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Endeavour Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Muse
Sun, Jun 24, 201889 mins
Ex-boxer Joey Sikes is killed on the night of a failed theft of a Faberge egg from the Oxford college where it is to be auctioned. Next day lecturer Robin Grey is also murdered and the link is prostitute 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 and Morse discovers that Lake and Grey belonged to an elite club, involved in a scam regarding the egg. In establishing whether the murders were linked to the club or the egg Morse, now a detective sergeant, must cope with a lazy new constable and the reappearance of Joan Thursday.
Episode 2
Cartouche
Sun, Jul 1, 201889 mins
Ex-policeman and museum attendant Ronald Beavis is murdered after watching a re-run of 'The Pharaoh's Curse' at the Roxy cinema. Of its staff only organist Leslie Garnier can recall him, having a secret conversation. Morse takes Carol, daughter of Fred Thursday's flash brother Charlie, to a glossy remake of the film, witnessing museum curator, Egyptian Dr Shoutry, protest that it cheapens his culture and carries a curse. Shortly afterwards Leslie is poisoned and the film's star, Emil Valdemar, given a sinister token, stolen from the museum. Morse believes Valdemar to have been the intended victim and rushes to save him in a cinema now in flames to prevent its sale. At the same time racist attacks on properties owned by a local racketeer would appear to have links with the Roxy and its employees.
Episode 3
Passenger
Sun, Jul 8, 201888 mins
Whilst Thursday investigates a lorry hi-jack and the death of its driver, Morse tries to solve the disappearance of married shop worker, Frances Porter, discovering that she had just met with her lover, Don Mercer. After her body is found at a disused railway halt, there is a suggestion that her murder could be linked to an earlier, unsolved crime executed in the same way. When Frances's co-worker Anoushka is killed, their employer, Marty Bedlo, comes under suspicion, though Morse believes the killer may be somebody closer to home.
Episode 4
Colours
Sun, Jul 15, 201889 mins
After a fashion shoot at an army base where Thursday's son Sam is stationed model Jean Ward is murdered, clutching a cap badge, apparently belonging to Private Oswald, who, as a black man, was Jean's type, according to her estranged stepmother, Lady Bayswater, a former Nazi sympathizer. Jean had flirted with Oswald and Sam and was once engaged to visiting military historian Rex Laidlaw. Believing Oswald was framed Morse does some private sleuthing and gets attacked by Colonel McDuff, a former war hero, now an unpredictable drunk. Following a second murder Morse suspects that one of the officers had a link to Jean's past but discovers that 'the army looks after its own' before cracking the case.
Episode 5
Quartet
Sun, Jul 22, 201889 mins
Karl Fucher is shot dead during a televised games tournament and Max believes he is an East and not West German. Special Branch relieve the local police, removing the body, before two mysterious men approach Morse and point him towards perfumier Sebastian Fenix, who employed the dead man as a translator. Despite warnings Morse investigates alone, discovering a safe spy house in Oxford and a link between Fenix and the sale of secrets to the Russians, also involving a respected academic. Thursday meanwhile deals with a turf war and a domestic abuse case which ties in with Morse's sleuthing.
Episode 6
Icarus
Sun, Jul 29, 201889 mins
After learning that the police station is to close Morse goes undercover as a teacher at Coldwater school, with WPC Trewlove posing as his wife after the disappearance of schoolmaster John Ivory. He is intrigued to find gangster Eddie Nero's son is one of the pupils before discovering the body of Rowntree, a boy who was expelled for hitting Ivory. Ivory was not popular with other staff members but the matron tells Morse that he was very protective of Stanlow, a pupil bullied as a weakling. In fact Stanlow proves to be the key to solving the case. Meanwhile Thursday's retirement plans are dashed thanks to his reckless brother and there is further cause for grief at the station.
