Where We Left Off

- Endeavour is in the middle of the countryside, and has been demoted to Sergeant.

When we ended last year, Fancy had been killed.

The guilt and the responsibility for that, I think, weighs heavily on all of the characters, as we start this season.

But, this person, perhaps, couldn't look at himself in the mirror, and wanted to distance himself from the past, and doing that in a physical way as well, I just thought was kind of interesting.

And so, he's happy to wear the sergeant's uniform, and is happy to be in a different place, out on his own.

- This is where you've been keeping yourself, is it?

So, we find Endeavor, this series, living in this, almost, hermit like existence.

Come bearing gifts.

Not only having been split up from the group, but having been demoted.

- [Endeavour] CID closed.

A month after I arrived in Woodstock.

- Budget?

- It was uniform or nothing.

- We find Strange repositioned to Banbury.

Someone who's very much landed on their feet, someone who's climbing the ladder.

- You have Bright, who, being the boss, has to take overall responsibility, take the rap.

And he is demoted, a position under the very person who they had a big, sort of, conflict with.

- Right.

Best stay in the car, Fred, these boys are handy.

- I'm all right.

- I know you are.

I'd just sooner you stayed on the bench for this one.

- Box is now Detective Chief Inspector.

Thursday's been demoted, so this younger, flashier man is now my boss.

Win is very, very distant with him.

You going somewhere?

- I'm out tonight.

- [Allam] His brother Charlie did him out of all his savings.

- Shouldn't be late.

She's sort of lost a little bit of respect I think for him at the moment and she's very angry with him.

The casserole is not in the oven anymore.

I thought you could get yourself something from the chip shop.

He now has to realize what she's been doing for the last 28 years.

Don't wait up.

She's letting him, maybe appreciate her a little bit more, and rather than get weaker by what's happened, she's decided that, "Actually no, I'm gonna do things for me".

- Max feels a sense of injustice that Morse has been demoted to uniform, and he wants to help him.

Well, you do get about.

Thought I hadn't seen ya.

There's a real theme of loss.

Everything feels a bit disjointed with the characters.

They're all in different spaces than they have been.

- [Joan] How're things with you?

- Oh, one day's much the same as the next.

- I think that there's a lot of interesting story beats with Joan and Morse.

I meant you.

- Well it's the same thing, isn't it?

- She goes to, you know, finally draw the line under it, and then sees him and is just feeling pulled apart.

And you know, look at that face.

- It's been five or six years now, so it's nice that the audience can grow with the characters as they change physically.

I mean, even now I look at myself and think, "God, I looked so much younger then, when we first started."

People do change.

(quietly dramatic music)