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After learning that the police station is to close Morse goes undercover as a teacher at Coldwater school, with WPC Trewlove posing as his wife after the disappearance of schoolmaster John Ivory. He is intrigued to find gangster Eddie Nero's son is one of the pupils before discovering the body of Rowntree, a boy who was expelled for hitting Ivory. Ivory was not popular with other staff members but the matron tells Morse that he was very protective of Stanlow, a pupil bullied as a weakling. In fact Stanlow proves to be the key to solving the case. Meanwhile Thursday's retirement plans are dashed thanks to his reckless brother and there is further cause for grief at the station.

The poem that Morse reads at the end is "Say not the struggle naught availeth", by English poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861).

Reading Grammar School ( established in 1125 ) in Reading, Berkshire features as the Coldwater public school in this episode

The story takes place in November of 1968, something made clear towards the end when the main characters all start wearing Remembrance Day poppies in their lapels. (There is also a Remembrance Day service conducted by the headmaster of Coldwater school, when he speaks of the end of the First World War as being "fifty years ago").

The bag of groceries Joan Thursday brings her father after Mrs. Thursday has left him comes in a bag from Richardson's supermarket - the one at the center of the earlier episode "Arcadia".

Morse is told that the missing Mr. Ivory was a heavy smoker of a brand of cigarette called "Fusiliers", which had been advertised on the wall of Joe Dozier's shop in the previous episode, "Quartet". There was no such brand in reality, but there was a brand of cigarette available in Britain in the late 60s called "Guards".

Morse claims to have taught at a school called "Bamfylde." That's the name of the school in the book and miniseries "To Serve Them All My Days."

Praetorians, is derived from Praetor, a a government official who is a step below Consul (chief magistrate which ran the Roman Republic).

This is the only episode of "Endeavour" thus far in which Chief Superintendent Bright is seen at home, although his wife is yet again absent; like the wife of Sheriff Metzger in "Murder, She Wrote", she is much mentioned in the series, but never actually seen. It is revealed, however, that the Brights had a daughter, Dulcie, who died young "in the tropics".

Stanlow, the oppressed schoolboy, is nicknamed "Dak". He says this is an abbreviation for "Daktari" - the popular African-set TV series which was still running on British TV in 1968, the year in which this story is set.

Lily Lesser who plays "Ravenna Mackenzie" is the real life daughter of Anton Lesser "Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright".

The book Brett Nero is seen reading is the Folio Society edition (first published in 1964) of Robert Graves's translation of "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius. (Graves's translation originally dates from 1957).

The red highlighted text embedded in the credits spells "Ubermensch" a reference to the first bullying incident being described by one of the praetorians as "mensch and ubermensch, sir". This is an obvious reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical concept of the superior man often translated as the "superman". The use of this reference also coveys the bullies' narcissistic belief that they are superior to the boy they are bullying which in their minds gives them the right to pick on the younger, smaller student. Later we also see their status as praetorians touted by them as imbuing them with special status and privilege.

Mr. Blackwell, said that "Waterloo was won on the playing fields of places like Coldwater", is a variation of a quote by the Duke of Wellington "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton". The statement refers to camaraderie and character instilled into the schoolboys who participated in such games and would eventually become the soldiers who would defend the realm.

In this story about a public school, one character is named "John Ivory", the name of the central protagonist of Giles Cooper's famous radio play about murder at a public school, "Unman, Wittering And Zigo". (In the 1971 film version, the name of the character was changed to "John Ebony" and David Hemmings played the part).

Morse is seen in the classroom about to start a lesson studying Ovid's "Metamorphoses"; he mentions without explanation that the section under study will be about "Daedalus and Icarus".

The brutal teacher Mr. Blackwell wears a badge reading "Make Britain Greater", suggesting that he belongs to a far-right, neo-Nazi-type organization like the National Front or today's BNP. (Viewers can hardly fail to be reminded by the phrasing of other right-wingers, too). The notion of teachers deviously inculcating fascistic ideas into their the minds of their students - leading them into cruelty and criminality, as here - links this "Endeavour" story with the French film "Les Rivieres Pourpres" ("The Crimson Rivers"), where the same thing happens at an isolated college.

This is the first and only "Endeavour" episode thus far in which Jim Strange is seen smoking.

