So where does that leave Gene? Is he a God-like figure? What all this also allows writer Matthew Graham to do is to turn the whole thrust of the series round. As it turned out, she had no job to do at all, short of reminding Hunt who he actually is.
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Gene Hunt is dead! Yet as we thirsted a moment to tie those strands up, in came Jim Keats again, with the shackles very, very firmly off. His messing with the mind of Alex Drake gets turned up still further here, and while the three of them fight out a compelling battle of words, the focus soon shifts back to those three Betamax videotapes back at CID.
If our head was hurting already, it was soon going into overdrive. And as they try and wrap their heads around the inevitably quite muted crime of the week story, Ray both takes charge, and ultimately, takes the lead in discovering the truth about them all.
Shaz, Chris and Ray? Which is a good chance just to take a breather and acknowledge the quality of the acting. But step forward Philip Glenister. His portrayal of Gene Hunt over these past five years has been utterly masterful. He absolutely smacks it out the park. Remember how haunted he looked in series two episode seven, when the revelations about Chris came out? A post-credits sequence shows a clip from the s police show Dixon of Dock Green , bidding the audience goodnight.
Life on Mars Wiki Explore. Life on Mars. Characters Episodes. Ashes to Ashes. Life on Mars US. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Series 3: Episode 8 Ashes to Ashes. It's great but I just don't understand it. So what next for the pair? Talking to Graham ahead of the final episode, he says he will have been watching it this evening with Pharoah and the show's producers at his home: "We're going to have some cold beef salad and some champagne and just raise a glass to it.
For his part, Pharoah has the Railway Arms pub sign and is about to take delivery of one of the bullet-ridden doors from Hunt's Audi Quattro. And it will surely be a relief for the pair that the ending that was plotted right at the very beginning of Life on Mars has finally been revealed.
I don't tell them anything. So they know nothing in advance. It is an emotional ending. I guess we very rarely finish a show, where you really know that you are saying goodbye to a group of people.
So Gene Hunt will definitely not be returning to television? No, says Graham he will not. Although, "if Hollywood came calling Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the Lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? Chris: "Why do you think they put schwartz in their gobs?
How the bloody 'ell would I know. I'm not a geographist. Alex: "These pieces of quartz were placed in their mouths to make an ironic point. Gene: "They're not exactly Antiques Roadshow material? They're gangsters. They don't go round slicing each other up over a bloody Welsh dresser. Gene: to Keats "Intel, there's posh. Tell you what, you get reconnoitre into a sentence and I might buy you a fish supper.
Gene: "Get on to Europlod. Main switchboard's in Lions. Alan Whicker. Let's get our garlic-munching friends to put their 'orse burgers down and puts tabs on who's active. Chris: "Very Lewis Collins, don't ya think? And Alex is off! Hall who used to piss himself each week commentating on the eponymous programme and briefly we glimpse Molly imploring her mum to get up. After all, she's been knocked into a coma by that bullet for the last three years.
Hilarious and freakish and full of the game symbolism that's been a thread through the last three or four episodes it also includes the red balloon that young Alex had with her on the day her parents were killed in the car bomb all the way back to Series One; a forest of weather vanes and that shadowy figure of Sam Tyler knocking insistently on the office window.
Just a normal episode of Ashes, then? Let's face it, the diamond heist sub-plot isn't the reason we all tuned in for this and the grisly end of the Hardiman gang is a mere detail, "Alex, meet Ginger and Nobby" isn't it? Well, no, this final case is the really important one because it's the last test for Shaz, Ray and Chris as their 'guv' lies stripped of his powers and his identity on the floor of the squad room. It's their redemption before they enter Heaven.
The deaths of the Hardimans the hanged man as a symbol of 'ending the struggle' so conclusive here and foreshadowing what we discover about Ray and the subsequent heist do afford us some wonderfully funny lines and classic Huntisms. It wouldn't be an Ashes episode without those and we do get some corkers here. The operation also clearly shows that each of the officers in Gene's care can and do emerge from under his influence and confidently organise themselves "Bloody, hell.
He can do the Generation Game all on his own," remarks Gene of Chris's work. When Gene takes off after Alex the rest of the team pull together, Ray taking charge, "Yeah, who needs the guv, eh? You need him more than you know, Raymondo. You can cut the tension between Gene and Alex with a knife after Alex disappeared from their little evening liaison in the previous episode "some people just don't know a good thing" he snaps. He's wounded and vulnerable and takes it out on Chris and Shaz in the office after discovering one of the Hardiman victims briefly regains consciousness at the crime scene, his officers failing to see that the man was still alive.
Again, it's a nod to the semi-conscious states that Gene's world induces. Further to this, Chris relates a dream of Viv, their colleague killed in the riot featured in Episode 7 'all hunched up amongst this fire', which of course indicates that Viv has gone to his fiery demise in the demonic Keat's own circle of hell, unable to benefit from Gene's guidance.
Gene has a real go at Alex for humiliating him "you made a fool of me last night". Pointedly, he says that they've both lost sight of who they are. Alex reassures him.
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