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Season 10 Episode 32Episode 419 Sky One Transmission Date: Directed By Ian D Fleming |
Two legends return
The final supper (or team dinner)
Katy
Jimmy out cold
Will Amy stop Danny before it's too late?
The PL trophy... and a bizarre cameo from Richard Woolfe^^
Whoosh!
Fletch's smile says it all... it really is over. |
GS: Karl Fletcher (Terry Kiely) Lynda Block (Alison King) Ryan Naysmith (Ricky Whittle) Phil (Dominic Doughty) Deano (Aston Kelly) Andy Gray (as himself) Richard Keys (as himself) Jason sits in the dugout and plays Jimmy's Amadeus tracks. Fletch is back to talk about how today's historic match should have been his game, and tells Jason not to bottle it out there - adding he will haunt him forever. Three hours before kick-off Gemma has arrived at the Lair, and Jimmy is glad she came for the last game of the season. Liam is also pleased to see her, and Gemma tells him she might stick around after the game. There's more surprise returns when Andy Gray and Richard Keys encounter Lynda, and Andy wins his bet with Richard that Lynda would turn up today. This is followed by Ryan joining the group, as Andy and Richard have roped him into doing half-time. Ryan and Lynda reminisce about how they used to dream about today. Kick-off is at The team sit down to dinner and Tyson remembers how Curtis used to make them say grace at the last meal before a game. When Tys says it doesn't feel right playing the game today without all those they've lost, Liam suggests Tyson do what Curtis did and give grace at the table. Amy trips on the bag Sully left under her desk, and hearing it make a liquidy sound, Amy looks inside and sees it contains a filled up petrol canister. Jimmy gives his team talk before the lads go out, saying this game is about the 21 years since Harchester’s last title win, and the players and managers over those years having sat and stood where they are now. The team make their way through the tunnel and onto the pitch as Amy searches for Danny. Jason looks to the stands and sees Katy has come, in full HUFC gear. The first half gets underway as Amy finds herself in the empty dressing room, and opening the bench cupboards around the room, she finds each has a canister already planted inside. At that moment Sully is in the offices pouring petrol all over the place, as outside Sean scores the first goal of the game. Sully puts the next stage of his plan in motion, by sending stewards to fetch Gemma, telling her Jimmy is having chest pains and sends her to the St. John's Ambulance bay where her father supposedly is. Sully then gets on the phone to Jimmy in the dugout with a story about Gemma, and Jimmy sees she is no longer sitting where she was with Cindi. Leaving Steve in charge, Jimmy follows Sully to an isolated stairwell which leads to a rubbish chute, telling him Gemma is inside. Once they are alone, Jimmy sees that Gemma is nowhere to be seen, and with Sully standing above him is told that he is Dragonslayer! Upstairs Amy learns from the Players' Lounge screen that Jimmy has left the dugout. In the stairwell, Sully scornfully gives Jimmy his reasons - how he left him to return from Southend a cripple. On the pitch, Gavin takes a knock during a challenge with Lampard, and Steve is unsure on replacing him without Jimmy's say-so. Fletch sits next to Jason remarking how he knew they couldn't win the League without him, counting down until Didier Drogba equalises for Jimmy tries to get past Sully, who says he won't let him go out and hold that trophy up in front of the fans. In the struggle, Jimmy falls backwards and Danny whacks him down the rest of the stairs. He then douses Jimmy with the remainder of the petrol, and flicks his lighter on as Amy bursts through. At half time, with Liam's guidance, Steve makes the decision to take Gavin off and replace him with Jason. In the stairwell, Sully tells Amy he doesn't care what happens to him and will kill himself along with Jimmy. She begs him not to, asking him to think of his kids and what this will do to them. Jason goes out for the second half, and Katy is overjoyed to see him on the pitch. Jimmy starts to move about whilst unconscious on the floor, and Amy shows Sully it isn't too late as Jimmy is still alive. She tells Danny it isn't in him to kill someone as he holds the lighter above Jimmy. Eventually, he flicks it off and breaks down, with Amy holding him. News filters through from Old Trafford that With five minutes left, Katy can’t face watching the end, fearing Harchester will follow past form and just miss it. Heading in the Players' Lounge, Katy notices a vacant pack of cigarettes and pinches one. As Jimmy is tended to, Gemma finally finds her dad and Amy pretends she has no idea how he sustained the head injury he has. With the 90 minutes up, 4 mins have been added for extra time, and Danny watches as the Premier League