‘Wasn’t expecting that’ - Trigger Point fans in shock at series two, episode two's dramatic closing scene

Virgin Radio

5 Feb 2024, 09:58

Viewers took to social media to express their surprise as Trigger Point’s latest episode ended in dramatic fashion.

The second episode picked up from the action of the first instalment of the new series, in which Lana Washington (played by Line of Duty star Vicky McClure) had to save her ex DCI Thom Youngblood (Mark Stanley), from being blown up. Amid the nerve-shattering tension, she told him that she loved him, despite him having a new girlfriend, DS Helen Morgan (Natalie Simpson). Trouble is brewing there! 

At the start of the latest episode, officers catch the person who was exiting the warehouse at the end of episode one. He’s called Nicholas Hood, a 27-year-old PhD student. 

Meanwhile, a character called Alex (Tomiwa Edun) is told on the phone that he did a great job on the power station, but it is time to get his hands dirty. Despite saying he is “all in”, he is nonetheless later injected with an unknown substance by balaclava-wearing figures for “insurance”.

Lana speaks to Sonya Reeves (Taskmaster’s Kerry Godliman), and it seems that the person involved in the drone attack could be ex-military or a scientist, and that someone inside the power station had to have turned off the fail safe. 

When the police raid Hood’s house, Thom asks Lana if she meant what she said about loving him. She doesn’t reply. Lana then finds electronic components hidden beneath a baby’s cot.

Lana is told about the address registered to Zara Baxter, who is linked to Joe Hanson, the sole shiftworker who didn’t die in the power station explosion. She finds a woman who has been restrained, with an explosive attached to her neck.

Despite Lana’s attempts, the bomb goes off, killing Zara in a gruesome scene. Following her own near-death experience, Lana tells Thom that she did mean what she said about loving him and the pair aim to give things a go.

Thom questions Hood about the collar bomb, and accuses him of blackmailing Hanson into helping attack the power station, and reckons that he put the bomb on Zara when Joe refused to help. Hood - who is proper creepy- says he doesn’t recognise their laws. 

The ITN switchboard gets a call saying there was a device in one of the lifts, which is stuck between the fifth and sixth floor, and there are people inside. Lana climbs into the lift and evacuates it using a ladder but one conspiracy theorist man refuses to leave. A jammer is found and it seems the situation is seemingly sorted, but as they ride to the ground floor, a bomb explodes somewhere in the building. 

In a shocking final scene, a woman pretending to be a firefighter pushes Thom down the lift shaft and he lands with a thud on the lift. Lana looks up to see his body. Is he dead, or will he somehow survive the long drop? The credits roll before we find out.

Fans took to social media to explain their shock at the episode’s shocking ending. One wrote: “Am outraged. Episode 2.”

Another wrote: "Is Thom actually gone or is this a Steve Arnott on the stairs type situation??"

Another added: “Just after Lana and Tom were holding hands agreeing they wanted to try again I said something’s going to happen before then and then off he went down the lift shaft.”

“What an ending,” one viewer wrote, adding: “That firefighter was the same woman as was in the balaclava earlier 👀”

Trigger Point airs on ITV1 and ITVX on Sunday evenings. Watch the full series on ITVX now.