Across the four episodes of The Night Caller<\/a>, we\u2019ve followed Tony<\/a> (Robert Glenister<\/a>) as he\u2019s battled inner demons, found solace in a late-night radio station and found himself having to deal with the consequences of his dramatic actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first episode ended on quite the cliffhanger, as we saw Tony take matters into his own hands in order to protect Rosa (Suzanne Packer) and run over her abusive ex-boyfriend Ste (Anthony Brophy) to prevent him from attacking her.<\/p>\n But things only got worse for Tony, as he was left to deal with the impact of that hit-and-run, being beaten up by Ste\u2019s gang, having his home ransacked by them, finding out Ste is dead and then also realising that radio DJ Lawrence (Sean Pertwee) is far from the friendly face he purports to be.<\/p>\n While we\u2019ve usually flitted about throughout the series in terms of setting<\/a>, the final episode was primarily based within Lawrence\u2019s home as Tony breaks in and confronts him about his lies.<\/p>\n But what happened to Tony and Lawrence at the end of The Night Caller<\/a>? Scroll on to find out.<\/p>\n Throughout the series, we\u2019ve been left to wonder exactly why Tony has found himself in the position he\u2019s in.<\/p>\n Going from a respected science teacher clearly loved by many to now driving cabs late at night around Liverpool begs the question: How did this happen?<\/p>\n In the later episodes of the series, we see Tony wrestle with memories of the past, but it\u2019s only in the finale that we get answers to questions about his story, as well as see Tony take matters into his own hands in a tense confrontation with Lawrence.<\/p>\n Having picked up Lawrence on the way to his birthday dinner just by coincidence in the penultimate episode, Tony was overjoyed to meet his idol.<\/p>\n But really, Lawrence was anything like his radio persona. Calling Tony \u201cstupid\u201d for believing they were friends and urging him to get a life, Tony was left hurt by what Lawrence had to say.<\/p>\n And so, after Lawrence\u2019s birthday dinner, Tony follows his taxi home to find out where he lives.<\/p>\n Once there, Tony sneaks in via the back door, and is in for quite the surprise as he goes looking through Lawrence\u2019s home. Having found Lawrence\u2019s home studio where he records NightTalk, Tony soon finds a hospital letter which boils his blood.<\/p>\n Going out to where Lawrence is asleep on the sofa, Tony chucks a glass of water over him and is visibly angry from Lawrence\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n Telling Lawrence that he trusted him, Tony confronts Lawrence over his deceit, mainly the fact that he\u2019s lied to all his listeners about having cancer.<\/p>\n Lawrence tells Tony that he did have a cancer scare but was given the all-clear, feeling as though it was too late to backtrack once he\u2019d told people he had cancer.<\/p> But it\u2019s in their heart-to-heart that the pair demonstrate that they have more similarities than they\u2019d care to admit.<\/p>\n While Lawrence may seem smooth-talking and as though he has it all, he talks of being lonely when he was waiting for his test results. His descriptions of rattling round in his house echo Tony\u2019s own life and Lawrence admits that they\u2019re both \u201cloners, creatures of the night\u201d, just in different ways.<\/p>\n But actually, while the pair may seem like they have a lot in common, Tony\u2019s own journey is one rooted in truth rather than Lawrence\u2019s, whose aim is to lie, manipulate and deceive.<\/p>\n While Lawrence may seemingly be helping people on his radio station, his complete lack of respect for his audience shows that he really doesn\u2019t care at all. On the other hand, Tony very clearly cares about those he comes into contact with, from Rosa to his past students and even Lawrence.<\/p>\n In their showdown, Tony comes clean to Lawrence about running Ste over, and it\u2019s then that Lawrence clearly starts to fear for his life, not least because Tony is holding a knife up towards him.<\/p>\n Trying to call for help from his bathroom, Tony attacks Lawrence and stops him. But it\u2019s after their violent altercation that we finally start to get a window into Tony\u2019s past.<\/p>\n Although Lawrence can\u2019t seem to comprehend how important Tony\u2019s job was to him, Tony starts to open up about his past as a science teacher bit by bit.