#1
S8E5
The Remorseful Day
An ailing Morse involves himself in a year-old cold-case of a murdered nymphomaniac, when persons of interest connected to it turn up dead.
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#2
S5E1
Second Time Around
The mysterious death of a former deputy police commissioner brings Morse into reluctant contact with an old rival, Ch Insp Dawson. Morse and Lewis, in uneasy tandem with Dawson, spot a link with the unsolved murder of a young girl 18 years earlier. To find the latest killer they have to unravel the first case again.
#3
S7E1
Deadly Slumber
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.
#4
Masonic Mysteries
S4E4
#5
Dead on Time
S6E1
#6
The Way Through the Woods
S8E1
#7
Death Is Now My Neighbour
S8E3
#8
Driven to Distraction
S4E3
#9
The Wench Is Dead
S8E4
#10
Promised Land
S5E5
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Oxford is shocked when a a Japanese student dies in what seems to be a brutal ritual killing. Then Morse finds he has unwittingly given all his suspects a watertight alibi.
#32
Service of All the Dead
S1E3
#31
Fat Chance
S5E2
#30
Cherubim & Seraphim
S6E5
#29
The Secret of Bay 5B
S3E4
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