Writer:	Colin Dexter, Stephen Churchett, Russell Lewis
Director:	Bill Anderson (II)
Star:	Rebecca Front (Superintendent Innocent),  Laurence Fox (DS Hathaway),  Kevin Whately (DI Lewis),  Clare Holman (Dr Laura Hobson)
Guest Star:	Mark Small (Uniformed PC),  Alex Knight (DI Knox),  Lizzy McInnerny (Kate Jekyll),  Marc Elliott (Hal Bose),  Rosalyn Wright (Air Stewardess),  Michael Hobbs (Club Secretary),  Adam Smethurst (Locksmith),  Colin Starkey (Bernard Beech),  Sophie Winkleman (Regan Peverill),  Charlie Cox (Danny Griffon),  Danny Webb (Tom Pollock),  Jack Ellis (Rex Griffon),  Jemma Redgrave (Trudi Griffon),  Janet Maw (Secretary),  Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Jessica Pollock),  Dennis Matsuki (Mr. Tanigaki),  Michael Maloney (Ivor Denniston)

11 million viewers tuned in to watch this first outing for Lewis without Morse. (edit)

Lewis: Morse, you can still see the stain from his glass. (edit) Lewis: Listen, last night. I might have been a bit snappy about... God.
Hathaway: He won't mind. (edit) Hathaway: I was gonna be a priest.
Lewis: You're joking!
Hathaway: No, I even did a year at the seminary.
Lewis: You'd know all about the meaning of life then. God moves in a mysterious way, has wonders to perform, all that mumbo-jumbo.
Hathaway: It's not my fault you lost your wife, sir. (edit) Hathaway: Has Oxford changed much since you've been away?
Lewis: No. It changed before I went. (edit)

Colin Dexter (author of the Morse novels) cameos as a college porter, wearing a bowler hat. (edit) The pub at the end of the episode is The Trout, just outside of Wolverton (a part of Oxford). It is also in Wolverton that J. R. R. Tolkien is buried. (edit)

The Endeavour Award

This is most likely yet another allusion to Morse, for Endeavour is Morse's first name. Considering Lewis' reaction to the receptionist's comment it's probably safe to guess that the scholarship was created around Morse's death. (edit)