The Truth about Gene Hunt - Ashes to Ashes - Series 3 Episode 8 Highlight - BBC One
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In this final episode of Ashes to Ashes, we finally find out who Gene Hunt really is.
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i always thought glenister was a good actor, but in this scene he proved that he was actually a fantastic actor
The ending of the show hits you hard man
You aren't kidding.
I'll admit, this is my first time watching it and I didn't quite understand until it was explained to me after. So it didn't have the same impact on me. But oh man the feels when I rewatch it some day, I know they're coming.
I never wouldâve thought it wouldâve went this way
My heart feels sad for Gene after only recently watching all of Ashes to Ashes đđđ
I know heâs not real and it was just a TV show......... but damn the way it all ended đđđđ€ x
Without doubt the best ending of any series ever,
Gene was the angel, Jim was the devil, Nelson was the gatekeeper. It was a display of heaven and hell.
U got it on point there
And somehow Ray ended up in heaven đ
@@RK-ep8qy relevant to his 70s background, he was certainly a good guy. context is important for sure
@@jacksonh7111 I know it was a joke
Duh
When he says âonly they werenât kidsâ you can hear the lump in his throat, such amazing acting
I've always felt that the sadness in this scene stems almost entirely from the physical look Glenister gives as he remembers his character's death and as he remembers the lie he told himself in order to become who he is
Yep. I got the same emotion when I watched it when broadcast. It's like the writers managed to encompass the genuine sensation of the expression "someone must have walked over my grave." The whole sequence plays like we see things in dreams. Although not in the clip here, when Jim Keats walks in from the shadows, it just adds to it. The way situations, thoughts, people, locations flit about in our dreams. Hard to write, but kudos to Kudos - they really treaded fascinating ground here. I genuinely hope Ashley Pharaoh and Matthew Graham are sure their decision to revisit all this with new 'Life on Mars' (as rumoured) will have the mileage to keep us similarly gripped!
"He didn't deserve a shallow grave, did he? DID HE ALEX?"
"No... You didn't."
In my opinion, Gene started off like Sam and Alex, a confused soul. However over time, he became the ferryman of the souls type. He sticks with it in my opinion because he never was a real policeman. He was still a rookie where he died. So in the afterlife, he has found his true calling as an shit-kicking copper and a mentor and guide for his men.
"He didnt deserve a shallow grave did he? Did he, Alex?" "No, you didn't" That got me!
The most moving bit of this clip is the following, in my opinion;
Gene: He didn't deserve a shallow grave did he... Did he Alex?
Alex: No... No you didn't...
He used her name for a rare once :3
True. I also like that bit at the end of the episode where they kiss. Itâs the only time I can remember that Gene gives half a smile đ
Iâve been obsessed by first life on Mars and now Ashes to ashes.
Absolutely brilliant!! Phillip Glenister... bloody brilliant actor!
Literally just watched the end of Ashes To Ashes. All i can say is WOW. Simply The Best TV series I've EVER watched - (and I've seen a few)
Did you watch life on Mars first?
@@lukkylulu Yes,absolutely brilliant. đ đ
@@fivestardexter1872 agreed!
@@lukkylulu Probably the best show ever made.
@@fivestardexter1872 agreed
I never thought the series would end with his revelation..for me its one of the best endings ever seen on a TV show .
Philip Glenister should have won awards just for this scene alone. Incredible acting đ. The horror on his face as he's remembering it all at once breaks my heart.
Gene was real, he acted like a ferryman to all of the other officers, because he discovered the truth.
I miss gene hunt
Lelly Garwood Best moment ever- Is it Gene? Is he kicking in a nonse?
Lelly Garwood heâs ok đ heâs doing advertising for itv so please donât worryâs genes ok đcoz if you worry it makes me worry đȘ
To think the hints were there right from the start of Life On Mars. Only two who didn't question what Sam was saying or not calling him nuts were Gene and Nelson because they knew.
IMPO Gene Hunt is one of the best TV characters created in the last 20 years and Phillip Glennister has given 5 seasons worth of epic performances. It's good to go when the series is a at it's height, but I'm really going to miss this.
