摩斯探长,第十一季第01集

剧情简介

Morse >]=is taken seriou/(<sly ill,@ a.$t a museum reception and $*_is "; hospita%:lized. In- the hospi$"^ta?^+l, Supt. Stra'?$n/ge^ ], v]=is:>i"'ts *]M\o'`
rse to push [@him to 
t#>ake early ret
irement, w']hile Dr. Millicent '/Mi#.^llie' Van Buren giv/@"es h im he_r book on a( 140 +year-old co.urt case;] known as t he Oxford Canal Mur-($ders. ?-The case invo;lv%,=ed th&e mu
r,der and ra* (p -e of-- a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling  by ca ]nal ,-!boa/^t from Cove ^ntry to London:
[]. The case resul--`#t;ed =-in three)\ b_:oatmen$] b.eing sentenc; +ed to d% ea=th a<n)] d t`!*@[wo of=/ them hanged.[\:< Mo+rse starts= t>o read Millie's?$$ b[<\>oo
)k =:.and drea.,'.ms about it. He<;< soon has: a numb#`er of problems with the case.　　W-hy% we;:@re $:-n't th;/e thre?e men als<.[(o charged wi_th theft Why did Mrs Franks take a;& boat i^%nstead of a tra-?in tha/t+` ,&was\, much f".&_ aste r and co`m:"forta!ble and only slightly m/(o<)re expe&
n sive`'\ Why .`didn't .?@?she a band-on.# th:*e boat% after she complained -\<)abo*&(<ut lewd behavior of the cre+ _w at:
^ the .#%shipping office in[( Banbury Why d/id she t' hen dr[^(ink and '
'/social*ise' wit&( +h th_<e % ?'*crew W`@!<ha)t ha@\,$ppened to '%!her @]_'carpet bag' with w`<]hic@,h ;] she a*'rrive $d on the b
= oat but^ which wa*?s not menti;,`oned in the co ?urt case, nor wa&^s it st)[+ored\%* i$/*n the arch&ives 'with her,"" almost empty#", trun-k The trunk was )[+mar*&&=ked `.with initials of her '.fi$..rst-:' h]u "sband w"ho had died. How d! %id it ha)"ppen.?== that her$ & (shoes-), were found\&<  "on]:" the \ boat( but nobody saw her=^` return to the '_
boa+t f= r">)om the(* forest　　P`C Adr\ian Ker^s.haw ]&does  some br<^illiant le`'g work for Mor.se. He s"@:t(udied hi`!s/>tory and * /has invaluable back (+:gr<o);un!d'%\? knowledge. For" =[[in@=,stance, he mentions that th*-e :"boatmen ha#/d bad reputation be;%$c +ause '-they worked o n Sundays and d
id not &'/-atten:d church. L!! )ater</ a chape)l was>:! b*#uilt f
\or t)#he #]m [ in Oxfor  d.　　Th ?*e dead woman)'s clot)*hes an d the sh[ >oes fo!und ]-on the b)*;.o:<:at are submitt(ed to <]^moder]n fore-&n&>#s\ic in"vestig%:-ation. The resul`<t ,;is >!.th at the sho:es d>id n /ot b&elo ^#ng" `!<to the dead woman found i?n the water be)<[cause s" he was much taller.The sh
.oes were never ! used:
in :\[ th.e fore`]st.　 @/.　On`ly M -r%\s Fr
@anks' husband, Charles Fra$nks(<
, wa%[?_s called to identi)fy^: the body o-?f the de[a
;d woman. He claimed that%\, while=( her fac /;e wa s!;* darkened and disfigured, he found? a)\ !birth &?mark behin\d her ear. The pro>@*secutor welcomed[?< tha
`%t information tha?:t only a husband or a lover would know&. The -@ accused ^were no^>t s!hown the @& b 
ody+^`?. The de f]]"ense attorney merely claimed th&]at :@"the guilt of the\ .`+t<<
hree men was n*(ot ,proved. All t hree& a? ^ccused claimed  t,&.o the end (^that they 
were innoce]=nt. On)e # of them *[/\was_%# /-n ot exe`#%^cu$ $ted because he em $braced =`Chr`""istia%_)'nity in -=p.*: ri^*\s":=on./ 　　Morse >ins>tr%+ucts Kersh/aw to <!!
investiga@^<te `#.if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's deat'/h and,[ indeed, .?he$\ pocketed 300` pounds i[nsu/rance m]]oney. Case ?_clos=)ed Char`les F;*ranks m, ]urd\<;@ere)].d a# ta *ll women and dropped h&-er in the c+anal af'ter/<=
 meeting']\ Joa?nna in _ the f/or]+#es@!t.:@( If+ >"'`Joanna Fra^n)ks j&&um% ped off the boat-> at \)the same ti,>]m+e as t.)^ he dead bo<'dy [ /hit the water, she swam t;\&o:*= the ba*>nk and $<\joine"* d her husband. The c"ouple chan-ge[:_=d &'thei
/r nam(`)es, in the case of _'Charles Franks' a .
second\ t/
#im`e.,% aft'er he 'die\^d' as ^:+Jo>\'anna's firs([.$t hus ban=,d. Th^,e f.ourth boatma'\,n, a youngster who was not+# c;->harged, was pro:bably;; p*/aid by J=oanna to_'$ ;&gi^v]e ?]!fa? lse testimony.　　Morse travels to Irelan+[,d an_d'_/ ha_%+'s a grave  o\\f @$Joa.nna$/*'s first husband@
 exhumed. The coffin
#; contains bags )#-of sa n[^=d an\ +*d s+<ome sto`*nes.