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Sergeant Lewis later received his own spin-off in ''Series/{{Lewis}}'', joined by Laura Hobson (Clare Holman) as the only other regular returnee from this series. A {{prequel}}, ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'', set in [[TheSixties the 60s]] and starring Shaun Evans as the young Detective Constable Morse, aired in 2012; it was renewed for a series airing from April 2013.

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Sergeant Lewis later received his own spin-off in ''Series/{{Lewis}}'', joined by pathologist Laura Hobson (Clare Holman) as the only other regular returnee from this series. A {{prequel}}, ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'', set in [[TheSixties the 60s]] and starring Shaun Evans as the young Detective Constable Morse, aired in 2012; it was renewed for a series airing from April 2013.
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* StaircaseTumble: How [[spoiler:Shelly Cornford]] meets her end in "Death Is Now My Neighbour", after she tries to flee from her irate husband and falls down one of Lonsdale's stairways.
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* LoopholeAbuse: In "Twilight of the Gods", Andrew Baydon uses one legal maneouvre after another to block Lithuanian academic Victor Ignotas from telling the world that, rather than a Holocaust survivor, he was, in fact, a concentration camp guard. However, Victor will soon be charged with attempted murder after attempting to assassinate Baydon and hitting an opera singer instead - and there's no rule to block him [[TakingYouWithMe spilling his guts in the witness box]].

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* LoopholeAbuse: In "Twilight of the Gods", Andrew Baydon uses one legal maneouvre after another to block Lithuanian academic Victor Ignotas from telling the world that, rather [[spoiler:rather than a Holocaust survivor, he was, in fact, a concentration camp guard. guard.]] However, Victor will soon be charged with attempted murder after attempting to assassinate Baydon and hitting an opera singer instead - and there's no rule to block him [[TakingYouWithMe spilling his guts in the witness box]].

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** Morse views the BigBad of [[spoiler: "Cherubim & Seraphim"]] as one, as he ended up dying before Morse could really throw the book at him.
** Averted at the tail end of [[spoiler: "Death Is Now My Neighbour".]] It appears that [[spoiler: Clixby Bream]] is set to get off scott free after [[spoiler: coercing a woman into sleeping with him, which directly contributed to her death]]...until [[spoiler: Morse runs him out of Oxford by threatening to leak his misdeeds to the press.]]
** Lewis sees the [[spoiler: accomplices to the murder]] comitted in [[spoiler: "The Daughters of Cain"]] as this, bitterly protesting the decision not to pursue prosecution. On the other hand, Morse is happy to look the other way considering [[spoiler: that the vicitim made their lives a living hell for years, and the actual murderer has passed on.]]

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** Morse views the BigBad of [[spoiler: "Cherubim & Seraphim"]] as one, as since he ended up dying before Morse could really throw the book at him.
** Averted at the tail end of [[spoiler: "Death Is Now My Neighbour".]] It appears that [[spoiler: Clixby Bream]] is set to get off scott free after will face no repercussions for [[spoiler: coercing a woman into sleeping with him, which directly contributed to her death]]...until [[spoiler: Morse runs him out of Oxford by threatening to leak his misdeeds to the press.]]
** Lewis sees the [[spoiler: accomplices to the second murder]] comitted in [[spoiler: "The Daughters of Cain"]] as this, bitterly protesting the decision not to pursue prosecution. On the other hand, Morse is happy to look the other way considering [[spoiler: that the vicitim made their lives a living hell for years, and the actual murderer has passed on.]]
** Drives the plot of [[spoiler: "Dead on Time", where a couple plot to get their son-in-law put away for murder after discovering that he got away scott free after causing the car crash that killed their daughter and grandson.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale:
** [[spoiler: "Day of the Devil",]] where the [[spoiler:prison psychologist]] manages to get both of the men who wronged her killed while outwitting Morse and Lewis for most of the episode.
** In [[spoiler:"Death Is Now My Neighbour"]], Strange, upon learning that [[spoiler: the Storr's]] were responsible for the murders, immediately assumes that the husband was the mastermind. He is noticably shocked when Morse corrects him by saying it was the wife.



* MurderByMistake: The first victim in 'Death Is Now My Neighbour' winds up dead after the murderer mistakes her home for the home of their intended victim.

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* MurderByMistake: The first victim in 'Death "Death Is Now My Neighbour' Neighbour" winds up dead after the murderer mistakes her home for the home of their intended victim.


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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: A plot point in "Death Is Now My Neighbour", where the builders of a street omitted house number 13. This leads to the occupant of number 17 being killed by mistaken, when the murderer comes in through the back gardens and was aiming for the one who lived in number 15.

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* DeathOfAChild: In "Dead on Time". We see the death of a baby in a flashback.

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In "Dead on Time". We see the death of a baby in a flashback.flashback.
** "Cherubim & Seraphim" has multiple teen suicides, one of which is Morse's niece.
** In "Service of All the Dead", the murderer also kills the child of the man who had an affair with his wife.


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* EveryCarIsAPinto: The climax of [[spoiler: "Cherubim and Seraphim"]] involves a car chase through the woods, which ends after the main suspect's car crashes into a tree and immediately goes up in a ball of flames.


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* KarmaHoudini:
** Morse views the BigBad of [[spoiler: "Cherubim & Seraphim"]] as one, as he ended up dying before Morse could really throw the book at him.
** Averted at the tail end of [[spoiler: "Death Is Now My Neighbour".]] It appears that [[spoiler: Clixby Bream]] is set to get off scott free after [[spoiler: coercing a woman into sleeping with him, which directly contributed to her death]]...until [[spoiler: Morse runs him out of Oxford by threatening to leak his misdeeds to the press.]]
** Lewis sees the [[spoiler: accomplices to the murder]] comitted in [[spoiler: "The Daughters of Cain"]] as this, bitterly protesting the decision not to pursue prosecution. On the other hand, Morse is happy to look the other way considering [[spoiler: that the vicitim made their lives a living hell for years, and the actual murderer has passed on.]]


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* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The trio involved in murder of [[spoiler:Ted Brooks]] in [[spoiler:"The Daughters of Cain"]]: the mastermind [[spoiler: Julia Stevens]] as The Wife, the distractingly beautiful [[spoiler: Kay Brooks]] as The Seductress, and [[spoiler: Brenda Brooks]], who didn't take part in the scheme but agreed to look the other way, as The Child. Notably in that The Child is actually the oldest of the lot.

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