And at the end of every series, we have been left in no doubt that Mercurio believes that decent people can be corrupted, no good deed goes unpunished, and there is always someone with something to lose who will hush up wrongdoing. So we got the ending we deserved, in drama, as in life. If we turn a blind eye, swallow the comfortable lies instead of looking for the hard truths, we get, for want of a better word, shafted. As Ted says: “It devastated me that we have stopped standing up for accountability, that we have stopped caring about truth and integrity because it’s these institutional failures that enable the likes of Ian Buckells to be corrupt.”