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Rocket is an episode of the British television detective/crime show Endeavour shown on ITV. It was first broadcast in 2013.

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A munitions factory, British Imperial Electric, is prepared for a royal visit by being painted and cleaned ready for it to be filmed. After the visit the company secretary, Alice Vexin, finds the body of Percy Malleson in a storage room on the factory floor where he has been bludgeoned to death.

The police arrive and start to question the workers and the Broom family who own and run the factory. During the enquiries Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) meets Alice and it turns out they were friends at University before Morse was thrown out.

A search of the dead mans locker leads to discovery of a gun. Morse searches the dead mans flat and finds a pair of hand made shoes. The shoe maker gives a different name for the dead man and this links him as being the main suspect in the case of a missing girl 12 years before.

Suspicion falls on a young man Lenny Frost who was sacked from the factory and is said to hold a grudge against Percy Malleson who got him sacked. Morse contracts a relative of Percy Malleson and she says that he had returned to visit his dying mother and clear his name.

During the case of the missing girl 12 years earlier all members of the Broom family were interviewed including a now deceased brother Harry. The girl had worked on a farm which boarders the property where the family live. They all deny havening any knowledge of the girl or why Percy Malleson would come back to work at the factory.

Lenny Frost breaks into the factory to steal secrets of the new missile to sell to Arab investors who want to check details of the design before they invest in the company. On his exit he is killed while crossing the factory floor.

Alice calls Morse to tell him that she remembers something about the case of the missing girl. There is a tree in the grounds of the house that has the girl’s initials and those of Harry Broom carved into it. Richard Broom tells Morse and Thursday that on the day of the girl’s disappearance that his brother argued with her and the next day Richard found her body in the woods. Supposing that his brother had killed the girl he buried the body. When the police dig it up they also find a few other unidentified objects in the grave.

When re-watching the footage to the visit to the factory Morse notices that Reg Tracepurcel, the factory foreman, is the only person not wearing a jacket. Thursday (Roger Allam) and Morse confront him and suggest he got his jacket covered in paint when he murdered Percy and find the missing jacket hidden in the factory. They also realise it was he who murdered the missing girl 12 years earlier and Lenny Frost.