History Recap / EndeavourS9E02Uniform

* {{Headscratchers}}: Why would Raymond Swan, a supporting actor on ''Just for Jolly'', wear his costume for the show (a police uniform) when he's not working?

** Thursday has this reaction when he realises that the dead copper is actually an actor from the TV show. After most of the officers Castle Gate have refused overtime to help investigate the death of "one of their own".
** Also experienced by the members of the Debonairs when they're being interviewed by Thursday and Strange and realise that neither man is remotely intimidated by their titles and connections; it is implied that these have helped them to avoid the consequences of their crimes in the past, so the fact that they come up against two coppers who don't even remotely care about that sort of thing comes as a shock.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Debonairs invoke this to avoid being arrested and charged with their crimes. Fred Thursday is ''very'' unimpressed, and arrests them anyway.

** When Morse first enters the costume/joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very similar to the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''. Which is appropriate, given that Mr Benn himself [[ContinuityNod has already been]] [[Recap/EndeavourS8E02Scherzo referred to]] in this show!

** ''Jolly for Short'' is a rather meta one to Endeavour itself, being a long running detective series based on characters from a successful series of detective novels which is currently filming its last series.

** Also experienced by the members of the Debonairs when they're being interviewed by Thursday and Strange and realise that neither man is remotely intimidated by their titles or stupid enough to fall for their BS.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Debonairs invoke this to avoid being charged with their crimes. Fred Thursday is ''very'' unimpressed, and arrests them anyway.

* AssassinOutclassin: Ronnie Box is working late in his office when he hears a creak on the stairs. Shots ring out behind a closed door. Later in the episode Ronnie phones Fred from the [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere airport]] to warn him that whoever is behind Blenheim Vale is trying to tie up loose ends terminally.

** When not dressing up and causing mayhem, they adopt more of a ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' aesthetic. One of them is even named Archibald Ormsby-Gore, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Ormsby-Gore the name of the teddy bear belonging to Poet Laureate John Betjeman]] which was the inspiration for Sebastian Flyte's bear Aloysius in ''Brideshead Revisited''.

* TheBusCameBack: After appearing in a flashback once again, Jakes re-appears in person at the end of the episode.

** Blenheim Vale, the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors boys' correctional facility]] that was at the centre of "[[Recap/EndeavourS2E04Neverland Neverland]]", is once again a major plot point. We learn some more about the cover-up (Clive Deare, the senior officer who shot Thursday, was said to have acted the way he did due to his having gone insane) and Morse eventually finds two bodies in the grounds. Max confirms that one of them is that of [[CrookedContractor Joe Landesman]]; the other is Brenda Lewis, the missing woman whose case Morse started looking into in "[[Recap/EndeavourS9E01Prelude Prelude]]" and who had worked for Landesman. The initial police report into her disappearance was closed by Clive Deare.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As the new investigation into Blenheim Vale deepens, Ronnie Box is threatened by persons unknown. Although [[AssassinOutclassin he gets the better of them]], he is subsequently in fear of his life; he calls Thursday and warns him of the danger before fleeing the country.

** The Debonairs are an expy to the RealLife Bullingdon Club, but visually they reference a few Creator/StanleyKubrick movies. When intimidating students to vote for one of their number in an upcoming election, they dress like Alex and the Droogs from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''; one of them even carries a cane in much the same manner as Alex and is seen applying eyeliner and mascara to one eye. Meanwhile, their masks are reminiscent of ''Film/EyesWideShut'', while the military costumes are suggestive of ''Film/BarryLyndon''. When not dressing up and causing mayhem, they adopt more of a ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' aesthetic.
*** One of them is even named Archibald Ormsby-Gore, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Ormsby-Gore the name of the teddy bear belonging to Poet Laureate John Betjeman]] which was the inspiration for Sebastian Flyte's bear Aloysius in ''Brideshead Revisited''.

** When Morse first enters the costume/joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very similar to the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''. Which is appropriate, given that Mr Benn has already been [[Recap/EndeavourS8E02Scherzo referred to]] in the Morseverse!

** When Morse first enters the joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very similar to the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''. Mr. Benn has been [[Recap/EndeavourS8E02Scherzo referred to before]], so he and his adventures must exist in the Morseverse!

** When Morse first enters the joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very similar to the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''. Given that

* FreezeFrameBonus: The opening credits for ''Just for Jolly'' include a cast list in which Kenny Prior is listed by his ''real'' name, Kenneth Sellers, rather than his StageName, Kenneth Prior. Which would provide eagle-eyed viewers with an early clue once the name of the dead vagrant is revealed to be Hugh Sellers. YMMV as to whether this was intentional or not.

