DS James Hathaway (Character) - Quotes DS James Hathaway (Character) from "Inspector Lewis" (2006) The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. DI Robert Lewis : [reading aloud as they walk] Gifted children use long words, enjoy problem solving, are very sensitive emotionally, and often prone to deny the obvious. [to Hathaway] DI Robert Lewis : I made the last bit up. DS James Hathaway : [Hathaway, the Cambridge graduate, holds an Oxford student's essay] You know sometimes you couldn't believe that this was England's second best university. DI Robert Lewis : Why would anyone poison Voss? [tutor who had recently moved to Oxford from Harvard] DS James Hathaway : There's nothing in his background. He's British, originally. DI Robert Lewis : Were you really talent-spotted? DS James Hathaway : What, by MI5? They even got me to sign something... I changed my mind. DS James Hathaway : I used invisible ink. [as they walk to their cars] DS James Hathaway : Will he live? Doctor : I'm not God.

DS James Hathaway : No, I'm aware of that, doctor, but any port in a storm. Try. Zoe Suskin : It can get lonely. Is that why you're a policeman? Because you're frightened by your own cleverness and of being lonely? DS James Hathaway : I was never as clever as you. Zoe Suskin : You were, I can tell. DS James Hathaway : What makes you think you don't have to be clever to be a policeman? Zoe Suskin : Sorry. DS James Hathaway : Don't grow up angry, Zoe. It takes so much effort to find your place in the world when you're angry, believe me. DS James Hathaway : [Looking at a poster for a book-signing event of a best-seller] Would you ever write your memoirs? DI Robert Lewis : Only if I could write the shocking truth about you. Eileen Norman : Poison is a woman's weapon. DS James Hathaway : Uh, one of the Greek tragedies. Eileen Norman : Right: Medea. I played her once at drama school. Look at me now.

DI Robert Lewis : [referring to Hathaway's food poisoning] In any case, we don't know for sure that it was the coffee that gave you the funny turn, rather than the prawns. DI Robert Lewis : I hope you remembered to ask her some questions. DS James Hathaway : Yes, Sir, I did. Thank you. In fact, she was very helpful. DS James Hathaway : Yeah, I think I did. [last lines] DI Robert Lewis : What do I say to her? How do I tell her the truth? DS James Hathaway : Tell her with kindness. You're good at that. DS James Hathaway : [Introspectively] All of these lonely people pouring their lives into puzzles that can't be solved! [after a moment] DS James Hathaway : Ah, ignore me. I've got a touch of existential flu. [Receiving no verbal resonse] DI Robert Lewis : I'm going to say it just this once. For your sake you need a partner, James. You need someone in your life. [after a pause] DI Robert Lewis : Let's call it a day.

[They get up to leave] DS James Hathaway : [about Mia and Vincent] There's something not right about these two. DI Robert Lewis : They blink too much. DS James Hathaway : Your brother was found with a cross made of twigs laid on his chest. What do you make of that as a man of the cross? Rev Conor Hawes : The killer had a conscience. DS James Hathaway : [Authoratatively to Rev. Hawes] Don't leave Oxford, sir, We haven't finished with you yet. DS James Hathaway : [to Liv] Missing pieces of the puzzle are our stock-in-trade. Half the time we can't see what's in front of us. "Inspector Lewis: The Mind Has Mountains (#5.3)" (2011) [Adam Douglas has been arrested as he tried to flee the scene of the murder. Hathaway is interviewing him at the police station] DS James Hathaway : Where were you planning on going with thirty quid and an out-of-date passport? As far as master-plans go, it's pretty stupid.

Adam Douglas : *I'm* the one studying Classics at Oxford and *you're* the one working in this toilet, so just watch who you're calling stupid. DS James Hathaway : We're *both* in the toilet, Adam. [Hathaway grins] DS James Hathaway : [whispers gleefully] But I can leave. [to make his point, Hathaway opens the door and walks out of the room] DS James Hathaway : [after showing DI Lewis whodunit, where "it" is attempted vehicular manslaughter] This is the bit where you say "Well done Hathaway", and I shrug, modestly. DS James Hathaway : Amy's body was in the garden, two floors below the room she was sleeping in. The cause of death is a blow to the head or the head hitting a rock. Gillian Fernsby : Are you not going to tell us what's going on, then? James Hathaway : When I have a vague idea myself. Robert Lewis : She found the body, so either she's part of it, or she's the key to finding out who is. [Hathaway smiles] Robert Lewis : What? It makes sense, doesn't it?

James Hathaway : No, it makes perfect sense. You remind me of someone I used to work for. Robert Lewis : [about Alistair Stoke] The man had one complaint in thirty years; how many would a copper get in that time? James Hathaway : You comparing what we do to brain surgery? Robert Lewis : Nah. Police work's much more complicated than that. [last lines] [the two are in a canoe] James Hathaway : Well, I thought you'd given up on the canoe. Robert Lewis : Nah. Never give up. Just found alternate means of production. James Hathaway : You paid someone to make it, didn't you? Robert Lewis : Why not. I'm earning again. James Hathaway : Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that, actually. [Lewis and Hathaway enter the college dining room as a student is saying a long, incomprehensible Grace in Latin] DI Robert Lewis : [whispers to Hathaway] Is that today's special? DS James Hathaway : [whispers hesitantly, as if translating] Toad-in-the-hole. Spotted dick. DI Robert Lewis : [to Jez] All right, that's all for now.

The next time we ask a question, which we will, take a tip and don't lie. DS James Hathaway : [to Jez as he walks away] Nice t-shirt. "Inspector Lewis: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (#5.1)" (2011) [Lewis and Hathaway are questioning friends of a murder victim] Lakshmi Eyre : Look, do you know how long we're going to have to hang on here? I've work to get back to. DS Hathaway : What's Guilty Secrets? DI Robert Lewis : It's a lingerie chain. Sergeant Hathaway doesn't get out much. [Lakshmi gives Hathaway a seductive look] DI Robert Lewis : [after leaving Lakshmi, Lewis and Hathaway walk across the quad] DS Hathaway : Regular customer, are you, Sir, at Guilty Secrets? Loyalty card holder? DI Robert Lewis : Every high street's got one - it's a major chain. Online and what-have-you. DI Robert Lewis : Just because I've heard of something you've not. DS Hathaway : My mind is on a higher plane. DI Robert Lewis : What sort of name is that for a place?

