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Lewis

Falling Darkness

Season 4, Episode 4, Aired May 23, 2010

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A university professor is found with a stake through her heart on Hallowe'en. A medium, who claims to have foreseen the death, conducts a séance, but Lewis and Hathaway rely on more conventional methods to solve the murder.

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Niamh Cusack

Ellen Jacoby
GUEST STAR
Lucy Griffiths (II)

Maddie Escher
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Rupert Graves

Alex Pickman

Kevin Whately

DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox

DS James Hathaway
Clare Holman

Dr Laura Hobson
Rebecca Front

Chief Supt Jean Innocent

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"We belong dead..."

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By orswel, Oct 25, 2010

Keeping the straightest of faces, "Lewis" continues to edge towards the playful, as in the previous episode, "Your Sudden Death Question". This segment, involving a gruesome murder at Halloween, is jam-packed with surreptitious references to horror literature and films. The first murder victim is called "Ligeia", a named shared with the eponymous heroine of an Edgar Allan Poe story, which tale also provides the name of another character, "Rowena Trevanion". The artist character, Pickman, takes his surname from H.P. Lovecraft, the name "Madeleine Escher" can hardly fail to remind us of Poe's heroine Madeleine Usher, the medium Ms. Van Tessell is named after "Van Tassell" in Washington Irving's "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" (Hathaway actually mispronounces the name at one point), and the nursing home, "Holmwood", and Mrs. Renfield both come from "Dracula". Slyest of all is the character played by John Sessions, "Dr. Strickfaden" - a reference to Kenneth Strickfaden, the real-life genius who designed the electrical equipment in James Whale's "Frankenstein" films. The suspect called Victor Clerval, of course, combines the names of the two male protagonists in Mary Shelley's novel. The plotline touches several Gothic bases, especially during its ghastly climax, and the subplot about stem-cell research gives us a neat update of the Frankenstein theme. Will Lewis find romance with Dr. Hobson? Well, if you save a girl from being buried alive, you're in with a good chance...moreless
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