She made her choice and it was by no means the short straw. We’re not to worry about Joan, said the finale. If this were 1987, the year Inspector Morse began, that moment on the VHS tape would be worn juddery through rewind and replay in video players countrywide. One had to exit the stage so the other could enter.Ībout that dream sequence kiss: thank you. There were always two men: Endeavour, and Morse. That was perhaps the significance of the gunshot in the churchyard, the choral requiem, and the two Jags crossing on the bridge. This whole time, we’ve been clocking up the many and frequent portents of Fred’s death, forgetting that this ending was always destined to symbolically kill off somebody else – Endeavour, to leave behind Morse. But did they? The one character we knew had to live past the finale’s credits was, in a cryptic way that befits this playful series, perhaps its sole victim. Bright, DeBryn, Miss Frazil, Jim, Jakes, and the Thursdays were generously waved off into the sunshine in an emotional ending.Īll survived. All survived, and went away with assurances to us about their futures. Its characters were dispatched like a fond parent putting to bed a favourite child. With funereal imagery and talk of death, the Endeavour finale presaged tragedy, but then took its leave with merciful care. Warning: contains spoilers for the Endeavour Series 9 finale ‘Exeunt’.
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