Ashes to Ashes began airing on BBC1 on 7th February 2008, as a spin-off series to the popular Life on Mars. A second series was then broadcast in April/May/June 2009 and third and final series in April/May 2010.
'I'm arresting you! For drug trafficking, for abduction and for shooting me in the head!'
'Excuse me, i'm not a typeist! I am a detective inspector!'
'You and me Bolly. We're a team. Fighting the rot together!'
''They say as you die, your life flashes before you. All those memories and mistakes that form us. Well bring it on. My life can flash away as much as it likes, because I am not going to die!'
'Oh you'd miss me really!'
'Yes Bolls. I would!'
'See you around Bollykecks!'
'Goodybe Guv!'
'Excuse me, i'm not a typeist! I am a detective inspector!'
'You and me Bolly. We're a team. Fighting the rot together!'
''They say as you die, your life flashes before you. All those memories and mistakes that form us. Well bring it on. My life can flash away as much as it likes, because I am not going to die!'
'Oh you'd miss me really!'
'Yes Bolls. I would!'
'See you around Bollykecks!'
'Goodybe Guv!'
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The final episode reveals that the Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes world is a form of limbo or Purgatory, for "restless dead" police officers. These restless dead include the main characters Gene, Ray, Chris, and Shaz (Montserrat Lombard), all of whom died in violent circumstances. There may be others.
The revelation of their deaths come as a surprise to all except Gene who knew they were all dead but who had forgotten the circumstances of his own death due to the passage of time. All except Hunt "move on" as he takes it upon himself to act as a psychopomp or "ferryman", to all of his officers, helping them on their way to The Railway Arms (their euphemism for Heaven).
Gene returns to his office where a newly dead officer arrives, demanding his iPhone (implying that he is from the present) and asking where his office has gone, in a very similar manner to the arrival of Sam Tyler (John Simm) in the first episode of Life on Mars.
The revelation of their deaths come as a surprise to all except Gene who knew they were all dead but who had forgotten the circumstances of his own death due to the passage of time. All except Hunt "move on" as he takes it upon himself to act as a psychopomp or "ferryman", to all of his officers, helping them on their way to The Railway Arms (their euphemism for Heaven).
Gene returns to his office where a newly dead officer arrives, demanding his iPhone (implying that he is from the present) and asking where his office has gone, in a very similar manner to the arrival of Sam Tyler (John Simm) in the first episode of Life on Mars.
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