DS Hathaway : It's from Pilgrim's Progress, by John Milton. [pauses] DS Hathaway : Didn't you go to Sunday School? DI Robert Lewis : No. A couple of missionaries made it up to Newcastle once. Ended up in the cooking pot I think. DI Hathaway : [Maddox is sat at a table in a pub's back garden, when Hathaway returns from inside the pub to join her] As requested, one packet of pork scratchings. [He hands Maddox the bag of pork scratchings] DS Lizzie Maddox : [Maddox takes the packet from him] Thank you. DI Hathaway : [Hathaway takes out a packet of cigarettes from his pocket] Well, you know what they say. You can take the girl out of Leeds. DS Lizzie Maddox : [Maddox opens her pork scratchings] There's nothing wrong with 'em! DI Hathaway : There's nothing right with them. DS Lizzie Maddox : They're very good. [Maddox offers Hathaway a pork scratching] DI Hathaway : I will take your word for it. [He refuses, lighting his cigarette] Dr Laura Hobson : I've no idea!

[Maddox and Hobson come into the living room] Dr Laura Hobson : He won't let me anywhere near the kitchen! DI Lewis : Just have a little faith! I'm in complete control. DI Hathaway : Pride comes before a fall. DI Lewis : [the doorbell rings] Not this time. [Lewis goes to answer the front door] Dr Laura Hobson : [Maddox and Hobson are now sat together on the sofa. Hobson offers Maddox some more wine] More? DS Lizzie Maddox : Er, yeah. Please. [Hobson pours her some wine] DI Hathaway : It's not gonna be one of the voyage of discovery meals, is it? [Hathaway has a sip of his wine] DS Lizzie Maddox : [curiously] Why? What do you discover? DI Hathaway : Usually that you're not very hungry. [Hobson and Maddox exchange smiles, as the front door closes. Maddox takes a sip of her wine, whilst Hobson turns towards the direction of the hallway] DI Lewis : [Lewis returns to the living room with several boxes of pizza] I gave you the authentic taste of Italy! Albeit via Cowley Road.

[Hobson stands up] DI Lewis : [humourously] You can't go wrong! [Hathaway can be seen laughing quietly] DS Lizzie Maddox : [Irritable, Hobson moves towards Lewis, who is still smiling and hands him the bottle of wine] Er, do you want your wine? Dr Laura Hobson : [Hobson takes the boxes of pizza from Lewis] Yes, please. [Maddox then gets up from the sofa, carrying both hers and Hobson's wine and follows her into the kitchen] DI Robert Lewis (Character) - Quotes DI Robert Lewis (Character) from "Inspector Morse" (1987) The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. [Lewis and Hobson are examining a woman's body] DI Robert Lewis : I presume the bleach is to get rid of the DNA? Dr. Laura Hobson : You're learning. You used to think "DNA" meant "Don't Know Anything". DI Robert Lewis : Better than thinking "CID" stands for "Coppers In Disguise".

DI Robert Lewis : [reading aloud as they walk] Gifted children use long words, enjoy problem solving, are very sensitive emotionally, and often prone to deny the obvious. [to Hathaway] DI Robert Lewis : I made the last bit up. DS James Hathaway : [Hathaway, the Cambridge graduate, holds an Oxford student's essay] You know sometimes you couldn't believe that this was England's second best university. DI Robert Lewis : Why would anyone poison Voss? [tutor who had recently moved to Oxford from Harvard] DS James Hathaway : There's nothing in his background. He's British, originally. DI Robert Lewis : Were you really talent-spotted? DS James Hathaway : What, by MI5? They even got me to sign something... I changed my mind. DS James Hathaway : I used invisible ink. [as they walk to their cars] DI Robert Lewis : Mine's a pint... shaken, not stirred. DI Robert Lewis : [Quoting the title of a book] "The Gifted Child." Dr. Laura Hobson : [Sarcastically] Don't speak about Sergeant Hathaway like that. You'll give him a big head.

DS James Hathaway : [Looking at a poster for a book-signing event of a best-seller] Would you ever write your memoirs? DI Robert Lewis : Only if I could write the shocking truth about you. Eileen Norman : Poison is a woman's weapon. DS James Hathaway : Uh, one of the Greek tragedies. Eileen Norman : Right: Medea. I played her once at drama school. Look at me now. DI Robert Lewis : [referring to Hathaway's food poisoning] In any case, we don't know for sure that it was the coffee that gave you the funny turn, rather than the prawns. Chief Inspector Morse : Get on with it then. Chief Inspector Holroyd : In my opinion, Morse, Lewis hasn't been given a proper grounding in the basics. Chief Inspector Morse : If you're going to retire, Holroyd, just get on and do it. Chief Inspector Holroyd : He'll never make inspector if he doesn't follow correct procedures. Chief Inspector Morse : Well, if you'll proceed out of my office, either properly or improperly, I really don't mind. Chief Inspector Holroyd : Take this Lever case.

Lewis thinks he was very clever listening to the parents, but he spent so much time cosying up to them he missed what was staring him in the face. The father's a sadist. Wears a bloody great leather strap round his waist. Wife's scared stiff of him. Abuse. That's what this case is all about: physical and probably sexual abuse. [Lewis walks in] Detective Sergeant Lewis : I thought I felt something. Chief Inspector Holroyd : Yes, well I've said my piece. So, do you remember what I said, Lewis? Detective Sergeant Lewis : Anything particular, Sir? You said so much. [Holroyd walks out] DS James Hathaway : Yeah, I think I did. [last lines] DI Robert Lewis : What do I say to her? How do I tell her the truth? DS James Hathaway : Tell her with kindness. You're good at that. Rev Conor Hawes : Do you have brothers, either of you? Do you never give your brother a Chinese burn or hide his glasses? DI Robert Lewis : No, I always liked my brother.

