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Endevour "Pylon" series 6 episode 1 (spoilers)
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Adam H. Kerman
Jun 17, 2019, 2:56:47 AM6/17/19
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These were broadcast on ITV in February and March. It's 1969. Morse is
sporting a mustache.
The murder squad has been split up. Bright is now making embarassing
public service film announcements as head of Traffic, demoted Thursday is
now reporting to a detective Box with no homicide experience but beileves his
job is to roust "that kind" from the community to make it safe. Strange
is making his way up through the police bureaucracy. Morse is a patrol
officer in an isolated station in a rural area.
Morse being Morse has no trouble stumbling over a corpse whilst out on
patrol when he happens to find a horse that had been reported missing.
It's at the base of a pylon for a high tension line, in the middle of a
flattened circle of high grasses.
Morse thinks it could be related to the case of a missing girl from
several years earlier, but Thursday believes otherwise, given a lack of
similarity especially since no corpse was found back then. He tells
Morse that this case will be solved with old-fashioned pounding the
pavement without hidden motive only Morse can uncover.
Thursday is still miserable, unable to close the chapter on the murder
of George Fancy, the dangerously stupid rookie detective last season. I
have no recollection whatsoever of the events that led to his murder or
how Thursday failed to bring in his man, getting demoted in the process.
Making Thursday even more miserable is that a homeless teenage boy,
addicted to heroin, is being fitted up as the prime suspect in the
disappearance of a little girl, whose body Morse stumbled over. Turns
out Thursday had investigated the murder of his mother by his father, a
traveling salesman. Thursday feels especially guilty 'cuz the man
professed his innocence at the gallows. Thursday had looked the other
way as his D.S. had produced planted evidence.
In the only moment of amusement, a supervising social worker,
supervising Joan (Thusrday's daughter), makes a huge to-do that the
junkie boy was interviewed by police without social workers, given that
he's an orphan. After his mother's murder by his father, he was raised
by an aunt and uncle but no one bothers to learn what's happened to
them, if they're even alive. The supervising social worker is most
amusing putting her foot down with Box, who also insults Joan but shuts
the fuck up when Thursday tells him who she is.
While on patrol, Morse takes a report of stolen Victorian snuff boxes
from the home of a teacher who has a somewhat odd teenage "daughter" who
saw a boy at the window.
This aspect of the story is mostly dropped.
In the only art clue of the night, Morse sees that the antique collector
has small art objects on his mantle, one of which is a Dega recreation
(as Morse tells us later).
Another girl goes missing at a local fete. Someone saw a man in a Panama
hat take her. They cordon off local roads and discover the antique
collector. He's taken into custody but not held.
The junkie boy had escaped from hospital and his inattentive police
custody by leaping out a window. He's way too far to have taken the
second girl. He's found later, dead, having died of drugs laced with
quinine, which is poisonous. No one bothers to search for the drug
dealer since that was, you know, homicide.
Really, the social workers did fuck all. No one bothered to find the
aunt and uncle. The social workers never spoke to him nor did they do
anything to offer treatment, to the extent that junkies could get
treated in 1969.
Morse finally takes Thursday's words to heart about solving the death of
the first little girl. She loved horses. (I thought she had something to
do with the escape of the real-life horse, but that was a distraction so
her body could be found.) She checked out books about horses from the
mobile library. Morse learned where the library truck had been parked,
then crossed fields in a shortcut she might have taken, and found
library books and part of a plate from a car. She crossed the road at a
blind curve and had been struck. The woman, a new driver, brought the
child back to the farm to have her husband look at her, but they both
watched her expire. If she'd driven her to a doctor (no one said if
there was a hospital anywhere nearby), perhaps something could have been
done. In Morse's conjecture, the woman was inattentive whilst fiddling
with the radio dial as she lost the broadcast signal. Morse is an
absolutely genius, you know. Both the woman and her husband are taken
into police custody. The corpse was left near the pylon because they
thought electrical workers would find it. When they didn't, they
released the horse near the body.
Thursday was right.