In addition to the borrowings from "Unman, Wittering And Zigo", this segment pays clear homage to Lindsay Anderson's famous film about a public school, "If...", which opened in British cinemas in December, 1968, just a few weeks after the period in which this story takes place. The senior pupils wear identical uniforms to the boys in "If...", and there are scenes of boys undergoing military training and a climax in which a pupils with a rifle takes aim at a teacher from a tower window. (Anderson's film has several pupils - and one other - opening fire on the school's visitors on Speech Day; this "Endeavour" segment has one pupil shooting at a specific target). There is also a scene where a pupil is brutally flogged; in Anderson's film, this is visited on the hero (Malcolm McDowell) by school prefects; here, the punishment is carried out by a teacher. (In addition to all this, the missing boy, Rowntree, who is only seen as a corpse, shares his name with a schoolboy character in Lindsay Anderson's film.)

As in "Unman, Wittering And Zigo", the schoolboy whose name comes last on the class-register is never seen; however, the name here is "Zec", not "Zigo", suggesting that writer Russell Lewis was thinking of the well-known 1960s show-business columnist and author Donald Zec.

Other nods to Cooper's "Unman, Wittering and Zigo include a wallet found in a desk, gambling on horses, a teacher's partner threatened by pupils and the boys having surnames that are unlikely to be found in a telephone directory.

Several references to the 1971 film "Unman, Wittering And Zigo" have already been noted. That film was directed by John Mackenzie; the headmaster of Coldwater School in this story is called "Mr. Mackenzie".

Stanlow's shooting at the crowd of staff and others bears an obvious resemblance to the climax of Lindsay Anderson's "If", but, given that he is alone and aiming at one specific target, it may be that writer Russell Lewis also had a quite different film in mind, Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War movie, "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). In Kubrick's film, a trainee, nicknamed "Private Pyle" (played by Vincent D'Onofrio), is so affected by the brutal and sadistic methods of the sergeant training him - just as the cruel teacher Blackwell keeps tormenting Stanlow to "make a man of him" - that he eventually murders the sergeant before killing himself. The way in which Stanlow caresses his rifle before using it is very similar to a gesture in Kubrick's film, which is mostly set in 1968, the year in which this "Endeavour" story is set.

The surname of the much-oppressed schoolboy, Stanlow, is reminiscent of the surname of a similarly put-upon pupil, Taplow, in Terence Rattigan's play, "The Browning Version", which has been the basis of two films.

References to "Unman, Wittering and Zigo" (1971) have already been noted. One more is that the school matron in this episode is named "Seymour" - the leading lady of the 1971 film was Carolyn Seymour.

American viewers may be confused by the use of the term "public school" in this episode. Although in the U.S., a public school is a free, state-run school open to all students, in British English the term means almost the opposite. It denotes what in the U.S. would be called a "private school": a historically exclusive, application-based school that is independent from the government and generally expensive to attend.

Dak is Hindi for post or mail.

Cromwell Ames's alibi for one of his crimes is that he was in London at the time "at the bunny club". The London Playboy Club had opened in London (in Mayfair, near the London Hilton Hotel) in 1966, a little over two years before the period in which this story takes place. It is still there in the 21st century, although much less high-profile than it was in the swinging '60s.

When Shirley Trewlove encounters three stoned schoolboys at the "kissing gate", one of them threateningly tells her that, in this isolated area, "no-one can hear you scream" - a reminder of the famous advertising tagline for "Alien" (1979).

The title of the story is not explained. Icarus, in Greek mythology, was the son of the inventor Daedalus, who designed the labyrinth in which King Minos kept the Minotaur; but when Daedalus fell out of favor with the King, he was imprisoned with his son and, in confinement, made two pairs of wings, held together with wax, so that they could fly away to freedom. Daedalus succeeded, but Icarus flew too near the sun, melting the wax and thus causing his own death by a fall into the sea. The title might refer to Eddie Nero's ambitions for his son Brett, sent to a private school to improve his social status; or to Cromwell Ames's vaunting ambition in attempting to take over the Oxford underworld; or to the pretensions of Coldwater School, which result in some of its pupils becoming fascistic, or addicted to heroin, or even murderous; or perhaps the Icarus of the story is George Fancy, attempting to take on gangsters at the cost of his own life, or even Endeavour Morse himself. By being too strict with the young constable, Morse may have inadvertently pushed him to excessive and fatal risk-taking.

Final appearance of WPC Shirley Trewlove, played by Dakota Blue Richards. She appeared in 13 episodes in total.

Fourth and final appearance in this series of Mark Arden, in the role of gangster Eddie Nero, unexpectedly murdered during the story.