7.8/10696 votes#1 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2011
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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7.7/10647 votes#2 - Wild Justice
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2011
Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
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7.9/10668 votes#3 - The Mind Has Mountains
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/2011
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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8.0/10654 votes#4 - The Gift of Promise
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2011
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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Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things" is the best rated episode of "Lewis" season 5. It scored 7.8/10 based on 696 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/2011. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Wild Justice".