Recap / Good Omens Episode 6 "The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives"

Episode 6

The Very Last Day Of The Rest Of Their Lives

The Horsemen arrive at the appointed battleground to await the arrival of the Antichrist. Crowley and Aziraphale must make a choice: stand with their sides or stand against them. Anathema and Pulsifer use the prophecies of Agnes Nutter to figure out a way to save the world.

Tropes That Appear In This Episode:

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• Ambiguous Situation: By the end of the series, Adam has denounced Satan as his father and reality has reshaped accordingly. He is, according to Aziraphale, a completely normal 11-year-old human boy. However, when he and Dog are in the garden, somebody miracles a bush into wilting, allowing Dog to escape and Adam to give chase; it's unclear if Adam retains his Antichrist powers and performed the miracle, Dog performed a demonic miracle, or somebody else did it.
• Anti-Climax:
  • War, Famine, and Pollution were shockingly easy to take down despite being harbingers of Armageddon. Pepper actually manages to hurt War by kicking her in the shin, and all three of them are unceremoniously killed in one hit by Pepper, Brian, and Wensleydale using War's (formerly Aziraphale's) Flaming Sword. However, like in the book, it's implied that they were helped by Adam's reality-warping abilities.
  • Satan makes a big entrance and is as massive and intimidating as one would think the Devil would be, but he is defeated by Adam verbally disowning him, being turned to dust by the boy's Reality Warper powers.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Crowley and Aziraphale manage to give Gabriel and Beelzebub pause when they ask whether Armageddon is the "Ineffable Plan", i.e. how things are really supposed to go. Both, having no real independent thinking, have no answer and are forced to report back to their head offices.
• Artistic License – Geography: Berkley Square is doubled by the much quieter and more picturesque Tavistock Square.
• Artistic License – Military: Neither Ireland nor Germany have nuclear weapons.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Death remarks that while the Apocalypse has been averted, War, Famine, and Pollution have only been inconvenienced, and it is likely that one day they will try again.
• Battle Aura: Anathema gets a brief glimpse of the Horsemen's auras, citing them as being similar to black holes.
• Bigger on the Inside: The fairly small pitcher that Michael uses to carry the holy water ends up filling the entire bathtub.
• Brick Joke: Newt finally gets someone to ask him why he calls his car Dick Turpin.^Because… Turpin was a famous highwayman, and his car always holds up traffic.
• Brown Note Being: A downplayed example, but Satan himself seems to have some brown-note qualities when he appears, at least to the legions of hell. After Gabriel and Beelzebub disappear to inform their respective superiors about Adam's refusal to end the world, the ground begins to quake as a precursor to Satan's appearance. While Aziraphale and Anathema can feel that "something" is coming, Crowley is thrown to the ground clutching his chest and crying out in pain when he first senses Satan's imminent approach and anger.
  Crowley: Augh! Oh, ow! No, no no no no no no no no!
  Aziraphale: What's happening? I can feel something.
  Crowley: They did it. They told his father.
  Aziraphale: Oh no.
  Crowley: And his satanic father is not happy.
• Call-Back:
  • In the first episode, God remarks that the park that Aziraphale and Crowley are at is a common meeting ground for international spies. Here, we actually catch a small conversation between a British spy and a Russian spy about the various "mass hallucinations" that their countries has suffered from.
  • Uriel and Sandalphon paraphrase lyrics from "My Favorite Things."
• Calling the Old Man Out: Adam gives a simple but gargantuan one to his biological father, Old Scratch himself.
• Cosmic Retcon: When Adam thoroughly rejects Satan, it causes his Reality Warping powers to rewrite everything back to the way they were. He becomes fully human (more or less), Aziraphale's bookshop and Crowley's Bentley have been restored, and everyone who died (including the Delivery Man) is brought back to life. However, the narration notes that Adam did make a few changes to the new reality, like including a set of Just William books in Aziraphale's shop.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Crowley and Aziraphale manage to scam their respective HQs by switching faces. Both were sentenced to death by their respective 'poisons': hellfire for angels, and holy water for demons. The representatives of the opposing sides actually agree that cooperation is the key to removing the traitors. However, once they endure their respective executions, Crowley and Aziraphale deliver their counter-offer: Leave them alone on Earth, or face the wrath of their Earthly powers.
