Endeavour' Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: Passenger

This week's Endeavour finds Morse confronted with a possible serial murderer and Bright with the future of the police force.

Thursday: It won't do, Morse. It won't bloody do.

Like last week, there are two unconnected stories to begin. this episode. There's a long train sequence, a girl who lost her shoes, and a lorry hijacking. While DS Strange rounds up Thursday to check out the lorry, Morse finds himself watching over DC Fancy's shoulder as he takes a Missing Person report about a Mrs. Frances Porter. Her husband Noel and her sister Jilly are concerned she never came home. Morse lets Fancy handle it himself with WPC Trewlove's help. (I hope you 'ship them because they are so happening.) He heads out with Thursday to deal with the hijacked lorry, the alcohol and tobacco it carried, as well as the dead driver. Unfortunately, Thursday and company are not running this investigation. DI Ronnie Box (Simon Harrison) and DS Patrick Dawson (Thomas Coombes) are assigned from on high to deal with it. Unlike our beloved Oxford City Police, they are a right couple of slags. Bright may say he understands those who get results are the ones who will survive the great merger of Thames Valley, but there's a difference between knowing and doing, and these are men who plan to do what it takes. They're convinced it's part of the Eddie Nero thuggery, even as Thursday and Strange become more convinced it's actually those who might be trying to take Nero down. Poor Fancy gets thrown to their case while Morse takes over looking into Mrs. Porter.