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| “ | Morse: Perhaps, but what did you intend to do with her? Just sell her off to the highest bidder? And that's why you took Rosie, because you need a new model, because Emily had grown up. [Moment of silence] Sheridan: She was... perfect. Sugar and spice... And all... things nice. |
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| ~ Morse revealed Sheridan's next plan prepared for Emily, with Sheridan revealing his morbid obsession over Emily Bayard to the police as his only response, before being punched by Thursday. |
Dr. Lester Sheridan is a minor antagonist in the Series 6 of Endeavour, and the main antagonist of its first episode, "Pylon".
He was a pedophilic child abuser and molester who kidnapped children and drugged them, so that he could take photos of them and sell them to pedophilic criminals. He was particularly responsible for the kidnapping and suffering of both Emily Bayard and Rosie Johnston three years later.
He was portrayed by Roger May, who also portrayed Canon Damien Fox in Father Brown.
Biography[]
Dr. Sheridan was seemly a friendly and kind historical researcher and psychologist, but deep down he was a morbid pedophile. He kidnapped and molested the children, before taking photos of children being drugged to sell them to his other partners.
Three years before the story, Sheridan kidnapped the ten-year-old Emily Bayard and used his method upon her, drugging her with sedatives and repeatedly molested her (despite his claims of never doing so). To evade capture, he also made Emily to pose as his daughter and forged the photos into Victorian Age photos, putting them together with the photos shot by Lewis Carroll to shield himself and his fellow partners. He also kept some photos for pure entertainment.
Three years later, in the present day, Emily's progression into the teens had made her lost Sheridan's "favor", and as such he kidnapped the nine-year-old Rosie Johnston from the local village fete. During the investigation of Anne Kirby's death and Rosie's missing, Sheridan was questioned to be a suspect after the police discovered the photos he collected, but Sheridan evaded the suspicions by proclaiming those photos were taken by Lewis Carroll, who was also famous for his photography of children (like Alice Liddell, whom the titular protagonist of Alice in Wonderland is based upon).
Nevertheless, Morse later discovered that the photos were actually fake, since he discovered that one of the photos had the same mirror, statue, and furnace as those in Dr. Sheridan's house, which Morse initially visited after Anne Kirby went missing. It was revealed that Sheridan used special technology and skills to alter those photos, making them look like they were shot in the 19th century, but in fact, they were shot in the 1960s. After rescuing Emily from Sheridan's house, Morse, Thursday, Alan Jago and Ronnie Box tracked Sheridan down and soon found his hiding place, where he sedated Rosie and prepared to take more fetish photos.
When being confronted by the police, Sheridan showed no remorse over what he did and revealed that he sold children's photos to a group whom he claimed to be "hobbyists" that shared his freakish taste. Morse then pointed out that Sheridan planned to sell Emily to the highest bidder as their sex slave after she became a teenager, whilst making Rosie her substitute. With a sadistic smile, Sheridan only lamented to Morse that Emily was utterly perfect and nice, much to everyone's disgust.
Enraged, Thursday punched Sheridan on the nose out of disgust and tried to beat him up, but Morse went to calm him down. Sheridan was soon taken away by the police. Both Emily and Rosie were sent back to their respective parents.
Trivia[]
- Whilst having a little screen time in the episode that contained several cases, Sheridan was technically the main antagonist of "Pylon" since he intentionally harmed two of the four victims in this episode.
- Anne Kirby's death was revealed to be an accident (with Mrs. Skynner actually tried to save Anne along with her husband right after her car hitting Anne accidentally).
- Anne's presumed killer was framed by Jago's minions and later died of drug overdose.
- However, the missing of Rosie and the traumatic experience of Emily were both out of criminal actions, making Sheridan the only true villain in this episode besides the more recurring corrupt police officers.
- Sheridan is one of the very few culprits in Inspector Morse franchise that didn't kill anyone. Even so, being a remorseless kidnapper, a child rapist, a pedophile and even a child sex trafficker, by no doubt he is one of the most hateful and heinous criminals in the entire franchise.
External links[]
- Lester Sheridan on the Pure Evil Wiki.
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