Used to beat me at Subbuteo mind, DS James Hathaway : [Introspectively] All of these lonely people pouring their lives into puzzles that can't be solved! [after a moment] DS James Hathaway : Ah, ignore me. I've got a touch of existential flu. [Receiving no verbal resonse] DI Robert Lewis : I'm going to say it just this once. For your sake you need a partner, James. You need someone in your life. [after a pause] DI Robert Lewis : Let's call it a day. [They get up to leave] DS James Hathaway : [about Mia and Vincent] There's something not right about these two. [Lewis is questioning Le Plassiter who is barely conscious and very close to death] DI Robert Lewis : Don't pretend to be dead: it's bad manners and it won't work! DI Robert Lewis : Doctor, you bring me all this because you secretly love me. Dr. Laura Hobson : If I bring you anything at all, Lewis, you cocky sod, it's because I secretly love Hathaway. Malcolm Croft : I can't believe this is happening. DI Robert Lewis : I've met stranger people in stranger places.

DI Robert Lewis : What's the matter with you? Been crying? DS James Hathaway : I always cry when I know I'm going to spend the day with you, Sir. Robert Lewis : She found the body, so either she's part of it, or she's the key to finding out who is. [Hathaway smiles] Robert Lewis : What? It makes sense, doesn't it? James Hathaway : No, it makes perfect sense. You remind me of someone I used to work for. Robert Lewis : [about Alistair Stoke] The man had one complaint in thirty years; how many would a copper get in that time? James Hathaway : You comparing what we do to brain surgery? Robert Lewis : Nah. Police work's much more complicated than that. [last lines] [the two are in a canoe] James Hathaway : Well, I thought you'd given up on the canoe. Robert Lewis : Nah. Never give up. Just found alternate means of production. James Hathaway : You paid someone to make it, didn't you? Robert Lewis : Why not. I'm earning again. James Hathaway : Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that, actually. DS Hathaway : What's Guilty Secrets?

DI Robert Lewis : It's a lingerie chain. Sergeant Hathaway doesn't get out much. [Lakshmi gives Hathaway a seductive look] DI Robert Lewis : [after leaving Lakshmi, Lewis and Hathaway walk across the quad] DS Hathaway : Regular customer, are you, Sir, at Guilty Secrets? Loyalty card holder? DI Robert Lewis : Every high street's got one - it's a major chain. Online and what-have-you. DI Robert Lewis : Just because I've heard of something you've not. DS Hathaway : My mind is on a higher plane. DI Robert Lewis : I'm just trying to find out who killed your friend, Professor. Diana Ellerby : And are you any closer to doing that, do you think? DI Robert Lewis : I believe so, but i could use some help. I'm not the enemy. Diana Ellerby : Of course, you are. You just don't realize it. DI Robert Lewis : What sort of name is that for a place? DS Hathaway : It's from Pilgrim's Progress, by John Milton. [pauses] DS Hathaway : Didn't you go to Sunday School? DI Robert Lewis : No.

A couple of missionaries made it up to Newcastle once. Ended up in the cooking pot I think. Dr Laura Hobson : I've no idea! [Maddox and Hobson come into the living room] Dr Laura Hobson : He won't let me anywhere near the kitchen! DI Lewis : Just have a little faith! I'm in complete control. DI Hathaway : Pride comes before a fall. DI Lewis : [the doorbell rings] Not this time. [Lewis goes to answer the front door] Dr Laura Hobson : [Maddox and Hobson are now sat together on the sofa. Hobson offers Maddox some more wine] More? DS Lizzie Maddox : Er, yeah. Please. [Hobson pours her some wine] DI Hathaway : It's not gonna be one of the voyage of discovery meals, is it? [Hathaway has a sip of his wine] DS Lizzie Maddox : [curiously] Why? What do you discover? DI Hathaway : Usually that you're not very hungry. [Hobson and Maddox exchange smiles, as the front door closes.

Maddox takes a sip of her wine, whilst Hobson turns towards the direction of the hallway] DI Lewis : [Lewis returns to the living room with several boxes of pizza] I gave you the authentic taste of Italy! Albeit via Cowley Road. [Hobson stands up] DI Lewis : [humourously] You can't go wrong! [Hathaway can be seen laughing quietly] DS Lizzie Maddox : [Irritable, Hobson moves towards Lewis, who is still smiling and hands him the bottle of wine] Er, do you want your wine? Dr Laura Hobson : [Hobson takes the boxes of pizza from Lewis] Yes, please. [Maddox then gets up from the sofa, carrying both hers and Hobson's wine and follows her into the kitchen] Dr Laura Hobson : Will I see you at home later? [Lewis shakes his head ruefully] Dr Laura Hobson : I think I preferred it when you were building canoes. DI Lewis : No you didn't. I was a bad-tempered old grouch who smelled of wood-glue. Dr Laura Hobson : Yes, but you were *my* bad-tempered old grouch who smelled of wood-glue.

[she kisses him] James Hathaway | Inspector Morse Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Hathaway, like Inspector Morse, Lewis' old boss from his days as a Detective Sergeant, is cerebral. Unlike Morse, Hathaway is a Cambridge graduate, trained in Theology, and rather successful athlete, as his nickname 'Atta-way Hathaway' (revealed by a rival coach at Oxford) would attest, being a rowing star while at Cambridge. He subsequently trained for the priesthood in Oxford. In the episode "Old School Ties" we are told by an ex-schoolmate of Hathaway's that he had been Head Boy of his school and nicknamed 'W.C.' - short for 'Wolfgang Christ' - because he "didn't know whether he wanted to be Mozart or Jesus". Hathaway is highly knowledgeable and often shows it. He joined the police after abandoning the priesthood, and sometimes expresses scepticism about religion – when Lewis states thankfully "There is a god", Hathaway replies "If I was sure of that ... I wouldn't have joined the police force" (in the episode "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea").

