![]() ![]() Once invited to Thursday’s home, Morse soon becomes part of the family, bantering with Joan and Sam, Thursday’s grown children, and being mothered by Thursday’s wife, Win.īut, alas, Thursday is one man among many. In this first season, we see him moving from Morse’s boss - who simply wants to help the bright young man succeed - to a caring friend, and eventually to an almost father-figure to the younger man. Thursday elegantly balances the light and dark sides of the job time and again throughout the series, standing up for what’s right… but also displaying a mean right hook. As a detective Morse excels, but as a constable, he’s often found wanting: his brain seems more capable of recognizing cryptic clues than it is at remembering elements of the law.īut this factor of Morse’s personality makes him the perfect foil to Detective Inspector Thursday, a long-in-the-tooth veteran to the force. Season One sees Morse joining the Oxford police force as a Detective Constable. Meet Endeavour Morse: highly-educated and awkwardly charming, Morse has a penchant for Wagnerian operas and crossword puzzles, a hatred of his first name, and a handicapping fear of heights. And any questions you may have as to the character development, life and motivations of the denizens of Thames Valley? Well, we hope we've answered them here. If you haven't been able to stay abreast of the series thus far, never fear - each episode has a neatly encapsulated mystery that is solved by the time the credits role. Whether it's watching the tightly-strung Endeavour Morse trying to navigate Oxford in the sixties or the gruff-but-endearing Fred Thursday trying to understand a world that's moved just beyond his ken or even unraveling the complexities of the new bureacracy that took over the Oxford police last season the show is fascinating and exciting, a real thinking-person's drama. And while we've been super into Unforgotten and Prime Suspect as of late, there's just something about Endeavour that keeps us coming back for more. Here at WGBH Drama Club, we love a good mystery. In The Widow, the detective's wife, Arlette, became the hero.Endeavour Will Take On His Most Baffling Cases In Season Six The author angered many readers when his hero was shot dead less than half way through A Long Silence, the last of eleven books. The Dutch detective who worked in Amsterdam was the basis for a 1970's television series and was killed off by author Nicolas Freeling, a cook married to a Dutch woman. Christie wrote the book, Curtain, during the Second World War because she was afraid that she might die, but her publishers persuaded her to place it in a bank vault. He dies after refusing to take his medicine, thereby concealing the identity of the murderer in his final mystery. The Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie and famous for his "little grey cells". However, Holmes returned in The Adventure of the Empty House, explaining to Dr Watson that he had beaten Moriarty by wrestling him over the edge of the falls. His creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finished off his hero because no one took his other fiction seriously. The deerstalker-wearing detective originally died in a cliff top fight with arch enemy Professor Moriarty. "Had he pursued a healthier lifestyle," it said in a statement, "he could have continued to be the scourge of the criminal element for many years to come."ĭETECTIVE DEPARTURES: THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE The British Diabetic Association last night used it for a new publicity campaign. "With the body count in books and on TV risen to almost 80, Oxford has become the murder capital of the UK, and the time has come to put an end to this."Īs for Morse's death, it is an ill wind. ![]() He has lived with me now for more than a quarter of a century. ![]() "I'm naturally saddened," he said, "to take leave of the melancholy, sensitive, vulnerable, independent, ungracious, mean-pocketed Morse. He is undergoing a trauma that even the king of detective thriller writers cannot solve - contractual difficulties with ITV, which could even keep him out of the final Morse television film, when the new novel is filmed next year.ĭexter, though, was on form and needed little help in addressing his hero's demise. But Lewis, or rather the actor Kevin Whately, was absent. Morse's television persona, John Thaw, was at the novelist's side. At yesterday's press conference in London, Lewis was yet again not there to hear what was being said. But the nurse does not hear him properly.Īrt mirrors life. In the next chapter his condition is "critical but stable" and, shortly after a glass of whisky, he tells the nurse "thank Lewis for me". He contemplates death while being ferried to hospital in the ambulance and wakes to find his long-suffering colleague Lewis by his bed. ![]()
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