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23 Jul 2024, 07:17
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The final episode of four-part BBC drama The Jetty delivered another killer twist, leaving fans in shock as the series came to a dramatic conclusion.
The fourth instalment aired last night (22nd July), and wrapped up the narrative, which focused on a missing person cold case and an illicit relationship between a man and an underage girl.
Viewers had grown used to shocks, with episode one, and episode two bringing surprises, and the end of the penultimate instalment also providing a cliffhanger.
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(There are spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen episode four of The Jetty)
The finale sees Ember (Jenna Coleman) being questioned by DI Morgan (Ralph Ineson), who confirms that the bone fragment is from Amy Knightly (Bo Bragason). Ember tells him she doesn’t know anything and says he has to charge or release her. She is let out on bail and suspended, but that doesn’t stop her from investigating.
A flashback scene shows Amy telling Caitlin (Laura Marcus) that she wants to sleep with Malachy/Mack (Tom Glynn-Carney) for the first time and says she should also to sleep with Joe (Ryan Dean) at the same time, so there will always be a link between them.
Later, another flashback scene shows that Amy was lying about being a virgin, and an upset Caitlin runs off. Amy catches up with her, and it turns out that Amy has been using her, as Joe has been blackmailing her and Malachy. The two girls kiss, but Caitlin breaks the embrace, tells her she loves her, and walks away.
Back in the modern day, Ember tracks down Caitlin (Lorna Nickson Brown), who doesn't know that Amy is dead. Ember breaks the news to her. Caitlin reveals that it was Joe - Mack’s brother - who took the photo of Amy with him, which shocks Ember as she didn't know her late husband had a brother.
Ember enlists a reluctant Hitch (Archie Renaux) for his help in going to see Joe (Jonny Fines) in prison. While Joe lies about not taking the photo, his reaction to the news that Amy is dead proves that he didn’t do it.
More flashbacks show Mack breaking up with Amy, while Joe steals Mack's car.
We learn that Mack was with a then 17-year-old Ember (Connie Jenkins-Greig) earlier the same evening. She is having a birthday party at the pub but he can’t go as he needs to go to the boathouse to be with Amy, Caitlin and Joe. She discovers he has drugs on him, and he pretends they are a gift for her.
During a conversation with her mum, Ember works out that Mack’s pal - and her friend - Arj (Matthew McNulty/Joshua Gannon) was somehow involved that night.
She finds him drunk at the jetty, and he confesses his feelings for her. However, she recognises a distinctive noise from a boat in the dock as being the same as the one she heard on the audio file of Riz (Weruche Opia) being murdered, and the penny drops… Arj killed the podcast journalist.
He explains that he didn’t want to kill her but she came looking for him. He also reveals that Amy’s bone fragment was in the boat hut because he discovered that the floor was being pulled up by the builders, so he dug up the body, and then burned down the boathouse.
When Ember tells Arj he shouldn’t have moved the body and instead should have allowed Mack to be blamed for Amy’s murder, Arj says that Mack didn’t kill her, he did.
Arj explains that Mack had been leaving him messages to collect him from the boat house on that fateful night, and the timeline then switches back to the past, with Arj - who was off his bonce on drugs - picking Mack up.
The flashback shows the car run into something, which Mack says was only “a log” but it turns out that it was indeed Amy. Bouncing off the side of the car, she hit her head on a rock and died. Arj and Mack return later to hide the body. They were going to put Amy in the lake, but opted to bury her in the basement of the boat house, because Mack said it was “kinder”.
However, while Arj is recounting this, Ember remembers that Arj wasn't driving the car that night. In fact, she was.
She was also high on the drugs that Mack had given her, and she was driving the car when it hit Amy. Mack covered for her in order to protect her, and convinced Arj he was the one driving.
Ember tells Arj that thy two of them have to go to the police and tell them the truth, whatever the consequences. However, he is having none of it, and tries to strangle Ember.
As she regains consciousness at the end of the jetty, Arj is dousing both of them and the jetty in petrol. Arj tells her that he did it all for her and sets fire to himself and the jetty. Ember jumps into the water just in time, as Arj burns to death.
Later, Ember tells Caitlin that she was the one who killed Amy. Caitlin says that the truth and justice are different, and that there would be no sense in going to the police and abandoning her daughter by having to go to prison.
As DI Morgan questions her, Ember puts the blame solely on Arj.
Caitlin visits her mum at the care home after years of absence, and Ember tells Miranda (Shannon Watson) to give her a list of all the men she had underage sex with so that she can put them, and Liam (Arthur Hughes), inside.
The final scene sees Ember, her daughter Hannah (Ruby Stokes) and mum Sylvia (Amelia Bullmore) scattering Mack’s ashes at the lake.
All episodes of The Jetty are now available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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