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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Those who sought out The Rising<\/a> would find further surprises in the eight-episode series, which ends in dramatic fashion as the truth is revealed about Neve\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n The Rising writer Pete McTighe (Doctor Who<\/a>, The Pact) spoke to RadioTimes.com<\/a> about the season finale, covering everything from Neve\u2019s extraordinary journey to casting and that moving soundtrack.<\/p>\n Be warned: there are\u00a0major spoilers\u00a0<\/strong>ahead!<\/p>\n While it initially seemed that stern, intimidating William Wyatt (Nicholas Gleaves) was responsible for Neve\u2019s death, it later emerged that the true culprit was his brother, Michael (William Ash) \u2013 and this isn\u2019t his first unspeakable crime, either.<\/p>\n Through flashback, we learn the heartbreaking story of Victoria Sands (Laura Aikman), first wife to Daniel (Alex Lanipekun), who had struggled with mental illness in the months leading up to her sudden disappearance.<\/p>\n For years, Daniel believed that she had taken her own life, but Neve discovers that Michael actually murdered her in a fit of rage after she rejected his sexual advances.<\/p>\n Speaking to\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/strong>, writer McTighe explained that the casting of Ash and Gleaves in these roles was one technique used to throw viewers off the scent.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a lovely guy in real life and that\u2019s kind of what we needed,\u201d he said. \u201cSomeone who was lovely and just a nice guy and an everyman. That would come across on-screen and, therefore, he would be at the back of your list of suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd you\u2019ve got someone like Nicolas Gleaves, who just has this edge to him and his performance constantly. So you\u2019re constantly drawn to him and watching him and suspecting him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n William is not innocent in all this either, having helped his brother cover up the evidence all those years ago, believing the incident to be a terrible mistake \u2013 which left him feeling partly responsible for Neve\u2019s grim fate too.<\/p>\n With help from Alex (Nenda Neururer) and Maria (Emily Taaffe), Neve is able to bring Victoria\u2019s remains to the attention of authorities, providing answers to her surviving relatives who have long yearned for them.<\/p>\n Michael flees to the motocross club, where he hopes to find the most incriminating evidence against him, but is confronted by Neve\u2019s father Tom (Matthew McNulty), who strangles him to death.<\/p>\n Fortunately, his ex-wife (and Neve\u2019s mother) Maria is on the scene to perform CPR, which succeeds in bringing Michael back and sparing Tom a lifetime behind bars \u2013 as well as having one other unintentional side effect.<\/p>\n As explained earlier in the episode, the people who can see Neve are those who have had near-death experiences, with this fact forming the foundation upon which the events of the finale were built.<\/p>\n McTighe continued: \u201cI felt that it was really important that Neve had a proper confrontation with her killer at the end of the show, and for that to happen, it meant that he had to die and then be brought back to kind of tie into the rules of the world\u2026 <\/span>Once I worked that out, that was a moment when everything fell into place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n After catching a glimpse of her when he regains consciousness, Michael\u2019s formal confrontation with Neve comes as he\u2019s detained in a prison cell, where she is finally able to get closure for the terrible fate he forced on her.<\/p>\n Yet remarkably, Neve chooses a non-violent path, which was another important part of her journey to McTighe.<\/p>\n \u201cTo get to the point of being able to kill him and to not do that, for her humanity to win out in the end\u2026 that\u2019s kind of a double victory for her,\u201d he began. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut then, for me, I was like \u2018that\u2019s not enough. I want this man dead\u2019. And it\u2019s great that we had Victoria, who could then kind of step in and you get that great shock ending.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, the spirit of Victoria Sands is not so merciful, exacting brutal revenge on Michael for tearing her away from her family, using her terrifying supernatural form to induce a fatal heart attack.<\/p>\n All things considered, Neve\u2019s ending is relatively upbeat.<\/p>\n Of course, there is the underlying tragedy that the life she could have led has been cruelly snatched away, but with answers found and justice served, she finds the strength to leave her small village as she aimed to do in life.<\/p>\n McTighe explains that he always wanted this first season to be neatly wrapped up, suggesting that viewers committing to all eight episodes are owed answers to the mysteries therein.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was really important to me that [Neve] had a \u2018happy ending\u2019, as happy as it could be. And also that we gave the audience a reasonably closed ending as well,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was important for this particular first series, for me, that the ending was a satisfying one, and that we didn\u2019t have a terrible cliffhanger at the end where we still don\u2019t know who the killer was,\u201d continued McTighe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think these days, an audience devoting eight episodes of their life to something, they deserve a bit of a payoff. <\/span>So I wanted to give people all those payoffs, and leave it on a really uplifting, bittersweet, emotional note.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The emotional heft of the ending is aided by the moving soundtrack, composed by BAFTA-nominated musician Carly Paradis, who also penned the instantly recognisable theme song to Line of Duty<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Rising ending explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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