![摩斯探长第十一季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
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 forest PC 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.
![](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
选集播放
相关推荐
![投行风云第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![贝艾尔第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![海豹突击队第七季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![马略卡档案第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![未坐监第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![女人领地](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![未坐监 第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![贝艾尔 第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![马略卡档案 第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![海豹突击队 第七季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![大人物2024](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![高地迷踪](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![投行风云 第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![复古球衣先生](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![大人物](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![雪国列车(剧版)第四季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![洪水之后](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![雪国列车(剧版) 第四季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![方舟一号 第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![方舟一号第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![丑女贝蒂:故事继续](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![丑女贝蒂:故事继续](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![湖中女人](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![毒蛇王后第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![毒蛇王后 第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![博尼法斯修女探案集第三季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![邪恶第四季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![毒蛇王后第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![毒蛇王后第二季](mxtheme/images/load.gif)
![特伦特探员](mxtheme/images/load.gif)