Canticle
- Episode aired Aug 27, 2017
- TV-14
- 1h 29m
Endeavour is charged with protecting Joy Pettybon, self-appointed guardian of the nation's morals, who is visiting Oxford to promote her 'Keep Britain Decent' campaign.Endeavour is charged with protecting Joy Pettybon, self-appointed guardian of the nation's morals, who is visiting Oxford to promote her 'Keep Britain Decent' campaign.Endeavour is charged with protecting Joy Pettybon, self-appointed guardian of the nation's morals, who is visiting Oxford to promote her 'Keep Britain Decent' campaign.
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- TriviaAt 35:00 Nick asks Morse if he reads Huxley, then says 'I want to see what's beyond the door," in a reference to Aldous Huxley's book 'The Doors of Perception', in which the author chronicled his experimentation with mescaline. That book's title is taken from William Blake's poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell': "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." The band The Doors, took their name from Huxley's work.
- GoofsWhen Morse and Bettina Pettybon are in his apartment, Pettybon sits down and sets her glass on the table, but is immediately holding it again when the camera comes back to her.
- Quotes
Dr. Max DeBryn: The primary cause of Reverend Golightly's death was haemorrhage leading to heart failure.
DS Jim Strange: Natural causes.
Dr. Max DeBryn: I don't think I said that, did I?
DI Fred Thursday: So what caused it?
Dr. Max DeBryn: Laxative. The Reverend Golightly's kidneys were all but shot. Magnesium in the laxative caused hypomagnesaemia, respiratory distress, low blood pressure, arrhythmia.
DS Jim Strange: That would explain the blood, would it?
Dr. Max DeBryn: It would explain the vomiting. However, he was also suffering from an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm. The rest of it put such a strain on his system that it ruptured. Hence the blood.
DS Jim Strange: Puked his guts up, then. Literally.
Dr. Max DeBryn: What a lyrical child you must have been, sergeant.
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits (after the actors' names cycle through), certain letters of certain crew members' names are colored in red. When read in order, they spell "GOLDHAWK ROAD," a reference to the argument the bandmates had over the direction their music was taking. Nick wants to debut a song he's written inspired by a Beaudelaire poem and his bandmates accuse him of forgetting his rock and roll roots. Stix says, "You know, you might have forgotten where you come from, mate, but the rest of us haven't." Nick replies, "Take the boy out of the Goldhawk Road?"
- ConnectionsReferences Sebastian (1968)
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Main Theme by Barrington Pheloung
In this episode of Endeavour, Morse is assigned to protect Joy Pettybon, based on Mary Whitehouse, a woman campaigning to clean up Britain from anything in any medium that isn't squeaky clean.
A builder who was hanging with a popular rock group is found dead, and this sort of coincides with Morse's assignment, since Ms. Pettybon was violently opposed to this group, called Wildwood.
Then one of Ms. Pettybon's acolytes, Reverend Golightly, eats some of her candy and dies. And Morse gets in trouble for having a drink with Pettybon's daughter in her room. Pettybon wants him off the case. That actually would suit Morse fine except now there's murder involved.
I'm happy the series is on again, even though I'm sure there aren't many episodes. I like the acting - and at the end, something interesting happens, which shows that one aspect of Morse's life will be a through-thread this season.
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- Aug 27, 2017
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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