Endeavour
Season 5 DVD Cover
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Detective Sergeant Endeavour Morse
Shaun Evans
Detective Chief Inspector Fred Thursday
Roger Allam
Detective Sergeant Jim Strange
Sean Rigby
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Anton Lesser
Dr. Max DeBryn
James Bradshaw
Joan Thursday
Sara Vickers
Win Thursday
Caroline O'Neill
WPC Shirley Trewlove
Dakota Blue Richards
Detective Constable George Fancy
Lewis Peek
The following weapons were used in Season 5 of the television series Endeavour :
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Revolvers
Enfield No. 2 Mk I
An Enfield No. 2 Mk I is a murder weapon in "Muse" (S05E01).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Enfield No. 2 Mk. I Original configuration with spurred hammer - .38 S&W
Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Enfield No. 2 Mk I is found by police in the glove box of Joey Sikes' (Victor Gardener) car. Dr. DeBryn correctly identified the gun as .38 caliber.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing An Enfield No. 2 Mk I is seen on the table in painter Gerard Pickman's (Tom Wisdom) workshop. According to the story, it's a different gun but very likely same prop is used.
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Webley .455 Mk VI
Edmund Gordon (David Shaw Parker) holds a Webley .455 Mk VI in the climactic scene in "Cartouche" (S05E02).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Webley Mk VI - .455 Webley
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing He aims at Emil Valdemar (Donald Sumpter).
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Webley .38 Mk IV
DS Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans ), DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam ), and DS Jim Strange (Sean Rigby ) use Webley .38 Mk IV revolvers in several scenes in "Icarus" (S05E06).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Webley Mk IV - .38 S&W. WWII production
Error creating thumbnail: File missing DS Strange aims a revolver during the arrest of Cromwell Ames. A constable at the right holds a blurry but identifiable Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I rifle.
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Unidentified revolver
A revolver is briefly seen near a dead body of one of Eddie Nero's henchmen after the gang war in "Icarus" (S05E06).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A short-barreled revolver is seen near the hand of dead Nero's henchman. Another dead man also holds some handgun but it is in complete shadow and it's impossible to say even if it is a revolver or a pistol.
Pistols
Luger P08
A Luger P08 is a murder weapon in "Colours" (S05E04).
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A spent 9mm brass, found on the place of the murder. An expert explains that it's a German ammo, produced in 1944.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dr. Laidlaw's student Kit Hutchens (Greg Austin) takes a Luger from the table in Laidlaw's office, full of Nazi Germany relics.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hutchens examines the pistol when Morse comes in.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A flashback scene reveals Dr. Rex Laidlaw (Dominic Thorburn ) commiting the murder.
Walther PPK
Millie Bagshot (Ellie Haddington ) uses a supressed Walther PPK in "Quartet" (S05E05).
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The suppressed PPK on the table.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mille Bagshot takes the gun.
Colt M1911A1
An M1911A1 is hold by dying Eddie Nero (Mark Arden) after the battle with Cromwell Ames' gang in "Icarus" (S05E06).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pre-War Colt M1911A1 - Commercial Model known as the "Colt Government Model" - .45 ACP. This has a deep Colt factory blued finish, common for commercial variants before and after the war.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gravely wounded Eddie Nero holds his pistol.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing When Thursday orders Nero to drop the gun, the gangster says that it's empty. In reality, an empty M1911 would have its slide locked in rear position.
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Unidentified pistols
Two pistols are seen on the shelf in Dr. Laidlaw's office in "Colours" (S05E04).
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Flintlock/Percussion Cap Pistols
A pair of antique pistols is also seen in Dr. Laidlaw's office in "Colours" (S05E04).
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Submachine Guns
M1921 Thompson
Cromwell Ames' gang uses an M1921 Thompson submachine gun during the attempt on rival gang boss Eddie Nero (Mark Arden) in "Icarus" (S05E06). While this weapon is not a modern one for late 1960s, the Tommy Gun in classic 1920s version, with a foregrip and a 50-round drum magazine, may be used as a symbol of gang wars of old.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel without Cutts compensator allows to identify this Tommy Gun as M1921.
Rifles
Karabiner 98k
In the climactic scene in "Colours" (S05E04) Dr. Rex Laidlaw (Dominic Thorburn ) uses a wartime Karabiner 98k .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of the bolt.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The top barrel band is "Kriegsmodell" style but the rifle has bayonet lug and cleaning rod on place while these parts were omitted on "Kriegsmodell". Supposedly the screen gun was assembled from parts of several 98k of differfent modifications.
Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I
Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I rifles are used in "Icarus" (S05E06), seen in hands of police constables and also of schoolboys serving in the Combined Cadet Force of Coldwater public school.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A cadet reloads his rifle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A constable holds a rifle when police appears at the scene of a clash between two gangs.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Morse and Thursday find out that one rifle is missing. While all Lee-Enfields in the gun rack are standard rifles, as it can be seen on previous screenshot, in next scene we see Stanlow holding a rifle with sniper scope (see below).
Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T)
In the climactic scene in "Icarus" (S05E06) Stanlow (Aldo Maland), a bullied Coldwater schoolboy, takes a Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) rifle from gun rack, planning to fire at his abusers, both teachers and classmates. This scene pays clear homage to If... , filmed in 1968 - same year when the plot of "Icarus" is set.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Stanlow aims a sniper rifle at a group of teachers and guests of the school.
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Shotguns
Remington 870
One of Cromwell Ames' gang members uses a Remington 870 with extended magazine tube during the attack on Eddie Nero's gang in "Icarus" (S05E06).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Remington 870 Police Magnum customized with extended magazine tube - 12 gauge (credit to Predator 20 )
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A gang member takes a Remington 870 from the trunk.
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Sawed-Off Double Barrel Shotgun
Cromwell Ames (David Jonsson) is armed with a Sawed-Off Double Barrel Shotgun during the attack on Eddie Nero's gang in "Icarus" (S05E06).
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and hands it to gang boss.
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Other Weapons
Umbrella Gun
College porter Albert Mullion (Ian Bartholomew) uses a single shot umbrella gun in "Quartet" (S05E05).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing DCI Thursday disassembles the hidden gun, taken from arrested Mullion.
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Trivia
FV433 Abbot
During a fashion shoot at an army base model Jean Ward (Leo Hatton) poses on an FV433 Abbot SPG in "Colours" (S05E04).
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jean Ward poses on an Abbot SPG.
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Anti-personnel mine
An anti-personnel mine (doubtless a mockup) plays a key role in the climactic scene in "Colours" (S05E04).
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Toy soldiers and paintings
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A painting depicts a battle of British troops, armed with Martini-Henry rifles, against the Zulu.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A scale model of a muzzleloading field gun is seen in the office of the regiment commander.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Toy soldiers depict a battle of Napoleonic era in Dr. Laidlaw's office.