Oh how could you, Gemma?
And you thought she’d run him over! Yes, that really IS the vengeful doctor snogging her creepy ex in this week’s f inal episode of the TV shocker. But is all as it seems as we ask:
MILLIONS of viewers were left open-mouthed last week as Gemma Foster appeared to steer her car at her wicked ex- husband Simon, apparently intent on his murder.
So Doctor Foster fans might be a little confused by our exclusive photo preview of this week’s final episode – which shows TV’s most toxic couple kissing passionately.
Surely they can’t have made up, after scheming so hard to destroy each other’s lives throughout the second series?
But far from showing the couple reuniting, the intimate moment is actually a flashback, showing the pair long before Gemma learned about Simon’s mistress and future wife Kate, played by Jodie Comer.
In a second flashback, we see Gemma (Suranne Jones) sharing another kiss with Simon as they prepare to sit down for a cosy family dinner. The seemingly devoted pair exchange stories about their day as Simon jokes that she is ‘lucky to have a husband with the right priorities’.
A blushing Gemma then teases him about the present she has bought him for his birthday.
The scene ends when Simon, played by Bertie Carvel, goes upstairs to pack for what he claims is a business weekend away in Hemel Hempstead.
In another scene, Gemma can be seen on her knees, her mobile in her hand.
The Mail on Sunday has seen the final epi- sode, but has chosen to keep details about its plot secret. Over the past four weeks, the BBC One drama has kept more than seven million fans on tenterhooks as an increasingly desperate Gemma tries to extricate her bullying ex-husband from her life. Th e show has been described as the drama hit of the year and opinion is divided over who the real culprit is.
Gemma – who has used everything including seduction to score points against her husband – has been branded a bunny boiler in some quarters.
But her supporters believe that she is the innocent victim of a sociopath who will stop at nothing to push her over the edge.
In an interview on Graham Norton’s Radio 2 show yesterday, Suranne Jones admitted she had been hurt by some of the criticisms aimed at Gemma. ‘I have got to be honest, I have been a little hurt by that,’ she said. ‘The show has a certain style to it and it’s got some truth. For all of its madness its steeped in truth.
‘What we are doing is just a heightened version of what some people actually go through.’
And she dropped hints about a third series, saying she had already spoken to writer Mike Bartlett about the possibility. ‘Tuesday could end this thing totally,’ she said. ‘But Mike... told me what he would want to tell the story of series three. And it’s very interesting.’
Mr Bartlett said: ‘This show – of all shows – thrives on unpredictability, breaking the rules and pushi ng characters to places you haven’t seen them before.’
Doctor Foster is on BBC One on Tuesday night at 9pm.
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