• Enemy Mine: For averting the apocalypse, Heaven and Hell make a momentary ceasefire to "make an example of traitors", Michael loaning Hell holy water to execute Crowley and a demon giving Heaven an inferno of Hellfire to kill Aziraphale. Crowley implies that in the future, the war will eventually happen, but it will be Heaven and Hell joining forces against them and the Earth.
• "Eureka!" Moment:
  • At first, Anathema figures that they're doomed when Newton says that not only is he not a computer engineer, but any computer that he tries to fix gets wrecked. Then it hits her that that's exactly why he's there. Sure enough, all Newton does is hit a key that was supposed to speed up the nuclear launches... and it completely reverses the entire process to stop the launches instead.
  • Seeing Gabriel and Beelzebub going on about the "Great Plan" has first Aziraphale and then Crowley realize that these two have no idea what they're doing and are just going through the motions without wondering if, in fact, this is the true Plan.
• Evil Is Hammy: As the Four Horsemen square up against the Antichrist, a hellhound, three human children, an angel, a demon, a witchfinder, and a part-time Jezebel, horseman War takes a few moments to swing around the flaming sword when she introduces herself. She starts monologuing to Adam and The Them about how important and inevitable she is (even with Pepper snarking at all of War's dramatic posturing).
  War: Little boys with your toys.
  Pepper: I'm not a boy.
  War: I am War. You were made to serve me, to live in me, and die in me.
  Pepper: My mum says that war is just masculine imperialism executed on a global stage.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Crowley and Aziraphale's respective punishments: holy water and hellfire, respectively, which would have eviscerated them.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Also a Freeze-Frame Bonus. Immediately after "Aziraphale" steps into hellfire, "Crowley's" reflection is visible in the observational glass window, splashing holy water at demons.
• Food End: Ends with Crowley and Aziraphale grabbing lunch at the Ritz, set to "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", and Adam eating a "forbidden" apple.
• Foreshadowing: Aziraphale nabs one of the last remaining prophecies from Agnes' book, which says "choose your faces wisely".
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause the scene where "Crowley" gets on the taxi, you can see him wearing a tartan collar. Also counts as Foreshadowing.
• Hellfire: How the angels plan to execute Aziraphale. Unfortunately for them, Crowley, who's taken Aziraphale's place, is immune to it.
• Holy Burns Evil: Downplayed. When Crowley says "for Heaven's sake", it leaves a foul taste in his mouth.
  • Invoked by the demons who attempt to execute Crowley by forcing him to bathe in Holy Water. It doesn't work, as he's switched places with Aziraphale, who is unaffected by it. Aziraphale even takes a moment to splash some of the water in the direction of the watching demons, who recoil in horror.
  • When the Usher is dunked in to test the water, the water boils and you can even see some orange where his body touches the water.
• How We Got Here: The prologue of the episode shows the beginning of Crowley's trial in Hell, the rest of the episode showing how exactly we got there and what happens after.
• Hypocrite: One of the offenses Hell charges Crowley with is the murder of Ligur via holy water. In order to test if the holy water is legit, Hastur dunks a random demon into the tub, killing the guy, which Beelzebub just brushes off.
• Innocent Innuendo: Aziraphale says that they are there to "lick some serious butt", only for Crowley to correct him.
• Irony: The Tadfield Neighborhood Watch guy says to Adam's human father "don't blame me if he starts World War III", laughing as he does, unaware that Adam almost did.
• It's Personal: Crowley's dread is especially palpable, remarking that Satan is coming directly for them for essentially foiling him, specifically saying that it has nothing to do with Armageddon any more, he's just pissed.
• Kangaroo Court: Both of Aziraphale and Crowley's trials are clearly just for show (or non-existent in the case of Aziraphale), more interested in executing the traitors as examples.
• Literal Split Personality: When Tracy confronts Adam with Aziraphale in her body, Adam immediately detects him and says that it's not right for two people to share a body. He then splits them up with barely a thought, giving Aziraphale a new body.
• Make an Example of Them: Gabriel says that they have to execute Aziraphale as an example of what Heaven does to traitors.
