It was an Endeavour day, somehow.
The pilot - an exemplary piece of work - starts out with a bus on the way to Woodstock, and involves a missing girl - Dexter's first novel was 'Last Bus to Woodstock' and another early one, 'Last Seen Wearing' is about a missing schoolgirl. Plus Dexter cameos. The Evans-Allam combo is another unbeatable one, like Jason-Ferris. Or Powell-Loy. Or Lemmon-Matthau. But it's also about an opera singer, one who 'saved my life' - the ending of this from concert stage to police cell and back, is an outstanding piece of montage. Flora Montgomery is the singer. Colm McCarthy directed, Masahiro Hirakubo edited.
It's also a much bigger story than it appears to be - senior level corruption figures right from the off.
In 'Girl', Morse looks after a young mother but annoys new CI Bright. 'Fugue' is about a murderer playing games - ends up high on the roof, after a Safety Last reference. 'Rocket' is the one filmed at and in the Janssen building. Lewis is such a great writer. Early in one episode (film) I'd noticed there were six separate stories going on. And 'Home' is the cracking, gun-filled season finale, old ghosts returning to haunt the Thursdays. It's particularly nicely shot by Peter Robertson.
'Rusticated' = suspended from university. 'Odalisque' = female slave in harem.
Just a six hour stint, then.
Interesting details emerge. Morse's father was a taxi driver, 'until he lost his licence'. His mother was a Quaker, died when he was 12. He grew up in a 'grey' place. He didn't complete University, was engaged to a girl who went back to her first love. Thursday fought in North Africa, then up to Italy, Monte Cassino, speaks Italian and German.
P.S. 5/11/21 Read an interview with Sara Vickers today. She was originally only going to be in two episodes. 'Russell said the first moment Joan opens the door to Endeavour, 'There's something there and I think I'm going to run with the story'. He says he takes a lot from what I do and gets ideas from watching the previous series.'
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