* RaisedByGrandparents: Jim Strange was raised by his grandmother, presumably because both of his parents died when he was young (quite possibly during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII war]], although it's not stated). Fred Thursday expresses surprise that he has worked with Strange for seven years and was not aware of this.

** When Morse first enters the joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very like the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''.

** Plenty regarding Blenheim Vale, the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors boys' correctional facility]] that was at the centre of "[[Recap/EndeavourS2E04Neverland Neverland]]". We learn some more about the cover-up (Clive Deare, the senior officer who shot Thursday, was said to have acted the way he did due to his having gone insane) and Morse eventually finds two bodies in the grounds. Max confirms that one of them is that of [[CrookedContractor Joe Landesman]]; the other is Brenda Lewis, the missing woman whose case Morse started looking into in "[[Recap/EndeavourS9E01Prelude Prelude]]" and who had worked for Landesman. The initial police report into her disappearance was closed by Clive Deare.

* CallBack:
** Plenty regarding Blenheim Vale, the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors boys' correctional facility]] that was at the centre of "[[Recap/EndeavourS2E04Neverland Neverland]]". We learn some more about the cover-up (Clive Deere, the senior officer who shot Thursday, was said to have acted the way he did due to his having gone insane) and Morse eventually finds two bodies in the grounds. Max confirms that one of them is that of [[CrookedContractor Joe Landesman]]; the other is Brenda Lewis, the missing woman whose case Morse started looking into in "[[Recap/EndeavourS9E01Prelude Prelude]]" and who had worked for Landesman. The initial police report into her disappearance was closed by Clive Deere.

** When talking about the Sellers brothers, Fred Thursday mentions his brother Charlie, who appeared in "[[Recap/EndeavourS5E02Cartouche Cartouche]]" and has been referred to since -- although it's just a passing reference, and the wording is vague enough to make it unclear as to whether Charlie is still alive, as opposed to merely estranged from Fred.

* {{Determinator}}: Morse will ''not'' let Blenheim Vale go, orders and beatings from corrupt officers be damned.

The TV show episode.

** When Morse first enters the joke shop, the proprietor is dressed very like to the shopkeeper from ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn''.

** The Debonairs are an expy to the RealLife Bullingdon Club, but visually they reference a few Creator/StanleyKubrick movies. When intimidating students to vote for one of their number in an upcoming election, they dress like Alex and the Droogs from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''; one of them even carries a cane in much the same manner as Alex and is seen applying eyeliner and mascara to one eye. Meanwhile, their masks are reminiscent of ''Film/EyesWideShut'', while the military costumes are suggestive of ''Film/BarryLindon''. When not dressing up and causing mayhem, they adopt more of a ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' aesthetic.

* CallBack: Plenty regarding Blenheim Vale, the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors boys' correctional facility]] that was at the centre of "[[Recap/EndeavourS2E04Neverland Neverland]]". We learn some more about the cover-up (Clive Deere, the senior officer who shot Thursday, was said to have acted the way he did due to his having gone insane) and Morse eventually finds two bodies in the grounds. Max confirms that one of them is that of [[CrookedContractor Joe Landesman]]; the other is Brenda Lewis, the missing woman whose case Morse started looking into in "[[Recap/EndeavourS9E01Prelude Prelude]]" and who had worked for Landesman. The initial police report into her disappearance was closed by Clive Deere.

* OhCrap: Thursday has this reaction when he realises that the dead copper is actually an actor from the TV show. After most of the officers Castle Gate have refused overtime to help investigate the death of "one of their own".

* SeekingTheMissingFindingTheDead: As ever with ''Endeavour'', Paul Baynard is reported as missing, and later turns up dead.

* BrandX: The Limehouse Rifles, Fred Thursday's old regiment (in which Hugh Sellers), is a fictional British Army regiment. We also have an interesting aversion in that there's a passing reference to Trinity College which, unusually for the Morseverse, is a RealLife Oxford college.

* CrosswordPuzzle: An empty one of these is on the table as Joan waits for Morse in the pub. She leaves before he arrives.

* {{Expy}}: The Debonairs are this to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club Bullingdon Club]]. They are not the first expy of this exclusive yet somewhat unsavoury student dining club to feature on ''Endeavour''. Of note here is the fragment of a burnt banknote found near the body of the vagrant, which is a nod to Bullingdon members' supposed ritual of burning high-denomination banknotes in front of homeless people.

* {{Headscratchers}}: Why would Raymond Swan, an actor on ''Just for Jolly'', wear his costume for the show (a police uniform) when he's not working?

