Detective Sergeant (DS), (formerly Police Constable and Police Sergeant) Oxford City Police CID, Cowley Police Station. Thames Valley Police CID, Castle Gate Police Station (Series 6–Series 9). Endeavour series nine finale: the heartbreaking ending explained". Hello. 15 March 2023 . Retrieved 25 June 2023. Whilst US viewers still have at least a few months more before they can watch Endeavour season 9, the final season of the Oxford-set show has now started in the UK on ITV1 at 8pm on Sundays. UK-based fans can also stream Endeavour season 9 on ITVX, though unlike Unforgotten season 5 not all episodes are there to watch in one go. Instead, they become available on a weekly basis, increasing the sense of suspense as fans await the highly-anticipated final ever episode. The three-part run started on Sunday, February 26 at 8 pm on ITV1 and is also available on ITVX. It will air later in the year on PBS in the US. Endeavour season 9 plot The opener sees the sleuths looking into a mysterious death at a reception for a prestigious orchestra, while the subsequent demise of a musician in the orchestra complicates matters, and the murder of an old face from Thursday’s past rings alarm bells.

In addition to the face-in-the-mirror scene, Endeavour includes another recognition of Thaw. His daughter, Abigail Thaw, appears as the editor of the Oxford Mail, whom Morse questions. [19] Abigail Thaw, daughter of the original Morse actor John Thaw, played the part of Dorothea Frazil in a scene at the Oxford Mail. At the end of the scene she pauses for a moment, then asks if she has met him before, eventually noting it may have been "in another life". [20] McFarland, Melanie; Lewis, Russell (3 July 2022). " "Endeavour" creator on drying out the "heroic drunk" detective myth and plans for the series' end". Salon. San Francisco. OCLC 43916723. Archived from the original on 4 July 2022.In the final episode, Morse finally sits his sergeant's exam and completes his paper well within the time allowed. An armed robbery takes place at a bank where Joan Thursday works. Morse happens to be in the bank at the time, investigating a killing and payroll robbery. As the robbery goes awry, Joan and Morse are kidnapped by the robbers who realize their identities. Joan sees a more brutal side of her father as he tried to rescue her and Morse from the now ruthless and murdering robbers. Although the robbers are arrested, Joan is emotionally affected by the ordeal. In a coughing fit, Thursday finally coughs up the bullet fragment, which has plagued him. A distraught Joan leaves Oxford despite encouragement from Morse to stay. Realising that Joan has gone, Thursday encounters Morse outside his house and realises that he saw Joan leave. In the closing moments, as Thursday asks Morse where he sees himself in 20 years, Morse looks in the rear view mirror and the face of Thaw is shown in the reflection. At the same time, the original series music begins and plays through the credits. This effect is repeated in the closing scenes of the last episode of series 9.

In the penultimate episode, 'Uniform', Endeavour notices a link between the woman's disappearance and her former employer, which demands his attention. Meanwhile, reports are flooding in of stolen cars and criminal damage caused by a group of undergraduates wreaking havoc. April 1968. Ex-boxer Joey Sikes is killed on the night of a failed theft of the last Fabergé egg from the Oxford college where it is to be auctioned. Next day lecturer Robin Grey is also murdered and the link is sex worker and artists' model Eve Thorne, who was seen with both men. When the egg is stolen, suspicion falls on another of Eve's clients, latest victim Simon Lake. Morse, now a detective sergeant, discovers that Lake and Grey belonged to an elite club and were involved in a scam regarding the egg. In establishing whether the murders were linked to the club or the egg Morse must cope with a lazy new constable and the reappearance of Joan Thursday. As the episode closes, radio news announces the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in the US. [h] Grant, Olly (29 December 2011). "Endeavour: Will the frosty reception for the new Morse thaw?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 31 May 2017. Lloyd, Robert (29 June 2012). "Review: A welcome 'Endeavour' to the Inspector Morse world on PBS". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012 . Retrieved 15 July 2013. Series 3 (2016) [ edit ] Prytaneum Court in London, formerly Southgate Town Hall doubled as Cowley police stationA prequel to the beloved Inspector Morse series, Endeavour first aired on MASTERPIECE on PBS in 2012 as a single film. Since then 32 more films have been broadcast with a further three currently in production, bringing the total to 36. The final episode, with the gang rivalry looming all over town, includes the death of DC George Fancy (who gets hit by bullets that do not match any of those of the crossfire between gangs that occurred where he was found) and the departure of WPC Shirley Trewlove to Scotland Yard, while the rest come to terms with the death and the closure of the Cowley Station. The series concludes with Morse asking Joan Thursday if her offer to go for coffee was still open (after he had said no to having coffee with her earlier in the series). In the last scene, they look at one another before Joan responds. [2] Series 6 (2019) [ edit ] The plot draws heavily on The Lion in Winter and the Plantagenet family, with the firm owned by the Broom family (referring to the origin of the name Plantagenet), headed by the estranged couple Henry (referring to Henry II) and Nora ( Eleanor of Aquitaine) and their sons Richard ( Richard II) and Johnny ( John) after the death of the eldest son Harry ( Henry the Young King). Their home is Chinon Court ( Chinon Castle), whilst Henry's secretary is Alice Vexin ( Alys of France, Countess of Vexin). [3]