5/31/2023 0 Comments Fractured space endeavorIn the ‘Exeunt’ pub scene during which Morse confronts Thursday about having killed Tomohawk at the biker bar, Endeavour quotes Shakespeare’s Henry IV, saying “I know thee not, old man.” It’s a line spoken in the play to Falstaff, a role for which Endeavour’s Roger Allam won a prestigious Olivier award during the 2010 season at London’s Globe theatre. The clue’s in the name – Codex was the real-life setter pseudonym of Morse creator and novelist Colin Dexter. That’s surely our man.īack to ‘Exeunt’, Morse finds a partially finished Oxford Mail cryptic crossword on the breakfast table of first victim Dr Bevin and remarks that something important must have dragged the scholar away from a puzzle set by Codex. When Endeavour and Thursday discuss shutting down the case, Morse mentions “a cousin, a young police cadet, Robert, in Newcastle” who is making the arrangements on behalf of the family. Young Andy Lewis had been murdered by DI Lott’s men for investigating the disappearance of his mother Brenda, murdered almost a decade earlier after making unsavoury discoveries about the crimes of Blenheim Vale. Robbie Lewis, DCI McNutt, ‘Codex’ and Falstaff Kevin Whately and John Thaw in Inspector Morse ‘The Remorseful Day’Īs soon as a character from the North-East with the surname Lewis turned up in Endeavour Series 9 episode ‘ Prelude’, fans were alert to a possible link with Inspector Morse’s famous DS Robbie Lewis… and in ‘Exeunt’, that link was confirmed. Before being led to a nearby bench, Fred looked up at the College spires and the shaky camera was a direct visual quotation from the same moment in ‘The Remorseful Day’. That scene was paid homage in ‘Exeunt’ when DCI Fred Thursday suffered a turn and almost collapsed in the very same spot. That requiem provided the soundtrack to one of Inspector Morse’s most famous scenes, as the detective collapsed from a heart attack on the lawn of Lonsdale College, before dying later off-screen in hospital. The detective finds the doctor rehearsing a section from Fauré’s Requiem, the very same piece performed by Morse’s choir in the Endeavour finale. In ‘ The Remorseful Day’ (2000), Morse visits the fictional Lonsdale College (Endeavour’s alma mater) to interview a doctor and former paramour of murder victim Yvonne Harrison. While the choir performance in ‘Exeunt’ echoes the very first Inspector Morseepisode, the music performed references the very last. Lonsdale College, ‘The Remorseful Day’, and Fred’s Turn Endeavour ‘Exeunt’ (L) and Inspector Morse ‘The Remorseful Day’ (R) Speaking to The Times, Lewis said that he wanted to end Endeavour at Blenheim Palace as a special tribute to Morse creator Colin Dexter as that was the last place he and actor-director Shaun Evans had seen Dexter at a Q&A event, before Dexter passed away in 2017. What made that one special? It was written by Endeavour creator Russell Lewis (and script edited by Mammoth Screen’s Damien Timmer), making Blenheim Palace both the start and the end of Lewis’ journey with the character. 1995 episode ‘The Way Through The Woods’ featured the discovery of a body in the palace grounds. That’s also not the first time Blenheim Palace has been used as a location in Inspector Morse. ‘Exeunt’ ends with Morse in black tie performing as part of the Oxford Scholars’ Choral Association dress rehearsal at Blenheim Palace. The very first episode of Inspector Morse ‘The Dead of Jericho’ (1987) featured the detective’s choir rehearsing for, and then performing ‘My Soul There is a Country’ in black tie. ‘The Dead of Jericho’ Choir and Blenheim Palace Endeavour ‘Exeunt’ (L) and Inspector Morse ‘The Dead of Jericho’ (R)
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