- We were meant to be doing the series last year and then it got sort of postponed, and then it got canceled until this year.
- And where was the bomb?
- [Roger] What I like about it is the world Russell has created.
- Football's hardly my area of expertise, sir.
- Do we know how long he's been here?
- [Roger] And the characters, the group of regulars.
- Are you all right?
- I think that's wonderful.
It's brilliant.
And I've loved playing Fred Thursday.
As soon as I read the first script, I knew who he was.
He'd be of my father's and my uncle's generation.
- Here's your part.
- [Roger] The generation that fought in the second World War and of their kind of class, as well.
As it goes on, it just always depends on the particular stories and scenes that you're doing for each film and how that develops.
And inevitably, there's always gonna be tensions between Endeavour and Thursday, and then things get made up.
You know, there's a pulling apart and a coming back together again.
- What happened to you this morning?
- I think Thursday is very concerned about Endeavour.
I think Endeavour's life is falling apart somewhat.
He's drinking far too much.
Joan is back.
She's a social worker.
- Joan Thursday, welfare officer.
- So that is a sort of crisis that is sort of settled.
Sam is away and serving in Northern Ireland.
That becomes a cause for tension between Win and Fred.
Being with Shaun everyone, you know, you form a kind of group, and you develop a kind of ease of working together.
- I was always the last to be chosen.
The one neither side wanted in the team.
- I chose you.
- [Roger] That's the greatest pleasure about it.