Absolutely fell in love with his character amazing actor
Watching this after a long time away from it. What's really great is the shifts in person by the end "HE didn't deserve a shallow grave" - Gene is talking about himself in the third person because he's become something much different in death and the afterlife than what he was when he was alive. And you can hear the sense of justice/injustice in what he says. He might of bent the laws a lot, but he was always a moral man who treated people right and made sure justice was done properly.
Didn't watch Ashes, but did see the finale -- explained so much! Absolutely fantastic!!! So the ones who had no idea and couldn't remember were properly dead and the ones who can are on the brink of death...genius!!!
But how does alex still remember even though she is dead in season 3 and not in the coma does it just take time to forget or something?
@@olliered9924 she starts to forgot
Just watched Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes for the first time, finished last week. Incredible stuff, especially from Gene / Phillip Glenister.
One of the best television series I've ever seen. Brilliant actors, writing and directing.
Superb acting, an absolute masterclass, no other way of putting it.
This is really brilliant acting. Amazing how Philip Glenister has these nuances for Gene... quite haunting scene this.
I've rewatched this episode a couple times now, and I still start bawling like a baby at this scene every time. Poor Gene ... *sob*
Amazing three series , just finished the lot , unforgettable
âHe didnât deserve a shallow grave Did he Alex?â No, no You didnât . That got me, Gene has been in that world so long he completely forgotten his past life and thatâs when the great Gene Genie was most vulnerable. Absolutely amazing watched it all again and now started life on mars again because I forgot how it ends with Sam Tyler, loving Annie all over again
Such a beautiful episode, and a very satisfying end to the series. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in making this show.
Just finished watching this series for the first time about 10 years after it aired. Brilliant show. The ending kept me awake most of the night thinking about it. Glad to here there going to do another 5 episodes of life on Mars, to show Sam's ending.
Watched the final episode the other day... couldn't stop sobbing throughout! A fantastic conclusion to a fantastic show.
Philip Glenister - AMAZING. Give the man a BAFTA, now.
I was not ok for a few days after this finale
Same here.
ditto
i just watched it for the first time, and iâm going to need several days
Still not okay now a month after finishing it đđđđ€
I cried like a baby through the whole of the last episode. This series was truly brilliant :)
This was the best episode I think just so many different emotions in this one episode
@barneyjones33 Gene took Sam to the pub, which means that Sam has now "passed over" into heaven, along with Annie. Think of Gene's world as a purgatory for coppers, the place where they go after they die to either find redemption and go to the pub (go to heaven) or make the wrong choices and transfer to Keats' department (go to hell).
Gene tells alex he forgot all about his past but surely if he took sam the pub then he would of been reminded of all this back then before alex even turned up
Watched both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes in 2020 as i had nothing to do and it popped up on Netflix. Both fantastic shows, glad i gave it a chance!!
This ending is damn depressing
Philip Glenister is an incredible actor
Ashes to Ashes is brilliant, and it's not a copy of American "Life On Mars". It's a sequel of British Life on Mars.
Fantastic conclusion to a classic show. Loved all concerned with Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Going to miss Gene and his crew so much. :-(
The ending of this series was outstanding!
phil and keeley are amazing in this scene. well done 2 them both. U can see tears in Phil's eyes
I rarely ever watch TV but I followed Life on Mars from episode 3 and I was absolutely hooked on both series'. This show was perfect in every single way - nothing comes remotely close for me and Gene Hunt is one of the best characters ever devised by man!
I LOVE Gene Hunt...what a guy. Just saw this episode last night (Australia). Woke up thinking about it. What a show.
Peace.
I always knew in my heart that the body wouldnât be Samâs. Whatever else Gene was, he was never a murderer. Was still very surprised when it turned out to be his own body though. I hadnât seen that coming.
It also answered the question of why the copper who was stalking Alex didnât look like Sam Tyler at all. Because it wasnât Sam Tyler, it was a 19-year-old Gene.
I also knew instinctively that there was something wrong with Keats. He was pretending to be virtuous on the outside, but his obsession with âtaking Gene downâ bordered on the psychopathic. For him to be unmasked as the Devil at the end was about right, then.
