Where We Left Everyone at the End of 'Endeavour' Season 5

Before Endeavour returns for Season 6, here's a rundown of where our characters currently stand.

Last season was a banner year for Endeavour, the surprisingly successful prequel to the hit1980s ITV Inspector Morse series. The series chose to expand the format from the now-typical four-episode series up to six installments, having reached the 30th anniversary of the show's original 1987-1988 debut. This also served the story at hand as well. Having initially begun the story of young Morse (Shaun Evans) in 1964-65, the series had reached the critical year of 1969, which saw an entire reshuffling of the U.K.'s police force with an eye towards modernization when the 99-year charter, first put into effect in 1869, expired.

The changes at work take up most of Morse's time over six cases. Now promoted to Sargent alongside Strange (Sean Rigby), he's also rooming with his coworker in what is not exactly the most comfortable of arrangements. At work, Morse finds himself either being the senior partner to the very green George Fancy (Lewis Peek) or the far more capable PC Shirley Trewlove (Dakota Blue Richards). This is due to Morse's old partner, DCI Thursday (Roger Allam) being pushed up towards desk work, with an eye towards retirement when the reorg comes through, a change Superintendent Bright (Anton Lesser) is trying to manage, and failing.

Throughout six episodes, not only do viewers see Bright push to keep Oxford's police station open, so his team is not folded into the new Thames Valley Constabulary, but everyone gets an eyeful of the potential ugliness of the new coworkers to come. Newcomers DCI Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison) and his partner in not-giving-a-damn-about-crime, DS Patrick Dawson (Thomas Coombes), are loaned out to help with a case, but mostly send up red flags that at Thames Valley, there's a ring of those who are far more interested in lining their own pockets.