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* AndTheAdventureContinues: After [[spoiler: Alex, Shaz, Ray and Chris have gone to Police Heaven]], the show ends with Gene [[spoiler: back at the police station, where a new DI has arrived and is wondering where his iPhone is. Gene's line to him -- "a word in your shell-like" -- is the first line he said to Sam Tyler, back at the start of ''Life on Mars''.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: After [[spoiler: Alex, [[spoiler:Alex, Shaz, Ray and Chris have gone to Police Heaven]], the show ends with Gene [[spoiler: back [[spoiler:back at the police station, where a new DI has arrived and is wondering where his iPhone is. Gene's line to him -- "a word in your shell-like" -- is the first line he said to Sam Tyler, back at the start of ''Life on Mars''.]]
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* CastingGag: Elaine Downing, the head of the dating agency in 3.2 [[spoiler: who blatantly has the hots for Gene]], is played by Beth Goddard, real-life wife of Creator/PhilipGlenister, who plays Gene.
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* CastingGag: Elaine Downing, the head of the dating agency in 3.2 [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who blatantly has the hots for Gene]], is played by Beth Goddard, real-life wife of Creator/PhilipGlenister, who plays Gene.
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* DoingInTheScientist: While ''Life on Mars'' left it ambiguous as to whether Sam was in a coma, or had time travelled, or anything like that, this series confirms that [[spoiler: the world in which both series take place, is a sort of purgatory for police officers, Gene is actually something of a guide to help them move on so they can go to Heaven (not that he knows this intiially).]]
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* DoingInTheScientist: While ''Life on Mars'' left it ambiguous as to whether Sam was in a coma, or had time travelled, or anything like that, this series confirms that [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the world in which both series take place, is a sort of purgatory for police officers, Gene is actually something of a guide to help them move on so they can go to Heaven (not that he knows this intiially).]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: In the finale, Keats [[spoiler: who may or may not be Satan himself]] punches in a code to access the elevator room. Although the numbers aren't shown, anyone familiar with that type of keypad can tell that the code he keys in, is [[spoiler: 666]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: In the finale, Keats [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who may or may not be Satan himself]] punches in a code to access the elevator room. Although the numbers aren't shown, anyone familiar with that type of keypad can tell that the code he keys in, is [[spoiler: 666]].[[spoiler:666]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: It's subverted with [[spoiler:Viv]] in series 3; his pained expression and the statement that police officers have to "finish the job" to be redeemed (which [[spoiler:Viv]] never does) implies that [[spoiler:Viv has ended up damned]]. This is further implied when Chris mentions [[spoiler:having had a nightmare about Viv "hunched up amongst all this fire".]]. Also backed up by the fact that it's [[spoiler:Keats]] who is with [[spoiler: Viv]] when he dies, and not [[spoiler:Gene]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: It's subverted with [[spoiler:Viv]] in series 3; his pained expression and the statement that police officers have to "finish the job" to be redeemed (which [[spoiler:Viv]] never does) implies that [[spoiler:Viv has ended up damned]]. This is further implied when Chris mentions [[spoiler:having had a nightmare about Viv "hunched up amongst all this fire".]]. Also backed up by the fact that it's [[spoiler:Keats]] who is with [[spoiler: Viv]] [[spoiler:Viv]] when he dies, and not [[spoiler:Gene]].
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: Chris releases ANC member Joshua from custody despite explicit orders not to, rather than let Joshua be deported back to what will probably amount to an execution in South Africa]].
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler: Chris [[spoiler:Chris releases ANC member Joshua from custody despite explicit orders not to, rather than let Joshua be deported back to what will probably amount to an execution in South Africa]].
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** [[spoiler:Gene arrived in Limbo after being killed during the 1953 Coronation, which he then somehow turned into a world where he can live his CowboyCob fantasies and help coppers move on. It's never explained what Limbo was like before his arrival or whether there was anyone similar to Gene.]]
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** [[spoiler:Gene arrived in Limbo after being killed during the 1953 Coronation, which he then somehow turned into a world where he can live his CowboyCob CowboyCop fantasies and help coppers move on. It's never explained what Limbo was like before his arrival or whether there was anyone similar to Gene.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: The GrandFinale raises several questions about the [[spoiler:nature of the AfterlifeAntechamber created by Gene and several characters.]]
** [[spoiler:While Alex and Sam show that coppers near death can arrive there, it's unclear whether coppers who died retain all their memories upon arrival or if they completely forget. If the latter, that would mean the new copper who arrived is only near death but if the latter that would mean he could be dead while Chris, Ray, and Shaz slowly forgot the truth like Gene did.]]
** [[spoiler:Gene arrived in Limbo after being killed during the 1953 Coronation, which he then somehow turned into a world where he can live his CowboyCob fantasies and help coppers move on. It's never explained what Limbo was like before his arrival or whether there was anyone similar to Gene.]]