trophy is prepared in the tunnel. Man U have lost 1-0 to Reading, meaning it's still all Harchester's game, and Katy now cannot even bare to watch on TV. About to leave, she stops to see the monitor left on in the office as it shows Jason giving the last minute of the game his all. Feeling his drive, she throws the cigarette to the bin and turns round, not seeing it drop onto the petrol soaked carpet and set alight. The fire spreads across the floor and to the lift, causing it to go up in flames. Outside, a cross from Simon Becky lands with Jason, and with Fletch's spirit inside of him, and as the walls of the offices behind him are licked by flames, he takes his shot. As if in slow motion, the ball reaches its target... and Fletch smiles. Notes: Last appearances of everyone present at the end! See Character Tenures and Harchester Timeline for everyone’s details. The Best: The iconic Season 3-8 opening titles and theme used again for the final episode. Though the closing credits remain as they were for Season 9-10. Alison King and Ricky Whittle returning for the end, already well into their roles at " Logic: Katy and the cigarette. Yes, we didn’t see her until she was 19 years old, but not once has she been since or mentioned to be a smoker. In fact, Gemma was the one who was warned by Jimmy on two occasions not to smoke. Symbolically, the perfect person to drop the cigarette, causing one last HUFC disaster, would have been the female heart of the show, Lynda. Alison King’s Season 9 return promo shot would have been some great foreshadowing too. Continuity: Jason relives some of Fletch's best games he and the gang witnessed at the Lair, including again his testimonial and its goal (7.2 Long Live The King). Tyson and Gavin share memories of Curtis, with the time the club went bankrupt (whilst Gavin was in the youth team), and how Curtis took them all to Charlton (7.22 11 Angry Men). Richard Keys comments on how not since '99 has it gone down to the last day of the season with it not being known who will be Premier League champions (#2.76). Jimmy gives the viewers a huge slab of welcome continuity, listing many great faces and moments from HUFC’s previous 21 (or 10!) years: Viv Wright, Ian Coates, Scott Lucas, Karl Fletcher, Monday Bandele, Casper Rose, Luis Amor Rodriguez and Clyde Connelly. And even though Harchester are the underdogs no-one expects to win, they have scored two FA Cups (2.76 & 9.31 Salt Of The Earth), promotion from the Championship (8.32 Play Off), and been UEFA Cup finalists (5.32 Forsaking All Others). Additional Info: As it stands before kick-off, Man U are two points ahead of Harchester with 79 over 77. This episode takes place on Surprise!: In an almost Grim Reaper appearance, Richard Woolfe, the Sky One controller from 2006 onwards whose ultimate decision it was to cancel Dream Team, turns up in the Lair tunnel as an official whilst a broken Sully views the Premier League trophy. What Was The Score?: Harchester's final starting line-up: (#1) O'Mare (#3) Evans (#6) Futcher (#21) Bennett (#15) Becky (#11) Summers (#8) MacKay (#14) Thomas (#4) Campbell (#9) Lopez (#12) Moody. With substitutes: (#10) Porter, (#21) Roger, (#28) Bradshaw, (#17) Cheeseman and (#33) Hussain. Fletch’s smile at the closing indicates Jason’s shot was a goal, taking Harchester to 2-1 and with virtually no time remaining for Chelsea to equalise, Harchester would have been 2006-07 title holders. Soundtrack: Amon Tobin: "Deo", Fatboy Slim: "Right Here Right Now", James: "Sound", Massive Attack: "A Prayer For England", "Everywhen" and "False Flags", Oasis: "Cast No Shadow" [last ever song used], Queen and Wyclef Jean Feat. Refugee Allstars: "Another One Bites The Dust”, The Cult: "She Sells Sanctuary", The Prodigy: "Their Law", Travis: "Writing To Reach You" Behind The Scenes: A couple of the alternative endings considered were revealed shortly after the last episode aired. One from Jane was an almost " Lynda would be shown in the lounge of a psychiatric hospital watching the final day of the football season. Fletch would be an orderly wheeling her chair and would tell another member of staff that Lynda had been with them since she fell and injured her head at Manchester Airport ten years ago. Lynda had since imagined she was the Chairwoman of a football club when, just like in reality, the club didn’t exist. Jane said she then thought it would be silly so they didn’t go with it. The second ending was heard when a fan on harchester.net won a first draft script for the last episode and revealed how it was written that Sully and Jason were set for a showdown in the dressing room, with Sully killing Jason in history repeating Barker/Fletch with a peg through the back of his head. It looked like it was leading up to that with Sully investing in petrol canisters as Barker had done, causing a greater explosion when his car collided with the Harchester team bus. |