When he first appears, Hathaway is sergeant to DI Charles Knox, whom Lewis knew when Knox was a sergeant. Knox is shown taking a breathalyser test and Hathaway states to Lewis that Knox will be put on immediate suspension for it. Hathaway is later reassigned to Lewis. [2 ] In the third episode of the second series ("Life Born of Fire") his guilt at sharing the homophobic attitudes of some of his fellow trainees is revealed when he discovers that a suicide he is investigating is a former friend, Will McEwan, who broke off his friendship with him when Hathaway urged him to reject his homosexuality. In Life Born of Fire, he refuses to answer Lewis's direct question as to whether or not he is gay, though at the end of the episode in a conversation with Zoe Kenneth he both implies that he has had homosexual feelings and that he wants to have sexual intercourse with her (admitting that "it's been a while"). Hathaway berates Lewis for drawing a "neat dividing line" between heterosexuals who "read Loaded and eat Yorkie bars" and homosexuals who like fashion and musicals. At the end of the episode Hathaway is seen holding a copy of Loaded and a Yorkie bar.

In "The Dead of Winter", Hathaway appears to become romantically involved with a woman from his early teenage years (by going out on a date and then leaving her flat the next morning) who may or may not be suspect in a murder investigation. Lewis suspends him from the investigation fearing Hathaway crossed an ethical line. At the end of the episode Hathaway turns in his badge and tries to resign from the Police. Lewis refuses his resignation, and instead tells him: "Between the two of us we make one good Inspector. I of course, am the brains". In the first episode of series three, there is slight reference to Hathaway's childhood. When his father is mentioned he becomes rather irritable and changes the subject rather quickly. In the first episode of series four, it is mentioned that Hathaway's father was the groundskeeper at the estate of a lord and that Hathaway used to play with the other children who lived at the estate. In the same episode, Lewis and Hathaway deal with a difficult case involving a complex family relationship.

The eventual outcome is difficult for Hathaway to digest, leading to conjecture that he may himself have some experience in the subject matter.This links back to "Life born of Fire", where John Jo a former friend of Hathaway's asserts his friend is not happy with his life. Something in Hathaway is always questioning his desires with his duties. In the last episode of series five, Hathaway informs Lewis that he was talent spotted for MI5 in university, this is neither confirmed or denied by the end. Sergeant Hathaway is shot dead by a sniper at the time DI Lewis is with him and gets blood splattered on his face. The murderer gets to the United States without being arrested she disguised as a female rapper. murderer played by Katy Perry. Relationship with DI Robbie Lewis Edit Hathaway and Lewis first met in the Lewis episode Reputation. Hathaway was Lewis' sergeant, but has now been promoted Detective Inspector following a training course away. Lewis and Hathaway work very well together, and they often go to the pub together after work to wind down. Hathaway now has his own DS, Lizzie Maddox.

Taking the Lead: Interview with Inspector Lewis' Kevin Whately | TMR Taking the Lead: Interview with Inspector Lewis' Kevin Whately June 18, 2013 Robert Day/ITV Studios for MASTERPIECE Kevin Whately as DI Robert "Robbie" Lewis It was back in January 1987 that TV audiences were introduced to Detective Sergeant Robert “Robbie” Lewis, one half of the Oxford-based crime-fighting team in the long-running UK TV detective drama Inspector Morse. In his first case, "The Dead of Jericho," Lewis and his boss, the often irascible but always fair and dedicated Detective Inspector (later Chief Inspector) Morse, investigated the apparent suicide of a friend of Morse’s. Despite being as different as chalk is from cheese, both detectives developed a quirky friendship of sorts over time and an intense loyalty for one another that lasted up to Morse’s tragic onscreen demise in the 2000 episode "The Remorseful Day," where his dying words were “Thank Lewis for me.” With nearly three dozen cases under his belt, DS Lewis eventually struck out on his own almost 20 years later in the self-titled Morse spin-off Inspector Lewis.

Newly-widowed and promoted to the rank of detective inspector, he carried on investigating complex murder cases in and around Oxford with the help of DS James Hathaway. What were some of the initial challenges that actor Kevin Whately, who plays Lewis, faced when stepping into the lead role on his own series? “Fortunately, most of the crew on Lewis had worked on Morse, so from a productions standpoint it wasn’t that different,” says Whately. “I think the main thing for me was that in Morse I could be quite indulgent and laid back, but when you’re the central character in a story you have to drive that story. I was always very aware that that’s what John Thaw [Morse] did, particularly vocally. John had an absolutely fantastic cutting voice, which I’ve never had, and that always worried me. So for me with Lewis, it was largely an issue of energy as well as pace. “Something I found much more challenging was the fact that in Morse, my character had been quite down-to-Earth, happy-go-lucky, and easygoing.

With Lewis, I think they [the producers] wanted him to be a bit more like Morse, more of a curmudgeon and a grumpy old guy. That was sometimes tricky for me to match with my memories of Lewis.” In the Inspector Lewis pilot episode "Reputation," DI Lewis returns to Oxford after a lengthy absence and, much to his chagrin, his boss, DCS Jean Innocent (Rebecca Front), assigns him to investigate the murder of an Oxford mathematician student who was shot to death while taking part in a sleep study. Suspicion soon falls on one of the deceased’s fellow classmates, but when two more people are killed, Lewis must attempt to decipher a cryptic clue that his former boss, Morse, left in an old file. “The pilot was rather odd in that you were very much aware that John Thaw wasn’t there, but the script had references to his character of Morse,” recalls Whately. “Again, because many of the crew had worked on Morse, there was a great deal of sentimental talk and reminiscing going on, and in a strange way that kind of worked against what we were trying to do, which was create something new and different.

“Also, because Lewis had come back from abroad, I spent part of the story wearing these lurid tropical shirts and suntan make-up,” says the actor with a chuckle. “So it felt slightly surreal to me, and yet I was playing the same character and bumping into other familiar characters like Dr. Hobson [Clare Holman], who had been around in Morse.” Along with taking charge of a new murder inquiry, Lewis also had to deal with a new partner, DS James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) and all the responsibilities that that entailed. “As John Thaw and I did on Morse, Laurence Fox and I never really talked about our characters’ relationship or tried to analyze it too much,” says Whatley. “Chemistry is something that either works or it doesn’t. You can’t force it. Laurence and I went out for a few drinks early on before we starting filming, and then continued to do so when production began. “The two of us just tried to get on as pals, hoping some chemistry came out of that, and we were lucky that it did. There are some people who are best pals but whose chemistry doesn’t translate to film.

