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The Doomsday Option

Episode 5 of 6

Aziraphale is discorporated but possesses Madame Tracy during a seance. Crowley drives his Bentley through a flaming motorway. Adam and the Four Horsemen begin the apocalypse.

Crowley rushes to Aziraphale’s bookshop, desperate to escape Earth together, and is aghast to discover the shop aflame. He runs inside and rescues the copy of The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter. Then he walks out of the burning building and heads off on a mission of his own. Convinced he has the power to exorcise demons, Shadwell returns home to Madame Tracy.

Aziraphale finds himself in Heaven, and in trouble – he has no flaming sword, and his earthly body has been discorporated. He tries to return to Earth without a body.

Adam has taken complete control of Them. He's floating in the air, monstrous and scary. Adam says that new friends of his are arriving imminently.

Newt is in a post-coital glow, and Anathema’s mission to halt Armageddon continues. They work on deciphering more of Agnes’s prophecies.

After Aziraphale's discorporation, Crowley is determined to get as drunk as possible. An immaterial Aziraphale appears and tells Crowley to head for Tadfield airbase.

The three guests at Madame Tracy's seance arrive. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rendezvous in a little cafe.

Madame Tracy's seance has some surprises in store.

53 minutes

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Queen

    You're My Best Friend

  • 00:04

    Queen

    Somebody To Love

  • 00:30

    Queen

    I'm In Love With My Car

  • 00:47

    Queen

    We Are The Champions

  • 00:49

    Queen

    Bohemian Rhapsody

Credits

Role Contributor
Aziraphale Michael Sheen
Composer David Arnold
Crowley David Tennant
Director Douglas Mackinnon
Voice of God Frances McDormand
Writer Neil Gaiman
Arthur Young Daniel Mays
Deirdre Young Sian Brooke
Adam Young Sam Taylor Buck
Anathema Adria Arjona
Madame Tracy Miranda Richardson
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell Michael McKean
Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer/Newton Pulsifer Jack Whitehall
Hastur Ned Dennehy
Ligur Ariyon Bakare
Pepper Amma Ris
Brian Ilan Galkoff
Wensleydale Alfie Taylor
The Voice of Death Brian Cox
Herself Kirsty Wark
Pollution Lourdes Faberes
Death Jamie Hill
R.P. Tyler Bill Paterson
Famine Yusuf Gatewood
War Mireille Enos
Beelzebub Anna Maxwell Martin
Ron Ormerod Johnny Vegas
Fireman Gary Finan
Quartermaster Angel Jonathan Aris
Julia Petley Jayde Adams
Mr Scroggie Martin Wimbush
Brenda Ormerod Jenny Galloway
Immigration Officer Ramanna Banger
Waitress Jackie Clune
Radio Newsreader Tim Bentinck
Dagon, Lord of the Files Elizabeth Berrington
Horace Steve Oram
Nora Mercedes Grower
Lisa, Telephone Sales Rosie Day
Police Officer Fred Jordan Long
Police Officer Julia Sharon Ballard
Gate Guard Andre Nightingale
Death/American General Euan Macnaughton
Screwdriver Officer Kevin Millington
US Silo Commander Lawrence Joffe
US Silo Crewman Johan Baird
Russian Submarine Captain Visar Vishka
Russian Submarine Crewman Egor Korzinikov
Airbase Soldier Jennifer Armour

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