All four of them were actually shot and died on the beach (and presumably buried in the pre dug graves).

The scenes that followed were of their souls leaving the beach (together, because that’s how they started this whole journey). Them driving off the road was symbolic to them driving off the road to hell, because of all the bad choices/mistakes they had made in their lives.

Baxter saw himself behind the Tiny Blair mask because the four of them were their own worst enemies and ultimately, it was their own actions and mistakes that lead to their deaths.

Other points to note:

- That poster that’s featured in nearly every series… it translates as ‘road to nowhere’. A little bit of foreshadowing their perhaps?

- Baxter killing Carmen was a reference to the opera ‘Carmen’, where she is killed by the man she loves.

Nothing ever goes right for the Mad Dogs. We, the viewers, have come to know that by now, but it seems that Quinn, Baxter, Woody and Rick haven’t quite learnt this lesson…

Finally free from the CIA the boys are reunited for Baxter’s daughter’s wedding. They all say they’re getting on okay, but it soon become clear that that’s not the case at all. Then Rick tells them of his great idea to make them rich again.

After some hilarious scenes involving snooker cues, a fire extinguisher and a fish tank, two star cameos by Phil and John’s real life spouses (Beth Goddard and Kate Magowan) and some brilliant dancing from Phil(!) the quartet decide to go along with Rick’s plan. Which doesn’t bode well, because let’s face it; Rick is hardly the brains of the outfit, is he?

Skip forward two months and all seems hunky dory… the lads (and some of their partners) are back in Cape Town, and meeting up at Quinn’s beautiful and seemingly very secure house. But then, in a chilling shout out to the first series, Rick finds a dead goat floating in the swimming pool and the lads start to wonder if they’ve actually escaped from their past misdeeds. Something that the viewer has known the answer too for a while now. And the final scenes confirm that yes, their past has most definitely come back to haunt them… in a fatal way.

Some of the camera angles are a little strange, but it doesn’t detract from the feel of the episode or the acting. You can tell that these four (six, if you include Beth and Kate) are very close in real life… it bleeds through into the characters and their relationship. And the episode does still manage to pull off the tricky feat of balancing both comedy and thriller elements in equal measure.

We also felt that it was perhaps a little stretched out in parts near the beginning… We wonder if it would have flowed better if it had been one 90 minute special rather than two hour long episodes. But one thing is for sure… We cannot wait for the concluding episode because despite the surreal, wacky and dark nature of this show – We’ve grown to love the four leads (well, perhaps not so much Rick, because he can be a bit of a moron) and we will be sad to see their story end.