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Lewis is joined by the young Sergeant James Hathaway (played by Laurence Fox) a former priest-in-training, who gave up his education and joined the police instead.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Hathaway makes a comment about Lewis' choice in women at the end of the first episode in the second season only to fall for {{spoiler|Zoe, the serial killer from "Life Born of Fire", the third episode of that season}}.

* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Hathaway's [[Pet Peeve Trope|pet peeve]], to the extent that he even gets Lewis noting [[Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma|apostrophe misuse]] around town.

* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]]: A wife does this to her husband in the first series (she's a trained nurse). Luckily, Lewis has a pen.

* [[In With the In Crowd]]: The undergraduates in "The Soul of Genius". {{spoiler|Unfortunately for them, there isn't an in crowd -- it's just a sadistic trick.}}

** "Wild Justice" is filled with allusions to Jacobean revenge tragedies: a minor supporting character is named Karen Middleton- Thomas Middleton was a Jacobean playwright known best for his work in that genre.

* [[Sinister Minister]]

* [[Surprise Incest]]: In {{spoiler|"Falling Darkness"}}.

* [[Take That]]: "Allegory of Love" delivers multiple smackdowns to the cult of J. R. R. Tolkien and swords-and-sorcery fantasy novels.

* [[Transsexual]]: Played for tragedy in {{spoiler|"Born of Fire". Zoe Kenneth was originally Feardocha Phelan, who was Will's boyfriend. After the [[Cure Your Gays]] group they were both attending causes Will to start to hate their relationship, Feardocha jets off to Brazil to become Zoe so that Will could finally love a girl. Sadly it didn't work out, and Will's [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]] becomes her [[Despair Event Horizon]] which turns her into a [[Serial Killer]].}}

** [[Fridge Logic|Given the five-year gap]] between [[Inspector Morse]] and [[Lewis]], at least part of which Lewis spent working overseas, it's possible the car was sold when he thought he wasn't coming back.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: In "The Soul of Genius", Michelle Marber seems to be a victim of this at first, thinking that she's the heroine of a [[Little Old Lady Investigates]] mystery and that Lewis and Hathaway are examples of [[Police Are Useless]]. Her motivations are actually more complicated, though she still never gets the genre right.

* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Mother]]: The motive in {{spoiler|"Whom the Gods Would Destroy"}}.