SOUTHERN California may not have the chilly Autumn nights we all grew up with in the UK, but that’s no excuse not to curl up on Sunday evenings this autumn with a good British mystery.
Leading the way, as always, is the Masterpiece Mystery! Series on PBS, and next Sunday’s episode of the Inspector Lews series does not disappoint.
Kevin Whately returns as Lewis teamed with his cool, cerebral partner Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox). Lewis, the former working-class foil to the erudite Detective Inspector Morse, tackles murder and mayhem with the help of Hathaway. September 18th episode, “Wild Justice”, sees the pair investigate a murder of a member of the clergy.
Rabbis, nuns, mullahs, and Buddhists peacefully commingle with their friar hosts at an interfaith conference at St. Gerard’s college. But when an American female bishop is found dead, poisoned by a glass of the college’s own chianti, Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Hathaway (Laurence Fox) suspect that the bishop’s liberal views led to her murder. That is, until a far more gruesome death occurs, mirroring a macabre murder from a Jacobean Revenge tragedy. It’s a case that demands Hathaway’s prodigious literary and theological knowledge and Lewis’ keen and common-sense gut instinct. But are those resources dimming for the partners as one feels stirrings of his old call to seminary and the other considers his own mortality…and early retirement? They must somehow put struggles with faith aside before an obsessed killer takes another stab at wild justice. Amelia Bullmore (Endgame) guest stars.
Wild Justice, airing Sunday, September 18th at 9pm on PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery. Check local listings.
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