Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

Many TV shows are well past their prime by the time they hit their final season. Not Endeavour. The magnificent British series, a prequel to another mystery drama classic, Inspector Morsebid farewell to American viewers Sunday night, July 2, on PBS with shocking resolutions, endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap, heartbreaking goodbyes and even a bit of Shakespeare. We got new insight into the beleaguered and brilliant Endeavour Morse Shaun Evans by watching him evolve from a neophyte detective constable into someone more like the jaded loner played by John Thaw in the original series.

June Morse investigates a death notice in the Oxford Mail which appeared shortly before the person mentioned actually died in what initially looks to have been an accident, and finds a link with an earlier death which was not treated as suspicious. This leads him to an undertaker's, forcing him to confront his own mortality. Fred Thursday, looking set to move to Carshall Newtown, finds himself having to deal with more trouble from his past, at a time when he has trouble enough in the present, leading him to resort to desperate measures to protect his family. Elsewhere, Strange is set to marry Joan and transfer to Kidlington, while Bright is looking forward to retirement. Where will all of this leave Morse?

Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

So, this is it — the final episode of Endeavour , the last chapter of a year TV saga. 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? Endeavour 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. 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. 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. But 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? Handily, the killer turns up, is captured and confesses to his crimes in a racist, homophobic, and anti-European rant. All this is against the background of the planning of the wedding of Joan Thursday and Jim Strange. Meanwhile, Morse is investigating the murder of a biker, presumably in a drugs turf war.

Morse and Thursday visit the friend of Professor Bevin, who reported his absence, Dr. Finally, Fred Thursday addresses Morse as "Endeavour", only to be corrected that he prefers "just Morse".

Footage of a funeral, motorcycles, and the creation of a wedding dress opens "Exeunt," the series finale of Endeavour. Given the progression of the series with its twists and turns over the decade, we are prepared to accept not every issue will be resolved — from the beginning, Endeavour has reminded us life is uncertain, compared to the truths of great music, literature, or architecture. Writer Russell Lewis and director Kate Saxon indulge in a certain amount of fantasy in this episode, but they and the superb cast and production team make it all work. Our revels now are ended. Once again, Morse is at Blenheim Vale, where excavations continue, but not for much longer.

For the most part, the Endeavour finale kept its feet on the ground and provided answers to long-held fan questions. One scene however, set a new mystery. Endeavour nods and places the gun in the boot of his Jag. Ad — content continues below. That smile could be a clue to one interpretation of the Endeavour finale gunshot mystery. Endeavour shoots the weapon while sitting on a bench outside the church in which Joan and Jim were married. In that same churchyard, Morse discovered the headstones connecting corrupt Inspector Lott to the false identity he adopted to buy Blenheim Vale. Next to the Lott family plot was the grave of infant Lionel Godfrey Chambers, whose birth certificate Lott had obtained to create the persona behind his hooky front company based in Bermuda. One interpretation is that the scene functions as a symbolic suicide for the character of Endeavour, allowing for his figurative rebirth as simply Morse, the iteration of the character as played by John Thaw in Inspector Morse.

Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

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The Morse-Joan kiss at the wedding reception happens only in Morse's imagination. Lott threatens Thursday's life and Morse's too. Thursday asks about Peter, and Morse says he's long dead before asking about Tomahawk. References to the original series were numerous, and clever. Work resumes. Elsewhere, Strange is set to marry Joan and transfer to Kidlington, while Bright is looking forward to retirement. Granted, they probably were acquainted professionally as Strange is not presented as a brand-new recruit in the latter episode and so would have been around albeit unseen at the time of the Mary Tremlett investigation which happened a few months earlier, but Lott came across as the sort of CID officer who holds his uniformed colleagues and junior CID colleagues for that matter in low regard. She throws her bouquet, caught by Dorothea, who promptly hands it to DeBryn. It comes to nothing , though, as Sam has to "disappear" for his own safety, lest the bikers ever link him to Tomahawk's death. The letters all cite the same funeral home but with different phone numbers each time, which traces to empty office buildings. When Fred goes back to look for his brother, he's gone, and he's not seen again. Women Are Wiser : Alluded to when Joan insists on driving the car away from the wedding reception on account of the fact that her new husband has been drinking.

With funereal imagery and talk of death, the Endeavour finale presaged tragedy, but then took its leave with merciful care. Its characters were dispatched like a fond parent putting to bed a favourite child.

Rupert McMurdo, who Morse discovers died in a freak train accident, the same day his death notice submitted by the non-existent Mrs. When Dorothea Frazil meets the just retired Bright at Joan and Jim's wedding she greets him as "Chief Superintendent" and he replies that he's "just Reginald now". For starters, no one is mad at Morse for abandoning his responsibilities as best man. Joan helps her daughter dress; Sam and Thursday almost smile at each other. They're drug dealers who do not like the fact that Sam Thursday is trying to do some small-time dealing on 'their' patch. There were lots of other hoes and some good bits too — I really liked the return of Lott… Like Like. What the Hell, Hero? Morse is meant to be the best man, but goes off to confront Lott at Blenheim Vale instead. For certainly the ending of Season 9 Episode 3 leaves us not knowing precisely what the reason is for the gunshot. They conclude she had no part in his crimes. Where will all of this leave Morse? But 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? Bright, off to his last meeting, expresses regret at things undone, thinking of Blenheim Vale. Would she not have wanted to go to her cousin's wedding even if her father did not?