Strange, Morse, and Thursday search the antique collector's office at
the school at which he taught, and find slides of "art photography" with
girls in lingerie posed on Victorian furniture. It's not pornographic
but supposedly Victorian-era erotica. The collector claims there's a
market.
They find an antique snuff box filled with opium but do nothing about
it because Box claims they can't prove it's his. Huh? It's in his
office. He can make that affirmative argument in court.
Morse plows through the photographs and realizes that the Victorian
images are modern, not Victorian, just staged, 'cuz he sees the Dega
which is a decade or so post-Victorian. Good thing the collector was so
specific about "Victorian" else Morse couldn't have impeached him.
Also, the subject is the "daughter". Morse realizes that it's the
missing girl from several years ago and that the collector/teacher/
photographer kidnapped the new one as the old one had aged out. Both
missing girls get reunited with their parents. He'd been keeping the
older one on laudinum, hence her odd behavior, and the younger one was
found posed remaining in one position, anaesthetized. He probably would
have given the older one an overdose and murdered her.
In his spare time, Morse ALSO finds the actual blunt instrument from the
case that Thursday felt so guilty about from years earlier! It proves
they got the right man, but Thursday (still wanting further punishment
for George) wants to confess and turn in the real evidence. Morse
prevents this and puts it back at the end.
At one point in the episode is a closeup of a poster announcing the
retirement of C. Dexter. The author died two years ago and won't be
making any more cameo appearances.
At another point, Morse and Joan have a bit of a fight with incredibly
unwitty dialogue, crappy scene.
At the very end, Strange pushes the Big Red Reset button, gets Morse
assigned to Box (so he can work with Thursday), although he leaves
Bright in traffic.
The murders are less over-the-top than usual. I'd have left Morse on
patrol for a while for a change, but can't have that.
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c
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These were broadcast on ITV in February and March. It's 1969. Morse is
sporting a mustache.
The murder squad has been split up. Bright is now making embarassing
public service film announcements as head of Traffic, demoted Thursday is
now reporting to a detective Box with no homicide experience but beileves his
job is to roust "that kind" from the community to make it safe. Strange
is making his way up through the police bureaucracy. Morse is a patrol
officer in an isolated station in a rural area.
Morse being Morse has no trouble stumbling over a corpse whilst out on
patrol when he happens to find a horse that had been reported missing.
It's at the base of a pylon for a high tension line, in the middle of a
flattened circle of high grasses.
Morse thinks it could be related to the case of a missing girl from
several years earlier, but Thursday believes otherwise, given a lack of
similarity especially since no corpse was found back then. He tells
Morse that this case will be solved with old-fashioned pounding the
pavement without hidden motive only Morse can uncover.
Thursday is still miserable, unable to close the chapter on the murder
of George Fancy, the dangerously stupid rookie detective last season. I
have no recollection whatsoever of the events that led to his murder or
how Thursday failed to bring in his man, getting demoted in the process.
Making Thursday even more miserable is that a homeless teenage boy,
addicted to heroin, is being fitted up as the prime suspect in the
disappearance of a little girl, whose body Morse stumbled over. Turns
out Thursday had investigated the murder of his mother by his father, a
traveling salesman. Thursday feels especially guilty 'cuz the man
professed his innocence at the gallows. Thursday had looked the other
way as his D.S. had produced planted evidence.
In the only moment of amusement, a supervising social worker,
supervising Joan (Thusrday's daughter), makes a huge to-do that the
junkie boy was interviewed by police without social workers, given that
he's an orphan. After his mother's murder by his father, he was raised
by an aunt and uncle but no one bothers to learn what's happened to
them, if they're even alive. The supervising social worker is most
amusing putting her foot down with Box, who also insults Joan but shuts
the fuck up when Thursday tells him who she is.
While on patrol, Morse takes a report of stolen Victorian snuff boxes
from the home of a teacher who has a somewhat odd teenage "daughter" who
saw a boy at the window.
This aspect of the story is mostly dropped.
In the only art clue of the night, Morse sees that the antique collector
has small art objects on his mantle, one of which is a Dega recreation
(as Morse tells us later).
Another girl goes missing at a local fete. Someone saw a man in a Panama
hat take her. They cordon off local roads and discover the antique
collector. He's taken into custody but not held.
