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.
拉塞尔·托维,古古·姆巴塔-劳,柯林·麦克法兰,吉玛·雷德格里夫,鲁思·马德利,亚历山大・德弗伦特,帕特里克·巴拉迪,乔治·罗宾森,弗朗西斯卡·科尼,Mei Mac,John Addison,Shanice Archer,曼普利特·巴楚,Quanna Luo Masterson,Alex Jaden Lee