First broadcast 12th March 2023.

Morse's investigation into a number of untimely death notices in the Oxford Mail takes him to a series of funerals and then behind the curtain at a funeral directors'.

Mo Sesay - Reverend Thamwood
Brian Pettifer - Jephthah Claypole
Will Brown - Hal Claypole
Christopher Godwin - Theo Conklin
Victoria Alcock - Violet 'Vi' Bingley
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Jack Bannon - Sam Thursday
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Meg Kubota - Dr. Andrea Massey
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Jo Stone-Fewings - Dr. Adam Fortescue
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Jack Laskey - Peter Jakes
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Joseph Macnab - Snakebite
Tomi Ogbaro - Lance Stockley
Richard Ridings - DI Chesney Finch
Laura Branigan - Libby Ventnor
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Philip Wright - John Bingley
Jack Hamilton - Tomahawk
Danny Webb - DI Arthur Lott
Ross Green - Reverend Theodore Affcott
Phil Daniels - Charlie Thursday
Rufus Wright - Chief Superintendent Dominic Prettyman
Ty Hurley - CID