The junkie boy had escaped from hospital and his inattentive police
custody by leaping out a window. He's way too far to have taken the
second girl. He's found later, dead, having died of drugs laced with
quinine, which is poisonous. No one bothers to search for the drug
dealer since that was, you know, homicide.
Really, the social workers did fuck all. No one bothered to find the
aunt and uncle. The social workers never spoke to him nor did they do
anything to offer treatment, to the extent that junkies could get
treated in 1969.
Morse finally takes Thursday's words to heart about solving the death of
the first little girl. She loved horses. (I thought she had something to
do with the escape of the real-life horse, but that was a distraction so
her body could be found.) She checked out books about horses from the
mobile library. Morse learned where the library truck had been parked,
then crossed fields in a shortcut she might have taken, and found
library books and part of a plate from a car. She crossed the road at a
blind curve and had been struck. The woman, a new driver, brought the
child back to the farm to have her husband look at her, but they both
watched her expire. If she'd driven her to a doctor (no one said if
there was a hospital anywhere nearby), perhaps something could have been
done. In Morse's conjecture, the woman was inattentive whilst fiddling
with the radio dial as she lost the broadcast signal. Morse is an
absolutely genius, you know. Both the woman and her husband are taken
into police custody. The corpse was left near the pylon because they
thought electrical workers would find it. When they didn't, they
released the horse near the body.
Thursday was right.
Strange, Morse, and Thursday search the antique collector's office at
the school at which he taught, and find slides of "art photography" with
girls in lingerie posed on Victorian furniture. It's not pornographic
but supposedly Victorian-era erotica. The collector claims there's a
market.
They find an antique snuff box filled with opium but do nothing about
it because Box claims they can't prove it's his. Huh? It's in his
office. He can make that affirmative argument in court.
Morse plows through the photographs and realizes that the Victorian
images are modern, not Victorian, just staged, 'cuz he sees the Dega
which is a decade or so post-Victorian. Good thing the collector was so
specific about "Victorian" else Morse couldn't have impeached him.
Also, the subject is the "daughter". Morse realizes that it's the
missing girl from several years ago and that the collector/teacher/
photographer kidnapped the new one as the old one had aged out. Both
missing girls get reunited with their parents. He'd been keeping the
older one on laudinum, hence her odd behavior, and the younger one was
found posed remaining in one position, anaesthetized. He probably would
have given the older one an overdose and murdered her.
In his spare time, Morse ALSO finds the actual blunt instrument from the
case that Thursday felt so guilty about from years earlier! It proves
they got the right man, but Thursday (still wanting further punishment
for George) wants to confess and turn in the real evidence. Morse
prevents this and puts it back at the end.
At one point in the episode is a closeup of a poster announcing the
retirement of C. Dexter. The author died two years ago and won't be
making any more cameo appearances.
At another point, Morse and Joan have a bit of a fight with incredibly
unwitty dialogue, crappy scene.
At the very end, Strange pushes the Big Red Reset button, gets Morse
assigned to Box (so he can work with Thursday), although he leaves
Bright in traffic.
The murders are less over-the-top than usual. I'd have left Morse on
patrol for a while for a change, but can't have that.
Ed Stasiak
Jun 17, 2019, 9:19:59 AM6/17/19
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> Adam H. Kerman
cop from the organized crime division in S05 who is rude to everybody and
got Detective Constable Fancy involved with his investigation of the Jamaican
mob, which ultimately lead to his death when they shot up Eddie Nero’s joint.
>
> demoted Thursday is now reporting to a detective Box with no homicide
> experience but beileves his job is to roust "that kind" from the community
> to make it safe.
For those who might have forgotten, Detective Inspector Box is the asshole
> demoted Thursday is now reporting to a detective Box with no homicide
> experience but beileves his job is to roust "that kind" from the community
> to make it safe.
cop from the organized crime division in S05 who is rude to everybody and
got Detective Constable Fancy involved with his investigation of the Jamaican
mob, which ultimately lead to his death when they shot up Eddie Nero’s joint.
suzeeq
Jun 17, 2019, 11:44:45 AM6/17/19
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Adam H. Kerman
Jun 17, 2019, 12:28:01 PM6/17/19
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suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>On 6/16/2019 11:56 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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>>These were broadcast on ITV in February and March. It's 1969. Morse is
>>sporting a mustache. . . .