Much of the Lewis and Hathaway relationship, though, came largely in the writing, so Laurence and I didn’t have to work too hard at it. Things have seemed to work for eight years, so we must have gotten it right.” The Lewis pilot proved a hit with viewers, so much so that the ITV Network commissioned a three-episode first season for the following year. Even with all his time on the force, it was hardly smooth sailing for our hero, especially when it came to upper management. Meanwhile, behind the cameras, it was pretty much business as usual for Whately. “My character was up against—as all TV detectives seem to be up against—a superintendent who wasn’t terribly sympathetic to him and, in fact, was trying to get rid of him. That was Lewis’ main struggle,” explains the actor. “Also, at the same time he was nurturing the Hathaway character, I was trying to get Laurence used to working the way we did, because as I said, it was very much a set with a lot of the same crew and production people from Morse.

“A big part of being a regular on a series like this is making actors who come into it feel comfortable, whether they’re leads and ongoing like Laurence, or someone who’s in for just two days and has to dish out a tremendous amount of very erudite dialogue without any rehearsal. It’s an important responsibility as a lead actor to make everyone feel relaxed and at home as possible, so I was doing quite a bit of that with Laurence as well as the guest artists.” In addition to Whately’s character, another familiar face to make the leap from Morse to Inspector Lewis is the aforementioned police pathologist Dr. Laura Hobson. While some viewers may have hoped for a bit of romance to develop between the two, that does not appear to be in the cards for either of them. “Goodness knows, Lewis is a lot older than Hobson, but Morse was much older and there was a slight sort of flirtation between them,” notes Whately. “She and Lewis are both kind of lonely characters and it’s rather astonishing that they never got together earlier if they were ever going to. To be honest, though, that’s something I’ve always sort of resisted because I think it can then become somewhat soapy.

I prefer to focus on the mysteries and the dastardly characters as opposed to the home life of the lead character.” In the States, Inspector Lewis returned to the PBS line-up June 16th as part of MASTERPIECE Mystery! In "Down Among the Fearful," the first of three new episodes, Inspector Lewis and DS Hathaway investigate the murder of a psychic who had been leading a secret double life. “This episode is the one with all the chase scenes through the covered market,” says Whately. “We did three days of running around, and I’m not as young as I used to be. Luckily I survived all the interior market stuff, but then we went down to Merton and filmed me running towards Christ Church meadow. On the penultimate take, this girl is fatally injected with a drug and falls to the ground. Lewis has to chase after whoever did it, and as I did, I felt one of my hamstrings go. “We ended up needing another shot of Lewis getting to the gate and realizing that he wasn’t going to catch the killer, but I couldn’t do it because of my hamstring.

We had to wait a fortnight until we were in the middle of filming the following episode and back up in Oxford, by which time I thought the hamstring had healed, but inevitably it twanged again. “So in-between all this I was doing lots of other scenes and trying to hide this pathetic limp. In the last episode we shot, there’s a scene where Lewis has to run along to one of the canal boats on fire. The director, Dan Reed, said to me, ‘Can you do it once more,’ and on the very last take as I get level with the camera, you can see my face contort as my hamstring goes yet again.” In "The Ramblin’ Boy," Hathaway is off on sabbatical in Kosovo, so Lewis is assigned a temporary new partner, the young but bright DC Alex Gray (Babou Ceesay), and the two investigate the discovery of an elderly man’s body that has already been embalmed. This episode guest-stars former Doctor Who Peter Davison as Peter Faulkner.

“Peter Davison was at the Central School of Speech & Drama [at London University] a couple of years ahead of me, and I was sort of the Peter Davison of my year, if you see what I mean,” says Whately. “Here’s an actor who’s led so many series, and oftentimes when you’re leading your own series you don’t get to work with someone like that. It’s fascinating seeing how they work, and Peter tends to play sympathetic roles, as I do, so watching him create an evil character was fab as well. I really enjoyed shooting those scenes with him. Peter’s character is sort of a foe from the past, although he’s never appeared on the show before, and Lewis is desperate to nail him, whether he’s guilty or not,” jokes the actor. Laurence Fox had the chance to work with his uncle, Edward Fox, when filming "Intelligent Design," the third and final new Inspector Lewis story to air this year on MASTERPIECE Mystery! In this episode, Hathaway ponders his future as a police officer, while he and Lewis search for a link between the hit-and-run death of an elderly university don and the murder of one of his students.

“We’ve had most of the Fox family in the series by now, and I keep saying that it’s a pension fund for them,” jokes Whately. “Again, it’s fascinating to watch them at work because they’re all different. Edward is very different from James [Laurence’s father], as he is from Laurence. They hadn’t seen an awful lot of each other for a while, so I think Laurence was quite nervous about having his Uncle Edward come on the show, but the two of them actually got on like a house on fire. “We went out for meals in the evening in Oxford when Edward was up there, and I enjoyed watching them get to know one another all over again. The two of them clicked straight away. They have quite a few similar ideas about the business, and because he’s been a movie star for so long, it was great seeing how Edward puts a character together in his performance.” Besides his work on Inspector Lewis, TV audiences on this side of the pond can see Whately’s guest-starring role in "Gently in the Cathedral," an episode of another popular British TV detective series Inspector George Gently, which stars Martin Shaw and is currently airing Stateside on PBS.

