First broadcast 26th February 1992.
A respected, dying Oxford don, husband of Morse's former fiancée, apparently shoots himself, but his doctor asserts that he was not capable of firing a gun.
John Thaw - Chief Inspector Morse
Kevin Whately - Detective Sergeant Lewis
Brendan O'Hea - Telecom Engineer
David Haig - Peter Rhodes
Susan Jane Tanner - Nurse Rogers (as Susan-Jane Tanner)
James Walker - Henry Fallon
Martyn Waites - Duty Constable
Thomas Craig - Desk Sergeant
Roger Frost - Photographer
James Grant - McGregor
Richard Pasco - William Bryce-Morgan
Joanna David - Susan Fallon
Lesley Vickerage - WPC
Christopher Owen - Solicitor
Richard Hampton - Coroner
Tony Mathews - Pathologist
Samantha Bond - Helen Marriat
Adrian Dunbar - John Marriat
James Grout - Chief Superintendent Strange
Dominic Keating - Murray Stone
Alexander John - Court Official
Vincent Pickering - Telephone Exchange Man
Greer Gaffney - Henrietta Fallon
Michael Tomlinson - PC Trench
Colin Dexter - Man at Reception After Schubert Concert