It seems patronising to say this, but so did the big speech that grandma Muriel gave at the start of the episode. ‘Here we go,’ we think, ‘Nan’s two wines deep, chill out it’s not our fault the world’s gone to shit.’ But she is right, obviously. The drive to create ever more cheap goods and make our lives more efficient has created an economy which – we don’t really like to admit – benefits us at the cost of lives and livelihoods elsewhere. As Celeste casually drops into conversation later on, accountants are consigned to history, along with travel agents and referees. No one is safe from this all-consuming, dehumanising machine, it needs to be reprogrammed otherwise more people around the globe will die in sweatshops and we will all be left without a job.

You can’t please all the people all the time. Giving some of the electorate what they voted for without compromise will always lead to tension and with a government based on empty promises and zero policies Viv Rook’s UK starts to resemble a police state. Faced with this the Lyons clan and the rest of the world start to finally take action. Rosie breaks down the gates to her estate and Edith opens the lid on the death camps. In the end a gun was no match for an angry crowd of people with right on their side and a good phone signal.

The death of his brother still haunts Stephen and despite him losing everything else in his life this is what consumes him. As we mentioned after episode four, it is part of what led him down the path of betraying Viktor. However, as Celeste, Edith and Bethany are planning the downfall of the Erstwhile sites (all while still protecting Stephen), he has been planning on releasing the information himself and then taking his own life. This is not to be his final act though and in turning the gun on Woody and taking the fall for the leak of info he achieves some level of redemption. Was he a bad man? Maybe. Was he a coward? Yes definitely. Was he weak and vulnerable and grieving deeply for his brother? Yes, all of those, but in the end he does find the strength to fight back and do the right thing, like the rest of his family.

So ends the reign of the Four Star party, a corrupt regime, toppled by the people who voted it in. So what next? “An even bigger monster is waking up inside its cage,” says Edith quoting the powerhouse that is granny Muriel. “Beware the jokers and the tricksters and the clowns,” says Muriel, “They will laugh us all to hell.” BoJo, we’re watching you.

But the conspiracy theory hinted at in episode four – that there is a “they” secretly controlling things behind the scenes, is elaborated upon when we find that a (pretty poor) lookalike has taken Viv’s place in prison. So, what does this mean for the future of politics? Is it so broken that we can never truly trust whoever is in power? And who then, is behind it all? The Russians? A shadowy Bond-like organisation of super-criminals? Aliens running a planetary version of The Sims? Wherever she is in the world, Edith is determined to find Vivienne and get some answers. That seems eminently possible since…

By the year 2034, Edith is a national hero and the first to have her consciousness put into the machine, a brand new form of life, one that can see all and has cheated death. That sounds pretty omnipotent to us. In Yuval Noah Harari’s recent bestseller Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind, he cautions on the dangers of our development into “Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one.”

But in Edith we have hope. If she is some sort of god, she trusts that whatever she is, she is more than just the sum of all the code, all the facts, she is Love. If that’s the next stage of the evolution of the human race then that’s a pretty good place to start.