Years and Years ended tonight (Tuesday, June 18) with the season one finale taking us up to 2034 as one member of the Lyons family becomes transhuman. The BBC series ended with Vivienne Rook (played by Emma Thompson) facing retribution and Lyons playing a part in her downfall. The ending of Years and Years also saw the cast band together to help Viktor Goraya (Maxim Baldry).
What happened at the end of Years and Years?
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the end of Years and Years
The Years and Years ending sees Edith Lyons (Jessica Hynes) getting her consciousness downloaded into the internet.
With her body failing as a result of the huge dose of radiation she was exposed to way back in episode one, Edith gets persuaded to become ‘transhuman’, something Bethany Bisme-Lyons (Lydia West) has been talking about since the beginning of Years and Years.
The finale ends with the remaining Lyons assembled around Muriel Deacon’s (Anne Reid) Senor device, waiting to see if the operation has been successful.
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This scene comes a number of years after the actions of the rest of the episode, however.
Most of the episode focuses on two actions that directly play a part in the downfall of Vivienne Rook.
One of these is Edith and her girlfriend Fran’s (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) attempts to smuggle Viktor out of one of the ‘Erstwhiles’, the concentration camps for immigrants Rook had set up.
She does this my pretending to be a delivery driver bringing food into the Erstwhile.
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Viktor runs into the van and they try to get away, only to be stopped by the police.
However, it is then revealed this was a diversion and the main aim of the operation had been to explode a signal mast that was preventing the migrants in the camp from communicating with the outside world.
With this mast exploded, details of this camp are made public, leading to Rook being disgraced.
Also helping with Rook’s downfall is Rosie Lyons (Ruth Madeley).
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In the previous episode, her neighbourhood was turned into a quarantined and fenced-off community, which Rook’s government has forced a curfew on.
After the doors are locked earlier, leaving Rosie’s son locked out, she decides enough is enough and drives her food van through the gates.
Although Rook is imprisoned at the end of Years and Years, Edith suggests she may too have become ‘transhuman’ to evade punishment.
Edith says that one of the main reasons she too has downloaded herself onto the cloud is to track Rook down and make her pay for the anti-migrant policies that lead to the death of her brother Daniel (Russell Tovey).
Years and Years is streaming on BBC iPlayer now
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