"You're not fit for work, Kierce."
"No, I'n not."
Wow, That final bombshell in thedying seconds of the episode has left me reeling.
It's not the only bombshell to explode in this deeply satisfying penultimate episode, of course. We realise the cause of Kierce's blackouts... and it's the Birketts' fault. We learn what really happened to get Maya dismissed from the army. We learn how Maya came to see Joe on the "nannycam". Oh, and we learn what happened to Theo and Andrew all those years ago... teenage Joe murdered them both. Lovely.
Most mind-blowing of all, last few seconds excepted, is that the person we thought was Kierce's AA cult counsellor (less dodgy addiction treatment is available) was always a hallucination of his late wife, in a devilishly clever bit of misdirection.
It is, as ever, all about the revelations: this is a melodrama and doesn't pretend to be more. But there's nothing wrong with that, and this is a melodrama of the first rank. Both Michelle Keegan and Adeel Akhtar are deeply impressive. They even say "lift" and use the proper British version where Kierce reads Corey his rights. Shame about "Get in the trunk"...
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