Life on Mars' Series Finale Explains it All

Producers promised that all questions would be answered on the series finale of Life on Mars. The show definitely delivered, but it wasn’t in the most exciting way. It was definitely a happy ending for Sam though.
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Sam has been having dreams of the future. In the dreams he is in his apartment in 2008, but he is watching himself as a child and his father.

At the station Sam received another phone call from the male voice. The voice told him if he wants to go back to 2008 he needs to do three things. He told him the first thing is to save himself, then hung up. Seconds later Rose ran in to tell Sam that Vic had stolen little Sammy.

While on patrol, Sam told Gene that he was a cop in 2008, and he was transported to 1973 after a car accident. Gene didn’t believe him, but he thought it was funny and simply said, “That explains everything.”

Rose had told the detectives Vic might be in this little basement in town, but Vic found Sam before Sam found him. He knocked him out, and he and a friend dragged him away.

Back at the station Gene and the other detectives interrogated Rose. They believed she had something to do with Sam being taken away, and she made things worse when she called Sam Luke Skywalker. Annie was able to talk to Rose alone, and she learned that Sam reminds Rose of what her son will be when he is grown up. She also told Annie about a memory she has of her family at a small summer town named Hyde. Annie told the detectives about it, but they didn’t believe her.

Sam escaped after the men left. He walked outside on to Hyde Avenue, and he saw the man from the funeral and the little girl who rode the bike in the beginning episodes. He also saw the robot, which made him flash through pieces of his life in 2008. He tried to call the station, but the voice interrupted, telling him to duck because gun fire was coming his way.

Sam eventually found Vic and Sammy on a boat. Sam and Vic wrestled off the boat, and Sam told him he was his son. “I know,” Vic said. Just as Vic is about to slice Sam’s throat, Gene shoots him.

When Rose is reunited with Sammy, Sam told her his real name is Sam Tyler.

Annie was promoted to a detective.

Sam saw a flash forward to New Year’s Eve 2010 on his television. In the scene he was reading to an elder Annie. Windy saw it too and told Sam she was the one. He rushed to her, and they finally kissed.

Sam received the final phone call, but before we could learn the third thing he told the voice he didn’t want to go home because he liked 1973 and hung up the phone.

Gene and Sam hugged, which sent Sam “home.” “Home” for him was a space ship in the year 2035. The other detectives were there too. They were all astronauts on a gene hunt on Mars. Windy was their computer, and the man they arrested last week who claimed to know everything about Sam was their leader. Gene Hunt was actually Major Tom, and he was Sam’s father. Everyone had been on a neurological stint, and there had been a glitch with Sam’s, which is why he was in 1973 with memories of 2008.

The last scene was the entire group stepping out on to Mars.

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