灵媒缉凶4

1536年5月，安妮·博林，亨利的第二任妻子以及她的五个同伙都死了。随着斧头的落下，托马斯·克伦威尔从血腥的屠杀中走出来，继续他向权力和财富的攀升，而他那令人敬畏的主人，亨利则与他的第三任王后简·西摩在一起，过着短暂的幸福生活。                                                                      　　克伦威尔，一个只有头脑可以依靠的人，没有大家庭支持他，也没有私人军队。在这个残酷而血腥的时代，克伦威尔在行使权力的同时，也面临着道德上的复杂性，他陷入了两难的境地: 一方面是做正确的事情的欲望，另一方面是求生的本能。但是在亨利八世处决了他的王后之后，没有人是安全的。                                                                      　　尽管国内叛乱，叛国者在国外密谋，入侵的威胁将亨利政权推向崩溃的边缘，克伦威尔强烈的想象力在未来的镜子中看到了一个新的国家。整个英格兰都在他的脚下，创新和宗教改革的时机已经成熟。但随着命运之轮的转动，克伦威尔的敌人正在阴影中聚集。                                                                      　　不可避免的问题仍然存在: 任何人能在亨利残忍和反复无常的注视下生存多久？

　　BBC One在过去预订了剧集《The Split》，而Sundance meijubar.net TV在TCA上宣布将与BBC One合作拍摄该剧；《The Split》由艾美得奖者Abi Morgan负责，讲述在这快节奏的世界中，三姐妹Hannah﹑Nina及Rose皆是离婚律师，Hannah与Nina在竞争对手的公司中领导离婚及家庭法的律师，只有三妹Rose还在找寻自己的位置。同时，三姐妹及母亲因为那缺席了30年的父亲/丈夫Oscar重新出现，令她们的生活面临瓦解。

　　该剧改编自帕特里克·拉登·基夫的同名小说，一位有10个孩子的单亲妈妈，在家中遭到绑架从此人间蒸发。激进的暴力行为，让家中孩子留下永远的创伤。这究竟是冷酷的战争行为？抑或是单纯的谋杀事件？

　　1991年，Delia（Anna Maxwell Martin饰）作为一名代理护士，在伦敦过着流浪和孤独的生活。当她在当地一家酒吧遇到John Sweeney（Shaun Evans饰）时，这似乎就是她一直在寻找的关系。
　　随着两人关系的发展，Sweeney的艺术家气质、反体制人格逐渐转变为了更黑暗的一面，最终导致了他对Delia的一系列暴力袭击。他告诉迪莉娅，他杀死了自己的前女友，并把她的尸体扔进了阿姆斯特丹运河。
　　Sweeney被逮捕了，但由于法庭未能意识到他的危险性，他被准予保释。他立即追杀Delia，使她遭受了一次可怕的、几乎致命的袭击；她活了下来，但是Sweeney逃脱了追捕，消失了。
　　在Sweeney造成的创伤和伤害的打击下，Delia勇敢地寻求重建她的生活。但是Sweeney七年后再次谋杀另一个女朋友而被捕，Delia不得不在公开法庭上面对他，她的证词对控方起诉他至关重要，她脆弱的复健历程再次受到打击。
　　这是一个女人在肉体和精神上的折磨中求生的惊人意志的故事，尽管那些原本应该保护她的机构失败了。

　　Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.

　　当备受瞩目的气候活动家马库斯·考尔德伍德在一场暴力肇事逃逸事件中身亡时，他利用临终时刻辨认出了凶手——一名在职警察。从受害者的最后一口气到陪审团的最终裁决，“审判”深入探究了自大的警官贾斯汀·米切尔的世界。

　　A year after her murder, the police re-open the case of Yvonne Harrison when they receive an anonymous letter implicating a burglar, Harry Repp, who is about to be released from prison. Supt. Strange assigns the case to DS Lewis, who is chafing at the bit awaiting his promotion to Inspector. Morse has been ill and has only just returned to work. He steps on Lewis' toes by involving himself in the case, but as the body count rises, Morse finds himself in charge of investigating a woman who had many affairs with many different men. When he learns that the dead men were in possession of large amount of cash, he suspects they were blackmailing her murderer.

　　Rachel James is shot through her kitchen window while having breakfast early one morning. She was having an affair with Dr. Julian Storrs, an Oxford professor who is a candidate for Master of Lonsdale College. When her next door neighbor is also killed however, Morse determines that the shooting of James may have been in error. Morse also suspects that he may have been a blackmailer. Both Storrs an his rival for the Masters position, Denis Cornford had secrets that would make them suspects. Morse determines that several others also had things to hide and any one of them could have committed the murders.

　　Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case.
　　Why weren't the three men also charged with theft? Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive? Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury? Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew? What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk? The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forest?
　　PC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford.
　　The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest.
　　Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information "that only a husband or a lover would know". The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison.
　　Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed: Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony.
　　Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.