I can't think of any other writer who has single-handedly authored all 36 episodes (films) in a series before, and so successfully and consistently. In the last ever instalment, he deals with the Thursday problem without - and despite the funereal symbols throughout - killing him or any of the family.
Strange: "Well brush my teeth and call me pearly!"
Max: "We all end up six down, two across."
The death of academics is a suitably Dexterish note to end up with, the perpetrator recognisably a figure from right now.
Joan / Morse "You've never called me by my name" is a beautiful scene.
I'm not sure we quite got to the bottom of the Blenheim Vale mystery though, did we? Well - enough. The massive twist over the missing boy is a brilliant bit of plotting, which Morse keeps to himself. Who'd have thought the Hell's Angels would have been so useful?
Shaun: “Kate is a magnificent director. We have worked with Kate three times now and that’s no accident. She is so in tune with the actors in terms of their emotional stories. And that’s all you want. Someone who is going to listen and bring something to the table and do great work. We had talked for a long time about who we were going to get to direct the last episode and Kate was always who I wanted. Because she’s just so good and is definitely part of the Endeavour family.” Courtesy Ian Wylie.
('Blenheim Vale', by the way, is Langlebury House in King's Langley, Hertfordshire.)
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