该电视剧由阿拉斯泰尔·里德执导，约翰·肖、凯文·沃特利、西蒙·卡洛、肯内斯·库兰汉姆等主演，于1987年上映。在107分钟的叙事中，《摩斯探长第二季》（又名：摩斯探长：沃夫寇特之舌、莫斯侦探、莫尔思探长）Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Laura Poindexter, an American tourist who is part of an exclusive tour group visiting Oxford. Missing from her personal effects is her jewelry, including the Wolvercote Tongue which she was going to donate to the Ashmolean Museum. The pathologist determines that she died of natural causes, but Morse feels there’s something not quite right. The mystery deepens when Theodore Kemp, the Ashmolean’s expert on the Wolvercote Tongue, is found dead and Mrs. Poindexter’s husband goes missing.