The Best Episodes Written By Daniel Boyle

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   8.1/10(7 votes)

   #1 - Deadly Slumber

   S7:E11/6/1993

   The owner of a private hospital is found murdered in his car, after a series of anonymous threatening letters. Suspicion falls on a retired book-maker whose daughter suffered severe brain damage as a result of negligence during an operation some years before. Morse spends a lot of effort in investigating the possibility that the dead man was criminally negligent, and concludes that he was. While he does his best to bring the killer to justice, Morse does not seem very troubled that at the end of the day he is unable to nail him.

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   8.1/10(7 votes)

   #2 - The Day of the Devil

   S7:E21/13/1993

   Morse and Lewis hunt a violent rapist who has escaped from prison. They find themselves drawn into an under-world of satanists, and some of them seem more respectable than others.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - No Man Is an Island

   S2:E54/21/1996

   Personal crisis takes Hamish to a remote island from which he intends never to return. But he is not alone. Meanwhile, his absence from Lochdubh is keenly felt when his over-zealous replacement makes himself a nuisance.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Fleshmarket Close

   S2:E26/3/2006

   A Kurdish asylum seeker is murdered on a notorious Edinburgh estate in an apparent race-hate attack, but Rebus suspects there's more to it. A local MSP reports a missing Kosovan girl, last seen with a known criminal, who also seems to have vanished.

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   #5 - The Great Lochdubh Salt Robbery

   S1:E13/26/1995

   Police constable Hamish Macbeth is baffled by two apparently unrelated mysteries: a huge quantity of table salt has been stolen from Rory Campbell's general store; and Geordie Robb, a local bully, is missing. Hamish outwits his superiors when he makes a connection between the two mysteries.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - Wee Jock's Lament

   S1:E54/23/1995

   A strange premonition, two escaped convicts on the run who injure Hamish's dog, Wee Jock, lead Hamish on a quest for revenge. TV John rounds up a posse to prevent Hamish from doing something he'll regret.

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   #7 - A Perfectly Simple Explanation

   S2:E13/24/1996

   A hellfire sect leader sees the town as the new Gomorrah. Hamish's reputation is undermined and his tolerance stretched to the limit when he is denounced as the devil incarnate.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Radio Lochdubh

   S2:E44/14/1996

   Hamish turns a deaf ear to the local pirate radio station which is having a remarkable influence on the town. But when the radio authority sends a defector van to close down transmission, he is caught up in a conflict of loyalties.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - The Lochdubh Deluxe

   S2:E64/28/1996

   A family feud at the funeral parlour comes to a head. It is suggested that space aliens have snatched a body from the local burial ground.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Destiny (1)

    S3:E74/27/1997

    TV John's long-lost brother, the one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed Kenneth McIver, is Sprung from a South American gaol by millionaire Torquil Farquar McFarquar. Ex-patriate McFarquar has a passion for all things Scottish and has heard that Kenneth knows the whereabouts of the real Stone of Destiny, coronation stone of the ancient Scottish kings. Scenting a fortune in the offing, Kenneth sets off for Lochdubh, accompanied by mysterious hypnotist Ava Grimm. Meanwhile, TV John has had premonitions of the impending death of someone very close. How can the villagers convince him it's all in tile mind?

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Destiny (2)

    S3:E85/4/1997

    Kenneth and Ava have stolen the Stone of Destiny, and TV John is missing. Hamish, Isobel and a posse from Lochdubh embark on a death-defying trek across mountain and moorland in order to rescue their friend and save a treasured symbol of the nation's heritage. As adversity brings Hamish and Isobel closer together, myth begins to merge with reality and the ghosts of Scotland's past appear to help them on their way, but ultimately there's no salvation without sacrifice.

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    5.6/10(5 votes)

    #12 - The White Knight Stratagem

    S1:E410/2/2001

    When the acquaintances of a suicide victim are found murdered, opposing opinions about the investigation ignites a feud between Dr. Bell and an old adversary from the police department.

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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Deferred Sentence

    S3:E23/23/1997

    Holidaying alone oil the island of Laggan-Laggan, Hamish is drawn into a twenty-year old mystery which has poisoned the community. Why do the islanders shun Hamish's hosts, the Catholic priest, Father McPhail and his Protestant sparring partner, Enoch McDuff? Anxious to avoid being caught in their inter-dominational crossfire, Hamish pretends to be Jewish. He is intrigued by Laura McDuff's allegations concerning the mysterious death of her mother all those years ago, but is his interest in her simply that of a policeman Who Suspects foul play?

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