Happy Valley were left 'feeling sick' and fearing the worst as a warning was given from a BBC announcer at the start of Sunday's finale.
Nine years after millions first got invested in the exploits of Sergeant Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley came to an end this weekend, with the sixth and final episode of its new series airing on BBC One at 9pm as a huge audience tuned into see how things would turn out.
The penultimate episode which aired on January 29 set things up nicely for a tense last episode, when, after breaking free from court, Catherine's nemesis Tommy Lee Royce made contact with son Ryan, Catherine's grandson, via an online game as tried to convince him to run off to Spain with him.