'Endeavour' Season 6 Finale Recap: "Degüello"

Endeavour wraps up its sixth season with three cases that finally bring order back to the Morse-verse.

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Endeavour began its sixth season with the shock of change, and I'm not just talking about Morse's mustaches. Instead of everyone transferring to a new setting but staying in old roles, our primary cast was flung hither and yon. Throughout three episodes, it was hard to see how things could ever go back to the way they were, with Morse and Thursday on opposite sides of the Box grift line, while Strange, Bright, and DeBryn were all off in their own worlds. Moreover, the finale opens with two sides of a new case, the opening of Cranmer House Tower Block and a body in the library, suggesting no progress will be made here either.

But when Morse first turns up, it's at a house with a group heroin overdose. Morse, naturally, sees the bodies as victims, while Jago sees this as merely fewer pieces of filth on the streets. But squint your eyes and look closer, at the location of this incident. Once the OG Morse-heads realize the cast is standing in our hero's own future living room from the 1980s series, things become a bit clearer. Whatever happens by the end of the hour, Morse will be home.

But first, there's the body in the library. It is the head librarian at the Bodleian, Osbert Page, offed in the stacks by a man with muddy boots. (The Oxford people are appalled by that detail.) Who killed him off is not clear, but something was up that day as Dr. Jasper Nicholson (Aidan McArdle) found a threatening note in Hebrew tucked in his research book, and Professor Ernest Burrowes (Paul Jesson) a walking enthusiast and friend of Page was also on hand. Nicholson is getting all sorts of threatening messages in his mailbox and his classroom, suggesting he's hiding a deep secret of some kind. Perhaps one that would kill a librarian?'

And then, Cranmer House collapses.