History Recap / EndeavourS5E01Muse

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The formation of the Thames Valley Constabulary (later known as the Thames Valley Police) looks set to affect the characters in various ways, with the future of Cowley police station hanging in the balance ... for now. As well as the Oxford City Police, the police forces that were merged to form the Thames Valley Police were the Berkshire Constabulary, the Buckinghamshire Constabulary, the Oxfordshire Constabulary (hitherto referred to as the 'County' force by various characters) and the Reading Borough Police. One of the important parts of the 1960s police reforms was addressing [[DirtyCop corruption]] by removing police forces from local council control, making them stand-alone forces answerable directly to the Home Office. There have been (and will continue to be) quite a few references to this in the show.

* CallBack: A couple of examples, both involving Gerald Pickman -- he's done artwork for Richardson's (the supermarket in "[[Recap/EndeavourS3E02Arcadia Arcadia]]") and Kent Finn (the novelist in "[[Recap/EndeavourS4E01Game Game]]").

* CallBack: A couple of examples, both involving Gerald Pickman -- he's done artwork for Richardson's (the supermarket in "Arcadia") and Kent Finn (the novelist in "Game").

* ContrivedCoincidence: ''All four'' of the men responsible for Ruth Astor being raped avail themselves of Eve Thorne's services; as a telephonist working for her answering service, Ruth is thus able to identify them -- Sikes, who had driven her to the Berserkers' dinner, followed the three men who beat and raped her at the dinner -- and track them down and kill them.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Berserkers, an elite dining club for academics, come across as this, with fancy waistcoats instead of funny hats. That said, a particular aspect of their behaviour -- beating up call girls -- takes them from being merely boorish to somewhat sinister. They're clearly based on RealLife groups like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club Bullingdon Club]]. Fred Thursday is ''not'' impressed.

* TheCon: The Fabergé egg sub-plot is one of these. Grey, Lake and Pickman had acquired it in Germany while doing their National Service. Whether it was genuine or not is moot as they had no way of establishing its provenance, so they bided their time, eventually introducing it as a bequest to Lonsdale College, with Pickman --an artist -- forging the documents establishing it as having been owned by the Russian royal family. Their plan to fake the theft and collect on the insurance pay-out is thwarted by the fact that two of them are targetted by the murderer as revenge for their ill-treatment of her.

* TheCon: The Fabergé egg sub-plot is one of these. Grey, Lake and Pickman had acquired it in Germany while doing their National Service. Whether it was genuine or not is moot as they had no way of establishing its provenance, so they bided their time, eventually introducing it as a bequest to Lonsdale College, with Pickman --an artist -- having forged the documents establishing it as having been owned by the Russian royal family. Their plan to fake the theft and collect on the insurance pay-out is thwarted by the fact that two of them are targetted by the murderer as revenge for their ill-treatment of her.

* ContrivedCoincidence: ''All four'' of the murder victims availed themselves of Eve Thorne's services; as a telephonist working for her answering service, Ruth Astor was thus able to identify the men responsible for abusing her — Sikes, who had driven her to the Berserkers' dinner, followed the three men who beat and raped her at the dinner — and track them down.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The formation of the Thames Valley Constabulary (later known as the Thames Valley Police) looks set to affect the characters in various ways, with the future of Cowley police station hanging in the balance ... for now. As well as the Oxford City Police, the police forces that were merged to form the Thames Valley Police were the Berkshire Constabulary, the Buckinghamshire Constabulary, the Oxfordshire Constabulary (hitherto referred to as the 'County' force on Endeavour) and the Reading Borough Police. One of the important parts of the 1960s police reforms was addressing [[DirtyCop corruption]] by removing police forces from local council control, making them stand-alone forces answerable directly to the Home Office. There have been (and will continue to be) quite a few references to this in the show.

* HesBack: Joan Thursday returns to Oxford.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Berserkers, an elite dining club for academics, come across as this, with fancy waistcoats instead of funny hats. [[spoiler: That said, a particular aspect of their behaviour -- beating up call girls -- takes them from being merely boorish to somewhat sinister]]. They're clearly based on RealLife groups like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club Bullingdon Club]]. Fred Thursday is ''not'' impressed.

* CallingCard: "The Shadow" leaves a red rose at the scene of each of his crimes. [[spoiler: The discovery of a bunch of red roses in Lake's flat tips Morse off that he and his friends were planning to fake the theft of the Fabergé egg.]]
* TheCon: The Fabergé egg sub-plot is one of these. [[spoiler: Grey, Lake and Pickman had acquired it in Germany while doing their National Service. Whether it was genuine or not is moot as they had no way of establishing its provenance, so they bided their time, eventually introducing it as a bequest to Lonsdale College, with Pickman --an artist -- having forged the documents establishing it as having been owned by the Russian royal family. Their plan to fake the theft and collect on the insurance pay-out is thwarted by the fact that two of them are targetted by the murderer as revenge for their ill-treatment of her]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: ''All four'' of the murder victims availed themselves of Eve Thorne's services; [[spoiler: as a telephonist working for her answering service, Ruth Astor was thus able to identify the men responsible for abusing her — Sikes, who had driven her to the Berserkers' dinner, followed the three men who beat and raped her at the dinner — and track them down.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The motive for the murders turns out to be this. [[spoiler: Ruth Astor was brutally beaten and raped at the Berserkers' dinner party, and has tracked down the men responsible, killing them one by one, and then killing herself after dispatching her final victim]].
* ShipTease: Fancy tries to invoke this with Trewlove. It doesn't work. [[spoiler: For now.]]