If you’re wondering about how things concluded in the new Evin Ahmad starrer Netflix action thriller limited series, then here’s the Who is Erin Carter Ending Explained to clear things up for you. Created by Jack Lothian, the 7-part show also stars Sean Teale as Jordi, Indica Watson as Harper, Pep Ambros as Emilio Martin, Susannah Fielding as Olivia, Douglas Henshall as Daniel Lang, Denise Gough as Lena, Charlotte Vega as Penelope and others.
The series is centred around its titular character, played by Ahmad, who’s moved to Barcelona after leaving her mysterious past behind, for some time at least before it all catches back to her. The first few episodes of the show focus on her new life in Spain, where she only hopes for a better life for her daughter, Harper, but the calm get disrupted when she bravely takes down a gun-wielding robber at the supermarket, thus taking on the image of a local superhero.
Questions are definitely raised by the people around her, especially since they’re situated in a suburban community where gossip gets the word around. People wonder how a mere substitute schoolteacher could’ve skilfully fought her way out of this life-endangering fix, and her only answer to it all remains that it was only an act of self-defence. While her lips may have stayed sealed about how she acquired those “self defence” moves, one of those criminals at the grocery store also seems to have recognised her before he died.
The whole thing spins out of her control thereafter, especially since Jordi and Harper also start noticing the shift in her behaviour. But at the same time, Harper also has some skeletons buried at the back of her closet, and the violent supermarket incident triggers her load of old memories as well. Read on to see what finally happened to the leading lot of characters in the Who is Erin Carter Netflix series released on August 24, 2023.
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Who is Erin Carter Ending Explained
In the end, everything and everyone really catch up to Erin and Harper. While Jordi tries his best to keep their daughter out of harm’s way, Erin is left with no choice but to spill the truth that the young girl isn’t actually her daughter, rather is that of the “Aunt Lena” seen in Harper’s family tree. Lena comes back to find Harper, and gets the info on Erin’s whereabouts from Olivia upon threatening her.
When she finally finds Erin, the two get into it as expected, but Lena keeps her calm for the time being. Erin divulges the secret location where she’d kept the gold stolen from back then all this time. Driving Lena to this secluded hilly spot, she lets her take the bag, and in return gets busted up and shot at. Yet somehow, Erin finds the bare minimum first aid at a nearby camping place and drags herself back as thoughts of Lena taking Harper away keep her focussed.
However, she gets back to a quite normal situation at home as Daniel Lang’s (Dylan’s father) lackeys had already taken in Lena by that time. Jordi patches up Erin’s wounds and she advises him to take Harper to safety again. Lena eventually also discovers about Daniel’s involvement in the Harwich heist that led to her downfall, and this exchange equally helps Lang in finally finding out about Erin being the old undercover cop playing both sides.
Back at home, though Erin’s wounds are tended to for the time being, she’s still nowhere close to being able to fight anyone. She injects herself with adrenaline, and around the same time Daniel’s men again break into her house to get her. She gets into some fights before her path is crossed by Penelope, her neighbour, also another foe (on the softer side though). They both get chatty before the action resumes again later, and Penelope comes to her senses and confesses about wanting to divorce her husband.
In a parallel scene, Jordi gets Harper to Olivia’s home, but Lena soon catches up and attempts to speak with her daughter. However, she never gets the chance to actually get close to her as Daniel’s men break in and abduct both Jordi and Harper, not entirely trusting Lena’s intentions. She then turns to Erin in the end, as they both realise that their common aim and desire is to keep Harper safe. So their unlikely team-up becomes another bonding moment for them after all these years.
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When they finally reach Daniel’s place, they find themselves outgunned by his army of henchmen. In the heat of the moment, they come up with the plan that basically requires one of them to sacrifice themself while the other runs in the other direction to safety, and protects Harper. The severely wounded Erin makes up her mind about Harper needing to connect with her actual mother and decides to play the bait, but Lena doesn’t agree with it.
She finally admits that she could never give Harper the stable kind of life that Erin made room for. And so, she leads the men away from Erin, finally blowing up the fuel tank, leading to a major explosion which ends tragically for her, or so we assume at least, looking at the state of her severely bruised body dangling off the ledge. Though the work there isn’t done yet. Jordi and Harper are pushed into Daniel’s cabin where he holds them at gunpoint, but Erin arrives just in time and rescues them, and as last resort she pulls the trigger on Daniel as well, ending his chapter in the story.
At the very end, the trio – Erin, Jordi and Harper – finally find their way back to peace and reconciliation. They enjoy their time by the beach, and we catch both Erin and Harper holding letters addressed to their mothers, as a means to pen down their feelings and find a way out of their repressed past realities. Just as things seem to be settling down for them, Erin again encounters DI Jim Armstrong at the bar, the same man who introduced her to the messy life of a secret agent of sorts. And his intentions and expressions seem determined about getting Erin Carter back in the undercover work force.
That bit is left open-ended as we don’t see either of them actually spelling the words out for the other, but it’s heavily implied. And the big question that’s been plastered at the beginning of every episode of the series – “Who is Erin Carter?” – is finally answered by her husband, Jordi, who also felt at a loss earlier once Erin’s past came blasting into their lives, but is now content with what he has with his family and has well realised that Erin is someone who’s willing to do anything and everything if it is needed to keep her family out of danger’s sight.
Also, if we’re counting the number of important characters who died, then Emilio was also brutally murdered by Daniel, but that was half-way into the season, and not at the end.
Who is Erin Carter? is now streaming on Netflix.
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