“Martin Shaw and I had met once before 30 years ago at an Actors Equity union meeting, and, again, it was fascinating to watch how he runs his show and how it’s made,” says the actor. “It’s done by the BBC and shot in the Northeast, so from that point of view it was quite sentimental to me. The episode I did ends in a huge sort of Wild West shootout in Durham Cathedral, and I hadn’t been there since I was a 13 year old and singing in the choir. “So that was a joy, as was getting to play a baddie. I couldn’t resist doing it because my character is a baddie who you have to believe in for quite a long time. It wasn’t a huge part either, so there weren’t very many scenes to kind of establish him, and I enjoyed that acting challenge.” Given the changes in how modern-day audiences watch TV, the chance of creating a hit show is harder than ever, and the same is true of playing a character for an extended period of time. Whately knows this all too well, and in the many years he has walked in Robbie Lewis’ shoes, the actor has never once taken any of those steps for granted.

“This character has dominated nearly half my life now,” he muses. “It’s a large chunk of my acting life and really consolidated my career. I learnt almost everything that I know from doing Morse. I’ve traveled the globe and have fans all over the world from Morse and Lewis. So I have many, many happy memories and feel incredibly fortunate to have the connection to both shows as well as the Lewis role.” Please note, all Inspector Lewis photos copyright of ITV Studios for Masterpiece. Share this story Inspector Lewis | Telly Visions Inspector Lewis in Drama by Lacy Baugher Get ready, America, it’s time to say goodbye to Inspector Lewis once again. The mystery series, itself a sequel to the equally popular Inspector Morse, will come to an end after ten years on-air. (Sort of.) Inspector Lewis, which premiered in 2006, has had something of a tumultuous history in recent years, as the drama sort of wrapped up its run back in 2013, before returning for a surprise eighth season in 2014 . Now, the mystery series is back for one last and final run.

James Hathaway | Crime Drama Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Although there are many snippits of information about Hathaway's early life, most of it is left unknown. He at least lived near Oxford for most of his childhood on an estate called Crevecoeur Hall, where he became childhood friends with Lady Scarlett Mortmaigne, the daughter of the marquess lord of Crevecoeur Hall (The Dead of Winter). In the same episode there is an inference that Hathaway lived a rarified but not fully happy childhood. When his father is mentioned ("A policeman! You"re father must be very..proud.") he becomes rather irritable and changes the subject quickly. His father was estate manager of Crevecoeur Hall (not the groundskeeper, as suggested by a later episode in the Morse prequel Endeavour). It is clear that the Lord of Crevecouer Hall, James's father's employer, had systematically sexually abused the children who lived on the estate for many years, while at the same time providing for music lessons, education and training for higher paid work for them.

It is not clear whether James was one of the children subjected to the marquess's abuse and special interest (although many clues suggest yes, at least to some degree), or whether the Marquess had anything to do with the fact that James was educated at Harrow, one of England's two best known "public" schools for the education of the children of the elite. We learn much later, in the final season, that James has a sister, and that his father's name is Phillip. James, like the young Lady Scarlett, regularly played with the other children on the estate. But as the son of the estate's agent (probably a minor relative of an aristocratic family, or perhaps an educated member of the middle class) James would have been awkwardly placed and probably lonely as they approached adolescence--too posh for the servants' children, yet well outside the social league of the daughter of a marquess. Another former child of the estate, Paul, became the butler. While Hathaway calls him Paul, Paul calls Hathaway "Sir" and says it would be "unbecoming of him to presume on a childhood acquaintance.

" A member of the Mortmaigne family later tells Hathaway, surprised and embarrassed that it needs to be said, "but you're not one of 'Us'!" It is possible that James's own father had sufficient means and connection himself to provide for James's education at Harrow. (There is a hint that Hathaway may have 'family money' when we learn that his beloved guitar is worth over £3000.) It's also possible that Hathaway owes some or all of his elite education to the generosity of the sexually predatory marquess, which one would expect to create mixed feelings, to say the least. There is the suggestion that James was considered a bit aloof and nerdy while at school. In "Old School Ties" we are told by an ex-schoolmate of Hathaway's that he had been Head Boy of his school and nicknamed 'W.C.' - short for 'Wolfgang Christ' - because he "didn't know whether he wanted to be Mozart or Jesus". In Life born of Fire, Hathaway is revealed to have had a school friend who lived in or near to Oxford, one Will McEwan.

When Will came out to Hathaway as homosexual when they were about 14, Hathaway laughed at him, causing damage to their friendship for many years, which never really got resolved. University and Seminary Edit Hathaway went to Cambridge University to study Theology. He is also hinted to have been something of a rowing star while at university - in the Pilot, he is described by a rowing coach as "Atta-way Hathaway", and being on the rowing team for his University in the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race. After taking his undergraduate degree in Theology, Hathaway entered the seminary and began training to become a priest. In the series pilot, Hathaway tells Lewis he "even spent a year in seminary" but was "chucked out" because he "was considered too frivolous to be a priest." Later episodes, however, hint that Hathaway left of his own volition because he began doubting both the existence of God and whether he was suited to the job.

In Life Born of Fire, he ultimately reveals that it was disgust and remorse at having met a gay friend's request for help with a heartless scripture-based condemnation, and the effect that had on his friend's life, that led to his leaving the seminary. In the last episode of series four, Hathaway informs Lewis that he was talent spotted for MI5 in university. Whether it ever went further than an approach is neither clearly confirmed nor denied by the end. In the Police Force Edit Hathaway is very intelligent, and is often described as a "funny kind of policeman" because he seems so out of place there. The same phrase is frequently used about young Endeavour Morse, in the prequel series Endeavour. Even so, he enjoys his work and becomes dedicated to it. Like Morse, and occasionally Lewis, Hathaway has a habit for getting emotionally or romantically involved with female witnesses and suspects. He does this most notably with Zoe Kenneth in Life Born of Fire and Scarlett Mortmaigne in The Dead of Winter. Despite generally being both a kind and deliberative person, Hathaway also has a surprising number of unwise or unkind interactions with young witnesses or suspects, which directly or indirectly contribute to their death or injury.

