In a way I’d rather they had just let it rest with the question over what caused the crash. It would have been the braver way to end a drama that was more about questions than answers. That other policeman had the right idea when he said to Stallwood, “We don’t need to know why. I want you to wrap this one up and move on.” But no, they had to go and show us the whole crash over again with the wasp in the frame. So was everything tied up in the end? Some stories worked themselves out more satisfactorily than others. The Jane and Richard love affair came to a rather predictable end. Jane came clean with her incredibly blank fiancé Dave, failing to be won over by his romantic entreaty: “Everything’s booked. The registry. The pub.” But silly old mid-life-panicky Richard failed to turn up at the Champagne Bar at St Pancras to whisk Jane off to a new life in Paris. His stoical wife showed up instead, well-versed in letting down her mad husband’s various young lovers, and apparently happy to return to her repressed, loveless life with him. Jane went to Paris on her own. I believe we were supposed to yell “go girl!” or something of that ilk. Poor Brian Edwards had to confess to his wife that he had in fact killed his mother-in-law by hitting her head repeatedly on the dashboard just after the collision, undoing her seatbelt to make it look like she’d died accidentally, so angry was he that she was taking over their lives. The police were about to question him. I’m quite worried about Brian, actually, now I think about it. Please can we have one more episode? (Joke!) Well, we’ve got there, and I can’t say it’s been emotional; considering it dealt with a car crash it could have been far more hard-hitting. It was exasperating, mainly, but with occasional moments of impact. Do ITV give out prizes to the people who tuned in every night at 9pm? There must be an awful lot of people who’ve stuck with it through the week. Do they get a sort of Christmas bonus for being a jolly hard-working viewer? Nah, didn’t think so. Just being able to watch something else now is prize enough.
