When an unknown man plummets to his passing, the investigation brings DC Morse back into action. The young detective unearths secrets in the very bowels of the university and far beyond the city. But he must act quickly, as the body count rises and doomsday beckons.

World Cup fever is gripping the country, as Argentina battle it out against England in the quarter finals. At an Oxford museum, some schoolgirls take a look at the worldly exhibits as a closed-off enclave, a man is attacked and falls to his passing.

Bonfire Night is just around the corner and Vivienne Haldane is discovered choked to passing in her home. It is the third strangling in a month, leaving Oxford City Police on edge.

Plans to build a new police station sees Endeavour and Fred questioning their respective places on the force. A boy disappears from a broken home. A body of a journalist is discovered on a railway line in strange circumstances.