It was always going to be difficult to write a good ending to the series, but they pulled it off pretty well đđŒ
Best programme EVER! When I first saw the last episode I found myself laughing (hints of Hell like Keats listening to "Club Tropicana" and elevators), smiling (Gene and Alex reminiscing), crying (the truth about Gene and when he said goodbye, especially to Alex), shouting at the screen (Keats), gobsmacked (truth about Gene, death of Quattro)- all in one episode, amazing!
They really hit this one out of the park. What a great episode, and series.
@rockguitar2012 I always assumed he didn't realise what he was doing when Sam left. I doubt he would remember such a big thing as that and then forget again. The emotional struggle he went through when Alex discovered the truth couldn't be forgotten so easily
Fantastic character, fantastic show, fantastic actor ... LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!
I feel blessed to have watched both the shows now
I watched AtA on and off 10 years ago when it first came on TV. I was in school so didnât really understand it properly but enjoyed it nonetheless. Just finished rewatching on iPlayer and itâs probably the best show Iâve seen. Few questions though;
If Gene has forgotten heâs dead, then why does he follow Alex to his grave and points a gun to her telling her to stop digging?
Why is young Geneâs ghost haunting Alex?
What does Gene say to Bevan before he dies that makes him scream?
Who is that weird escaped prisoner who acts as if he is Sam Tyler?
"If Gene has forgotten heâs dead, then why does he follow Alex to his grave and points a gun to her telling her to stop digging?"
Presumably he knows something is in there that would shatter his world, even if he has forgotten what it is exactly.
"Why is young Geneâs ghost haunting Alex?"
It's probably symbolic of something, or maybe just because that world is a very strange place.
"What does Gene say to Bevan before he dies that makes him scream?"
I think he told Bevan the truth of the world they inhabited. Presumably Bevan is one of the real coppers who died somehow and went to purgatory with Gene Hunt. Covering up a murder and going after the comedian guy is clearly a bad decision and will probably lead to his "transfer" to Jim Keats department with the weird elevator. I think Viv who died in the prison riot was also one of the real people in purgatory.
"Who is that weird escaped prisoner who acts as if he is Sam Tyler?"
I was confused about this, but I read a few interviews and I think what Gene says is pretty much right, the guy is a con man or a fantasist, not actually Sam.
I wonder how many people in that purgatory world are actually real, or if most of them are just like NPCs in a video game.
VainerCactus 0 thanks man makes more sense now. Guessing youâre a fan too?
@@shotta287 Yeah, just finished watching Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes this week. Was a pretty good series.
VainerCactus 0 For sure. Wonât find anything as good nowadays on TV.
VainerCactus 0 he definitely tells Bevan that heâs already dead in my opinion and youâre right about the con artist.
This broke my heart I remember watching this.....
Only the BBC could make a television programme this good!! This was bloody amazing!!
I was almost convinced that Gene was the villain of the show, it would have been an interesting twist if he was feeding souls to the other side to keep himself "alive" so to speak
That would have been such a dark ending
Back when the BBC remembered how to do drama.
Have binge watched Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes whilst recovering from Covid. I was heartbroken at the end of A2A Season 2 when Gene disappeared from Alex's World - I realised I'd fallen for him like Alex had. Have just watched this final episode of season 3 - twice in a row and spent the last 20 minutes both times bawling my eyes out. Philip Glenister did a phenomenal job in portraying a tough character with a subtle soft side. I was praying he wasn't going to turn out to be a baddie, I would have felt so cheated. It felt so right to have him turn out to be like an angel into the light for other lost souls. I still feel bereft however and I think that feeling will haunt me for a while yet. Brilliant concept and brilliant writing
I also just finished watching both shows during lockdown, I always remember seeing ads for the show growing up and also randomly catching the last 5 mins of A2A wondering what it was all about, took me over a decade to bother finding out. And it was absolutely fantastic, it helped that John Simm was in LOM because I first loved him as the Master.
My watching of "Life On Mars" and Ashes To Ashes" coincided with watching the last season of NBC's "The Good Place." It had a more powerful impact on me because of that.
Brilliant acting! You can see gene getting emotional reliving it
@MichaelBradley1988 sorry, but the co-creators and writers of LoM have confirmed several times that Sam is alive but in a coma throughout the series. He really does wake up in 2006 at the end, but realises that he doesn't want to live that life any more - the reference to him not being able to feel anything should be taken metaphorically, not literally - so he commits suicide by jumping off the building so that he can go back to GeneWorld.
