One thing sure to drive an unmovable wedge between Morse and Fred Thursday would be if Morse were to mistreat Joan. He covered for her when she snuck out to a club with DS Jakes, and warned Jakes to treat her well. When she left home, traumatised by the bank raid, and ended up living unhappily with a married man, it was Morse she wordlessly phoned for help.
And when Morse saw the black eye her boyfriend had given her, it was him who could barely contain his rage, and then offered to marry her. Heartbreak is one possibility, grief is another. The terminus Endeavour is heading towards may not be Morse losing Joan to another man, but losing Joan altogether. Her social work role has already led to crossover with police investigations. All prequels head towards a predetermined endpoint, the question is how long they spend getting there.
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Photos Top cast Edit. James Bradshaw Dr. Max DeBryn as Dr. Max DeBryn. Carol Royle Mrs. Bright as Mrs. The first and only person he reveals his name to is Adele Cecil, and even then he does so indirectly, by giving her an anagram to solve. He seems quite distressed when she is able to do so and expects both her and Lewis to laugh at him. Morse's father was, by trade, a taxi driver and Morse likes to explain the origin of his additional private income by saying that he "used to drive the Aga Khan".
When Morse was a child his parents divorced and he stayed with his mother, but had to go to live with his father's new family after her death. He isn't really welcome at Gwen's house even when his father is gravely ill. Similarly, his father seems to have no feelings for him whatsoever, even on his death-bed.
Morse has a half-sister, Joyce , with whom he is on better terms, and they clearly care about each other Home. He is devastated when Joyce's daughter, Marilyn, takes her own life caused by the pills supplied by Desmond Collier Cherubim and Seraphim. Although details of Morse's career are deliberately kept vague, it is hinted that as a schoolboy he won a scholarship to study at Lonsdale College, Oxford.
During his time at Oxford he was apparently talent-spotted and was considered for a job in the intelligence services Quartet. He lost the scholarship as the result of poor academic performance, which in turn resulted from a failed romantic relationship The Last Enemy. Upon leaving the Army, Morse became a policeman, which led him back to Oxford on which was supposed to be a one-case trip and which instead turned into a permanent engagement as he became Fred Thursday's bagman Overture.
He holds the rank of Detective Constable for a number of years, with a number of obstacles stopping him from getting a promotion to Detective Sergeant. He is considering leaving Oxford for London to take a job there that would come with rank when he is finally promoted to Detective Sergeant as he receives the George Medal "for special services in defence of the realm" Harvest.
When the City and the County police merger into Thames Valley is announced, Morse's future in the force becomes as uncertain as everyone else's.
He ends up in Woodstock and with the local CID closing due to budget concerns, he is faced with the choice of either becoming an uniformed policeman again or leaving the force, eventually deciding on the former. He is transferred back thanks to Strange using his masonic connections, although he never learns it was Strange who organized this transfer Pylon. He continues to serve under Ronnie Box, and then after Thursday again when the latter is reinstated to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector.
Eventually Morse himself is promoted first to Detective Inspector and then to Detective Chief Inspector, although the precise timeline of these promotions is not known. In the late , he is considered for a promotion to Detective Superintendent, but is deemed unfit because of his difficult temperament and lack of interest in internal politics The Dead of Jericho. After his death, Morse becomes something of a cautionary tale about not quitting the job when one should What Lies Tangled.
Morse is ostensibly the embodiment of white, male, upper-middle-class Englishness, with a set of prejudices and assumptions to match. He may thus be considered a late example of the gentleman detective, a staple of British detective fiction. Both extremely intelligent and well-educated, Morse should be called a classicist. He is fluent in Latin and very well-read, being capable to quote both a great number of poems and seemingly most of the Bible despite being an atheist from memory.
He enjoys intellectual challenges, such as crosswords and anagrams. Because of his education, he gets easily irritated by spelling errors Rocket and anything he considers to be an incorrect usage of the English language, a subject on which he lectures Lewis on a regular basis The Way Through the Woods.
Morse's greatest passion is art and he enjoys literature mostly poetry , painting, and especially opera. His favourite composer is Wagner, but he also enjoys other classical composers and often listens to opera albums. He seems to have a very personal relationship with the music he loves and explains to Thursday that he thought it to be the one thing worth fighting for. He is deeply distressed when opera is chosen as a key in a series of brutal murders Fugue.
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