约翰·古德曼罗伯特·洛格瓦尔

怪物城市一个宁静祥和的日子。麦克·华斯基（比利·克里斯托 Billy Crystal 配音），可爱的大眼仔，这个高傲臭屁的独眼小怪物换了一辆超级先进、全自动化的六轮驱动汽车。他抑制不住心中的狂喜，首先邀请他的好伙伴毛怪（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 配音）参观、搭乘。苏利文在车中毛手毛脚的行为让大眼仔颇为恼火，他禁止毛怪碰触任何按钮，可是自己又显然还没掌握全部的操作要领。结果折腾了半天汽车没有开动，倒霉的大眼仔却三番五次遭遇磨难。原本准备炫耀一番，结果成了丢人现眼……

After surgery glamorous actress, Veronica Ghent, travels with her nurse, Desi, to the remote highlands in order to attend a healing retreat. The other guests are eccentric and there is something different about the land; the nature seems to have a purpose of its own. Immersing herself in the dramatic surroundings, Veronica is given a new lease of life and finds purpose through ...

年轻女子米歇尔（玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德 Mary Elizabeth Winstead 饰）不久前刚和男友发生争吵，她夜晚驾车奔驰在黑暗的公路上，突然遭遇严重车祸昏迷过去。当她再度醒来时，发现自己被绑住手脚，关在一个密闭的空间里。少顷，一个健硕冷峻的男子霍华德（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰）走了进来。军人出身的霍华德声称地球刚刚遭遇可怕的生化危机，地球人几乎灭亡殆尽。他在数年前未雨绸缪修建了这个设备、资源齐全的避难所，只为生存下去。避难所内，除了霍华德、米歇尔外，还有另外一个年轻男子埃米特。米歇尔对霍华德的说辞半信半疑，她坚信自己遭到了变态狂的拘禁。

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.