Examples include encounters in Intelligent Design, Generation of Vipers, and other episodes. Despite his intellegence, Hathaway is still young and inexprienced, sometimes behaving in a foolhardy or even very childish manner, such as in Life Born of Fire, when he yells at Lewis in the street "You're not listening to me!" The He also makes witty remarks to fellow officers, which don't always endear him to them. Many officers at the station consider him to be posh, and snooty, as he was a graduate-entry student, meaning he didn't have to do 2 years as a PC (Police Constable) like the rest of the station. During Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things' Hathaway stays awake all night at the police station ordering hundreds of photos in time order, judging by the light and who is standing next to who, this both amazes and shocks Lewis and Innocent . His intelligence often comes in useful when identifying complex messages or references from Oxford scholars - he sometimes does this with smugness, though he insists that it is just "the unfortunate shape of my face." Similarities to Morse There are many noticable similarities between Morse and Hathaway, their intellegence being only one.

Both went to one of the Oxbridge colleges. They are commented on as being too intellegent for the Police Force. They have a bad taste in women, the woman they are interested in usually turns out to hold some sort of blame for a murder. They both enjoy music- Morse enjoyed opera and classical, Hathaway enjoys both classical chamber music and World Music, and plays guitar in a band as well as French horn in a chamber orchestra. They both enjoy crossword puzzles and acrostics. In the pilot, Lewis and Hathaway find a crossword partially completed by Morse, accompanied by what Hathaway takes to be an acrostic clue Morse had made up. Hathaway tries unsuccessfully to solve it. Relationships Lewis and Hathaway prepare for final case beginning Aug 7 on PBS | Tellyspotting Lewis and Hathaway prepare for final case beginning Aug 7 on PBS On: July 5, 2016, By: Bill Young , In: Mystery , 1 Comment When Kevin Whately begins to solve his final case beginning Sunday, August 7 as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, he’s got to feel a bit like Sir David Suchet and his quarter of a century on-screen relationship with Hercule Poirot.

Whately stepped into the role of DS Robert “Robbie” Lewis in 1987, opposite the late John Thaw in the ITV drama Inspector Morse. Lewis, the spin-off which premiered in 2006 co-starring Laurence Fox, saw the newly promoted Detective Inspector Lewis paired with a new assistant, DS James Hathaway, now reporting to a new boss, Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent, played by Rebecca Front . With a bit of a break in between Morse and Lewis, if you’re keeping score at home, that’s just shy of three decades that Whately has spent off and on playing the workaholic detective. For the 9th and final series of Lewis (8th in the States), Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox have, once again, reprised their roles as the ‘perfect’ detective team solving murders against the backdrop of the university spires of Oxford alongside Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant, Waterloo Road, Coronation Street) as DS Lizzie Maddox. As the series played out in the UK last Fall, fans were introduced to the arrival of new Chief Superintendent Joe Moody which was, hopefully, going to signal a new day for Oxfordshire Police.

Unfortunately, that ‘new day’ didn’t last too long as once again, the new chief soon clashed with Lewis over his more ‘traditional’ approach to detective work. Inspector Lewis had to have felt a bit like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day given his previous relationship issues with the previous Chief Superintendent. In addition, over the course of the final series, Hathaway will be forced to confront his past when his father is moved into a care home suffering from dementia. Going through his father’s belongings he realizes that his dad, though absent from his son’s life, took an interest in him. This revelation causes Hathaway to feel tremendous guilt and in an attempt to avoid facing his father and his personal strife, Hathaway throws himself into his work. After years of avoiding the thorny issue of family ties, has James left it too late to be reunited with the man his father once was? The final case for both, titled “What Lies Tangled”, will see DI Lewis in a race against time to not only find a killer, but also to save his career and his relationship. The final episode also includes series regular Angela Griffin as DS Lizzie Maddox.

Reflecting back on his time as DI Robert Lewis, Whately said: “I feel incredibly fortunate to have shared a decade of fantastic worldwide success with Laurence and with the most brilliant crew, cast and production team anyone could wish for, and all that time with the loyal support of so many fans and of our backers ITV and WGBH Boston. Thanks everybody. What a ride it has been!” It has, indeed, been a great ride and, fortunately, one that is still yet to play out beginning August 7 with the return of Lewis on PBS’ Masterpiece. Related Posts European Detective Series: UK Part 1 - The Popular Duos - TV.com European Detective Series: UK Part 1 - The Popular Duos 0 A collaborative post by Syrinx2 and Rolamb . In our series of European detectives we now embark to the Crown of the Empire. We leave Germany for the UK. The UK lion’s share of detective series will be divided over several parts. Next to the US, the UK is the country that is so very much interested in crime. When visiting bookshops in London, there are so many corners and tables with actual and fictive crimes it almost seems as they are a bit obsessed.

They also have made it into so many tv series that the amount in the UK is bigger than all the other European countries together. For this reason we will have several posts on the UK (for the names see the bottom of the post). Jumping from Germany to Britain is a difficult one as they do not share that much in detective land except a bit of history. For a long period the Germans were not pictured in English tv at all unless they were guilty of some crime or in comedy. The best example of the latter is ‘The Germans’ from Fawlty Towers. Because of the seemingly anti German sentiments it was banned from Dutch television until the eighties. John Cleese himself said: "Everybody thinks that was a joke about the Germans but they missed it. It was a joke about British attitudes to the war and the fact that some people were still hanging on to that rubbish". Of late the Germans of the wartime have been portrayed more as good people as shown for instance in the episode ‘Bomber’s Moon’ from’ George Gently (we’ll get to this series in a later post). But as we love John Cleese, we will show you a piece of ‘The Germans’.

We will try to avoid the great and well known series that have been aired in the US. This first instalment we’ll embark upon the long running popular series that involve duos. Long running in the UK sometimes is well over fifteen years. Some of these series might in some stage have been broadcast on the US networks PBS, A&E, or BBC America. There are a few obvious differences between UK and US detective series (although it of course will not apply to all). In UK series cooperating detectives often have a different relation to each other. Where in US series they are equals, in UK series usually one is the senior. It’s often a combination of a senior and a (relative to him/her) junior officer. They often are complete opposites in background, character and education but are all engaged police officers. The differences often help in solving the cases. The English police ranks and title are completely different from other systems and can be found here . A lot of the UK series have almost no action like car chases or shoot outs. Most only deal with the detectives detecting, talking and thinking. and that’s where the sergeant role comes in. He is always a soundboard for the senior detective. UK series do not have seasons with 22 episodes.

