Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case.Why weren't the three men also charged with theft Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forestPC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford.The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest.Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information that only a husband or a lover would know. The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison.Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony.Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.
郑则仕,马思纯,朱茵,袁姗姗,范湉湉,任正斌,张志忠,陈逸恒,涂凌,夏力薪,宁理,柳小海,章涛,王婉娟,翟子路,白荟,张维伊,焦钰
宇佐卓真,世古口凌,志田琥珀,高尾颯斗
陈柏融,严屹宽,周历杰
娜格斯·拉什迪,约瑟夫·费因斯
亚利桑德拉·布莱肯瑞吉,马丁·亨德森,凯·布拉德伯里,莎拉·坎宁,蕾切尔·德兰斯,本·霍灵斯沃斯,科迪·基尔斯利
谢心,象韵洁,王嘉懋,徐凯,陈茜
王红舟,李琳,郭家铭,郭凯敏,杜旭东,李诚儒,陈之辉
曾宥臻,严子贤,张轩瑜,吴洛浛
严子贤,曾宥臻,吴洛浛,张轩瑜
李欣燃,祝子杰,吕炫乐,陈瑞丰
王红舟,李琳,张颖,陶红
小芝风花,笠松将,中野周平,仓科加奈,北村有起哉,向井理
内详
刘永,尹天照,罗烈,雪梨
克莱尔·希金斯,鲁珀特·伊文斯,大卫·莫瑞瑟,伊芙·迈勒斯,朱迪·麦克尼,阿瑟·修斯,埃利奥特·考恩,Nicholas·Nunn,Oscar·Batterham,Jennifer·Macbeth,比利·巴雷特
方瑾,赵华为,吴曼思,储子竣,仲和家,夏烁,刘奕灵,钱可儿,段姝涵,周千筱,刘珂君
妮可·基德曼,杰米·李·柯蒂斯,阿丽亚娜·德博斯,詹妮特·蒙哥马利,阿什利·谢尔顿,西蒙·贝克,鲍比·坎纳瓦尔,麦迪逊·桑兹,J·托马斯·贝利,阿曼达·莱赫提,亨特·帕瑞施,杰克·坎纳瓦尔,罗西·麦克尤恩,查理·B·福斯特,约翰·W·希思,泰勒·梅里特,德娅·迪伊,安德鲁·J·福尔纳,奥斯汀·麦克梅恩斯,里格斯·弗莱诺里
妮可·基德曼,杰米·李·柯蒂斯,阿丽亚娜·德博斯,詹妮特·蒙哥马利,阿什利·谢尔顿,西蒙·贝克,鲍比·坎纳瓦尔,麦迪逊·桑兹,J·托马斯·贝利,阿曼达·莱赫提,亨特·帕瑞施,杰克·坎纳瓦尔,罗西·麦克尤恩,查理·B·福斯特,约翰·W·希思,泰勒·梅里特,德娅·迪伊,安德鲁·J·福尔纳,奥斯汀·麦克梅恩斯,里格斯·弗莱诺里
内详
伊纳基·戈多伊,新田真剑佑,埃米莉·拉德,雅各布·吉布森,塔兹·斯凯拉,大卫·达斯马齐连,凯特蕾·萨加尔,蕾拉·阿波娃,马克·哈雷利克,查瑞莎·钱德兰,森德希·拉玛莫西,维纳·科泽尔,罗布·科莱蒂,麦金利·贝尔彻三世,摩根·戴维斯,布兰登·默雷,克雷格·费尔布拉斯,贾扎拉·贾斯林,卡姆鲁斯·约翰逊,蒂龙·基奥,卡勒姆·科尔,兰利·柯克伍德,丹尼尔·拉斯克,塞莱斯特·鲁茨,亚历山大·马尼亚蒂斯,伊利