The Best Episodes of Lewis Season 5

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.1/10(721 votes)

   #1 - The Gift of Promise

   S5:E44/24/2011

   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.

   Director:Metin Hüseyin

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Metin Hüseyin

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   7.9/10(771 votes)

   #2 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

   S5:E14/3/2011

   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.

   Director:Nicholas Renton

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Nicholas Renton

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.9/10(738 votes)

   #3 - The Mind Has Mountains

   S5:E34/17/2011

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

   Director:Charles Palmer

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles Palmer

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   7.7/10(713 votes)

   #4 - Wild Justice

   S5:E24/11/2011

   Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.

   Director:Hettie Macdonald

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Hettie Macdonald

   Writer:Unknown