History Recap / EndeavourS7E02Raga

* TonightInThisVeryRing: Win Thursday and her friend Bridget go to the wrestling. The main attraction is the bout between Adrian "Danger Man" Sloan and Johnny Simba.

* ClosetGay: Adrian Sloan, who picks up on some coded signals when he encounters Oberon Prince in the restaurant, and later goes to his flat for what he hopes will be a sexual liaison. It seems to be more semi-closet, though - he's not too unwilling to tell Morse and Thursday, and he also tells them that some of his fellow wrestlers know and don't really care.

* RedHerring: Adrian Sloan, who actually went to Oberon Prince's flat for a sexual liaison.

** Wrestler Adrian Sloan presumably got his "Danger Man" nickname from [[Series/DangerMan the TV show]].

* PresentDayPast: Somewhat downplayed, but when the Sardar brothers discuss their father's mental state, one of them refers to him as being "confused-dot-com". This phrase, fairly common in twenty-first century Britain (referring to the price comparison site of that name), could not possibly have existed prior to the Internet.

* ClosetGay: Adrian Sloan, who picks up on some coded signals when he encounters Oberon Prince in the restaurant, and later goes to his flat for what he hopes will be a sexual liaison.

* AnachronismStew: Somewhat downplayed, but when the Sardar brothers discuss their father's mental state, one of them refers to him as being "confused-dot-com". This phrase, fairly common in twenty-first century Britain (referring to the price comparison site of that name), could not possibly have existed prior to the Internet.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In one of his more lucid moments, Uqbah Sardar (the ailing owner of the Jolly Rajah) reflects that he should have just paid his brother better.

** When talking about his recent holiday in France, Ludo mentions having met a man called Steve who was making a film there. It would appear that he's talking about [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve [=McQueen=]; therefore, the movie would be ''Film/LeMans''.

** The parallels between the Morse-Ludo friendship and the one between the two main male characters in ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' is alluded to with the revelation that Ludo's surname is Talenti.

* StealingFromTheTill: Rafiq did this, on account of his being heavily in debt to Prince. Aziz found out about this and gave him a chance to come clean; Rafiq, though, opted to solve his problem by killing Aziz and framing a dead Prince for the murder.

* RealMenCook: Strange attempts this, but gives up and orders a takeaway from the Jolly Rajah instead.

* GallowsHumour: Being a pathologist, Max De Bryn is a master of this, as evidence in this episode when he's confronted with a not-quite-complete set of body parts.

* CallBack: When Ludo comes to see him, Morse is playing an opera record which his visitor doesn't recognize. Morse tells him it's called "The Cure For Love" - the subtitle of the (fictional) opera "La Sposa Del Demonio", which Morse attended in Venice at the beginning of "[[Recap/EndeavourS7E01Oracle Oracle]]".
* ClosetGay: Adrian Sloan. And Oberon Prince, apparently.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Somewhat downplayed; Uqbah Sardar, the owner of the Jolly Raja, is suffering from dementia but is in denial about its impact on his memory.

** Bright tells Dr Sardar that he during his time in India, he was in Pankot and Chandrapore. He had previously referred to Pankot, the village in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', in "Prey". Chandrapore, meanwhile, is the fictional city in which ''Literature/APassageToIndia'' is set.

* GallowsHumour: At play when Max is dealing with a not-quite-complete set of body parts.

** Oberon Prince's TV persona is reminiscent of two RealLife celebrity chefs, Graham Kerr (a.k.a. "The Galloping Gourmet") and Keith Floyd.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Laid on thick. The catchphrase of Martin Gorman's fascistic "British Movement" is "Taking It Back", which is very reminiscent of the "Take Back Control" slogan used by the Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum (which took place in 2016, four years before this episode was broadcast). Taking this further, the yellow and dark blue rosettes worn by the British Movement supporters are similar to the yellow and purple rosettes worn by supporters of the right-wing anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP for short). It may not be entirely coincidental that one of Martin Gorman's cronies is called Nigel, presumably after UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

* GoKartingWithBowser: After their bout, all of the wrestlers go out together for a curry.

The curry and wrestling episode.

June 1970. A man is killed on the same towpath as Molly Andrews. Thursday, unwilling to close the case after a suspect confessed to Dr Benford's murder but was also charged with Andrews's murder, patrols the towpath at night.

An Indian takeaway driver is lured to his death at the flat of a TV chef, Oberon Prince, who has gone missing. Racial tensions in Oxford rise during the run-up to the general election when an Anglo-Indian youth is fatally stabbed by a young supporter of far-right candidate Martin Gorman, whose daughter lives in the same block of flats as Prince. Morse discovers that Prince was a gambler in card games run by Gorman, and had recently won a lot of money.

Meanwhile, the Morse-Ludo-Violetta relationship develops further. Ludo tells Morse that his wife is away and invites Morse to his home, but she's there. Violettea later secretly meets Morse to rekindle their affair; he initially rebuffs her, but later succumbs to her advances.

* An election poster suggests that the local Conservative candidate has the surname Archibald-Lake. This is the surname of the Conservative candidate in Dennis Potter's 1965 TV play ''Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton''.

* TonightInThisVeryRing: Win Thursday and her friend Bridget go to the wrestling.

* ColdOpening: In the form of a period-style advert for the Jolly Rajah, an Indian restaurant that plays a key part in this episode.

** Rosemary Prince tells Morse that, as far as Oberon's TV cookery show was concerned, "I was Johnnie to his Fanny". No, that's not rude - it's a reference to 60s and 70s TV cook Fanny Cradock who was often assisted by her husband Jonnie.