Warning: Contains full spoilers for Trigger Point season 4, with all episodes available to stream now on ITVX.
Trigger Point season 4 fans can race ahead to the final episode on ITVX right now, which sees the fate of the world resting on the shoulders of Lana Washington (Vicky McClure) – and that really isn't an exaggeration.
From the opening episode's ambitious lorry chase, this latest chapter in the Jed Mercurio-produced thriller has felt larger in scope, so it makes sense that the finale imagines the show's most nightmarish scenario to date.
Lana and her team attempt to neutralise a near-apocalyptic threat from a sinister mercenary group, whose goal is to sow international conflict by any means necessary.
With hundreds of thousands of people at immediate risk, and many more sure to die in retaliation, it's hard to overstate the enormity of the crisis. In other words, it's what Lana was born for, but will she have to pay the ultimate price?
Here's how the epic finale of Trigger Point season 4 unfolds.
Trigger Point season 4 ending explained: Is it all over for Lana?
Trigger Point season 4 leaves the future of Lana Washington uncertain, after a death-defying mission that causes her to walk away from her tough-as-nails job – for the time being, at least.
For a show about bomb disposal officers, perhaps it was inevitable that nukes would come into the picture eventually. Suffice it to say, lead actor Vicky McClure wasn't lying when she teased the "biggest threat we've ever encountered on the show".
Lana and her squad have been racing to halt the activities of a group of mercenaries, whose motive is to manufacture consent for war between the United States and Iran, on behalf of American benefactors.
To do so, they had been recruited to stage a devastating attack that would almost certainly lead the US and the UK into a combined offensive against the Middle Eastern country.
The horrific scheme centred around a football match between the England and US national teams in London, where a nuclear explosive device is planted. The detonation, which could well kill hundreds of thousands, would be pinned on Iran by the true culprits.
The attackers are already at the football stadium when the EXPO squad arrives, impersonating police officers to gain unquestioned access to restricted areas as they transport the device through the venue.
Police are ordered not to evacuate attendees as the resulting pandemonium would only make it harder for Lana to do her job – and the odds are already stacked gravely against her.
Ultimately, she gets a helping hand from a most unexpected source: disgraced colleague Helen Morgan (Natalie Simpson).
Helen had been compromised by the mercenaries, who abducted her wayward brother to coerce her into betraying her team. In doing so, she is complicit in the deaths of both Commander Quentin (Julie Graham) and DCI Batra (Maanuv Thiara).
After rescuing her brother, who proceeds to give her precious intel, Helen seeks some form of redemption by alerting Lana to the bomb's location. Still, that won't be enough to clear her ledger in Lana's eyes.
Once Lana finds the remote store room containing the device, she is dealt another crushing blow: the Prime Minister has decided to send British jets to attack the stadium.
The unthinkable choice is rationalised as it would prevent the device from detonating, causing fewer deaths than a full nuclear blast, but would still sacrifice attendees of the match and potentially leave a radiation leak in its wake.
In addition, the team are told, Britain would pin the aerial attack on Iran, meaning the mercenaries' desired outcome of an international conflict would be the same. In other words, they win.
Lana is given mere minutes to disconnect the sphere containing radioactive elements from the chamber that would prompt a chain reaction i.e. detonation, without damaging the former. No pressure, then.
View Green Video on the source websiteAfter conventional explosives fail, Lana concocts a makeshift device using a pistol, which succeeds at separating the two components of the device – thus, neutralising the nuke. With seconds to spare, the aerial strike on the stadium is also called off.
However, it's not all good news: Lana was gunned down by a sniper just prior to neutralising the device, and she is rapidly losing blood. We see her, gazing off into the sunshine, seemingly content in drifting away in a moment of triumph.
Cut to: weeks or months later... Danny brings his newborn daughter into the station to meet the team. (Lana had ordered him to keep well clear of the stadium, to avoid the possibility of his baby growing up without a father.)
Lana "would be" proud, we hear, as a recovered Hass (Nabil Elouahabi) and Sonya (Kerry Godliman) greet their "newest recruit".
Across the channel, Helen has gone into hiding in a rather beautiful French house with her brother. But upon returning from the shops, he is nowhere to be found.
Stepping out onto her lakeside garden, Helen unwittingly finds herself standing over a bomb nestled beneath wooden decking. But who could have planted it? That's when Lana Washington makes her entrance!
Lana did not die, after all, but has been tracking Helen's whereabouts for months to get revenge. After an icy scolding about Helen's neglect of her duties to the public, Lana reveals the bomb to be a dud, satisfied that it gave her rival a good fright.
The French police and MI5 partner Andy Oldfield (Michael Balogun) take Helen away, having already arrested her brother for being an accessory in the almost cataclysmic scheme.
Lana hops in a truck, with her adorable dog beside her, and sets off on a leisurely adventure, opting not to even consult her map on where to go. As she drives off, the camera pans to the sunny sky.
Having overcome arguably the ultimate test in her field, saving countless lives in the process, Lana finally appears ready to give herself the time and care she needs to find inner peace.
Of course, she has stepped away from her duties before, and been lured back, so we wouldn't entirely believe that this is a closed door on any future episodes of Trigger Point.
However, should the series end here – a distinct possibility implied in these concluding scenes – it would be a fitting and deserving farewell to one of British TV's hardest-working characters. Seriously, she must be exhausted.
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