BBC台和Peter Moffat的野心之作The Village在提名了三项BAFTA奖之后进入第二季，匹克地区的小村故事告别了艰难惨痛的一战，带着隐隐作痛的旧伤口拥抱欢快的爵士乐时代。新的时代带来新的技术和对政治、爱情、性的不同观念，冲击着村民的日常生活。爱因斯坦、玛丽•斯特普、无线通讯、电力、真空吸尘器、包装薯片和查尔斯顿舞夹杂在源源不断的新事物中涌入小村，工党第一次执政，雪莱的Ye are many, they are few铿锵在耳，仿佛万事皆有可能。年轻的Bert走出单相思初尝爱情的甜蜜；Grace Middleton寻找能代表劳动者和女性的政治声音；Edmund Allingham追逐权力并和另一位男性陷入爱河；村里迎来了第一位黑皮肤的访客；学校的教室里的也孕育着爱情之花……且看这场社会变革如何通过一个平凡村庄的故事展现。(豆瓣John Simm小站）
Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Laura Poindexter, an American tourist who is part of an exclusive tour group visiting Oxford. Missing from her personal effects is her jewelry, including the Wolvercote Tongue which she was going to donate to the Ashmolean Museum. The pathologist determines that she died of natural causes, but Morse feels there's something not quite right. The mystery deepens when Theodore Kemp, the Ashmolean's expert on the Wolvercote Tongue, is found dead and Mrs. Poindexter's husband goes missing.
The disappearance of Sir Julius Hanbury - and the theft of several of his erotic paintings - provide a new puzzle for Morse to solve. Assisted by DS Lewis, Morse interviews everyone at Hanbury House and it is in the course of searching the grounds that he finds Sir Julius' body, appropriately enough, in the family mausoleum. The pathologist notes that he was the victim of a frenzied attack but the lack of blood at scene leaves the police to conclude that he murdered elsewhere. Sir Julius was a candidate to become the Master of an Oxford college and was known to have a have had a bitter rivalry with another candidate for the position. When Roger Meadows, a friend of the Hanbury's au pair, is killed in a car accident, Morse concludes that that he too was murdered. Jealousy, revenge and greed all play part in the deaths.
DI Humphrey Goodman and the team are left stumped in the first episode of the new series when millionaire environmentalist and scientist Dan Hagen is shot on his boat while out at sea.
