“Where’s That Taxi Taking Them? Series 3!” Siân Brooke on the Blue Lights Finale

Warning: spoilers for Blue Lights series 2. The message in the Blue Lights series two finale could hardly seem clearer. After six episodes of being assaulted, petrol bombed and shot at on their turbulent Belfast patch, police officers Grace and Stevie finally give in to their feelings and drive off into the night while Dolly Parton’s  “Light of […]

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Warning: spoilers for Blue Lights series 2.

The message in the Blue Lights series two finale could hardly seem clearer. After six episodes of being assaulted, petrol bombed and shot at on their turbulent Belfast patch, police officers Grace and Stevie finally give in to their feelings and drive off into the night while Dolly Parton’s  “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” perkily assures us that “Everything’s gonna be alright/It’s gonna be okay.” 

Phew. Thank heavens! If there’s one thing Siân Brooke’s Grace and Martin McCann’s Stevie deserve in Blue Lights, it’s for everything to be alright and okay. He’s a widower who nursed his beloved wife through cancer; she’s a former social worker and single parent whose only son has moved away, and they both do a job so stressful it’s a wonder that they don’t spontaneously burst into flames at the start of every shift. If these two can find solace in each other in the back of a Belfast cab, then work away. 

But hang on a moment. Just before the finale credits roll, Grace and Stevie’s cab turns off and the Blue Lights camera keeps going, moving forwards and up. Dolly Parton’s promise of a clear blue morning disappears and as the night-time Belfast skyline is held in frame, the only sound is of police sirens. Is everything gonna be alright, gonna be okay?

Siân Brooke laughs. “You don’t often see it all working out happy families, but [Blue Lights creators Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson] might have different ideas,” she tells Den of Geek via video call.

Grace and Stevie’s taxi ride ending isn’t “totally resolute”, says Brooke. “It’s been two series of will-they-won’t-they? I’ve had the question so many times ‘Are they going to get together?!’, so I think they needed to give them something, but you still don’t know whether or not this is a proper commitment or just…”

A one-night hook-up?

“It could be, you