Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charlie Hillian is killed on the night of his retirement party. Hillian was at one time a senior officer in Oxford and was in fact Morse's boss. He was also writing a book about his most memorable cases, including one about the unsolved death of an 8-year-old girl some 18 years ago. The suspect in that case, Frederick Redpath, was at Hillian's house the day he died and that chapter from the manuscript is missing. There are other suspects however, including Hillian's ghost writer who will now receive all of the book's royalties; a handyman who was working on the property; and Redpath's daughter, who knew the little girl who was killed all those years before. Morse comes into conflict with with a colleague DCI Dawson, who was one of Hillian's protégés, as they again look into the little girl's death.
演员:萝丝·拜恩 梅格翰·法伊 布莱丹·格里森 奥黛丽·格蕾丝·马歇尔 Shayna Benardo 李·珀金斯 Ian Elrick 瑞安·安东尼·霍尔库姆 雷·潘莎基 斯科特·凯西克斯 Dave Z. Martin James Donadio Heather Konowal Tim Peek 比尔·凯利 阿曼达·L·米勒