- 7.4/10(650 votes)
#1 - Fearful Symmetry
Loading...S6:E3When a babysitter is found dead, Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into diverse new worlds including squats, swinging suburbia, primate labs and fetish photography.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.5/10(692 votes)
#2 - The Great and the Good
Loading...S2:E4A rape case appears to be solved when the chief suspect is murdered. But nothing is what it seems - and soon the upper echelons of Oxford society close ranks.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(833 votes)
#3 - Old School Ties
Loading...S1:E2Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(807 votes)
#4 - Counter Culture Blues
Loading...S3:E4When Lewis and Hathaway investigate a murder in town, forensic evidence leads them to suspect there is a connection with the reforming of an old rock band.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(689 votes)
#5 - Dark Matter
Loading...S4:E2When 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(604 votes)
#6 - Down Among the Fearful (1)
Loading...S7:E1Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the death of Reuben Beatty who works at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychology. He has been discovered dead injected by etorphine, a paralysing agent in the offices of psychic ‘Randolph James’.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(471 votes)
#7 - Magnum Opus (1)
Loading...S9:E3When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(435 votes)
#8 - Magnum Opus (2)
Loading...S9:E4Before the fourth murder takes place, the team must uncover the guilty secret that their victims share in order to learn the identity of both the killer and the potential victim.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(654 votes)
#9 - Wild Justice
Loading...S5:E2Lewis investigates when a visiting female bishop is poisoned. Then two more deaths occur, both mirroring macabre murders from Jacobean revenge tragedy.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(607 votes)
#10 - The Indelible Stain
Loading...S6:E4Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(518 votes)
#11 - Down Among the Fearful (2)
Loading...S7:E2Lewis and Hobson are examining the body of murdered Vicki Walmsley when a theft of etorphine is reported by the Garsington Equine Centre. The drug was last used a year earlier on a horse that injured its teenage rider, Joshua Grace – the brother-in-law of Reuben Beatty, the first murder victim.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(558 votes)
#12 - Entry Wounds (1)
Loading...S8:E1Hathaway has been promoted to Inspector after an extended break from the force, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(464 votes)
#13 - Entry Wounds (2)
Loading...S8:E2Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(939 votes)
#14 - Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Loading...S1:E1Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate case involving one of the Oxford University's most prominent figures.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(858 votes)
#15 - Expiation
Loading...S1:E3When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Dan ReedWriter:Colin Dexter - 7.8/10(777 votes)
#16 - Music to Die For
Loading...S2:E2Lewis and Hathaway investigate a link between the murder of a professor of German history and the recent winner of a local underground boxing bout.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(924 votes)
#17 - Life Born of Fire
Loading...S2:E3When 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(716 votes)
#18 - The Point of Vanishing
Loading...S3:E3When religious fanatic Steven Mullan is murdered, Lewis investigates celebrity atheist Tom Rattenbury and his family, who had been attacked by Mullan.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Maurice PhillipsWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(718 votes)
#19 - Your Sudden Death Question
Loading...S4:E3On a bank holiday weekend Lewis and Hathaway are called in when a top quiz competitor is found floating dead in the fountain of an Oxford college.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Dan ReedWriter:Alan Plater - 7.8/10(740 votes)
#20 - Falling Darkness
Loading...S4:E4Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a university friend of pathologist Laura Hobson. As more deaths occur, they realise that Laura's past may hold the key.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(702 votes)
#21 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things
Loading...S5:E1Oxford'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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(596 votes)
#22 - The Ramblin' Boy (1)
Loading...S7:E3An 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(463 votes)
#23 - The Lions of Nemea (2)
Loading...S8:E4After 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?
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(524 votes)
#24 - One for Sorrow (1)
Loading...S9:E1Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 7.8/10(460 votes)
#25 - One for Sorrow (2)
Loading...S9:E2Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.
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"Fearful Symmetry" is the worst rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 7.4/10 based on 650 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/30/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Great and the Good".