'Endeavour' Season 5 Episode 1 Recap: "Muse"

As Endeavour returns for Season 5, the Oxford City Police are dissolved while Nastya's Egg arrives for auction.

DeBryn: Unlikely he'd survive a metal spike being driven into his ear. Whether that was insult to injury remains to be seen.

We return to Morse's Oxford in the spring of 1968, April, to be exact. Our mystery starts out with the murder of one Joey Sykes. Thursday (Roger Allam) actually IDs him before anyone else can. He was a boxer who he's seen fight a few times locally and a petty criminal to boot. He's been shot three times and then a metal spike pounded into his ear for good measure. Superintendent Bright (Anton Lesser) worries this is criminal infighting attempting to take advantage of the current police force restructuring. Said restructuring is a running theme, with a model of the Thames Valley building Morse will one day work out thirty years down the road even turning up. It even has computers! (Very smart indeed.) But the knowledge of their absorption into the new building suggests not all staff will be making the move.