BBC2′s The Fall Reaches It’s Bloody Conclusion

If you weren’t forced out on your office Halloween ‘do last night, then we’re betting you were curled up on the sofa being scared silly by the season finale of The Fall – and what a finale it was, eh?

Now if you haven’t seen it yet (why?!) then best not to read any further – 'cos there’s a whole load of spoilers heading your way.

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So, a quick recap: Series Three saw Paul Spector / Peter Baldwin, played by the dangerously attractive Jamie Dornan, seemingly suffer from amnesia after getting shot in police custody. The series unpicked the events leading up to his shooting and followed Gillian Anderson’s character, Detective Stella Gibson, attempt to bring the psychopath to justice.

And did she succeed? Well – not exactly.

Viewers were left aghast when Spector violently attacked Stella in the interview room, after a tense few minutes were she alleged he was responsible for the murder of a woman BEFORE he lost his memory, and was, in fact, making the whole memory loss thing up.

After telling him to “Drop the charade Peter, own your confession,” Spector punched Stella against a wall and broke the other officer’s arm, before being escorted back to the mental health facility he was being held in. Viewers finally saw that Spector must have been making it all up as his true nature – which he’d kept so concealed this season – finally came out.

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But that wasn’t his final macabre act.

Whilst Stella was visiting Katie – the slightly unhinged girl who had developed an obsession with The Belfast Strangler, Paul plotted his bloody escape from justice.

Finally befriending the obsessed killer he met in the facility he was currently held in, Paul staged an elaborate distraction. Persuading his fellow patient to stage a fight in the common room, Paul fled, attacking his counsellor and getting into his locker. Just as you thought he was going to steal his keys and escape, you saw him remove the bloodied man’s belt and run into the soon-to-be-detained patient’s room.

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There, he made one last kill – strangling the other patient with his belt, before asphyxiating himself to death and finally evading justice.

The final scenes saw Stella’s boss hand in his resignation, Paul’s children learn of his death and Stella flee Belfast and return back to London – deflated and alone.

Whilst Series Three failed to match previous outings of The Fall in terms of pace, it never failed to keep you guessing – and by heck was it a lesson in psychology.
The creators have said that there’s scope for a fourth season, so keep your eyes peeled if you want to find out where Stella’s journey takes her next.

WE. CAN’T. WAIT.