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He also knew that the story of death of Sam Tyler had been altered. While in a coma in - , Keats once visited Alex in the hospital who talked to her about being more significant than the others and warned her not to have the same fate as DI Tyler in A2A Series 3: Episode 1.

He revealed to her and her colleagues that he would be assessing Fenchurch East police station as part of Operation Countryman because they were specifically chosen following the shooting incident after foiling Operation Rose.

When he began to assess Fenchurch East, Keats took control to a certain extent. He permitted Hunt to remain in CID however, Hunt was banned of being in command or from using firearms which he disobeyed when he and the team attempted to arrest the kidnappers of young Dorothy Blonde during the first exchange. While Gene Hunt was inside his office during the celebration of Dotty Blonde's rescue, Keats intimidated Hunt by revealing his plans and his knowledge of DI Tyler's death.

As part of Keats' plan to bring down Hunt's "kingdom", he encouraged WPC Sharon Granger who felt unwelcome to the team to quit the Metropolitan Police which she later agreed to. However, after going undercover she felt a special part of the team and decided not to quit. A2A Series 3: Episode 2. On the day he was expected to depart, DCI Keats announced that he would be continuing to work with Fenchurch East to assess the three previous years of cases and the long-term efficiency of the department to which DCI Hunt referred to as snooping.

When at the arson attack of a polling station, in another attempt to bring down Gene Hunt's "kingdom", he encouraged DS Ray Carling that he didn't have to prove himself "after some mistakes he made in the past".

Carling responded to this by attempting to save a person inside the trapped building but became overcome by the smoke. He was eventually saved by fireman Andy Smith. While investigating the arson, Keats attempted to persuade Carling to be independent or join him but refused. When he discovered Falklands war veteran Andy Smith had been arrested on election day, he protested to Hunt. Gene's "carefully constructed world" was then temporarily demolished by Keats, as he smashed up Hunt's CID office to reveal the hidden universe all around.

As Hunt led his team to their corner of paradise — Life on Mars's police local, the Railway Arms — original Mars barman Nelson, a spirit guide in more ways than one, was there to meet them. There had, of course, been intense speculation about whether Simm would reprise his role as Tyler for the conclusion of the sequel. And Graham and Pharoah did give it consideration: "There was originally a version where John came back.

It was never scripted but it was storylined," Graham says. Everyone seemed to really like it. We were all quite happy and excited about it. It suddenly made him seem like a superhero — he could go from purgatory to heaven and back again.

So we decided not to do that. But the show's co-creators and writers spent eight years in their own purgatory, developing Mars before it was finally commissioned by the BBC. Fans who agonised over the significance of Alex Drake's ruby red shoes, however, will be surprised to hear that they were simply a joke on the part of costume designer Rosie Hackett: "There's also a bit of Paradise Lost going on in there," adds Graham.

I wanted to find almost a modern version of a Milton-esque poetry to it, particularly in the way Keats talks. Ah, that'll be temptation then. Sam Tyler? He's still dead I think, probably always will be. His soul must be in pub heaven with the others, having a pint of Nelson's finest. The Quattro's dead too, murdered by a Dutch diamond thief, a dyke-digging tossport — Gene's words, not mine. Let's hope so.

Hold up though, who's this at the end? A new arrival in Gene Hunt's purgatory? Does that keep the door open, just a crack, for maybe more to come? She claims to have uncovered something in Hunt's personal artefacts - the breakthrough to the truth about Sam Tyler. I am buzzing with expectation, sir! The end of all this is in sight! May I also congratulate you on the occasion of your 52nd birthday. I have enclosed 2 tickets to Upton Park. I know you are a West Ham fan.