They tend to have two to eight episodes where often two episodes make up one story. What do I picture when hearing British detectives? Sherlock Holmes, for one. The next thing that comes to mind is Midsomer Murders (1997-) and DCI Tom Barnaby, portrayed by John Nettles. Recently, Tom’s younger cousin John, played by Neil Dudgeon (Survivors) has taken over as DCI at Causton police department. The Barnabys have worked with several different sergeants throughout the run of the show: sergeant Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey), sergeant Dan Scott (John Hopkins), sergeant Ben Jones (Jason Hughes), and currently sergeant Charlie Nelson (Gwilym Lee). Midsomer county is a fictional region of UK. Prominent for the series are lush gardens and very active villagers that tend to meet a gruesome death. I personally smiled when I saw Jason Hughes as sergeant Jones. I remember when Hughes played against Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) in This Life (1996-1997). They were Warren Jones and Edgar “Egg” Cook. Another series I've been watching is The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001-2008).

We follow upper class Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, played by Nathaniel Parker (Merlin) and more down to earth sergeant Barbara Havers who is played by Sharon Small (Mistresses). The series is based on characters and some cases books from Elisabeth George’s hand. The amazing thing is that she is an the American author. Next to the cases they solve the interaction between the two classes of society is portrayed nicely. My personal favourite series ( maybe favourite of all times) is Inspector Morse. It ran between 1987 and 2000 and was based on the books by Colin Dexter. John Thaw plays the role with so much embodiment of white, male, middle-class Englishness, with a set of prejudices and assumptions to match that I never imagined anyone to be able to play that role better. As in so many English series, there is a combination of Morse and his sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately). Morse’s background is in sharp juxtaposition to the working class origins of his assistant Lewis. Morse is extremely intelligent.

He dislikes spelling and grammatical errors, demonstrated by the fact that, in every personal or private document he receives, he manages to point out at least one mistake. He claims his approach to crime-solving is deductive, and one of his key tenets is that "there is a 50 per cent chance that the last person to see the victim alive was the murderer". In reality, it is the pathologists who deduce; Morse uses immense intuition and his fantastic memory to get to the killer. When we see a romantic interest for Morse, she always gets murdered of is the murderer. I really did pity him in that area. He also always pursues the female coroner Laura Hobson (played by Clare Holman, who I loved), but never got her interested in dating (see Lewis). One of the reason I love the series is because it is timeless and also has those beautiful eighties and nineties English cars. The most obvious one is the red Mark II jaguar that Morse drives in all series. The car was sold in 2005 for over $ 165.000. The series is set in Oxford, often playing in the intelligent upper class of the university world.

Where this series also differs is that Morse dies in the last episode, just like in the book ‘The remorseful day’. Lewis (2006 - 2013) is a spin-off from Inspector Morse. Like Inspector Morse, it was set primarily in Oxford. Kevin Whately reprised his character Robert "Robbie" Lewis, who had been Morse's sergeant in the original series. Lewis had now been promoted to detective inspector and was assisted by DS James Hathaway, portrayed by Laurence Fox. in this series the class roles were reversed. Working class Lewis was now assisted by the educated Hathaway. But still the traditional English combo remains. The cases were in the same realm as in Inspector Morse and the series was also supported by Colin Dexter who even had a few cameo appearances. Coming back to Inspector Morse, in this series also Lewis is flirting with Laura Hobson and in the last series they become a couple. Endeavour (2012 - ) is the second spin-off from the original Morse series. In 2012 ITV wanted a one off tv-film in recognition of the great Inspector Morse to celebrate the 25th television anniversary of the series.

So they commissioned a tv-film about the young Morse in his first case in Oxford. Morse was played by Shaun Evans and it was such a success that they ordered a complete season (of four episodes) and is second series has been filmed but not aired yet. In the first film (now pilot) there were so many references to the original Morse it was a wonderful homage. he for instance was visiting a car dealer where the red Mark II Jaguar was for sale. Especially the last scene where the young Morse is driving to the train and his boss asks him where he sees himself in twenty years. He looks into the mirror and there the face of John Thaw turns up at 3.03 of video). I really shed some tears. A special mention should go to Barrington Pheloung. He made the music for Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour. His classical music themes were very appropriate to the feel of the series. Dalziel & Pascoe looks the same but is quite different from the rest. The photo below is of an adventure they had in Amsterdam (see the canal bridges) where Dalziel got to be the suspect in a murder case.

As a starter, the correct pronunciation of Dalziel’s name, can be heard here ) The series ran from 1996 - 2007 and is primarily set in Yorkshire and follows the work of two detectives that are thrown together as partners. Compared to other series they are even more complete opposites. The have different backgrounds, different beliefs, different styles and they tend to get on each other's nerves. They are embarrassed by each other everyday. But their differences make them a stunningly brilliant crime-solving team. Dalziel is blunt-talking, politically incorrect, very insensitive and from the old school of policing, But, he is in fact also a great humanitarian, Pascoe is university educated, well mannered, polite and an engaged citizen. A touch of Frost (19921 - 2010) was based on the books by R.D. Wingfield. The series is set in the fictional South-Midlands town of Denton and is marked by a gritty tone. David Jason is Detective Inspector William Edward "Jack" Frost, an experienced and dedicated detective who frequently clashes with his superiors.

In his cases, Frost is assisted by a variety of different detective sergeants, with each bringing a different slant to the particular case. Comic relief is provided by Frost's interactions with his bureaucratically minded boss Norman Mullett. The writers must have been fans of Star Trek. Dr McCoy's catchphrase "I'm a doctor not a ..." is heard in several episodes, turned into "I'm a police surgeon, not a ..." or "I'm a pathologist, not a ...". Frost himself states that "the only place with more warp factors than Denton is Starship Enterprise", in response to a remark by Mullett about warped minds. Most of these series (almost all complete episodes) can be found on YouTube.

Question: DS Hathaway works with which TV detective?
Answer: Lewis