User:Pha08rsi/Series 3: Episode 8 (Ashes to Ashes)

{{Infobox Television episode | Title = Episode 08| Series = Ashes to Ashes Simon Crawford Collins Matthew Graham
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 * Episode = 8
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 * Airdate = May 21, 2010
 * length = 60 minutes
 * Writer = Matthew Graham
 * Director = Jonny Campbell
 * producer = Beth Willis
 * executive_producer = Jane Featherstone
 * Episode list = List of Ashes to Ashes episodes
 * Prev = 7

Episode 8 is the last episode of series 3 of the British science fiction/police procedural drama television series, which is the sequel to Life on Mars. It marks the end of the time-series entirely providing answers that had been plaguing audiences through the run of Life on Mars as well as Ashes to Ashes.

Synopsis
The episode reveals the significance of several of the characters' 'hallucinations' during the run of the series as well as the pivotal roles played Gene Hunt and Jim Keats. For this episode Keats assigns Drake the task of to reveal the manner in which Sam Tyler died and urges her to find the identity of the dead body located in the photograph.

Plot
Alex is dreaming in the CID department. Her daughter Molly is in a stadium cheering a blow-up doll of Alex who is playing a game where she has to reach the numbers 6620 before the blow-up doll of Gene Hunt catches up. As he draws closer, Alex appears to revert from her dream and sees a figure (that can be assumed to be Sam Tyler) knocking on the window pane of the department. Back in dream-land her panicing daughter shouts at the Alex-doll that Gene is gaining on her. A flash of the dead police officer triggers a gun shot in which the Alex-doll drops and the real Alex emerges. She says desperately: 'I have to know the truth'. The opening sequence is revealed to be a dream as Alex finally wakes up. She ponders over the photograph that Keats gave to her in the previous episode questioning Hunt's role in Sam's death.

Alex then turns up at a crime scene where several dead bodies have been found speculated to be targets of a 'gang-land hit'. As Ray cuts down a body that was hung upside down, tensions flare between Drake and Hunt. Hunt is angry at Drake for leaving him in the lurch at the end of the previous episode with whom he was hoping to instigate a romance. To the shock of the officers one of the victims is still alive and splutters out an incomprehensible word but dies very soon after.

In the office the investigation continues with Ray, Chris and Shaz reminiscing over the death of Viv. Drake is in Keats' office who knows the location depicted in the image. Drake is confused as to why Hunt would kill Sam Tyler. Keats implores Drake to disover the