Idea for a show

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That is actually a great idea. So much to work with! Thursday's life was pretty amazing, long before he made his way to Oxford.

We could have flashbacks to his days of his amazing OSS service as a team leader, later meeting some former "enemy" agent on the mean streets of Soho living under a false identity in the '50s.

We could even go back, as an homage to the Endeavour ep "Sway" to see the wartime extramarital love affair with woman he later met in Oxford, after thinking she'd died in the war.

IMO, that was one of the best episodes, so moving. When grieving Thursday simply tells Morse say "she died of wounds" (showing how former agents treated later PTSD or worse deaths as attributable to battle even though her suicide was 20 years after she suffered so horribly as one of his agents), it was heartbreaking.

And the East London cases he'd have been working would leave scope for every imaginable crime and situation. Good heavens how many "faces" did Thursday take on? He might even tussle with the Krays.

What a great series that would be. But in reality, period shows are SO expensive to film, with London changing so much versus the old buildings in Oxford that can be used without much editing, it probably is unrealistic. Darnit!