I came here to cry again. đąđąđą
I actually cried when Bolly and The Gov finally kissed :')
One of the best scenes the BBC ever produced
Cried so much at this. ASHES TO ASHES FOR LIFE BABYY!
I loved how it aired before the weekend and the following was the epic end to Lost which was a similar ending.
I've just rewatched Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes with my husband, his first time. He came damned close to the basics.
My thought were Keats was a demon not the devil per se and Gene trying to save the coppers from themselves so they could be strong enough not to be corrupted. The whole show was leaning towards bent cops.
As Gene was a rooky, he admitted learning so much from Sam and Alex and perhaps needed them as equals but never letting his guard down because in his head he was the Sheriff.
Either way, it's a fabulous show and there's hint of another series with Gene and Sam. Before I die please? X
still makes me cry
outstanding. Just brilliant.
Is there a more heartbreaking end to a TV show ever?
Best series ever!
How is this the first time I've seen this clip in 2018?!
Oh god, I'm crying AGAIN!
Somehow I could see another "troubled copper' in this world: Hank Schrader from "Breaking Bad."
That's a crossover I would pay to see.
fantastic series, cant believe it ended 12 years ago
Amazing ending. GENE HUNT - LEGEND!
Will the railway arms now be a tourist spot? I loved both shows. The writing was brilliant and the acting top notch. I'm particularly glad to see a better reveal than the horribly unimaginative ending of the American LoM show. Kudos to Kudos for making a very satisfying ending to a great series!
@HeyArnoldsspleen That's exactly what I thought and this episode was the best drama I've seen since 'The End of Time'. I also thought destroying the Quatro to make it final was like the TARDIS being blown apart in the finale. LOve them both, but sadly only one survive. Also loved the last line of A2A finale. Gonna miss The Manc LIon.
absolutely. pure entertainment.
Right in the feels...
managed to watch the whole series over 2 year late, but well worth it, the finale was a good one for halloween.
Before I watch the episode, I thought it will be the best epic moment of the ATA and Life on Mars.
Turned out that it's the saddest moment.........
@AndrewJohnWalls No, he forgot, but remembered eventually with Sam, then forgot again, then remembered at the end of Ashes. Right at the end of the last episode we see him forgetting yet again, sitting in his office looking for a new car and meeting a new detective.
pedazo de escena...!!! casi lloro xD
saludos desde chile
Excellent revelation. I like how in the end the show, the franchise really, was never about Sam or Alex, it was about Gene Hunt. This was a good send off and if they never did anything with the character again I'd be happy. Although I'd like 2 c a series set in the 60s or something featuring GEne, Chris and Ray, called Gene Genie
Brilliant final episode.Sam had jumped off the building in life on mars,so died, Alex was dead,Chris and Ray were dead,Shaz was dead and they were all in limbo before going to Heaven (the pub)or hell (the lift shaft) , I was expecting Hunt to wake up in 2010 and realise it had all been his dream as he was the one mad or in a coma and that Shaz would be a top ranking detective and be his boss!
Still canât get over this.
I was so confused, and now i'm just like 'OMFG' watched it 3 times :')
realized that Gene changes to the young himself when Keats beats him or was I mistaken?
yes that is correct. when keates beats gene, it was like gene's pride was ruined, and his world was tearing apart. that's when the real gene emerged while he for that short time was a broken man
Cannot wait for the new series Lazarus!! Great to see Gene & Sam again!
I don't have much hope for it to be honest. Its on BBC & its the most Woke outlet there is.
@@Stuart267 Tory BBC
@@___UN tories labour same shit
@@Stuart267 you were right.
@faceofboe i totally agree, he deserves an award for this class show.
To me it was heaven and hell, when that jerk tried to take Chaz, and Raymond in the elevator and you could hear the screaming and hell raising, you just knew. The pub was the transition phase to their next stop.
@Fifty1stState
According to the clip, he died on cooronation day (Queen Elizabeth II: 2 June 1953)
So it seems he's been there a lot longer then all the other characters.
