Endeavour2012

Chief Superintendent Bright:
[entering the church with DI Thursday and DS Jakes] Perhaps you'd care to explain just what it is you're doing here.

DC Endeavour Morse:
I think I know who killed Cartwright and Monkford, sir.

DI Fred Thursday:
[seriously] Think or know?

DC Endeavour Morse:
[confident] Know.

Chief Superintendent Bright:
[not convinced at all] What's this? More threadbare legerdemain?

DI Fred Thursday:
[partly convinced that Morse is on to something] Might as well hear him out sir.

Chief Superintendent Bright:
But we're about to charge Pamela Walters, aren't we?

DC Endeavour Morse:
[flashbacks show what Morse explains] Every Friday, Dr. Cartwright went to the East Cowley post office and had a postal order made out to the sum of 10 shillings. Every Monday, that order was cashed by Pamela Sloan.

Chief Superintendent Bright:
Why would it matter if he was sending money to his sister-in-law?

DC Endeavour Morse:
Three years ago, Pamela Sloan attempted suicide. Frank Cartwright had been keeping an eye on her, since she moved to London. He found her in the nick of time. His own marriage failing, Cartwright understood Pamela's desperation all too well. Two lonely people in a big city far from home, they looked to one another for companionship, and comfort.

DI Fred Thursday:
[believing Morse] He got her pregnant.

DC Endeavour Morse:
I spoke to the National Registry first thing. There was a man called Gerald Walters who worked at ICI and he did die in a car crash but there was no whirlwind romance with Pamela Sloan. No marriage. For two years, they kept their affair secret. Pamela passed herself off as a young widow and collected Cartwright's weekly postal order. Eventually, someone realised Dr. Cartwright was sending money to a woman who was not his wife. They fired a shot into the dark and hit the bull's-eye. The sender threatened to reveal what he knew to Cartwright's wife and sought to turn it to their own advantage. Cartwright paid off the extortioner with a regular delivery of amphetamines.

Chief Superintendent Bright:
And the Reverend Monkford? How do you explain his involvement?

DC Endeavour Morse:
He came upon Dr. Cartwright's killer at the scene. Unfortunately, the murderer also recognised the Reverend Monkford.

Chief Superintendent Bright:
[not convinced] You might find this compelling, Thursday, but so far it seems to me nothing but surmise and rank flummery. If he knew who the killer was, why didn't he just come forward?

DC Endeavour Morse:
And explain what he was doing cycling to a public convenience miles from his parish at 10 o'clock on a Summer's evening?

Chief Superintendent Bright:
[not convinced] You can prove none of it.

DC Endeavour Morse:
Actually, sir, I believe I can.