Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charlie Hillian is killed on the night of his retirement party. Hillian was at one time a senior officer in Oxford and was in fact Morse's boss. He was also writing a book about his most memorable cases, including one about the unsolved death of an 8-year-old girl some 18 years ago. The suspect in that case, Frederick Redpath, was at Hillian's house the day he died and that chapter from the manuscript is missing. There are other suspects however, including Hillian's ghost writer who will now receive all of the book's royalties; a handyman who was working on the property; and Redpath's daughter, who knew the little girl who was killed all those years before. Morse comes into conflict with with a colleague DCI Dawson, who was one of Hillian's protégés, as they again look into the little girl's death.
片名：《摩斯探长第五季》
导演：亚德里安·谢尔高德
演员：约翰·肖,凯文·沃特利,克里斯托弗·埃克莱斯顿
如何评价《摩斯探长第五季》
首先声明，我是真的挺喜欢这部《摩斯探长第五季》小片的，n刷过后我也看了一些导演和演员的相关采访，对这个电影也有了一些更深的感受和想说的话。这其实是于适自己在路演的时候对电影的形容，我觉得还挺准确的：他说这部电影就像一瓶冰镇过的橘子姜味汽水，一开始喝下去凉爽愉悦，但最后回味起来又会有点辛辣苦涩，我现在可以说就处在这个回味的阶段。
演技的好坏直接决定了剧中人物能否和观众产生共鸣。一个好的演技能够将剧本里的人物活灵活现地展现在人们的面前，一个好的剧本如果没有一个好演技的人来塑造里面的人物形象，和一个烂片其实也相差无几了；同时，一个烂剧本，但是有一个好演技，可以将里面的人物塑造得淋漓尽致，即使剧本再烂，可能也坏不到哪里去。
