摩斯探长!
*#第十一季

剧情简介

Mo ^rse is  ,$taken seriously il+l at.
a mu seum reception an`:d is `hospital^%ized. In th?e hospital$:, _Sup*t.  ]S#trange,^( visit@`]s Morse to push him t \o)+# take early !retirement, / while Dr. Millicent '*Millie') Van Bure(!n +gives =him, =^* he r book on a 140 y!)ear-old. court[$ case +[!known as`/ the.# O.x`ford Canal Murders. The case involved the: murder and ra(+!pe %[o$ (f a yo?ung% w[om:\`an][, Mrs Joanna Frank s, tra ^vel@ing/ by canal, boat from Coventry )+to London. T!`he case resulted /
in three boatmen being ??sentenced to death [-)and[ two of! them h!a]n=ged. Morse starts to rea
d Millie's book and dre!$ams ab@/ out it.# -.H.!e soo$[n, has a n\ u_[mber o;\+)f problems with t: he c$/ase!.]　　Why were
!n'^#t the thre; e men$ al,:so`!$ charg[@\ed with the:!ft Why did Mrs Franks take/ ))]a boat instead]: o/[f a train that -was m((;uch fa)-ster a]nd comfo,
rta%[ble and _=onl-$y :?\\sligh=tly more%[ e(=xpensi(v_-e-@; Wh
-y didn't/- she abandon /the bo*,)$at* after she complained`%;@, (about lewd be
havi#or o=f the crew at the ship`#(ping office in Banb?
,ury Wh?$)y/ did sh`e% then d.r=^ink and 'socialise' with *_ the crew What _h-:appened to her /'ca/( rpet b/ag'*\ wi@==th whic#[
h she !arrived on th%?e boat but which was not mentio;(ne% d^)% in)[ the_\ court  ;case$, *;n
=or was it sto ?^red in the +ar chive`#s with her, almo st emp`ty, tr!^unk Th e :)trunk w*as mar`*@ked w\ith   _%!in(itials _of her first husband who had;$ die!d. Ho`w di_\__d) it happen  that ,-her( * -sh`-oes were found on#  the boat but nob]%ody saw +her ret-u=*$
rn ]-to the boat from the forest　=/　PC \!Adri:an Kershaw does so([?me brilliant le-g [=:work for Mo
;$ _rs%e). H =e studied hist #=ory =]$and ^has,\ inv]$aluable ba/;?c:k +ground kno. wled\`ge. For i?nstan!-)*ce,, he mentions that t
-h^(e boatme_ - n -had bad reputa-^!tion be +cause -th_%ey worked ![  /,on Sund: $ays and di,`d not atte nd chu`r^:ch. :?Later a cha( ^pe\.%?l) was bu=ilt for@ them
\.!in Oxf_%ord.?)　　Th:$]e dea.d woman*:'s clothes and the shoe+s found on; the boa*%`%t are s; $ubm@itted to mo[d@/ern fore,$nsic
]( investigation. The res] ?%ult is that the @#
sh*:=oes did no(
t be!$long to; ) ^th :e -;%dead, w/ oman fou\:nd in the w/;*ate/$r because,$-@ she was much taller.The shoes were n ?)eve_r used i-\/n th^e.
% for%est.　　Only M!]rs Fr
+a;#nks' husband*+^,, Charles Frank%s\%,`? was c#/alled ` to!)` identify the- body of the dead 
)*woman.++ H
^]e claim [ed th.at, while her
face was dar#= kened a$;@nd di_*%sfigu%]red,]
he foun#?$d?/ a @.[birth mark behind he]r ear. The prosecutor we/-lcom
ed that in$)formation tha ,`t)^) only a husband! o%!r a lover would k`?now. The a`ccused w*er/e .not sh:(own the bo#dy.=[ Th*=e  defense at +torn
ey m erely cla/ime\
d ;th]%=at!, the guilt of the thre`!;e men was not proved. ^?All : th: ree accus*,ed claimed to the end th@?(a#t th e;=y w;ere innocent. One of them.-= ]
^wa:^s not%/ exec?uted because h e embraced Christi+`anity in pri ?so?@`n.　　Morse :instru)ct^s Ker[-,`sh:^aw ,to investiga`@te[:_ if Charl`es Fra$/nks benefited from his wife's =^de(ath and, ind]`eed, he po! c=keted 30[?0 pounds insu;:-]r\ance mo?.ney. Case closed Cha rles Franks murd% ered- a tal(_l )women and dr^[#op`*ped her $in) ^ the ca]!nal after meeting Joanna in the fore\(*st. If! Joanna  Franks# jumped of%*f* th[_e boat (#at t=.h)!e.[ same %;time )_a.-]?s t`he dead =.!?body hit the water, she sw.)?am to th.-e ; bank and joined her husband. The co*:uple chang-\ed t-
@+heir !:)na_%mes, in th)e case
of][^ '\,#;Charles Fr):.(a# nks' a se][+cond time after he 'd.i *ed' as Joanna's !)first husband.^ The f\_our?)t!h boa(tm-an,  a youn]*gste!r who w[a;:- s not charged, w`,.as pr(.obably paid by@!_ J:*.!oan@+na to^ .]g]ive false $t) estimony
..!　　Mo-`=rse tr^(,a%_ ve/-l
s to Ireland a`+;nd has a \grave -.of Joanna?*'s first husband exhumed.] The coffin cont_@
ains bags of sand \a
%nd some ston[=e`#[s.