Take detectives with their logic and rationality and add some British accent to them. What you get is not only an attractive bunch of detectives that you will blindly trust but also the show, Endeavour. The show was released as a prequel to another detective drama series called Inspector Morse.
The show premiered its first season on January 2nd, 2012, and very recently ended its ninth season on March 12th, 2023. The show, Endeavour is a British period detective drama that revolves around a young rookie detective constable, Endeavour Morse, and his detective career.
The show is set in the 1960s-1970s time period when Endeavour Morse left Oxford University without even receiving the degree he had worked so hard for. He later joined the Royal Corps of Signals, where he worked as a clerk, after which he joined the police force. Over the seasons of the show, we see Morse go from a young, clueless detective to an experienced sergeant.
The show stars Shaun Evans as the main lead named Endeavour Morse as the young detective and later sergeant. Roger Allam stars as Fred Thursday, the detective Inspector along with Anton Lesser as Reginal Bright, a member of the police force. British actor Sean Rigby plays the role of a detective sergeant, Jim Strange, in the show. Over its nine seasons, the show has found for itself a long list of talented actors in its cast. The show is available on Prime Videos for streaming purposes.
Endeavor Season 7 Ending Explained
Season 7 of the show began in the year 1969 with Morse leaving Venice and a newly dead body being discovered. Morse finds himself back at Oxford for the investigation, where idea and ego clashes take place between Morse and Fred. The police assume that Molly Andrews, the dead body, was probably killed by her lover, but Morse is unconvinced.
The season also explored the tensions between the Asian communities and the right-extremist political groups. There was also stress between Morse and his old friend Ludo’s wife, Violetta, who also happens to be his previous lover. Fred Thursday struggled quite a lot with Molly’s death and found himself walking the same path where she was murdered.
The entire season was so full of tension right from its start that it managed to keep the audience at the edge of their seats at all times. The season not only saw relationship drama between Morse and his lover, Violetta, Morse, and Fred but also between Morse and Ludo. Clearly, the year was no good for Endeavor. The makers added spice to the show with political issues as well.
Finding Molly’s killer with all of this going on must have been taxing. The last episode of the show witnessed another death, that of one Bridget Mulcahy, who also happened to be an acquaintance of Molly’s lover, Carl Sturgis. The latter is immediately taken into custody, but it is very soon revealed that Carl was not the killer after all.
Some More Murders In Town
The episode also has a series of accidental deaths taking place, with people dropping dead like nothing. Morse becomes involved in those murders letting go of Molly’s case for a while. Two students from the Lady Matilda College of Oxford turn up dead as a part of the same accidental murders. Morse believes that these deaths are not accidental at all and relates them to Molly’s murder which angers Thursday quite a lot.
Morse is convinced that somebody has been buying insurance under people’s names and then killed them ‘accidentally’ to claim the money from the insurance. While Morse was figuring all of this out, he was also busy having an affair with his lover, Violetta, the Italian woman he left behind when he left Venice and also Ludo’s wife.
Ludo eventually finds out about his wife’s extra-marital affair, but not much happens, maybe because it was still only the late 1960s. Violetta cuts off ties with Morse and stays with her husband instead.
Jim Strange, the detective who was helping Morse with the case of the accidental deaths, receives an anonymous tip, and he decides to look into it. Jim finds himself in a house where one of the accidental deaths had occurred. He also finds Carl Sturgis in the house with Jim’s sister, Jenny covered in bruises and what appear to be bite marks.
Jim tries to save his sister, but somewhere along the way, Carl and Jim get into a fight, and carl ends up stabbing him. Morse comes right in time to save them, and in one of the ending scenes, we see him being taken to the hospital. There is good reason to believe that Jim will survive the knife attack considering his older version stars in the original version of the show called Inspector Morse.
And The Culprit Is?..
Fred Thursday was right after all when he said that Carl is the towpaths killer. Victims of his serial killings include Molly, Tony, and Bridget. We also find that he is not just a normal serial killer but that he is also cannibalistic by nature. He is also the brother of Jenny Tate, a waitress that can apparently foresee future events.
The brother and sister duo had somehow managed to escape a house fire as kids and had since then separated, not knowing each other’s whereabouts. Not much was revealed about Carl Sturgis’ childhood apart from his sibling.
Aside from our serial killer, the episode also revealed a copycat murderer who used the same methods as Carl, the serial killer, to kill his victim. The man who tried to choke the life out of a Lady Matilda college student and who, in the process, was chased down to the main street, where he ended up getting hit by a car, was a pathetic copycat killer.
The experienced senior, Carl Sturgis, was using a completely different whistle sound from the one that the copycat killer used for his victim. It took Endeavor some time to figure this out.
To make it clear, this season had a total of three killers. First was the obvious one, Carl Sturgis. Second was the cannot-even-find-a-unique-way-to-kill-people killer, the copycat guy, and there was a third guy who was going around causing those freak accidents that Morse initially thought to be murder for the insurance money.
Ludo, the guy we pitied for having a cheating wife, and a traitorous friend, turns out to be an even bigger evil guy. He was, in the end, the devil’s incarnation and the planner behind the insurance scams. What is normal when one gets insurance is that if you die, your family gets that money, not some random evil duo.
In this case, Violetta and Ludo were the mysterious buyers who ended up with all the insurance money once it was claimed after the death of their targets. Smart Endeavour Morse managed to catch up to all of this in a short amount of time and also managed to land himself in Venice, where the crime-loving couple was.
A Sad Goodbye
The season brought us a full circle, as this was where the season had initially started. Endeavour follows Ludo and Violetta, and a big showdown occurs between Violetta’s ex-lover and current husband. Another thing we remained unaware of was that Fred Thursday, the nosy smug guy, had followed More all the way to Venice. Nobody cares about actually booking plane tickets at all.
Fred shot at Ludo, and that one clean shot killed him without much fuss. Another shot was fired by Ludo just before he passed, this time for Morse but Violetta, that betraying woman’s love for Morse, caught fire, and she threw himself on Morse, getting shot instead. Morse holds her close, and after she has said everything she could think of, including a little “I love you,” she dies in her lover’s arms.
We agree on this unanimously that Fred saved Morse, but the two were not the best of buddies since the start of this season. After what happened in Venice with Violetta, Morse needed to blame somebody, and he went for the thing closest to him at the time, Fred. The two fought really badly, and once again, Morse threatened to transfer to a different police department, except this time, he did.
We skip to Christmas, where Fred finds a letter in his letter box for his daughter, Joan. It was from Morse; it had proof that Ludo was the real culprit no matter what Fred wanted to believe, along with a letter for Joan, telling her that everything that went done between him and her father was all Morse’s fault and that her father was not the bad guy.
The show wrapped up pretty well, tying up all the loose threads neatly, but it still left some questions lingering in our minds. Questions that the makers would answer in the next season.
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