With three cases going at once, it's time for Morse to buckle down and. Or took one anyway, before it was firebombed.īright: These."Make Britain greater" types! But coincidentally, the second place is also where Joan's taken a job. (In 1968, there was a flood of refugees from the area.) Happily, no one was killed.
Shoukry, is clearly unimpressed by the British.Īlso lurking in the background, theres a firebombing of tenement houses owned by Nero, full of "Kenyan-Asians" as DS Strange calls them.
Beavis was supposed to be on duty that night but skipped out early to catch the film. He and his daughter, Giulia, are terrified of letting on that they're part of Nero's "protection racket." So they lie to Morse's face about Beavis coming in and then lie some more when Flynn gets murdered right after leaving the premises later on. Meanwhile, in the Egyptian wing of the nearby Pitt Rivers Museum, someone hears a noise that same night. There's a second plotline featuring Eddie Nero, from last week, whose goon Flynn is threatening Pop Gallo of Brown's Cafe, where Beavis took his last meal.
Not only did he run into him in the bar while the movie was playing, but then he saw Beavis talking to someone on the fire escape while he went out on break up on the rooftop. Only The Roxy's organist, Leslie Garnier, is at least willing to admit he recognizes the guy. De Vere, and the projectionist (also named Bullings, the Assistant Manager's grandfather) argue over how much longer the place will last. The usherette, Betty Perske, admits she heard the manager, Mr. But Morse's investigation uncovers that the theater is struggling, like many movie palaces in the late 60s. The assistant manager Kenneth Bullings and the Usherette don't remember him.
There are no signs of violence, but the toxicology report turns out to reveal it's nux-vomica, aka strychnine, apparently ingested via the orange squash he drank at the theater. The former DS Ronald Beavis, of a neighboring district, dies at home in bed after seeing Emil Valdemar (guest star Donald Sumpter) in The Pharaoh's Curse. This week's episode opens at the late night double feature picture show at movie palace The Roxy. Morse faces off with horror and ancient Egyptian curses when Hollywood comes to Oxford in this week's Endeavour.ĭeByrn: "For some of us, it’s horror season all year round." Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse (Photo Credit: Courtesy of ITV and MASTERPIECE)