Series 2 ended in an Oxford gunfight between corrupt local business and police grandees including ACC Clive Deare, and DI Reg Thursday, resulting in Deare and DI Thursday being shot, and Morse being arrested for Murder. It all revolved around ages old wide spread child abuse, at a local children's home entitled Blenheim Vale, business, council and police corruption.
Series 3 starts with Morse having been released from prison, feeling incredibly sorry for himself and living as a reclusive hermit, in a shack on land owned by well heeled relatives of a friend Anthony Donn, though quite how he came to be there is left untold.
The land in the surrounding area, and many of the people who own it, are old friends of Morse, who know him as Pagan Morse from his university days. They are all of wealthy and privileged stock, living dissolute existences, of drink, drugs, gambling, fast cars, each desperately chasing after the next adrenalin fix.
Series 3 starts with Morse having been released from prison, feeling incredibly sorry for himself and living as a reclusive hermit, in a shack on land owned by well heeled relatives of a friend Anthony Donn, though quite how he came to be there is left untold.
The land in the surrounding area, and many of the people who own it, are old friends of Morse, who know him as Pagan Morse from his university days. They are all of wealthy and privileged stock, living dissolute existences, of drink, drugs, gambling, fast cars, each desperately chasing after the next adrenalin fix.