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Warning: contains War of the Worlds finale spoilers.

As delved into in our explainer, the War of the Worlds finale left viewers on a cliff-hanger that raised several questions. Big, story-bending, ‘but then does that mean…?’ consequential questions.

In episode eight, Emily (Daisy Edgar-Jones), the young Englishwoman whose eyesight had been lost to a genetic condition, had her vision restored thanks to her mysterious connection to the alien invaders. To discover more about that connection, Emily allowed the aliens to lead her into the heart of their ship where she discovered a creature plugged in to a series of ventilator tubes.

Den of Geek asked finale director Richard Clark (read the full interview here) what it was all about.

What has Emily had discovered inside the ship?

What Emily hasn’t discovered is an alien in the form that we might have imagined. The creature, the alien, definitely has humanoid...

This War of the Worlds review contains spoilers.

War of the Worlds episode 8

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting… the Organ Grinder! In a shock twist, neither a Wellsian octopus, a Digby-sized massive robo-dog, nor a pulsing fist of Cronenbergian flesh, but a humanoid. Possibly even a human. Possibly even, by the look of him, David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth before he fell to Earth.

Few series finales have conjured that much tension in the approach to a cliff-hanger. For several episodes now, War of the Worlds has held its nerve, sticking with its careful, deliberate pace and delaying our gratification until the last possible moment.

The surprise was worth the wait. Whatever we were expecting Emily to find at the end of that long, slow walk down the sci-fi corridor, it wasn’t something that looked like us.

And also looked… pitiable? For a genocidal murderer, ‘The Alien...