Again, Lewis makes it personal - a murder at an all girls' college takes him back to a case from years before that remained unsolved. Good cast of Juliet Stevenson, Zoe Telford, Hattie Morahan, Stephanie Street, Antonia Campbell-Hughes (Jack Dee series Lead Balloon), Saskia Reeves, Shannon Tarbet. And Hathaway's trying to give up smoking. Girl in coma waking up, masked ball, good stuff.
We only have one more Lewis Lewis, unfortunately - he was writing Endeavour from 2012. He'd also written three episodes of The Last Detective (2004-5) and created the John Thaw 2000 series Monsieur Renard (priest in WWII France).
Wild Justice d. Hettie Macdonald scr. Stephen Churchett
Lewis is planning to visit Italy and has a translation app. A murder of a bishop also produces an Italian connection, plus some Jacobean revenge stories. Rebecca Front and Clare Holman give great support as always. With Ronald Pickup, Sian Phillips, Christopher Timothy, Daniel Ryan, Amelia Bullmore, Sorcha Cusack, Amanda Ryan and Aisling Bea as a hotel receptionist.
I thought the loud building works were in there for some plot reason but I guess they were just 'colour'.
"Sorry for shouting, ma'am."
"I didn't notice."
"Thanks."
"Don't do it again."
Lewis is considering retiring early to spend more time with his impending grand-child... That's not (immediately) followed up. If he does, Hathaway's leaving too ("Who else would, er, understand me?")
"Do you know what St. Thomas Aquinas said?"
"Was it 'same again'?"
The Mind Has Mountains d. Charlie Palmer, scr. Patrick Harbinson (a writer and exec producer of things like Person Of Interest, Homeland, ER, Wire in the Blood, 24).
Good episode based around drug trials run by Douglas Henshall in which a girl dies. With Tim's son Jack Roth, Nichola Burley, Sophie Stanton, Lucy Liemann, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Love Actually, Stig of the Dump, Wolf Hall), Christina Cole, Sam Hazeldine.
But - so Hathaway sees Hobson on a date - so what? It makes her then act very huffishly. I like 'What's going on with her?' but I want it to mean something more than we can imagine.
Good lines like:
"I'm the one studying classics at Oxford. And you're the one working in this toilet. So just watch who you're calling stupid."
"We're both in the toilet. But I can leave", and
"Just to dot the is".
There's also some apostrophe joke's in there, and an amusing something that sounded like De Clarenbone's Syndrome, which is probably made up.
Lewis has a distrust of psychiatrists because he was made to see (a bad) one when Val died.
The Gift of Promise d. Metin Huseyin, scr. Dusty Hughes, Stephen Churchett
A former MI5 operative (Cherie Lunghi), a gifted child (only that Lucy Boynton again - she crops up in everything!), an Irishman (Lorcan Cranitch), an Anna Chancellor - add in various husbands and professors and you have an interesting story, which allows barbs between Lewis and Hathaway about intelligence. But the latter again displays his compassionate side in dealing with the girl, with whom they have intelligence in common.
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