Have they made any mention in these two new episodes about whether they are married or just living together? In Entry Room I had the feeling they were not married, but in Lions of Nemea I thought I saw a wedding band on Laura's left hand. I wonder if I missed anything that confirmed one way or the other.
Personally, Robbie has always seemed to me like the marrying kind of guy, but Laura may have loosened him up a bit.
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She is wearing what looks like some kind of wedding ring but it's on her right hand. She hasn't worn a ring on her left ring finger in either episode. I don't think they're supposed to be married. I agree with you about Robbie being the marrying kind of guy but I don't think he's asked because I bet Laura would marry him if he did.
shareIf they had actually gotten married; you would have seen wedding pictures, Laura fussing about the top of the cake in the fridge, general discussions of wedding gifts (duplicates, triplicates), and/or Laura struggling with writing thank you notes.
Instead there was Lewis burning the casserole.
I don't think they are married.
Although I agree Robbie is the marrying kind, I think he is the kind of bloke who was married to his wife and cannot get married to anyone else. He is with Laura and he loves her in his own way, but not in the way he loved Val. That was for ever ("He's her lobster" - Pheobe Buffay). It took 7 series - 7 years - to even get to the point where he could kiss Laura.
So, yes they are together but I don't think they would ever marry in real life, whether the writers decide to build marriage in, who knows. There is no financial imperative to marry and Laura is not especially needy.
I, on the other hand, would marry her in a heartbeat. She is just about perfect. Clever, pretty, grounded, selfless, humble, funny with a twinkle in her eye and so darned NICE. If there wasn't a Mrs. Lilac who was all of those things Laura would be first on the list. Maybe second, behind Kate Bush, but well up there.
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Yes, watching last night's episode, I see that the ring I had noticed her wearing in on her right hand, and nothing on her left. Nice to see Robbie and Laura both happy--but I still think that R is more the marrying kind than the shacking up kind. But he doesn't belong to me, so I dont get to choose his behavior.
shareI was looking for rings on last night's episode Beyond Good and Evil, and I didn't see rings on the left hand of Robbie or Laura. Don't think they are married. There would have been some mention of a wedding at some point.
shareA wedding ring on the right hand is usual in many countries, I do not know if it is in England though.
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The Elnglish tradition is that the wedding band is worn on the ring finger of the left hand and then moved to the right hand when one is widdowed. Although the second part seems to be mostly forgotten these days.
shareI listened to the podcast for Masterpiece and they interviewed Clare Holman. The interviewer referred to the last 2 seasons where Laura and Robbie are married and she didn't correct him. I think people who have been happily married want that happiness again, so I think their relationship is appropriate.
shareWhat happened to Mrs Lewis? Did she pass away? Did Sgt and Mrs Lewis get divorced?
shareIf I remember right, a car ran over her. Very moving episode of Robbie trying to deal with his grief, falling asleep at the kitchen table with a bottle, and Hathaway tapping on the window the next morning to wake him up for work.
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In the pilot of Lewis in 2006, Robbie was returning from the British Virgin Islands where he had been on assignment for two years apparently trying to get over the death of his wife. When he visited her grave in that episode, the headstone showed she died in 2002. It came out later that she was killed by a hit and run driver while Christmas shopping in London. The hit and run driver was accidentally discovered by Hathaway in The Quality of Mercy. I believe this trouble getting through his grief was what made it take so long for Laura and Robbie to develop a relationship. But the real truth was that apparently Kevin Whately didn't want Robbie to be married or in a relationship, hence the death of his wife, but apparently gave in for the series before last and Robbie and Laura became a couple.
shareThanks for the replies.....much appreciated.
shareThey are obviously not Married otherwise the producers would have worked it into one of the storylines. He's moved in with her and they are seeing how things go before deciding to Marry, if they ever feel the need for that anyway.
I heard that Kevin Whatley specifically requested that he not have a wife when he agreed to take the Inspector Lewis part. Well it took Ted Childs seven years to get him to change his mind, sort of.
sharei would like to know more about dr Hobosn's past. Like has she ever been married before, or in a longterm relationship, and if so why not? I mean, most people don't get married or shack up with someone for the first time when they're fiftyish. And why does she find the rather morose lewis so attractive? Admittedly he's not as gloomy as Morse used to be, but he's still a bit heavy going.
shareWell, let's look at her life this way. She is wound up with working. So she goes out on a date. And the guy asks, so how was your day? She says it was pretty good, I only performed one autopsy. With Lewis, she was more than halfway there.
shareLouise, Hi.
You can find out more about Laura's life by watching Inspector Lewis Season 3, Episode 5: Falling Darkness
Dr. Hobson finds herself caught up in a decades-old vendetta when one of her university friends is murdered, and another young student is killed in the house Hobson and her friends shared years ago.
A Checkered Life speaks of myriad diverse adventures being the rewards of endless curiosity.
She was killed by an auto. He found the man driving the car while solving a different case. In fact it was Hathaway who discovered it.
shareValerie Lewis was killed in London by a drunk driver. It was after that (as well as after the death of Morse) that Robbie left the Oxford/Thames Valley police force. The series opens with his return and after an ugly case where Hathaway's 'governor' runs afoul of the law Hathaway himself requests to be paired with Robbie.
There is an early episode (can't remember which) in the "Inspector Lewis" series that involves a brother-sister team who steal bags from local hotels. Hathaway sniffs something funny about it and pursues. Hathaway is the one who discovers that it was THIS drunk driving character who killed Lewis' wife, actually brings Lewis to confront the man who is subsequently charged with it. Finally.
Just one of the many special personal ties that these two men end up sharing and that forms the trust bond between them.
I think the episode where they get Val's killer is Quality of Mercy. That episode was so sad when the man is recalling how he ran into her with his car. I thought Robbie was going to rip his head off!
shareI can't recall if it's explicitly stated in the series but in Clare Holman's interview the interviewer states that they're married for the last two seasons and Ms Holman doesn't contradict that.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/podcast-book-club/podcasts/lewis-20-years-on-clare-holman-still-delivers-sass-science/