#and reed takes up a position at the morgue stella works with

[alexa-crowe]

in my mind there’s a sort of sequel show to The Fall in which Olivia is the main character and it’s like 2027. she’s working for a politician that’s known for supporting Irish unification and that politician (a woman) has been getting death threats that the police aren’t taking as seriously as Olivia believes they should. so in a last ditch attempt to get the situation resolved, she finds Stella all the way in London. but gasp! Reed answers the door. Olivia asks for Stella and then they talk and Olivia tries to convince Stella to come back because they’d listen to you, they remember you and she says that she’s read some of the files from Stella’s investigation into her father and that she’s talked to some of the officers and they remember how unapologetic she was about her sexuality and her antisexism. Olivia is sure that with Stella’s support and intervention, the death threats will get more attention. initially, Stella refuses to go back to Belfast, but after talking it over with Reed, she agrees to go, and Reed comes with her. this time, she’s just made a consultant, but she and Reed reconnect with some old faces—Ferrington, for one—who’s made SIO of the investigation. a few times, Olivia visits her mother, and her brother Liam’s brought in at some point as a lawyer. the point is really to get closure for the both of them—for Olivia by having someone to truly talk to about it that she remembers from that awful time in her life, and for Stella by seeing the aftermath of the investigation & being reconnected with Katie to see how she’s turned her life around and become a music teacher.

#another one of the shows / episodes that lives in my head ! #the fall #there would be some flashbacks to reed & stella reconnecting #reed and her ex-husband (amicable split) decide to move to london with the girls because he got a job there #and reed takes up a position at the morgue stella works with #so she hears about it and while reed's on duty she pays a visit and it's like a meet cute part 2 #and they're also married but like in the sense that nadja and laszlo from wwdits are married #in love and committed to each other but not to the exclusion of some hot steamy sex with other people #and like stella's not really a mom to reed's kids she's much closer to a fun aunt #all the fun of having kids without having to really take care of them #although she's much closer than your average aunt to them #bc stella's not interested in being a mother and that's a okay #it's a lot of shit to work through for both of them. internalized homophobia for reed... commitment issues for stella... #anyways. they were sexy and i'm still very sad that reed was just pretty much deleted from the show after that #it's like danny and cj from the west wing except the show ended before danny came back