• No Body Left Behind: This is the fate of the poor Usher, who dissolves into oblivion upon making contact with the holy water.
• No Honor Among Thieves: Hastur dunks the toad-like usher into the tub full of holy water just to test its potency, despite him having done nothing to deserve it (from the demons, anyway).
  Usher: What have I done?!
  Hastur: Wrong place. Wrong time.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Unlike the other demons, who are humanoid, the Usher looks like a fat, short, bipedal dragon.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Gabriel and Beelzebub reflect that they're equally screwed having to go back and tell their respective sides that the big epic war that they've spent millennia preparing for has been canceled.
• Nothing Is Scarier: When Aziraphale and Crowley shrug off their respective kryptonites, both sides are so horrified and perplexed by this that they let both of them go without a word of protest, not wanting to find out what else they're capable of.
• Out-of-Character Moment: Various ones are made as Foreshadowing to Aziraphale and Crowley's deception.
  • Crowley is brought before the demonic trial talking calmly without his usual snide humor, and his quips lack their usual venom. He almost seems more bemused by the whole thing than worried.
  • Aziraphale walks into his restored store as if he was just visiting, complete with a sarcastic quip towards a shelf of books that he doesn't recognize.
  • Crowley gets into a taxi instead of his restored Bentley.
  • In the park, when Crowley hands Aziraphale his ice cream cone, he looks at it and looks a little squicked.
  • Aziraphale speaks in a lower posher accent, like he's trying too hard, and when Crowley sees Aziraphale being taken away, he sounds more high pitched when yelling "stop them".
  • When demons come to take Crowley back to Hell, the last line he says before passing out when Hastur knocks him out is "tickety-boo."
  • Crowley flinches when he sees an innocent demon die.
  • Aziraphale looks like he's ready to pounce on Gabriel for his 'holier-than-thou' attitude, when the real one is most likely to take it in stride.
  • When Aziraphale and Crowley see the hellfire and holy water that are intended to destroy them respectively, neither of them so much as flinch, as if both knew that it would not hurt them. Especially strange for Crowley, as the last time he handled holy water, he handled it with long-sleeved latex gloves and smithing tongs, treating it like hazardous waste.
  • If you listen very closely when Aziraphale scares the angels by briefly roaring hellfire at them, you can clearly hear that it's actually Crowley's voice instead.
  • When they meet again afterwards, they have pretty much given up pretending: "Crowley" sits up straight, knees together, and talks in a higher voice and posher accent than usual, while "Aziraphale" slouches and talks in a lower voice and doesn't sound nearly as posh, to the point that you might not immediately be able to tell who spoke the first line in that scene.
• Portent of Doom: Aziraphale and Crowley are taken to Heaven and Hell for their respective trials shortly after they see Death in the park.
• Sequel Hook: Crowley theorizes that the real final battle will be Heaven and Hell fighting together against Earth.
• Spotting the Thread: Aziraphale notices that Gabriel and Beelzebub seem a little too desperate to have Adam start Armageddon, referring to it as "the Great Plan" as if they are desperate to be proven right, and thus Aziraphale and Crowley realize that whatever it is, "ineffable" it is not.
  Aziraphale: Excuse me, you keep talking about "the Great Plan."
  Gabriel: Aziraphale, maybe you should just keep your mouth shut.
  Aziraphale: One thing I'm not clear on. Is that the "Ineffable Plan?"
  Beelzebub: The Great Plan! It is written. There shall be a world, and it shall last for 6,000 years and end in fire and flame.
  Aziraphale: Yes, yes that sounds like the Great Plan. Just wondering, is that the Ineffable Plan as well?
  Gabriel: [Beat] Well, they're the same thing.
  Crowley: You don't know!
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Newt saves the day by using his Walking Techbane touch on the computer system launching the nuclear missiles.
• Undying Loyalty: Crowley and Aziraphale agree that they are neither on Hell or Heaven's side, but their own.
• Walking Techbane: Newton's utter incompetence with computers saves the world.
• Watch the Paint Job: Crowley needs a minute to mourn his Bentley, which succumbs to the flames and explodes.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Shadwell hesitates when he sees that Adam is just a child. Aziraphale takes the gun from his hands, only for him to hesitate too, long enough for Tracy to intentionally waste their shot.

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