- 8.3/107 votes
#1 - Fugue
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/21/2013
There is a new kind of killer haunting the Oxford twilight. Endeavour and Thursday find the city's dreaming spires giving way to waking nightmare.
Director: Tom Vaughan
Writer: Colin Dexter
- 8.1/1010 votes
#2 - Girl
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2013
The sudden death of a secretarial student and the shooting of a doctor appear unconnected despite Morse's theories. Chief Superintendent Bright, the new commanding officer of the Oxford City Police, unimpressed with Morse's zeal, protests to Thursday that the bagman's position is a Detective Sergeant's job and the young constable is too inexperienced. Following the shooting of a vicar, Morse is reduced to general duties for dismissing a beautiful, but mentally unstable girl as a suspect and must continue his investigations alone despite warnings of possible dismissal from his superiors.
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Writer: Colin Dexter
- 7.8/104 votes
#3 - Expiation
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/2007
When an Oxford housewife is found hanged in her home, Lewis and Hathaway unearth a far darker murder case than the initial suicide verdict suggests.
Director: Dan Reed
Writer: Colin Dexter
- 7.0/105 votes
#4 - The Dead of Jericho
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1987
Morse is passed over for promotion and gets a new working partner in the shape of Lewis, who is not sure what to make of his new boss. Their first case together is a murder, when Anne Staveley, who was Morse's friend in a choral society, is found hanged in her house in the Jericho area of Oxford. The death looks like suicide, but Morse has his own reasons for treating the case as a murder investigation. A parking ticket and Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, come to his assistance.
Director: Alastair Reid
Writer: Colin Dexter