<\/p>\n He says that he was the teacher that everyone counted on, but soon those sentiments were replaced by his colleagues telling him that he needs to take some time off, that the door\u2019s always open for him \u2013 but really, they weren\u2019t there for him in the end.<\/p>\n Wanting to expose Lawrence for his lies, Tony tells him they\u2019re going to go live on air.<\/p>\n Although Lawrence doesn\u2019t want to, the pair go live on the radio as Lawrence answers calls from listeners. Tony tells Lawrence that they\u2019ll stay live on air all night until Lawrence comes clean about his major lie, but they\u2019re interrupted by a new caller, Rosa.<\/p>\n Rosa\u2019s at the cafe with a police officer who\u2019s looking for Tony, but on the phone, she and Tony have a heartfelt conversation and Rosa gets him to promise that he won\u2019t hurt himself or anyone else.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s on the phone call that Tony admits that Ste wasn\u2019t \u201cthe first\u201d, and it\u2019s then that we start to get flashbacks of a boy drowning in a pool.<\/p>\n While the police have tracked Rosa\u2019s phone call back to Lawrence\u2019s home and know where Tony is, Tony and Lawrence remain live on air for their one-off episode talking about trust and betrayal.<\/p>\n The next call to come through is from Sarah Hall, who refers to Tony as Mr Conroy and says she is Joe\u2019s mother. She\u2019s also the mother of the young girl, Siobhan, who Tony saw previously on the bus.<\/p>\n It\u2019s then that Tony tells Sarah that he should\u2019ve been \u201cthere for him\u201d but she tells him that he shouldn\u2019t blame himself.<\/p>\n From Tony\u2019s tearful admission, we come to find out that he was the pastoral carer of Joe, and Joe called him one evening after school. Inundated with work, Tony deliberately missed the call, and we see that Joe was left angry by being ignored by Tony and jumps into the school pool.<\/p>\n Tony tried calling Joe back and when it rang out, Tony gets up and runs down the school halls looking for him. The next thing we see in the flashback is that Tony had rescued Joe from the pool \u2013 but it\u2019s too late, and Joe is dead.<\/p>\n On the phone call to Sarah, she also admits that she didn\u2019t hear Joe\u2019s calls for help either, and tells Tony that Joe\u2019s death isn\u2019t his fault. From what Tony has said, the death of Joe was too much for him to bare and impacted his entire life, including stepping away from the career he loved.<\/p>\n Although the episode\u2019s final showdown was one between Lawrence and Tony, really it was an important one for the series and the viewers to understand the context of Tony\u2019s life and how he has found himself in such a vulnerable position, depending on Lawrence\u2019s radio show.<\/p>\n The last thing we see in that radio studio is that Tony is looking at the knife in his hands and the armed squad of police officers are on their way in to intercept him.<\/p>\n Going forwards three months, we then see that Lawrence is in a shiny, new studio in the heart of London (not his basement), where newspaper frontals of him being labelled as the \u201chero DJ\u201d that survived a home terror are plastered on the walls.<\/p>\n He is also surrounded by industry and charity awards, and seems to be using his same technique and same lines to get listeners to open up to him live on radio.<\/p>\n It\u2019s as Lawrence is repeating almost the exact same line he used on Tony that we see where Tony has ended up. Sitting by himself in a mental health facility, he is visited by Rosa and tells her that it\u2019s good to see her.<\/p>\n The Night Caller is available to stream on My5.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The Channel 5 drama came to an emotional close. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":54615,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important.jpg",2048,1366,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/the-night-caller-ending-explained-why-tonys-final-showdown-was-so-important.jpg",2048,1366,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Channel 5 drama came to an emotional close.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/54614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Night Caller ending explained: Why Tony\u2019s final showdown was so important<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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