Forløber til tv-serien om kriminalkommissær Morse med Shaun Evans som en yngre version af den intellektuelle kriminalbetjent. Unge Morse indleder sin karriere som kriminalbetjent i Oxfords kriminalpoliti.

It’s 1971 and the young detective sergeant has another raft of tricky cases to solve with the help of colleague Fred Thursday (Allam), including the murder of a cab driver near a nudist resort. After Season Seven’s tense finale (you can binge all previous seasons on BritBox), we see Morse drowning his sorrows in alcohol – and it’s starting to affect his job. Will he get help or will he continue on his downward spiral?