意外怀孕使Emma放弃了上大学的机会而暗藏心结，Danny的好赌使新家庭争吵不断。初来乍到的他很快发现湖区小村风光优美的表面下，是一个个被压抑、封闭的沉闷生活扭曲的家庭。当几名少女不幸落水溺亡的悲剧发生后，Danny成了这个排外的村庄归咎责任的对象……（豆瓣John Simm小站）

Guy Crouchback, heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family, returns to England from Italy at the start of World War II, and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers along with various eccentrics, though his attempts to get back with his wife Virginia, from whom he is separated, fail. After being implicated in a colleague's death, he is sent to train a commando brigade on a Scottish island, and ends up on Crete, taking part in its evacuation, and escaping to Egypt with fellow officers Ludovic and Ivor Claire. He is returned to England courtesy of Mrs. Stitch, to possibly prevent him from naming Claire as a deserter. Guy marries Virginia a second time, by which time she has a child by ex-lover Trimmer. While Guy is in Yugoslavia having a confusing time with the partisans, Virginia is killed, along with Guy's uncle Peregrine, by a doodlebug bomb. Guy returns to England after getting involved in charitable agencies, and eventually remarries.