Grand Finale: Difference between revisions

* The sequel series ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' had to wrap up multiple storylines:

** Alex finally put all the pieces together about the numbers, the ghost copper, and the grave in Lancashire — {{spoiler|6620 is the serial number of the dead copper who's buried up in that farm in Lancashire (the one with the weathervane that she's been seeing all season, and that was on the TV report in her hospital room in 3.01)...aka Gene Hunt. Gene was a 19-year-old PC in 1953 when he surprised a burglar in a barn on Coronation Day, and was shot through the head. His will was so strong that he didn't pass over, he created a Purgatory for coppers with issues like himself and remade himself into its guardian — the badass Gene Genie, Manc Lion, head-bashing sheriff, like John Wayne or Gary Cooper. His job is to help the coppers that end up in his realm work through their issues, then help them cross over, only he forgets every single time what's really going on}}.

** Meanwhile, everyone — including Alex — is {{spoiler|already dead. Alex died in her hospital room in the present day/reality. Shaz was a copper during the 1990s who surprised a carjacker and was stabbed to death with [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Screwdriver]]. Chris followed his superior officer into a shootout in the 1960s and was shot in the line of duty. Ray [[Driven to Suicide|committed suicide]] on Coronation Day as well, after murdering a young kid and his DCI covered it up. Each of them are made to rewatch the circumstances of their deaths by Keats, who, by the way, is [[Satan|the Devil himself]] — or at the very least, a high-ranking minion. Keats tries, and almost succeeds, in tempting the team away from Gene, actually ''breaking the world'' (destroying CID) to peel back the construct and reveal the star-covered sky everyone's been seeing. Alex's loyalty to Gene still holds, and she reforms the office.}}

** The final scene is {{spoiler|1=Gene taking the team to what is revealed to be the Railway Arms pub, where [[Magical Negro|Nelson]], the bartender from ''[[Life On Mars]]'', is waiting as a Saint Peter figure to help them cross over. Ray, Chris, and Shaz reconcile and cross over. Alex and Gene finally kiss, but it's goodbye, and she crosses over, leaving Gene to go back to CID where the newest dead copper [[Book Ends|comes barging in, shouting about his iPhone, and Gene offers him some friendly advice — "a word in your shell-like, pal"]].}}