BATTLE VALLEY
Happy Valley fans are all saying the same thing after the explosive final ever episode
HAPPY Valley fans are all saying the same thing after the explosive final ever episode.
The BBC thriller came to a dramatic conclusion tonight with its final ever episode pitting Sarah Lancashire’s Catherine Cawood against psychotic killer Tommy Lee Royce.
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The specially extended episode saw three brutal murders, a human fireball and even a paedophile twist.
But overall it was a happy ending for the Cawood family - and a painful end to Tommy.
At the beginning of the episode Tommy was picked up by three of Darius’ henchmen to move him to another location - but when they tried to put him in the boot he realised something was wrong.
Spotting petrol in the back of the car, he made an excuse to go back into the house and armed himself with a kitchen knife.
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As they drove him away, he violently attacked them - stabbing one, slitting the throat of another and forcing the other to crash the car before beating him to death with a rock in a brutal fight.
Tommy began hearing the voice of his son, while across town Catherine was hearing the voice of her dead daughter Becky.
She went home, against all advice, and fell asleep while looking at old photo albums of Becky and Ryan - meanwhile Tommy left three bodies in the field and broke into Catherine’s house.
They missed each other by seconds as Tommy stumbled into her kitchen with the petrol canister while Catherine went to collect Ryan.
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With Tommy wounded from the fight, he knocked back painkillers and whiskey, and made enough noice that Catherine’s neighbours called her.
Knowing what she was about to find, she still went in, only later summoning back up.
Catherine finally got her chance to tell Tommy exactly what she thought of him - and she tore him to pieces.
Their war coming to a head with a verbal battle instead of a physical one would have been surprise for fans.
But in a truly shocking twist, Tommy stitched up Darius and his brother for their own crimes - ensuring their downfall.
And then he apologised to Catherine for everything he’d done before setting himself on fire.
In a further shocking twist Catherine saved him, putting the flames out - and he was left comatose having ensured the crime bosses go down.
Walking out and clutching her albums, Catherine told her boss: “He’s in there, he’s a mess, I’d get the paramedics in.”
In an emotional scene she broke down further up the road and was comforted by her sister Clare - finally reunited.
“We’ve had another bit of a tussle,” she told Clare.
“I won, obviously. I think I might have singed one of your crocheted blankets.”
Meanwhile it was also revealed that Ryan had caught PE teacher Rob looking at him in a way that suggested he was a paedophile - and hinted at a future spinoff with Ryan having the same knack for police work as his grandmother.
Rob Hepworth avoided prison for his wife’s murder - with Catherine solving that crime at her leaving do - but instead was locked up after his collection of sick child porn was revealed.
In the final scene, while visiting her daughter’s grave to say goodbye before her adventure abroad, Catherine got a text.
It read: “TLR dead, hospital just rang.”
The news left Catherine beaming as she looked upwards, smiled and walked back to her car.
Viewers were all left saying the same thing and were horrified about the ending.
One said: "One of the best dramas we will ever get.. but wow this ending is disappointing"
Another penned: "Worse ending to a series ever, absolutely whack"
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A third typed: "garbage ending i’m afraid"
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Happy Valley is available on BBC iPlayer.
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