>On 6/16/2019 11:56 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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>>These were broadcast on ITV in February and March. It's 1969. Morse is
>It's two years later isn't it? So Morse has been on patrol for a while.
a lousy job of reminding the viewer what year it is, but there was a
closeup of the date on a report Morse was typing up.
I'm going to guess that these episodes are set 50 years in the past
versus the year of initial broadcast, and that's been consistent
throughout. I'm not re-watching to confirm that.
I'll guess that the previous series was 1968. Actually, didn't they
mention the King and Bobby Kennedy assasinations?
anim8rfsk
Jun 17, 2019, 12:50:10 PM6/17/19
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Endeavour season 1 set in 1965
Season 2 set in 1966
Season 3 begins spring 1967
Season 4, summer 1967 and ends Autumn 1967
Season 5 starts April 1968 and goes to November 1968
Season 6 starts in July 1969 so 8 months passed
Season 7 will be set in 1970
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suzeeq
Jun 17, 2019, 12:51:57 PM6/17/19
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months. S5 took place in spring/summer 1968. The 2nd episode of S6 is in
July 1969.
suzeeq
Jun 17, 2019, 12:56:19 PM6/17/19
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the individual episode summaries and they didn't have as much detail.
anim8rfsk
Jun 17, 2019, 2:26:51 PM6/17/19
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suzeeq
Jun 17, 2019, 2:32:15 PM6/17/19
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Thursday's actor because he was on S2ep1 of The Missing) and saw where
they'd neatly laid out the timeline for each season. Thanks.
anim8rfsk
Jun 17, 2019, 2:53:56 PM6/17/19
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Adam H. Kerman
Jun 17, 2019, 2:58:13 PM6/17/19
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the beginning of each episode telling us the damn date.
Ed Stasiak
Jun 17, 2019, 3:28:57 PM6/17/19
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> anim8rfsk
mentioning something of historical importance to clue viewers in on when the
events on the show were happening.
For instance, in the opening of S01E01 (which I just rewatched yesterday) we
hear the BBC announcer mention that the U.S. has dispatched ground troops
to Vietnam. There are also occasional musical clues, with the same episode
having Manfred Mann’s “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” playing in the background of
the sleazy car dealer’s garage.
Of course if one isn’t hip to history, that might not be much help.
>
> The Wiki (who I assume did their homework) says
> Endeavour season 1 set in 1965
> Season 2 set in 1966
> Season 3 begins spring 1967
> Season 4, summer 1967 and ends Autumn 1967
> Season 5 starts April 1968 and goes to November 1968
> Season 6 starts in July 1969 so 8 months passed
> Season 7 will be set in 1970
The earlier season episodes would have a radio broadcast in the background
> The Wiki (who I assume did their homework) says
> Endeavour season 1 set in 1965
> Season 2 set in 1966
> Season 3 begins spring 1967
> Season 4, summer 1967 and ends Autumn 1967
> Season 5 starts April 1968 and goes to November 1968
> Season 6 starts in July 1969 so 8 months passed
> Season 7 will be set in 1970
mentioning something of historical importance to clue viewers in on when the
events on the show were happening.
For instance, in the opening of S01E01 (which I just rewatched yesterday) we
hear the BBC announcer mention that the U.S. has dispatched ground troops
to Vietnam. There are also occasional musical clues, with the same episode
having Manfred Mann’s “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” playing in the background of
the sleazy car dealer’s garage.
Of course if one isn’t hip to history, that might not be much help.
anim8rfsk
Jun 17, 2019, 4:13:08 PM6/17/19
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Adam H. Kerman
Jul 9, 2019, 3:35:36 AM7/9/19
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Shaun Evans in a promotional video for series 6. In real life, he has a
Liverpool accent!
The mustache is explained at 3:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TG2gX_6dU
Liverpool accent!
The mustache is explained at 3:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TG2gX_6dU
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