** [[spoiler:Gene, Alex, Ray, Chris, Sam and Shaz are all confirmed to be DeadAllAlong who then moved on. It's not explained whether Viv, Annie or Phyllis were real coppers who died tragically, or who all the other people in Limbo are such as the other officers at the station or the criminals they arrest. Is everyone simply a copy of a person from the real world who only exist to make Limbo feel more real, or are they all sentient people who just happen to have been created by Gene. Viv mentions that he helped start a riot to try and save his nephew while many of the other characters mention talking to their unseen families, while even Gene mentions having had a wife in ''Life on Mars''.]]
*** [[spoiler:Related to this is that Keats introduces Ray, Chris and Shaz to three officers, who he claims they will get to know better in his department. Were they simply artificial people meant to trick them, or are they demons like Keats meant to trick dead coppers into coming to Hell? If the latter, that raises the question of how many demons exist in Limbo and whether characters like Morgan from ''Life on Mars'' was one of them.]]
** [[spoiler:It's not explained how the Clown or the Test Card Girl fit into Limbo. While Keats appears to be a demon, or even the Devil himself, and Nelson is a St. Peter archetype, the origins of the Clown and the Test Card Girl are left unexplained. Given their menacing nature they might be some sort of demons like Keats, but it's also plausible that they are natives of Limbo.]]
** [[spoiler:Nobody attempts to explain why Sam, who seemingly discovered the truth, never told Gene or the others that they were all dead. It's also left unconfirmed whether Annie joined him in going to the Pub.]]
** [[spoiler:While Alex and Sam show that coppers near death can arrive there, it's unclear whether coppers who died retain all their memories upon arrival or if they completely forget. If the latter, that would mean the new copper who arrived is only near death but if the latter that would mean he could be dead while Chris, Ray, and Shaz slowly forgot the truth like Gene did.]]
** [[spoiler:Gene arrived in Limbo after being killed during the 1953 Coronation, which he then somehow turned into a world where he can live his CowboyCob fantasies and help coppers move on. It's never explained what Limbo was like before his arrival or whether there was anyone similar to Gene.]]
** [[spoiler:Gene, Alex, Ray, Chris, Sam and Shaz are all confirmed to be DeadAllAlong who then moved on. It's not explained whether Viv, Annie or Phyllis were real coppers who died tragically, or who all the other people in Limbo are such as the other officers at the station or the criminals they arrest. Is everyone simply a copy of a person from the real world who only exist to make Limbo feel more real, or are they all sentient people who just happen to have been created by Gene. Viv mentions that he helped start a riot to try and save his nephew while many of the other characters mention talking to their unseen families, while even Gene mentions having had a wife in ''Life on Mars''.]]
*** [[spoiler:Related to this is that Keats introduces Ray, Chris and Shaz to three officers, who he claims they will get to know better in his department. Were they simply artificial people meant to trick them, or are they demons like Keats meant to trick dead coppers into coming to Hell? If the latter, that raises the question of how many demons exist in Limbo and whether characters like Morgan from ''Life on Mars'' was one of them.]]
** [[spoiler:It's not explained how the Clown or the Test Card Girl fit into Limbo. While Keats appears to be a demon, or even the Devil himself, and Nelson is a St. Peter archetype, the origins of the Clown and the Test Card Girl are left unexplained. Given their menacing nature they might be some sort of demons like Keats, but it's also plausible that they are natives of Limbo.]]
** [[spoiler:Nobody attempts to explain why Sam, who seemingly discovered the truth, never told Gene or the others that they were all dead. It's also left unconfirmed whether Annie joined him in going to the Pub.]]
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* TookALevelInKindness: Gene and Ray, and to a lesser degree Chris, are slightly more toned compared to how they acted back in 1973. While they still occasionally TortureForFunAndInformation, it's not exactly to the same degree as shown in ''Life on Mars''. Episode 1.07 however has Gene, angered because he felt like a fool on national television, reverting back to this attitude by arresting and threatening suspects with such brutality that Alex is shocked while even Chris voices his surprise, with Gene simply saying that moving to London has made him go soft.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Gene and Ray, and to a lesser degree Chris, are slightly more toned down compared to how they acted back in 1973. While they still occasionally TortureForFunAndInformation, it's not exactly to the same degree as shown in ''Life on Mars''. Episode 1.07 however has Gene, angered because he felt like a fool on national television, reverting back to this attitude by arresting and threatening suspects with such brutality that Alex is shocked while even Chris voices his surprise, with Gene simply saying that moving to London has made him go soft. When Linton appears in Series 3, he mentions how Gene and the others have gotten soft since leaving Manchester.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Gene and Ray, and to a lesser degree Chris, are slightly more toned compared to how they acted back in 1973. While they still occasionally TortureForFunAndInformation, it's not exactly to the same degree as shown in ''Life on Mars''. Episode 1.07 however has Gene, angered because he felt like a fool on national television, reverting back to this attitude by arresting and threatening suspects with such brutality that Alex is shocked while even Chris voices his surprise, with Gene simply saying that moving to London has made him go soft.
