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- Episode aired Jul 7, 2013
- TV-14
- 1h 34m
The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected, but Morse suspects otherwise.
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- TriviaAt one point, Rev. Monkford's housekeeper reports that he was muttering something about "Do not talk at meals. Do not talk traveling." He was, in fact, quoting from a notice issued to the staff at Bletchley Park, stressing the importance of avoiding unguarded talk: "Do not talk at meals, Do not talk in the transport. Do not talk traveling. Do not talk in your billet. Be careful even in your hut. Do not talk by your own fireside." This was an allusion to the fact that he worked as a cryptographer (presumably at Bletchley) during the Second World War.
- GoofsWhen Morse asks Dr Prentice about digoxin and digitalis, Dr Prentice replies, "They don't call it deadly nightshade for nothing." This is wrong: the deadly nightshade (belladonna) plant produces atropine, not digitalis which is derived from the foxglove.
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DC Endeavour Morse: Strange, there's a blackboard there. Could you...?
[Strange gets the board]
DC Endeavour Morse: Each element is assigned a symbol: Typically an abbreviation of its name together with a unique one or two-digit atomic number. Can you write these down as I call then off?
[Strange cleans the board and writes the elements on the board as Morse calls them out]
DC Endeavour Morse: So, 74 gives us Tungsten. 17, Chlorine. 18, Argon. 19, Potassium. The elements spell out a name.
Chief Superintendent Bright: [looking at the first letters of the elements] T.C.A.P Tucap?
DC Endeavour Morse: No, not quite, sir, but you're on the right lines.
[Morse walks over to the blackboard and Strange gives him the chalk]
DC Endeavour Morse: Um, the chemical symbol for Tungsten isn't Tu as you might expect. It's W from the German Wolframite. And Potassium isn't P as you might expect but K after the Latin Kalium. Taken together they're Tungsten...
[close-ups of these four elements and their chemical symbols in the Periodic Table are seen as Morse writes the chemical symbol W]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...Chorine...
[Morse writes the chemical symbol CL on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...Argon...
[Morse writes the chemical symbol AR on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: ...and Potassium.
[Morse writes the chemical symbol K on the blackboard]
DC Endeavour Morse: W-C-L-A-R-K. Wallace Clark.
[flashbacks of Wallace Clark committing the murders are seen with close-ups of the Periodic Table]
Chief Superintendent Bright: [almost speechless] Good grief.
DI Fred Thursday: Derek's father.
Chief Superintendent Bright: But there's nothing to say he even knew the vicar.
DC Endeavour Morse: Ivy Clark, sir. Wallace's wife is buried in the churchyard.
[Ivy's Clark's tombstone is seen]
DC Endeavour Morse: The next plot but one to Lady Daphne Sloan. Reverend Monkford performed the service.
PC Jim Strange: [laughs] Bloody hell, matey. That's...
DI Fred Thursday: [stunned and impressed] Elementary.
- ConnectionsReferences Gideon C.I.D. (1964)
Loved the original Morse and Kavanagh, but the writing for Endeavour just seems too random and contrived. I didn't expect a midsummer level of writing, but these stories are just way too far fetched. Literally anyone could have 'done it' in the end, including the milk man.
I'm giving this one more try, but so far, the show has been an insult to the intelligence.
A reference to the periodic table? Really???
Who writes this crap?
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- Aug 17, 2022
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