'Endeavour' Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: "Confection"

Morse and Thursday team up to solve a poison pen case on Endeavour, but as the investigation of Fancy's murder comes to a head, they find themselves on opposite sides.

Mrs. Neal: She worked in the Jelly Room!

This week's Endeavour opens with an actual bang, first in the small town of Chigton Green, where Mandy-Jane Bell is cut down with a shotgun on her way to work at Creswell Sweets, and then again during a morning of foxhunting at Creswell Hall, when factory owner Greville Creswell turns up having taken a shotgun blast to the skull. (The ugly view of Downton Abbey on full display here.) The latter is found first when his horse returns riderless and is quickly identified as a murder by DeBryn, one blast to the chest to knock him off the horse and second to the face at point-blank range. The former is discovered after the local Constable, Potter (Oliver Farnworth), reports her husband, Rennett, was seen driving fast, shotgun in hand, in the direction of Creswell Manor.

Rennett is found in the bedroom of the house, having committed suicide after killing Creswell. Box and company, naturally, want to call this open-and-shut: Jealous husband murders wife, wife's supposed lover, then himself. But Mary Jane's brother insists his sister wasn't that kind of girl, and Morse, naturally, is not convinced either. There is an anonymous typed note to Bell that his wife was cheating, which came with a "Happy Families" card, part of the collectibles that come with every box of Creswell chocolates. Potter says typed notes of this type have been flying around the village, each with a Happy Families card attached.