Let’s not forget the shifty grad student from New York (Tosin Cole), the chemist with a gambling problem (Peter de Jersey), the caregiver (Mali Harries) tending to Elizabeth’s ailing father (David Warner), and even David Capstone himself. They had a motive and they might have had means.
Guitteau, the grieving parents who blame Adam for their daughter’s suicide. She’s not the least bit distraught over his death. Then, there’s Adam’s wife, Elizabeth (Zoë Tapper). An arrogant philanderer, possibly even a rapist, Adam had lots of enemies.ĭavid Capstone (Oliver Lansley), Adam’s brother and fellow genius, suggests disgruntled former student Kate McMurdoch (Emerald O’Hanrahan), who claims the brothers stole her research and put it forth as their own. Adam Capstone might have been a prodigy, but he was no prince. The central question, which we do understand, is this: Who would want to murder a 34-year-old professor of geometric topology? It’s a complicated, mind-bending thing that even smarty pants DI Hathaway (Laurence Fox) can’t explain easily. We have our first corpse in “What Lies Tangled,” the this-time-we-mean-it final episode of Inspector Lewis.Įverything here is tangled up in knots, mathematical knots that are the basis for a field of study known as knot theory. Only, that package isn’t innocuous at all. Paying her little mind, he goes to his desk and opens an innocuous-looking package that came in the morning mail. Youthful professor Adam Capstone, being all perky first thing in the a.m., glances out his office window to see a young woman cast a dubious look in his direction.