Four months after being shot Morse returns to work and witnesses a pageant, held to mark nine hundred years of history, disrupted by two events. The first is when feminist Kitty, daughter of prospective MP Barbara Batten, sprays beauty queen Diana Day with red paint, the second when an unknown man falls to his death from a roof. Initially deemed a suicide he has a host of fake identity cards and has scrawled a message in a motel notebook, D DAY FRIDAY 98018. When Bernard Yelland comes to Oxford in search of his runaway step-daughter Frida Morse believes that FRIDAY actually reads FRIDA Y whilst D DAY could also signify Diana Day though a diversion from these mysteries is provided by the burglary of the Wolvercote Trove from the local museum. The dead man is a London-based private detective, Pettifer, who is not above blackmailing his clients and is possibly involved in the burglary though this is later disproved. Morse meanwhile works out the significance of the figures and exposes

Endeavor Morse, in the form of Shaun Evans, returns to the Inspector Morse prequel, "Endeavor: Trove" for a second season.

Morse was apparently shot while at the opera and has gone through the death of his father. Now, four months later, he's back at work.

During a pageant marking 900 years of history, Kitty, a feminist and daughter of Barbara Batten, running for MP, paint balls a beauty queen. Then a man comes out of a window and lands on top of a car. Suicide? Or murder? The dead man turns out to be a man of many names, and he has a notebook with a cryptic message inside. He turns out to be a private detective named Pettifer who made it a habit of blackmailing his clients.

Morse gets to work on the various cases while his superior (Roger Allam) is concerned about him. He finds empty liquor bottles in Morse's apartment and wonders if he's really ready to be back at work.

This has the usual mark of the original Morse series -- you have to watch it carefully as the stories can be complicated. Though Morse has grown somewhat tougher in year 2, I still can't connect him maturing into Inspector Morse. I think it's the voice and accent. Shaun Evans is a marvelous actor, though, and I thoroughly enjoy "Endeavor."

Duration: 3 Discs HD DVD-9 Plastic Bag Packing Ver. ( 4 Episodes Complete Series )