Endeavour is tasked with protecting prisoner and criminal informant Terry Bakewell whilst he's undergoing treatment in Cowley General Hospital.Endeavour is tasked with protecting prisoner and criminal informant Terry Bakewell whilst he's undergoing treatment in Cowley General Hospital.Endeavour is tasked with protecting prisoner and criminal informant Terry Bakewell whilst he's undergoing treatment in Cowley General Hospital.
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- TriviaDuring his investigations, Morse meets Mrs. Bryce-Morgan, to whose daughter Susan he was once engaged. He gets a glimpse of Susan at the end of the story, although her face is not seen. She is the same character whom Joanna David played (as a middle-aged widow) in "Dead On Time", a famous "Inspector Morse" episode first televised in 1992.
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DC Endeavour Morse: What are they like, the staff on Fosdick?
Lyle Capper: Well, Sister Clodagh's a bit of a tartar. Sister MacMahon, that is. You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of her. Sir Merlyn - a great man. All the doctors quake in their boots when he's on his rounds.
DC Endeavour Morse: What about the rest of them?
Lyle Capper: Well, then, there's Nurse Byron - Flora. She's very nice. Always makes you a cup of tea if you ask. Nurse Mills - Jo-Beth. Well, the place would fall apart without her. She tends to look after the younger nurses. Little Student Nurse Daisy Bennett. She's very keen. But she does tend to get in the most awful scrapes. Course, most of them are potty about Dr Powell. Except for Sister Clodagh, of course. She's married to the job. I think she may have been engaged once, but... I suppose everyone's got their own secret sadness, haven't they?
DC Endeavour Morse: I suppose. What's yours?
Lyle Capper: Flat feet
- Crazy creditsThe red letters in the closing credits spell out HENRY ECKFORD, a Scottish horticulturist who specialized in cultivating sweet peas - the flower that was featured throughout the episode.
- ConnectionsReferences Black Narcissus (1947)
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Main Theme by Barrington Pheloung
We were 30 minutes in before we actually got to a murder mystery. And every episode now it's more and more about the personal lives of the characters than the actual crime.
I'm sure there are some out there who like this shift. I'd be willing to wager there are far more who do not. The most successful crime series of all time, at least in the States, is Law and Order. And guess what. It never deals with the personal lives of its characters.
That's because, compared to the personal lives of the people surrounding a murder, the day to day of the cops is extremely boring.
How can you even think it would be more interesting to dwell on some cop's relationship with his wife than a bloke whose wife was just found strangled to death? Sherlock was OK at first because the character was so bizarre. It worked as long as there was a good mystery thrown in. And then, of course, Benedict Cumberbatch.
But as we've just seen, you take away the mystery, and you take away the reason for there to even be a detective.
The only interesting thing about Morse's character is his ability to detect where others fail. That's fun and interesting.
Watching characters coughing all the time or lying in bed with a stroke is just self indulgent crap. Fodder in the absence of good writing.
I was really excited when Endeavour started. It was my favorite new show. Now, it has strayed so far from what made it good, I can't even bother to watch it.
- polygnotus
- Jan 25, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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