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**Chris** · 11-04-2007, 14:28

According to the lead writer, as interviewed by the Manchester Evening News:

1. Sam really was in a coma. He really did wake up. Then he committed suicide.
2. His return to 1973 occurs during the last couple of minutes of his real life, which is in 2006. However as it's a dream or coma state, who's to say how many years Sam may have back in the 1970s before he actually dies? The implication is he might live a lifetime in those moments.
3. The testcard girl was only supposed to symbolise 'the end', as in the end of Life on Mars, nothing more subtle than that.
4. The female DCI who is to appear in Ashes to Ashes is a psych profiler who has read the report Sam gave on his return to work in 2006 (we saw him briefly with a dictaphone right near the end) - including all he had to say about Gene Hunt. She is going to have an accident and end up in 1981 working with ... Gene Hunt. The new series will explore in more detail exactly who, or what, Gene is and what he symbolises.

11-04-2007, 14:28	#259
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,246	Re: life on mars According to the lead writer, as interviewed by the Manchester Evening News: 1. Sam really was in a coma. He really did wake up. Then he committed suicide. 2. His return to 1973 occurs during the last couple of minutes of his real life, which is in 2006. However as it's a dream or coma state, who's to say how many years Sam may have back in the 1970s before he actually dies? The implication is he might live a lifetime in those moments. 3. The testcard girl was only supposed to symbolise 'the end', as in the end of Life on Mars, nothing more subtle than that. 4. The female DCI who is to appear in Ashes to Ashes is a psych profiler who has read the report Sam gave on his return to work in 2006 (we saw him briefly with a dictaphone right near the end) - including all he had to say about Gene Hunt. She is going to have an accident and end up in 1981 working with ... Gene Hunt. The new series will explore in more detail exactly who, or what, Gene is and what he symbolises.