This episode sees looking into the death of a man who appears to have died in a routine accident. There is however something far from routine about it; his death notice had appeared in that morning's Oxford Mail. It soon becomes apparent that he wasn't the first. Morse hasn't given up searching for more bodies in the grounds of a manor house; and some distinctly unpleasant characters are putting pressure on Thursday to end that particular inquiry. Meanwhile DS Strange is preparing to marry Joan Thursday and Thursday's son may be implicated in the death of a biker.
First we had 'Inspector Morse', then came 'Lewis', by the time 'Endeavour' was announced I though ITV was flogging a dead horse with this particular franchise... how wrong I was! It proved to be a really fine series and this episode gave it the send-off it deserves. We are treated a solid single episode story, the wrapping up of the season long plotline and a farewell to the main characters. Tension was high as it was far from clear whether those characters who don't appear in 'Inspector Morse' would get to walk away or come to grief, especially Thursday who put himself in real danger. As always the cast did a really fine job. Overall I thought this was a really fine episode. I imagine this really is it for the world of Morse and colleagues but who knows, perhaps in five or ten years we'll be getting 'Thursday: The Cable Street Years', 'Strange in Kidlington' or 'Young Lewis'!