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| “ | Actually... I think they'll pin another medal on my chest. History's written by the victor, Morse. You know that. Bad apples? That's you two, I'm afraid. In my version of events, at least. And since that's all they'll have, it's rather all that counts. You see, when Chard told me you'd got away, I had to improvise. Right now, every copper in the county is out looking for you. Pity you won't be around to appreciate my solution. There, I'm afraid... Endeth the lesson. | „ |
| ~ Deare taunting Morse, revealing his incrimination against the latter, moments before he was shot and killed by Angela Fairbridge. |
Clive Deare, also known as ACC Deare, is the secondary antagonist in the television series Endeavour, which served the prequel of Inspector Morse TV series. He was an Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) in Oxford who was involved in several heinous crimes and corruption.
In Series 2, the direct murderer of both Eric Patterson and George Aldrich, and being the archenemy of DS Peter Jakes. In spite of his limited appearance, Deare's actions had affected Morse and several other characters even after his death.
He was portrayed by James Wilby, who also portrayed the Robert Orwell in Agatha Christie's Poirot and young colonel James Barclay in Sherlock Holmes.
Biography[]
Past[]
Clive Deare first appeared as the Oxford's Assistant Chief Constable, or ACC. He first reached Morse and was presented himself as a righteous and reasonable authority figure, who was awared about the county's corruption. However, deep down, Deare was nothing but a heartless, corrupt and callous psychopath.
In the past, when he was a mere detective, Deare was bribed by the pedophine ring of Blenheim Vale and assisted their leader, Gerald Wintergreen and Josiah Landesman, into interrogating the boys who blew up Wintergreen's car with torture and abuse.
The boys was tortured and forced to give in their leader, Peter Williams, who was then abducted, murdered and buried by the criminals. Deare later assisted Wintergreen and Landesman to hide any trace of evidence.
Present[]
Ten years later, journalist Eric Patterson reached George Aldrich, one of the victims in Blenheim Vale who was thrown in prison, to investigate about Blenheim Vale's darkest secrets as the structure was about to be made into a new headquarters for the police. After Aldrich escaped from prison to help, Deare sent his corrupt underlings to beat Patterson to death and faked it to be an accident by the railroad. Deare later located Aldrich and murdered him, but the case was witnessed by a ten-year-old runaway named Tommy Cork.
Whilst pretending to be a righteous man in front of Morse and Thursday, Deare and his men eventually found and abducted Tommy, before he set up a plot to murder Thursday and Morse. After the murder against Morse was failed, Deare garroted his boss Chief Constable Rupert Standish, framing Morse, before taking Tommy to Blenhelm Vale and lured Morse to find Thursday. In the meantime, Morse discovered from Peter Jakes, who revealed himself to be one of the victims from Blenheim Vale, that Deare was a part of Wintergreen and Landesman's criminal rings and tortured the boys, which was still a traumatized experience to him.
Unable to persuade either Strange or Jakes to help him, Morse went to Blenheim Vale to find Thursday and Tommy alone. Upon seeing Morse, Thursday revealed that he already grasped Deare's true intentions to wipe out him and Morse, two obstacles for Deare that would never yield to either corruption or dark trauma, when he reached them. However, Deare appeared from the dark and shot Thursday on the chest, heavily injured him.
Morse was horrified and enraged, calling out Deare's crimes, but Deare only nonchalantly revealed that he already set up his version to demonize Morse and Thursday through incrimination, whilst he would get away with it and even gain a new medal for killing Morse. Just as he was about to kill Morse, Deare was fatally shot and killed by Angela Fairbridge.
Even with his death, however, Deare managed to frame Morse succssfully for killing CC Standish. It made Morse to be arrested and imprisoned. After his name was cleared and those involved with Blenheim Vale were arrested, Morse was deeply traumatized by the event and temporarily lost his faith on police or justice, and the authority's concealing of Blenheim Vale's deepest truth only made things worse.
Trivia[]
- It is widely speculated that Deare is responsible for, or at least behind, the theft of evidential notebook in "Trove".
- Amongst the corrupt police officers Morse had confronted, Deare holds the highest rank for being an Assistant Chief Constable.
- Even he ended up being killed, Deare is the first Endeavour villain (and in-universe chronologically the first criminal who appeared in the whole Inspector Morse television franchise) to ever succeeded in defeating Morse with his strategies, making him one of the most dangerous and most influential villains in the whole series.
- By the installments' release date, however, Deare is the second Morseverse villain who defeated or nearly defeated Morse, after Hugo De Vries from the Inspector Morse main series.
- It is originally speculated that Deare is the main antagonist of Endeavour in spite of his limited appearance. However, after the series finale was aired, it is revealed that the returned Arthur Lott has even wider influences than Deare, whilst taking part in covering the Blenheim Vale crimes already. This makes Lott the main antagonist of Endeavour, whilst Deare had become the main antagonist of the series instead.
- In addition, Lott had one more on-screen appearance than Deare. His previous appearance was the pilot movie (or the first episode) before his return in the series finale that revealed his association with the Series 9's events, thus becoming the main antagonist of Series 9 and the entire show.
External Links[]
- Clive Deare on the Pure Evil Wiki
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