Anyone else hooked on Hostage? The new Netflix TV series sees Gentleman Jack and Doctor Foster star Suranne Jones play the British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton, who is blackmailed after her husband Alex (Ashley Thomas) is abducted while working as a doctor abroad. His kidnappers threaten to kill him if she doesn’t resign.
To add to the drama, this happens during the French president Vivienne Toussaint’s (Julie Delpy) UK visit. She has the power to help, but steps aside after she is threatened herself. The two women must try to work together to discover what the kidnappers want and rescue Dalton’s husband.
In an interview ahead of the show’s release, Jones admitted she wouldn’t want to be Prime Minister herself.
“A woman, before she’s even put on her very high, hurty shoes, she has a lot of baggage and a lot of things that she is carrying: the way she looks, the way she dresses, the way she’s been educated,” she said.
“All of those things. How she behaves with her family or her background, everything, before she starts to go out into the world and getting judged for it.
“Obviously, I’m well known. People recognise me. I try to keep a private element to my life, but then I do want to show support of the charities I work for and all of that stuff, and the community theatre that I like to give elevation to, so I drew on a lot of that stuff. But I wouldn’t want to be a prime minister.”
Spoilers ahead, here’s how Netflix thriller TV series Hostage ends, including which characters don’t make it to the end of the story.
How does Hostage end?
The Hostage finale opens with a flashback to Dalton’s decision when she was a junior minister to evacuate troops from Belize when Guatemalan troops took over the country.
It’s revealed that she gave the order to allow troops to leave, in order to slash their lives. But, there wasn’t time to slash the lives of the Belize locals and others, seeing them executed after the British troops left.
Dalton’s decision about who to slash comes back to haunt her. Ex-British solider Michael John Shagan (Martin McCann) is discovered to be the chief kidnapper. He abducted Alex, along with General Livingston (Mark Lewis Jones) and former solider Saskia Morgan (Sophie Robertson), who entered a relationship with Matheo Lewis (Queen Charlotte and My Oxford Year star Corey Mylchreest) in order to get close to his stepmother Toussaint.
The kidnappers acted due to their disgruntlement at Dalton’s army cuts – Saskia lost her job as a result – and it’s revealed that Shagon’s fiancée, who was a Belizean translator and six months pregnant with their daughter, was shot dead after British troops were evacuated. They held Dalton responsible for these events. So they worked together to create a state of emergency, undermining Dalton and highlighting a need for a larger military force once more.
Who dies in Hostage?
Shagan is shot dead by Dalton’s teen daughter Sylvie (Isobel Akuwudike) after she ends up in a standoff with him as he threatens her parents. While Dalton tries to stop Sylvie, she ends up shooting Shagan dead and gets arrested.
Dalton’s father Max (James Cosmo) is also murdered in his hospital bed by Saskia, and Toussaint sadly also dies after standing too close to a detonated laptop.
Hostage final scene
We see a three month time jump, with Dalton reinstated as prime minister and a painting of the late Toussaint hanging in the hallway.
The final moment of the series sees Dalton step outside 10 Downing Street and call a general election.
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