Morse tracks him to his lair with no idea who he’s looking for. Given that, this final episode, Exeunt, spends a lot of time on a side-plot – a lunatic is murdering leftist thinkers, placing death notices in the paper before they die in ‘accidents’. But the pressure remained to offer an ‘in-world’ explanation of the fate of the Thursdays, including Morse’s unconfessed love interest Joan, and why they were written out of history.
The ‘real-world’ explanation, of course, is that they hadn’t been invented the characters were developed by writer Russell Lewis to fill in some of Morse’s background for Endeavour.
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If the series went off the rails at one point, descending into farcical operatic drama and comical Carry On references, it did manage to get its feet back on the ground for these final three episodes.īut the burden was always there, the pressure to explain the big question – what happened between Morse and Fred Thursday, such that the Thursday family was never mentioned in the Inspector Morse novels or TV series?
We also got an insight into the career development of the character, once described as a great detective but a poor policeman, and how it was formed by his relationships with his colleagues Fred Thursday, Jim Strange and Reginald Bright. Can it possibly live up to the weight of expectation put upon it? Can it satisfy our longing for a fulfilling conclusion to this epic of detection and character observation?Įndeavour Morse has always been, perhaps after Sherlock Holmes, the most fully-rounded of fictional detectives and Endeavour had the difficult task of laying the background for that character, both in terms of psychological development and in complexities of plot.Ĭertainly, Endeavour managed to cover a lot of the necessary business: how Morse developed his solitary personality, why his relationships with women were always a disaster, where he got his love of drink, opera and crosswords, his distrust of the establishment, and even where he got his (John Thaw’s) limp. So, this is it – the final episode of Endeavour, the last chapter of a 36-year TV saga.
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