This climax raises various possibilities. Morse is then shown sitting on a churchyard bench with a firearm. In their final scene together, Thursday gives Morse a gun, implicitly to protect himself from the bent coppers. Was it the same weapon, or were there two? That question is key to a highly ambiguous ending that seemed designed to drive online speculation. In separate scenes, Thursday was shown taking a gun from a cupboard at home and a drawer in his office. Lewis made devastating use of the brutal lines from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part II, when the newly crowned Henry V dismisses his former mentor Falstaff: “I know thee not, old man.” Those words from Morse to Thursday marked the rupture between them that had been building in these final episodes due to the older copper’s involvement with some corrupt policemen.Īnother theatrical allusion was to Chekhov’s rule that, if the audience is shown a rifle, it must be fired before the curtain. The episode’s title, Exeunt, is the classical end-of-scene direction that means: “They all leave the stage.” While mentions of opera, a Morse passion, have filled Endeavour, the key references at the last were theatrical. “Death has come with a new terror!” Morse translated for less educated colleagues. Latin phrases appeared on each menacing obituary announcement. But the most significant references were in Latin: a touching double tribute to Dexter, a former classics master, and Morse, who had his own passion for ancient languages. Screenwriter Lewis included lots of neat quotations from the franchise: the young copper singing in a choir matched a scene in the first Inspector Morse, a shot of the officer in a hospital bed shadowed one in the final Morse. So, having explained Morse’s later life as an embittered bachelor, the episode had to settle why he ceased to speak of Thursday. Further tortured by serving as Strange’s best man, in a brilliantly excruciating scene, he had to stand in as groom at a church rehearsal when Strange was late. Several Funerals and a Wedding might have been the subtitle of this script in which Morse had to watch the woman he loved, but sacrificed for work – Thursday’s daughter Joan – marry oafish Oxford copper Jim Strange. A subplot involved death notices in the Oxford Mail, sometimes for people still alive.
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The story – so full of morbid foreshadowing it might have been sponsored by Dignitas – saw Morse and Thursday trade lines about “taking secrets to the grave” and “having a death wish”. Might everything flashback from Thursday’s interment? But that body turned out not to be his, and neither did a second one.
Endeavour’s final episode teased viewers’ fears by starting with a funeral, corpse unspecified.
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