| "Series Finale" | |
| Series 1, Episode 9 | |
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| Centric Character(s): | Everyone |
| Original Airdate: | March 22 2007 (UK) October 12 2008 (NA) |
| Written by: | Bryan Elsley |
| Directed by: | Adam Smith |
| Episode chronology | |
| previous "Effy" |
next "Tony and Maxxie" |
"Series Finale" is the ninth and final episode of Series 1.
This episode primarily focuses on all the lead castmembers and both their romantic and platonic relationships with each other. The episode ends in a cliffhanger that has a major impact on subsequent Series.
Plot
Maxxie calls Anwar to wish him a happy birthday however refuses to attend his party until Anwar tells his parents that Maxxie is gay. Anwar, desperate to see Maxxie eventually finds him waiting outside, still refusing to go inside. Mr. Kharral eventually arrives outside spotting Maxxie, the two talk until Anwar tells his father that Maxxie is gay. Mr. Kharral seemingly ignores Anwar until Maxxie restates it himself. Mr. Kharral then explains that there are a lot of things in the world he doesn't understand - particularly homosexuality, but that his faith in Allah means he believes god one day will reveal to him all he does not understand, and until then will treat Maxxie no differently. With that, Maxxie and Anwar's friendship is renewed. Maxxie and Anwar also back up Chris in the brawl later that night, and in the end Maxxie ends up in an embrace with one of Chris' attackers who has seemingly fallen for him.
Cassie is due to leave so she runs away from the clinic with another friend who suffers a eating disorder. She is seen again outside Anwar's party. She tells Tony to give Sid this letter for her but he refuses. However, Sid eventually gets the letter, putting him on a desperate mission to find Cassie before she leaves to tell her he loves her, something he had failed to do earlier.
Sid hurriedly dresses in mismatching clothes and rushes to Cassie's rehab clinic, just after she leaves in a taxi. In the clinic, the nurse locks Sid in a padded room, deducing that Sid needs their help. Tony comes to his aid and Sid is released from the clinic and the two then look for Cassie. At the end of the episode, it's revealed after Sid left Anwar's party he was meeting with Cassie, who is sitting on a bench overlooking Bristol. He sits besides her, where they then hold hands.
Jal dances with Kenneth at Anwar's birthday party and the two seem to grow closer. When Chris's brawl starts, she makes easy work in fighting some of the large male attackers.
Meanwhile, Angie's fiancé Merve completely destroys her and Chris' relationship, Chris realizing he may lose Angie for good. He concludes that Merve is "obviously gay", after watching a video tape of Angie's showing Merve as a campy weatherman on Australian television. Eventually Chris takes Angie's engagement ring, and is confronted by Merve and two of his friends, and told to give it back. Chris denies he has it, and it is only when Angie eventually bursts in, and asks Chris to return it, does he comply. However, when he gives the ring back, Chris drops it, probably accidentally, and kneels down to pick it up, causing Anwar's uncle to think that Chris is proposing. Angie takes the ring, and runs off, leaving both Chris and Merve opposite one another. After she runs away, Chris comes to the conclusion that she loves him, and thus earns a punch from Merve, starting a minor brawl. In the closing montage, he and Angie are seen staring at each other with sad expressions through a window.
Michelle briefly visits Effy , who was just recently involved in an incident orchestrated by Josh to get back at Tony for the events in the episode "Michelle". Although Effy doesn't speak, Michelle asks her why Tony hurt her, but Effy genuinely doesn't know. Later in the episode Michelle attends with Jal to friend Anwar Kharral's 17th birthday party. Tony comes as well, along with Effy, but neither of them actually go inside. Effy calls Tony a "wanker" for hurting Michelle, and he finally calls her on his phone to confess his love to her. Michelle listens to the phone while crying, and just as Tony crosses the street, he is hit by a bus. Michelle can be seen calling presumably an ambulance as elsewhere, Effy holds his bleeding body in shock, and the episode ends with Tony's status unclear.
Music Feature in "Series Finale"[1]
Frederik Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love
Architecture In Helsinki - Owls Go
The Bees - Sky Holds The Sun
Hinson - Or Just Re Arrange
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Opus - Life Is Life
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
The Broken Family Band - It's All Over
Take That - Everything Changes But You
Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
Starship - We Built This City
Europe - The Final Countdown
Fat Segal - Cassie sting
Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Forward)
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Cast (original Cat Stevens) - Wild World
Unseen Skins: "Bye"
- Main article: Unseen Skins#Series 1
Cassie and her friend from the therapy center discuss all the things she will miss once she leaves Bristol, including Sid.