凯特·温丝莱特,马提亚斯·修奈尔,圭洛姆·加里尼,安德丽娅·赖斯伯勒,玛莎·普林顿,休·格兰特,唐纳德·萨基·马凯,路易·迈内特,乔纳森·卡斯,罗里·基南,维诺迪尼·帕特尔,丹尼·韦伯,妮基塔·查达哈,齐·刘易斯-帕里,Natsumi Kuroda,Cam Spence,Nina Fog,李仙湖,Loris Monet,Kelvin Ade,Michael Joel Bartelle,Brian Martin
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.