YMMV / Endeavour S 9 E 03 Exeunt

• Complete Monster: Despite coming across as a somewhat crass and condescending officer, Detective Inspector Arthur Lott is in truth brutal, greedy and corrupt to the core. While in the Oxford City Police, Lott regularly took bribes, brutalised suspects and planted evidence. The whole time, Lott was secretly Assistant Chief Constable Deare's bagman and through him was involved with Wintergreen and Landesman's paedophile ring. While not a paedophile himself, Lott happily implemented the abuses for money; he also enabled Teddy Samuels to regularly pimp teenage schoolgirls as long as he was paid. Moving to the Metropolitan Police after Thursday found out about his corruption, he joined the Drugs Squad and abused his position and connections with organised crime, setting up his own rackets dealing in drugs, prostitution and pornography. Following Morse and Thursday's investigation into Blenheim Vale, Lott, solely to protect himself, had the scandal covered up through threats and violence, personally murdering Josiah Landesman and his secretary Brenda Lewis, just in case she knew anything. Years later, upon discovering that Brenda's son was searching for her, Lott had him fatally overdosed and sent assassins after the private detective he hired. When Micky Flood tried to warn Thursday, Lott had his goons crucify and torture Micky, ripping his tongue out and finally slitting his throat. Realising that Morse and Thursday would never stop investigating Blenheim Vale, Lott threatened Thursday's family, seemingly accepting a deal from Morse only to reveal that he always planned to kill him and Thursday regardless.