Safe TV Mini Series 2018 | Key Facts & Characters & Ending Explained
Safe TV Mini Series 2018 tells the story of Tom, a widowed father, a surgeon, a man who has yet to come to terms with the death of his late wife to cancer. It picks up on the day his eldest daughter, Jenny, doesn’t come home from a party and for the remainder of the 8 episodes you’re on the edge of your seat asking questions: where is Jenny? Who killed her boyfriend, Chris? How could it happen at the party? Who is covering for who? Why does it seem that everyone Tom talks to isn’t saying EVERYTHING they know? By the time you’re a few episodes into the season, a few things are clear: everyone has secrets; everyone has something to lose; no one is SAFE from the truth. It always comes out.
Unless you read the script before you started watching this gripping and twisty tail you would have no clue who did what – to whom – or when.
Essentially everyone appears to be connected in one way or another right the way through – so where does that leave us?
Well everyone has to decide their loyalties – in this series the loyalties seem to change every few minutes as more and more diversions are dumped into the road you think you are on.
The tail starts off “today” – but in fact actually started some decades before which link in all the main characters in the show.
There were no dramatic car chases. Yes people did follow other people in cars but no crazy high-speed rubbish.
The small parts of the party shown with more and more pieces on every episode gave us both more clues but also more questions and that added to mystery and also gave a nice support to all the twists and turns we can see during the show.
Each episode builds on previous ones. The last episode presents a recap of what important details have occurred in previous episodes to set up the big reveal. It’s presented credibly albeit the process could be exhausting for would-be armchair detectives. What’s also interesting to the viewer is how the last few frames show how the culprit behaves as the investigation progresses. Rather ironic but the viewer enjoys this segment.
Overall a fantastic show. Realistic premise, interesting characters, and overall plenty of twists to keep you engaged. I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery/thriller stuff.
Characters
The cast is impressive; Michael C. Hall impresses as Tom, his accent may have slipped occasionally but I soon stopped thinking of him as ‘Dexter’. There are also notable performances from Amanda Abbington as Tom’s girlfriend who is also the policewoman leading the investigation; Marc Warren, as Tom’s friend Pete; Audrey Fleurot, as a teacher with accusations made against her; Hannah Arterton, as a policewoman with a secret; and Nigel Lindsay, as the father of the girl whose party Tom’s daughter disappeared from.
Ending Explained
The last installment of Safe continues where the previous episode ended, with Tom discovering that his deceased neighbor Helen, his current girlfriend Sophie, and his late wife Helen were all accountable for a tragic fire that occurred at their school several years prior, resulting in the deaths of eight students.
Sophie tells Tom everything that transpired that fatal night, including the fact that Craig returned to the burning school to save the students after spotting them on camera, which is why he sustained such terrible burns.
Tom informs Sophie that before Jenny passed away, Rachel was attempting to communicate with her. He believes Jenny discovered the fire and that Bobby—one of the children who started the fire—killed Helen. As a result, he now possesses Jenny.
Pretending to be on his side, Sophie calls Tom and makes a commitment to help him get Jenny back from Bobby. In the call, he all but admits to killing Helen. Sophie promises to come to his flat and promises to assist him get rid of Jenny.
Then, in a flashback from before Jenny vanished, we see her visiting Helen, inquiring about her mother and ogling old school yearbook pictures of the two of them. Jenny removes an old VHS movie that was concealed in the same memory box as the yearbook, but before Helen can respond to Jenny’s question, “What is Jasmine?” Jenny is thrown out of the house.
Jenny brings the video over to Chris’s house, where they all view it together and are astonished to learn that there are six teenagers in the school. The video ends before further of the school is shown. But the video has a date on it, so they figure out the major secret after doing some research at the library and discovering a newspaper clipping about the school fire.
Chris has a history of conflict with Sophie, having been detained by her for drug possession, and he wishes to speak with her right now. Jenny begs him not to, though, and that evening at Sia’s party we see her, but she has lost Chris and goes to Heaven by herself to talk to Bobby. She also takes Chris’s motorcycle and leaves it at the station.
Jenny leaves a message for Bobby and goes to Helen’s where she confronts her about the fire, telling her she knows everything, after the bar staff informs her that Bobby isn’t there and that she should avoid him. After Helen tells Jenny what transpired that evening, she is told she is unable to return home because her father has been monitoring her phone and she is unsure of how to explain the situation to him.
Emma and Sophie arrive at Helen’s house to conduct a doorstep search for Jenny. When Sophie confesses that they are concerned about Jenny due to her boyfriend’s death, Jenny is horrified and listening from the other side of the door.
Helen phones Bobby and confronts him because she is certain that he killed Chris. Zoe tells us that Jenny is the one that she observed hiding in the woods while she is surreptitiously exploring the area and keeping an eye on Chris’s memorial from a distance.
Bobby arrives as Jenny is returning to Helen’s, and when Helen informs him that the truth is going to be revealed and they must be honest, Bobby turns red. After killing Helen and setting the home on fire, he kidnaps Jenny since she is aware of his secret, which he is fervently attempting to conceal.
Returning to the present, Sophie and Tom are seen making a late-night drive to Bobby’s apartment. Before parking and entering Bobby’s apartment, Sophie drops him off around the corner and gives Tom a call so they can talk covertly. Then, unobserved, she follows him into the apartment by leaving a fire escape open.
Bobby is pointing a gun at Sophie, but Sophie convinces him to stop. Bobby is inside the apartment. He informs Sophie that they must also kill Jenny after confessing to killing Helen. Pretending to comply, she and Bobby enter Jenny’s room where Sophie strikes up a conversation, keeping them both distracted from the fact that Tom is quietly entering the space behind them.
A fight breaks out as Tom tries to take the gun from Bobby, but Bobby ultimately prevails over him and Sophie, keeping Jenny and them both at gunpoint. But he ends up shooting himself since he has no idea who to kill first or how to escape this situation without going to jail.
Everyone is stunned, but Jenny in particular is told not to confess to the fire by Tom and her when the police arrive, and Jenny swears not to mention her name to the police.
Jenny is questioned by Emma, and while everything seems to fit together, she is unsure of one thing: how did Bobby find out that Chris was attending Sia’s party? Jenny claims she has never seen the pendant the police found in the pool area, but Tom recognizes it as Sophie’s, and it dawns on her that Sophie had to kill Chris.
Sophie acknowledges that it was her, but stresses that it was all an accident when Tom approaches her at home.
The party night is then brought back to memory, and Sophie has gone to Sia’s to retrieve Henry since she is concerned about him because he is ill. However, when she confronts Chris in the backyard garden, he questions her about the fire. At first, she denies it, but when Chris shows her that he has recorded his confession on his phone, she turns red. They argue over the phone, tumble into the pool, where Sophie holds Chris underwater while her pendant falls off.
In the present, Tom calls the police to report Sophie for the murder of Chris Chahal and tells her that he loves her, but there are too many lies and secrets. We witness flashbacks to all the times Sophie believed she would get away with murder—again—as she is taken into custody and placed in a cell.
In the’safe’ gated neighborhood where the episode and series end, Tom walks home to be reunited with both of his daughters.
Safe TV Mini Series 2018 | Reviews
IMDB score is 7.2 ( I rated it 7 personally)
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