Oxford, 1884. University life is disrupted when Bellingham, an expert in Eastern languages with an unhealthy interest in arcane practices, falls into a dead faint. Has the young student's passion for Egyptian artefacts, including a blackened mummy, gone too far? Rumors grow. There's talk of strange sounds emerging from Bellingham's room deep in the night. One student is strangled. Another is hurled in the river. Both had bad blood with Bellingham. Has a student spat spiraled out of control - or are supernatural powers in play? Starring Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (Slow Horses) . Based on the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.