Assuming the time line was exactly the same as it was in the alternate reality they're all in.
yeah, absolutely FABULOUS tv!!! loved every episode!!! ;-))) xXx
Actually,A2A finished before Lost, so the originality belongs to them, and as co-creator Mathew Graham revealed the idea had been around since the end of season 2 in a behind the scenes excerpt. Drake had never returned from her coma, the whole part of her 'waking up' was her entering a deeper coma caused by going into a coma in a coma. She had never returned from her original comatose state. No one is really bringing into question the quality of ending LoM received either.
@Virginia u trolling? COPY OF THE AMERICAN SERIES? Series originated in Britain as life on mars, this was the sequel, America took one of the best British series ever and spoiled it!
She's clearly not very bright, and also melodramatic plus narcissistic. Thinks she's the center of the universe, and can't handle the frustration when the universe doesn't cooperate with her delusion. The show doesn't turn out the way she expected, so it 'ruins' her life and it's all the writers' fault! Wah!
@twoface0 He didn't forget. He was always playing the role to assist them on their journey.
@BlackOrchids6 Thanks for that, I liked the way he sat in his office at the end and started choosing his next vehicle....Mercedes!
i really hope there will be a third installment. maybe called dust to dust. set in the late 80's or even 90's. i feel there is still alot of mileage left in gene hunt's character and especially now as gene has re-remembered his gatekeeper role, the story could be taken even darker.
If there is to be another sequel then its title will be an iconic Bowie song from the 90s, as the previous two shows' titles were for their decades.
@@rtozier2011 I nominate "The Prettiest Star".
@@Seal0626 I'd go for 'The Man Who Sold the World', because although originally Bowie it was also covered notably by Nirvana in 1995, and includes the line 'I must have died alone a long long time ago'.
@@rtozier2011 consider, though:
Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace child
I moved up to take a place near you
So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried
It's a trick to make you see wide
It can all but break your heart in pieces
Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The Prettiest Star
One day, though it might as well be someday
You will rise up high and take us all away
All because of what you are
The Prettiest Star
Yeah but now there isn't really any mystery for the viewer, every single new character we now know is just in purgatory. I mean, they could expand in certain elements but there would'nt be that much mystery/ it would be harder to pull off.
true. one thing keeps going round in my mind.... if all the main characters died in strange circumstances and found themselves in genes world ( peragtory for coppers ), then what about all the criminals? how did they get drawn into gene's world also? same with sam tyler's mum and dad? based off the theory that it's troubled souls in pergatory, then surely that would make everyone that has ever appeared in LOM, or A2A 'troubled souls' ( aka dead ) also?
dolphtrains2 I thought maybe they were all figments of Hunts mind? Or maybe a collection of all characters from each of their minds merged into one reality?!
My thought is that they all get caught up between the time they've come from and a year that's important to them and that Gene Hunt's world is the team and department he's built up to help them move on. And that heaven and hell are just hallucinations like the Test Card Girl or the Clown of Death that they all share and go on to experience after accepting their deaths.
So it is actually the past and all these criminals, family members and other coppers exist back then but some are coppers who have suffered trauma and suffer from hallucinations as a result. It's convoluted but while I liked the ending, I felt like it didn't address the most obvious elephant in the room; the fact they're in the 'past' and they seem to be able to change time slightly. It's a shame because they seemed to address everything else except the time travel.
Perhaps the criminals represented the dark feelings in every one of them. The part of themselves they needed to conquer in order to move on.
I think maybe the people they recognised were constructs made by gene or someone higher up than gene to help the troubled cops get through the events they needed to in order to get peace, closure, whatever, and all the other people, the ones they donât recognise, such as the criminals and that, are constructs made so that theyâd believe it was real? And then Morgan and Keats were the devil, or connected to the devil, trying to tempt them away from their own personal heaven at the end of their time in purgatory or limbo or whatever.
This is iconic.
incredible tv
I always thought it was a bad mistake to show Gene looking at his old ID photo BEFORE the speech. It would've been so much better - final confirmation of who he's talking about - if the photo and name had been revealed AFTER the speech.
All the same, great acting and a great show. How I'll miss it...
Who would ever have thought LOST's writers would follow the same concept? Okay their were differences - but the lost souls in purgatory was pretty much the same! IMHO even though I liked LOST, LoM/A2A answered things so much clearer. I will miss this brilliant series!
Brilliant