These comments are about the whole two part story but I've endeavoured to avoid any key spoilers from part two here.
When an Oxford psychic is murdered Lewis and Hathaway are soon on the case and one of the first things they learn is that he wasn't a psychic at all! He was a student researching and attempting to debunk people's spiritual beliefs who was acting as a psychic to study the sort of people who when to see them and taking their money of course. Working out who did it won't be easy as there are plenty of motives; it could be his professor who was involved in a shady government contract, the professional psychic who had uncovered a fraud, his wife who feared he was having an affair or somebody who felt betrayed when they learnt he was a fraud. The method of murder is strange too he was injected with a horse tranquiliser. Inevitably before the case is solved there will be another death and one of our protagonists will find himself in real danger.
This was a good opening story for the seventh series of 'Lewis', although it is a pity it was divided into two one hour long episodes rather then the previous standard of having one two hour episode per story. Thankfully the story was relatively easy to remember from one week to the next. The format may be fairly standard but the story was good and there were plenty of suspects to keep the viewer guessing and the cast of TV regulars meant you couldn't even guess who did it using the s/he is well known it must be them theory! The cast; both regulars and guest stars did a good job and as usual there were some nice Oxford locations to be seen. Overall I'd say this was a typical 'Lewis' story that fans should enjoy.
When an Oxford psychic is murdered Lewis and Hathaway are soon on the case and one of the first things they learn is that he wasn't a psychic at all! He was a student researching and attempting to debunk people's spiritual beliefs who was acting as a psychic to study the sort of people who when to see them and taking their money of course. Working out who did it won't be easy as there are plenty of motives; it could be his professor who was involved in a shady government contract, the professional psychic who had uncovered a fraud, his wife who feared he was having an affair or somebody who felt betrayed when they learnt he was a fraud. The method of murder is strange too he was injected with a horse tranquiliser. Inevitably before the case is solved there will be another death and one of our protagonists will find himself in real danger.
This was a good opening story for the seventh series of 'Lewis', although it is a pity it was divided into two one hour long episodes rather then the previous standard of having one two hour episode per story. Thankfully the story was relatively easy to remember from one week to the next. The format may be fairly standard but the story was good and there were plenty of suspects to keep the viewer guessing and the cast of TV regulars meant you couldn't even guess who did it using the s/he is well known it must be them theory! The cast; both regulars and guest stars did a good job and as usual there were some nice Oxford locations to be seen. Overall I'd say this was a typical 'Lewis' story that fans should enjoy.