'Endeavour' Season 8 Finale Recap: "Terminus"
Endeavour's Season 8 finale begins with the death at the end of the line for the 33 Bus to Chipping Compton, while newspaper articles from eight years previous splash headlines about a bloodbath at Tafferton Park. Morse is out, "sick" (read hungover AF), when Thursday and Strange turn up to see the body, Professor Patrick Stanton, stabbed to death with Xs carved into his eyes. Other than the bus driver, John Peckett (Ray Emmet Brown), and the creepy conductor Les Grant (Adam Ewan), the only passengers on the bus were Linda Travers (Anna Burnett), and an unidentified drunk who viewers already know will be Morse.
Thursday: "Bet he was good to his mother."
Frazil: "Kept her head in a hatbox."
Strange discovers the bus' clock-in box was disabled. Morse checks Stanton's office and finds a betting book, a grand prize winner flyer with stars over the winner's eyes like Staton's crosses, and a letter inviting him to Chipping Compton with "WYCH" and "WSW3MA?" on it. However, Thursday realizes Morse's regular bus is the 33, and his drunk ass was the last person to speak to Stanton. Frustrated and distraught over learning his son Sam's gone AWOL, Thursday gives Morse mandatory four weeks' leave to join a discreet Minnesota Model 12-step house.
