The gang bows out in this special hour-long Grand Finale episode which returns to Derry one year after the events of the previous episode, during the Good Friday Agreement as the friends are preparing for their final year of school.
Tropes
- Ambiguous Criminal History: Whatever Niall did to end up in jail involved Paramilitary activity, but was also something so bad that his family have fully disowned and Unpersoned him.
- Bait-and-Switch: Sister Michael is shown fervently praying for what's implied to be the Good Friday Agreement. It's actually for a football match.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Michelle orders a kid to GET OUT! when she's working in Dennis's shop. The kid's response is giving her the finger.
- Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: One of the plotlines involves Michelle and Erin having a fight, falling out, and then making up in the end.
- The Bus Came Back: Liam Neeson's constable reappears to vote on the Good Friday Agreement. 71% voted yes, and that means different segments of the population have to come together, such as Catholic schoolgirls and Protestant officers.
- The Cavalry: Clare returns to Derry at the end of the episode against the odds, after a problem-ridden bus journey. She short-circuits Jenny's fuse box, forcing her party to relocate to Erin's.
- Distant Finale:
- The episode takes place a year after the rest of Series 3, following the girls as they get involved in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.
- The very last scene takes place in the present day, and sees Chelsea Clinton finally receive the letter the girls wrote to her.
- Extra-Long Episode: The final episode is longer than the usual episode length of 22 minutes, clocking in at about 48 minutes.
- Hero Stole My Bike: How Erin gets to Jenny's party.
- I Have No Son!: Erin and Michelle get into a heated argument about Michelle's brother Niall, who was imprisoned for involvement in an IRA attack that caused a man's death. Their mother won't even talk about Niall any longer, explaining why he's never been mentioned by anyone until now.
- Landline Eavesdropping: How Michelle and Orla join in with the telephone conversation.
- Not on the List: Condition of entry to Jenny's party. James is not included, but only because Michelle put him down as "Fanny Features".
- Sidetracked by the Analogy:
- The Good Friday Agreement involves letting people choose whether they want British, Irish, or dual citizenship... which Sarah confusingly uses the language of bisexuality to describe.Sarah: Well, according to Shauna Sharkey, if you vote yes, you're allowed to swing both ways.
Gerry: What's that now?
Sarah: Well, you can be Irish, you can be British, or you can be bi.
Gerry: Okay, I don't think "bi" is the correct term.
Joe: Says here you can hold both passports.
Mary: Two passports? That'd come in handy. I'm forever losing mine. I think I wouldn't mind being bi, you know. - "Both flavours" of paramilitary prisoners.Joe: The release of all paramilitary prisoners, both flavours. [points to board where they're denoted with Tayto bags]
Gerry: Both flavours?
Mary: Loyalist and Republican.
Gerry: Of course.
- The Good Friday Agreement involves letting people choose whether they want British, Irish, or dual citizenship... which Sarah confusingly uses the language of bisexuality to describe.
- Split-Screen Phone Call: When James and Clare try to heal the rift between Michelle and Erin, but only make it worse.
- String Theory: Joe creates a string board to make sense of the Good Friday Agreement's referendum, and explain it in Layman's Terms for the benefit of his relatives.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: After their bust-up, Erin hasn't been thinking about Michelle and vice versa.
- Thicker Than Water: James feels obliged to side with his cousin Michelle when she and Erin fall out.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Cousin Eamonn, "temporarily" staying with the Quinns.
