The return of Ronnie Box, Landesman Construction, and the hushed-up Blenheim Vale abuse scandal though, threaten devastation. How well it will end for Fred and the Thursday family in two episodes’ time remains to be seen. None of which mattered of course, because the meat of ‘Prelude’ was found elsewhere. Whether it was the killer’s unconvincing wig that signalled her as suspicious from the off, or the unconvincing idea that anybody would rather commit murder than simply get a new job or break a friendship, the resolution felt rather arbitrary. Now, he faces being the best man at a ceremony where he may once have hoped to be the groom.Ĭoming in second was revealed as the – somewhat unsatisfactory – motive for the episode’s main murder: an orchestra leader poisoned by the best friend who’d lived in her shadow since they were teenagers. Our detective had spent the last series so lost in booze that he’d failed to detect Joan’s emerging romance with Jim Strange. He’s back at Castle Gate after taking the cure – sober, dapper and in control… until his offer to escort Miss Thursday to the next wedding in her diary meets the news that Joan’s next wedding will be her own. It’s May 1972, six months after Morse finally accepted that he needed to seek help with his drink problem. Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour Series 9 Episode 1 ‘Prelude’.
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