History Recap / EndeavourS2E04Neverland

-->'''Jakes''': Bloody place. Turns my guts. Bleach, sweat, boiled cabbage. And everything on tick. Never-never-land.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The episode (and the series) ends with the surviving Lost Boys setting out to try and find Big Peter's remains. The following series did not pick up on this in any way. [[spoiler: Viewers had to wait until [[Recap/EndeavourS9E03Exeunt the final episode of the whole show]] to find out that they did not find him, and in fact he was not actually dead.]]

-->'''Jakes''': Bloody place. Turns my guts. Bleach, sweat, boiled cabbage. And everything on tick. Never-never-land.

* ConsultingMisterPuppet:l Benny Topling, a [[{{Ventriloquism}} ventriloquist]], can only speak about his suppressed childhood trauma (he was one of the boys who was abused at Blenheim Vale) through his dummy.

* TitleDrop: Early on, we see someone reading ''Literature/PeterPan'', and it's notable that the survivors of Blenheim Vale refer to themselves as the Lost Boys. Later done more cynically by Jakes on entering a council flat; "on tick" and "the never-never" are both British slang terms for having items (usually household ones) on hire-purchase, the clear implication from the latter being that the people who had entered into such an arrangement would never actually complete the payments for said items.

->''It's not about me. It's about them who turn to us for help in time of need -- weak, defenceless, old, young. Eespecially the young.''

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: This entire season has played on Morse's distrust and dislike of Freemasonry (his warnings to Strange that he will have to choose between the Masons and the police are repeated here), and matters come to a head here. Strange chooses to look the other way.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Given the abuse of vulnerable boys that is revealed to gone on at Blenheim Vale, this is easily one of the darkest and most disturbing episodes in the entire Morseverse.

* DrowningMySorrows: Thinking about his time at Blenheim Vale causes Jakes to do this, big-time.

* TitleDrop: Early on, we see someone reading ''Literature/PeterPan'', and it's notable that the survivors of Blenheim Vale refer to themselves as the Lost Boys. Later done more cynically by Jakes on entering a council flat; "on tick" and "the never-never" are both British slang terms for having items (usually household ones) on hire-purchase, the clear implication from the latter being that they would never actually complete the payments for said items.

The conspiracy episode.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: While this entire season has played on Morse's distrust and dislike of Freemasonry (his warnings to Strange that he will have to choose between the Masons and the police are repeated here), it is this chapter which light the slow-burning fire of rage that will erupt so spectacularly in "Masonic Mysteries".

* TitleDrop: Done by Jakes on entering a council flat; the "never-never" and "on tick" are both British slang terms for having items (usually household ones) on hire-purchase.

* ShoutOut: The plaque outside the door of the lawyers' office reads: "Vholes, Jaggers, Lightwood, Solicitors". Those three names are names of lawyers in Creator/CharlesDickens novels -- respectively, ''Literature/BleakHouse'', ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' and ''Literature/OurMutualFriend''.

* TitleDrop: Done by Jakes on entering a council flat; the "never-never" is British slang for having objects on hire-purchase, for which "on tick" means the same thing.

December 1966. A boy with a brutal father is reported missing from his home. The body of a journalist is found on a railway line and within days an escaped convict, who had absconded with only a month of his sentence remaining, is found dead. The two men have connections with Blenheim Vale, a disused correctional facility for boys in Kidlington, soon to be redeveloped as a police station. Thursday's and Morse's investigation leads to a property developer and corruption in high places including missing police evidence in Morse's last three investigations.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: While this entire season has foreshadowing of Morse's distrust and dislike of Freemasonry (his warnings to Strange that he will have to choose between the Masons and the police are repeated here), it is this chapter which lit the slow burning fire of rage which erupted so spectacularly in "Masonic Mysteries".

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* CallBack: To the [[Series/InspectorMorse original series]]. When Thursday discusses retiring, he refers to an officer called [=McNutt=] as a potential ally for Morse. This character appeared in the ''Inspector Morse'' episode "Masonic Mysteries" as a retired mentor of Morse's.