Falling Darkness

I recently bought the entire Lewis series on dvd. I've been binge watching every evening. I truly love this show and this episode is a really engrossing who done it. As other reviewers stated Clare Holman's performance was outstanding. This episode held all my interest to the very end, very climactic. The relationship between Lewis and Hathaway just gets better and better..so happy I have a lot more to watch.

It's quite easy to forget how great Clare Holman was in her time in both Morse and Lewis, replacing the brilliant and brash Max was a near impossible job, but she did a great job. So why did it take so long to put her centre stage. Laura is very heavily involved personally and professionally, and almost meets an untimely end. Holman is superb in the episode, and for my money outshines the likes of Rupert Graves and Niamh Cusack.

It's a very clever mystery, very deep and multi layered, a great start and a very dramatic, thrilling conclusion it certainly manages to hold your attention. Particularly good production values, it looks great. My only criticism would be the room locked up for nineteen years, utterly unbelievable, you wouldn't even get that in a Disney movie.

On Halloween a murder takes place and Dr. Holman suddenly is thrust into the middle of it. The writers give their characters names from various classical works. The plot features a direct assault on our favorite pathologist. Lewis is stunned when she becomes a suspect because it would mean great miscalculation on his part and suspicion for one he loves. Soon a "coven" of young people is brought into the mix because of some sort of connection they have from the past. Hathaway begins to do his research thing and makes some interesting discoveries. While I wasn't crazy about the conclusion, it still keeps us going, step by step.

A woman is killed who his connected with a stem-cell research company.

The episode goes on to make the viewer believe that the people involved in this killing and others are connected because of the research. They showed people protesting, yelling and screaming. As usual pro-lifers are put in a bad light.

This story was complicated and went in to many directions. Too many scenes with Lewis and Hathaway sipping water or coffee or always carrying a cup to be believed.

In the end one of the culprits with a Cross around her neck is involved in the killing.

Faith and religion are also put in a bad light by "Lewis" in other videos.

The media seems to always put Crosses on killers or the bad people in the scripts even in the US. This is no different. I am very disappointed in the way Christians and people against stem cell research are cast as portrayers of crimes in stories like this which even has nothing to do with the plot of this story.

After watching the episode, I logged onto the Review page here, to see if I had missed something.

I am glad to see that I was not the only one who has no idea why the victims were murdered.

Except for the one retired nurse, whose murder made some sense, and was before any of the others. None of the other murders made any sense, once we learned who the murderer was and what the motivation was.

It was nice to see Dr. Hobson (Clare Holman) given more to do. But that is not enough of a "plus" to save a poorly reasoned murder mystery.