Endeavor

After a man falls to his death, the investigation sees Morse back in action. He uncovers some secrets at the university and also outside of the city. He needs to move quickly though as the body count increases and doomsday beckons.

World Cup fever is gripping the country, as Argentina battle it out against England in the quarterfinals. At an Oxford museum, some schoolgirls take a look at the worldly exhibits as a closed-off enclave, a man is attacked and falls to his death.

Bonfire Night is just a round the corner and Vivienne Haldane us discovered choked to death in her home. It is the third strangling in a month,leaving Oxford City Police on edge.

In December of 1966, a boy with a brutal father is reported missing from his home. The body of a journalist is found on a railway line and within days an escaped convict, with only a month of his sentence remaining, is found dead. The two men have connections with Blenheim Vale, a disused correctional facility for boys in Kidlington, soon to be redeveloped as a new police headquarters in a reorganization of the local forces to form the Thames Valley Police. Thursday and Morse's investigation lead to a property developer and corruption in high places including missing police evidence in Morse's last three investigations.