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The Worst 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. 7.4/10(655 votes)

    #1 - Fearful Symmetry

    S6:E3

    When a babysitter is found dead, Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into diverse new worlds including squats, swinging suburbia, primate labs and fetish photography.

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  2. 7.5/10(697 votes)

    #2 - The Great and the Good

    S2:E4

    A 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.

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  3. 7.6/10(840 votes)

    #3 - Old School Ties

    S1:E2

    Lewis comes face to face with his past in a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics.

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  4. 7.6/10(814 votes)

    #4 - Counter Culture Blues

    S3:E4

    When 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.

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  5. 7.6/10(608 votes)

    #5 - Down Among the Fearful (1)

    S7:E1

    Lewis 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’.

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  6. 7.6/10(474 votes)

    #6 - Magnum Opus (1)

    S9:E3

    When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

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  8. 7.6/10(438 votes)

    #7 - Magnum Opus (2)

    S9:E4

    Before 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.

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  9. 7.7/10(696 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. 7.7/10(662 votes)

    #9 - Wild Justice

    S5:E2

    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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  11. 7.7/10(613 votes)

    #10 - The Indelible Stain

    S6:E4

    Lewis and Hathaway investigate when a controversial American academic is murdered after speaking at Oxford's Department of Criminology.

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  12. 7.7/10(522 votes)

    #11 - Down Among the Fearful (2)

    S7:E2

    Lewis 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.

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  13. 7.7/10(561 votes)

    #12 - Entry Wounds (1)

    S8:E1

    Hathaway 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.

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  14. 7.7/10(467 votes)

    #13 - Entry Wounds (2)

    S8:E2

    Hathaway's murder theory has fallen apart. It might take Lewis's insight to close the case - but will his former protege listen?

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  15. 7.8/10(946 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. 7.8/10(864 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 7.8/10(783 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. 7.8/10(931 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. 7.8/10(725 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 7.8/10(726 votes)

    #19 - Your Sudden Death Question

    S4:E3

    On 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.

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  21. 7.8/10(747 votes)

    #20 - Falling Darkness

    S4:E4

    Lewis 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.

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  22. 7.8/10(709 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 7.8/10(600 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. 7.8/10(466 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. 7.8/10(528 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. 7.8/10(464 votes)

    #25 - One for Sorrow (2)

    S9:E2

    Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Fearful Symmetry" is the worst rated episode of "Lewis". It scored 7.4/10 based on 655 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".