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Jim Strange becomes this by riding roughshod over the Thursdays' unwritten rule about not talking about work at the dinner table. Win and Joan are horrified, but don't say anything.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Joan Thursday has this reaction following Jim Strange's disastrous dinner with her parents. Following this, Sam's somewhat puzzled reaction to her being engaged to Strange and her own inability to come up with coherent answer to ''why'' she's agreed to marry him lead her to arrange to meet Morse for a drink, although nothing comes of this as he doesn't show up.

* MyLocal: Joan arranges to meet Morse in the Eagle and Child, a RealLife Oxford pub that has been mentioned before (sometimes by its nickname, the Bird and Baby). Dorothea Frazil is also there, interviewing people from the TV show.
* NotMeThisTime: The Debonairs are a group of entitled sociopaths who have committed assault, theft, criminal damage and manslaughter. But although they did beat up Sellers the vagrant, they didn't kill him, and they didn't murder Raymond Swan either. That said, the fact that they were in the vicinity of both deaths, coupled with their arrogant attitude, doesn't help their case.

* PublicSecretMessage: Morse deduces that Paul Baynard's artwork for Kent Finn's books gives vital clues about Blenheim Vale.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As the new investigation into Blenheim Vale deepens, Ronnie Box is threatened by persons unknown. Although he gets the better of them, he is subsequently in fear of his life; he calls Thursday and warns him of the danger before fleeing the country.

** The Debonairs are an expy to the RealLife Bullingdon Club, but visually they reference Alex and the Droogs from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' with their costumes and masks. One even carries a cane in much the same manner as Alex and is seen applying eyeliner and mascara to one eye in the opening montage. When not dressing up and causing mayhem, they adopt more of a ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' aesthetic.
** ''Jolly for Short'' is a rather meta one to Endeavour itself, being a long running detective series based on characters from a successful series of detective novels and that is filming it's final season.
** Jolyon "Jolly" Jolliphant (the main character in ''Jolly for Short'') is in the habit of BreakingTheFourthWall in the manner of Jack Warner's title character in ''Series/DixonOfDockGreen''. When "Jolly" talks about there being "nothing lower than a bent copper", he is using one of Warner's introductions (from an episode televised in the late 1960s) almost verbatim.
** Kent Finn's original Jolly novels are themselves shout-outs to any of the long running series of detective novels that have ThemeNaming based on the protaganist's name.

** Although he bears more than a passing resemblance to Fred Thursday, Jolyon "Jolly" Jolliphant (the main character in ''Jolly for Short'') is in the habit of BreakingTheFourthWall in the manner of Jack Warner's title character in ''Series/DixonOfDockGreen''. When "Jolly" talks about there being "nothing lower than a bent copper", he is using one of Warner's introductions (from an episode televised in the late 1960s) almost verbatim.

* BrandX: The Limehouse Rifles, Fred Thursday's old regiment (in which Sellers the vagrant also served), is a fictional British Army regiment. We also have an interesting aversion in that there's a passing reference to Trinity College which, unusually for the Morseverse, is a RealLife Oxford college.

* CainAndAbel: Kenny Prior murders his brother, due mainly to the fact that he didn't want to be embarrassed by the public knowing that he, a famous actor, had a brother who was a vagrant.

* StageName: In-universe; Kenny Prior is using one of these. It's only when Dorothea Frazil reveals to Morse that his real surname is Sellers that the police link him with the dead vagrant.

* MyLocal: Joan arranges to meet Morse in the Eagle and Child, a RealLife Oxford pub that has been mentioned before (sometimes by its nickname, the Bird and Baby). Dorothea Frazil is also there.

** When talking about the Sellers brothers, Fred Thursday mentions his brother Charlie, who appeared in "[[Recap/EndeavourS5E02Cartouche Cartouche]]" and has been referred to since -- although it's just a passing reference, and the wording is vague enough to make it unclear as to whether Charlie is still alive.

* {{Blackmail}}: Attempted twice on Kenny Prior, the lead actor in ''Jolly for Short''. It does not end well for either blackmailer.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: The bespectacled Kenny Prior does not hesitate to kill ''his own brother'' in order to avoid having his reputation tarnished. Following which he kills Raymond Swan after the latter tries to blackmail him about his being related to a vagrant.

* NotMeThisTime: The Debonairs are a group of entitled sociopaths who have committed assault, theft, criminal damage and manslaughter. But they did not kill Sellers the vagrant, and they didn't murder Raymond Swan either. Although the fact that they were in the vicinity of both deaths, coupled with their arrogant attitude, doesn't help their case.

* {{Expy}}: The Debonairs are this to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club Bullingdon Club]]. They are not the first expy of this exclusive yet somewhat unsavoury student dining club to feature on ''Endeavour''.

** ''Jolly for Short'' is a rather meta one to Endeavour itself, being a long running detective series based on characters from a successful series of detective novels and that is filming it's final season..