{"id":48522,"date":"2024-03-26T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2014044"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:39:14","slug":"passenger-ending-explained-what-was-happening-in-chadder-vale","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/passenger-ending-explained-what-was-happening-in-chadder-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger ending explained: What was happening in Chadder Vale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Riya manage to get to the bottom of the mysterious case? Full spoilers for Passenger ahead. <\/p>

By Morgan Cormack\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 15:51 PM<\/p>

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*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Passenger.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the series<\/a> that threw up more questions the deeper we got into it, but in Passenger<\/a>\u2018s sixth and final episode, we finally got some answers to the mysteries going on in Chadder Vale.<\/p>\n

Riya (Wunmi Mosaku<\/a>) had been intent on figuring out where both local girl Katie Wells (Rowan Robinson) and Swedish tourist Nina Karlson (Synn\u00f8ve Karlsen) had disappeared to, and Katie turning up 24 hours after being suspected to be missing only further added to Riya\u2019s suspicions.<\/p>\n

The mundane small town wasn\u2019t rocked by Katie\u2019s surprise disappearance or reappearance, but when things turned deadly for Mehmet, a lot of other strange things started happening at the same time.<\/p>\n

Not only was Jim\u2019s (David Threlfall) fracking site being upended by protestors, but Mehmet\u2019s body being discovered at the site brought its own implications.<\/p>\n

A dead stag, growing potholes, a weird video game entitled Passenger and an online forum were all discovered in the lead-up to the finale, but what was happening in Chadder Vale?<\/p>\n

Read on for a full breakdown of the final episode of Passenger.<\/p>\n

Passenger ending explained: What was happening in Chadder Vale?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Rowan Robinson as Katie Wells in Passenger.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

To put it simply, there was a lot going on in Chadder Vale \u2013 but ultimately, we discovered that local businessman and bread factory owner Derek Jackson (Daniel Ryan) was behind a lot of the weird happenings in the small town<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As we discovered in the previous episodes, a company called Pangaea was responsible for the mysterious contracts that were being signed by young people visiting Chadder, including by Mehmet.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d seen that Mehmet was playing a video game entitled Passenger, but what we didn\u2019t realise initially was that it was only the cusp of what was to come.<\/p>\n

Actually, the game had a more deadly real-world version that was being carried out in Chadder Vale.<\/p>\n

The finale opens with the employees of the bread factory getting letters informing them of their termination of employment, and when he turns up for work, Derek is ambushed by a masked figure. He then winds up at a church where he is greeted by a mysterious woman who appears to be the boss of Pangaea.<\/p>\n

While we haven\u2019t met the person behind the Black Rocks true crime podcast that Katie listens to throughout the series, the mysterious host (known as Melissa Dean) and the Pangaea boss sound identical \u2013 so we would hazard a guess that the podcast is also some form of extra media that Pangaea uses to reach the youth.<\/p>\n

In the church, she tells Derek that they\u2019re closing the factory, not caring that Derek\u2019s brother Kane has been arrested for Mehmet\u2019s murder. She says that nobody needed to know what was going on, and that\u2019s when Derek admits that he and Kane took Mehmet\u2019s body onto Jim\u2019s fracking site to frame him and get the site closed down.<\/p>\n

She then reveals what the purpose of Pangaea is, and says: \u201cWe had a chance with Derek, to take our anxiety-ridden youth and give them purpose. To turn all those hours sitting at a keyboard and give them strength, entice them with the prize then recruit their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

She cuts a deal with him and tells Derek that if he wants to sort it out, he has to go to the factory himself and take care of it. On his way there, he visits Terry (Debbie Rush) to tell her something\u2019s happened \u2013 but she confronts him about his need for money, which was eventually the undoing of their relationship.<\/p>\n

Was Eddie innocent?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Barry Sloane as Eddie Wells in Passenger.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV\/SISTER Pictures<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Elsewhere, the other main focus of the finale is on Jakub (Hubert Hanowicz), who is the mysterious person behind the big bag of cash that was left on Jim\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n

Jim initially thought that it was Joanne (Natalie Gavin) who wanted to give him money for her guilty conscience, but actually it turns out it was Jakub.<\/p>\n

Jakub admits to Riya that he saw Eddie halfway up the street when Jim was attacked five years prior but never told anyone, instead choosing to take over the lease on Eddie\u2019s garage and keep quiet about his innocence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He later tells Riya and Ali that he was blackmailed and told that it would be his word against the town.<\/p>\n

He eventually confesses to Riya that it was Tony (Sean Gilder), the owner of the boxing club and Jim\u2019s own friend, who Riya later punches in the face.<\/p>\n

In Derek\u2019s confrontation with the Pangaea boss, Derek says that he arranged to sort out Jim\u2019s attack five years prior and arranged for Tony to do it. But the Pangaea boss still had to sort out Jim\u2019s site, getting a government ban to stop the fracking instead \u2013 clearly a major bone of contention for the company.<\/p>

What was happening in Derek\u2019s bread factory?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Daniel Ryan as Derek Jackson in Passenger.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Everything starts to slot into place in the finale, and we begin to realise that Derek\u2019s Jumbo Bread Factory is at the epicentre of what is going on in Chadder Vale.<\/p>\n

After the confronting chat with the Pangaea boss, everything we\u2019ve seen in the series so far starts to make sense.<\/p>\n

Remember the mysterious cage and clear escape from the lorry in episode 1? Or perhaps the gang of solemn-faced heavies that went to stay at the B&B for one night and were then tasked to retrieve the creature in question?<\/p>\n

Throughout the series, Derek and his brother Kane are having tense conversations in secret about \u201cbatches\u201d and night shifts, coming under pressure when Derek gets an email from waste management. They\u2019re apparently one day behind in their schedule, and that\u2019s when Kane shows Derek the lorry and the gaping hole in the cage at the back, and also the floor of the lorry itself.<\/p>\n

The creature in question, which attacks Katie again and eventually John, isn\u2019t seen throughout the series \u2013 but has clearly escaped from the brothers at the bread factory.<\/p>\n

It is then eventually found when Katie once again comes to in the middle of the forest with one of the mystery men behind her, who thanks her and is clearly now able to locate the monster in question.<\/p>\n