Spring 1972 brings with it a new start for Morse, having taken time out to deal with the drink. His return to CID coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated orchestra and when a second tragedy hits, they uncover a web of secrets at the company's core.
The year 1971 has barely just begun and CID is still reeling from the events of the past year. Any hope of remaining on light duties has vanished and the team find themselves right back in the thick of it. The team looks set to face the greatest challenges of their careers as they each take on dramatic personal events as well as suspected IRA retaliations, cabbie assaults, and the most peculiar of crimes involving a college don. But, as Endeavour shows signs of struggle with his inner demons, the team wonders if he has gone beyond the point of no return.
This compelling prequel series to Britain's long-running "Inspector Morse" program stars Shaun Evans as the young Endeavour Morse. Set in the mid-'60s, the series finds Detective Constable Morse assigned to Oxford shortly after leaving the university before completing his studies. Morse may be a neophyte officer, but his considerable powers of deduction are already much in evidence... as is his interest in Jaguar cars.
It's 1969, and things have taken a darker turn for the old Cowley team. With Endeavour (Shaun Evans), Thursday (Roger Allam), and the gang now scattered across Oxfordshire, it takes a series of brutal crimes - including the death of a young schoolgirl, a fatal act of sabotage, a deadly campaign of gossip and rumor in a picturesque village and a murder at the Bodleian Library - to reunite them.
Organized crime is growing in Oxford, and Endeavour's new position means he's in charge of both investigations and training a new recruit. Will his faculties as an investigator be challenged by this dual role, and are the mob capable of fully taking over the city?
Following the dramatic finale of Season 3, Oxford's finest are picking up the pieces of their personal and professional lives. DC Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) awaits the result of his Sergeant's Exam, while DI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) and his wife Win struggle to cope with their children flying the nest; Sam gone to the Army and the traumatized Joan, gone off to who knows where? But there are even greater challenges still to face.
Shaun Evans and Roger Allam return as DC Endeavour Morse and DI Fred Thursday in a quartet of new MASTPERIECE murder mysteries, each unique and breathtaking in their complexity. Last seen languishing in a prison cell and framed for a crime he didn't commit, Endeavour is compelled to return to duty when a young woman's baffling murder requires his singularly cerebral mind to solve.
Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) returns to duty at Oxford City Police with four new murder mysteries set amidst the turning tides of 1960s Britain.
Rejoice, Inspector Morse fans - he's back. Well, in a way. Debuting on DVD with the pilot episode and four from the first season proper, Endeavour is a good idea that's very entertainingly executed: a prequel to the popular Morse series, with Shaun Evans in the younger version of the role inhabited for so long by the late John Thaw. Faithful followers will get a kick out of watching Evans unveil the character's still-nascent quirks and habits.
