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"We both agreed that Gene isn't appointed by anyone," says Graham. "He has done this for himself. He's re-invented himself and built a world that is very potent and real that draws others in. But Gene doesn't know he's doing it. He doesn't go off into a room on his own and talk to God. He just obeys some animal spiritual instinct inside him."

"We always knew Alex wasn't coming back," Graham says, explaining there were only ever three endings: that she woke up, she woke up and chose to go back again, or she died. The first was dismissed because "we didn't think anyone would want that because we didn't want that with Sam", and the second because "we did that in Life On Mars". Which left only the final option. "If she could flit about and go home when she wanted to, when it suited us, it would then feel slightly too much like Alice In Wonderland," Graham says. "Whereas in this, it is Alice In Wonderland. But Alice doesn't get to go home."

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What did Gene say to Bevin in 3x05? (Best theory I've seen so far, no official comment from the Graham/Pharaoh camp)

I assume Gene told the truth about what he said. In the next episode there are some nods to football/soccer representing the battle between Keats and Gene. So I assume that Bevan saw what he was really saying: as far as his soul went, the other team won. He was going to hell.

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