The Jetty spoilers follow.
The Jetty's Jenna Coleman has revealed another show twist in the form of an alternative ending.
The drama series stars Coleman as Ember Manning, a detective investigating a fire at a boat house. The investigation links back to a cold case of missing teenager Amy Knightly.
Intertwined with a past timeline of events, the four-part series features shocking twists and turns, concluding with guilty Ember pinning Amy's murder on her old friend Arj.
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Speaking with Variety, Coleman shared that the surprising ending wasn't set in stone at the time of filming, as there were "multiple" conclusions.
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"I mean, it was a really interesting process, because the show got sent to me when episode 1 was written with a treatment. So the conversation [with showrunner Cat Jones and executive producer Liz Kilgarriff] began there. Talking about the grey areas and asking questions without trying to necessarily answer them and sitting in that uncomfortable space," she said.
"But the ending used to be extremely different. A completely different ending. So it was very much a development, and then we actually shot two versions of the prison cell scenes where she admits or doesn't admit, so it was very much left to the edit what to do with it. There was a couple of different ways it could go."
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Revealing more about the alternative ending, the actor added: "She basically didn't speak. The assumption was made [by the detectives], and she never corrected it as opposed to the words coming out of her mouth.
"But the version that we had on paper was her saying those words. Again, I think it's about sitting in that uncomfortable space and there being no easy answers."
As Ember avoided prison, Coleman isn't ruling out a second season of The Jetty. "I love her as a character, it felt so fully formed. I feel like this series had something really interesting to say and to offer and to consider," she said. "So I guess it's like with anything, it's always story-based."
All episodes of The Jetty are available now on BBC iPlayer.
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