面对一个个错综复杂的悬疑案件，法证部高级化验师余星柏（黄宗泽 饰）、重案组高级督察井浩然（袁伟豪 饰）、法医科高级医生范佩清（蔡洁 饰）三人团将如何一步步抽丝剥茧，在危机四伏的谜团中，用科学揭露事实寻觅真相？在面临生死时，他们又将如何坚守本心，完成对自我和他人的救赎？一切答案都将在本季剧集中揭晓。
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.
