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The Best Episodes of Lewis

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The Best Episodes of Lewis

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

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  1. Background image for Dark Matter
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Dark Matter

    S4:E2

    When the master of a college is found dead at the foot of the observatory stairs, suspicion falls on all of the staff - from senior tutors right down to the scouts.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
    8.4/10(956 votes)

    #2 - And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

    S2:E1

    When a man is found dead at the Bodleian Library, Lewis investigates a link between the death and an intruder on a local professor's property.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for What Lies Tangled (2)
    8.2/10(481 votes)

    #3 - What Lies Tangled (2)

    S9:E6

    With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save his career and relationship.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Generation of Vipers
    8.1/10(731 votes)

    #4 - Generation of Vipers

    S6:E2

    Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into a world of virtual bullying, but very real murder, when a professor is found dead after her dating video is leaked online.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Intelligent Design (1)
    8.1/10(591 votes)

    #5 - Intelligent Design (1)

    S7:E5

    As Lewis and Hobson embark on a relationship, a former don is murdered on the night of his release from prison - crushed to death by a Jaguar Mark two.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Intelligent Design (2)
    8.1/10(531 votes)

    #6 - Intelligent Design (2)

    S7:E6

    The corpse of a missing student is discovered in the attic of a college chapel.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Beyond Good and Evil (2)
    8.1/10(458 votes)

    #7 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)

    S8:E6

    Hathaway and Maddox continue to investigate the murder of Travis as the trail leads back to Lewis’s original case. The two detectives attempt to prevent another murder and Lewis sees himself isolated and alone with his reputation in jeopardy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Gift of Promise
    8.0/10(671 votes)

    #8 - The Gift of Promise

    S5:E4

    When a local businesswoman is bludgeoned to death, it appears to be a blackmail plot gone wrong. As the body count rises, Lewis and Hathaway realize there is a decades-old secret at the heart of the case, which they must uncover to bring the present-day murders to a halt.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Soul of Genius
    8.0/10(706 votes)

    #9 - The Soul of Genius

    S6:E1

    When a botanist accidentally digs up the body of the recently buried Murray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Beyond Good and Evil (1)
    8.0/10(537 votes)

    #10 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)

    S8:E5

    Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for What Lies Tangled (1)
    8.0/10(466 votes)

    #11 - What Lies Tangled (1)

    S9:E5

    When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Allegory of Love
    7.9/10(813 votes)

    #12 - Allegory of Love

    S3:E1

    Lewis investigates the murder of a beautiful young Eastern European woman whose death comes straight from the pages of a popular fantasy novel.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Quality of Mercy
    7.9/10(781 votes)

    #13 - The Quality of Mercy

    S3:E2

    When Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the murder of a rising Oxford theatre star, they focus their suspicions on his acting colleagues.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Mind Has Mountains
    7.9/10(684 votes)

    #14 - The Mind Has Mountains

    S5:E3

    The ethics of a questionable drug on the Oxford campus of anti-depressants calls into account the questionable judgment of a psychiatry professor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Ramblin' Boy (2)
    7.9/10(520 votes)

    #15 - The Ramblin' Boy (2)

    S7:E4

    Liam Jay is in intensive care and Lewis and Alex believe that he has information about the death of Matt Whiby and the mysterious cremation. It is revealed by Emma Barnes that Johnny Jay, Liam’s father, was at the fateful supper party and he is missing as well.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Lions of Nemea (1)
    7.9/10(552 votes)

    #16 - The Lions of Nemea (1)

    S8:E3

    When a classics scholar is stabbed to death and dumped in the Oxford Canal, Lewis, Hathaway and Maddox find themselves sorely tested by a bizarre case.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Whom the Gods Would Destroy
    7.8/10(951 votes)

    #17 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy

    S1:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Expiation
    7.8/10(867 votes)

    #18 - Expiation

    S1:E3

    When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.

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    Director:Dan Reed
  20. Background image for Music to Die For
    7.8/10(785 votes)

    #19 - Music to Die For

    S2:E2

    Lewis and Hathaway investigate a link between the murder of a professor of German history and the recent winner of a local underground boxing bout.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Life Born of Fire
    7.8/10(935 votes)

    #20 - Life Born of Fire

    S2:E3

    When an old friend of Hathaway's commits suicide, Lewis investigates a link between his death and a religious group whose members are being targeted by a killer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Point of Vanishing
    7.8/10(725 votes)

    #21 - The Point of Vanishing

    S3:E3

    When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
    7.8/10(714 votes)

    #22 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

    S5:E1

    Oxford's last all-female college is holding a reunion party to say goodbye to one of its most popular professors. After a guest is found murdered, Lewis believes the killing is connected to an attack that happened at the same building 10 years ago. He turns to his former DS, Alison McLennan, to help him with the case, but it ends up taking a new twist after two more bodies turn up.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Ramblin' Boy (1)
    7.8/10(602 votes)

    #23 - The Ramblin' Boy (1)

    S7:E3

    An embalmed body is discovered dumped by an isolated farm track. Funeral director Brian Miller identifies the body and GP Matt Whitby confirms the gentleman died of cancer.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Lions of Nemea (2)
    7.8/10(466 votes)

    #24 - The Lions of Nemea (2)

    S8:E4

    After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for One for Sorrow (1)
    7.8/10(528 votes)

    #25 - One for Sorrow (1)

    S9:E1

    Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Dark Matter" is the best rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 8.7/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/9/2010. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea".