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DCI/DI Sam Tyler is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars. In the original British version of Life on Mars, Tyler is played by John Simm and in the American version he is played by Jason O'Mara. Life on Mars 2006 The character of Sam Tyler is the main protagonist within the programme. During the first episode, Tyler is hit by a car in 2006 and wakes up in 1973, finding himself working in the same police station and location as he did in 2006, albeit as a DI (Detective Inspector) rather than his 2006 rank of DCI (Detective Chief Inspector). Throughout both series, it remains unclear to both the audience and character whether he is mad or in a coma or has actually travelled back in time. 1973 Upon waking in 1973, Tyler finds himself working at the same station he is based at in 2006, under a "rough-around-the-edges" boss, DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). During the two series, Tyler frequently clashes with Hunt regarding their different policing methods. Tyler, being a 21st-century detective, is forensically aware and procedurally correct, whereas Hunt values violence, corruption and gut instinct in order to catch criminals. In the end, the two develop a love-hate relationship and respect each other's input. Throughout the series, Tyler frequently hears and sees things from his life in 2006. While in 1973, Tyler often sees images from the present day on his television, hears loved ones and medical staff talk about him and to him through phones and portable radios, along with being stalked by Test Card Girl (Rafaella Hutchinson and Harriet Rogers) and experiencing recurring hallucinations. Tyler becomes good friends with Annie Cartwright (Liz White) and she is the only character in the programme to whom he reveals his true situation. Tyler also becomes friends with Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) who attempts to learn from Tyler's modern policing methods, and is introduced to tape-recording interviews by Tyler, something which was not standard procedure in the 1970s. However, Tyler often clashes with Ray Carling (Dean Andrews), as he views Tyler as stopping him from being promoted to Detective Inspector. While in 1973, Tyler finds himself investigating many crimes with the CID team from serial killers, armed robberies, murders, a hostage situation and a suspicious death in police custody. During episode four and episode eight, Tyler meets his mother Ruth (Joanne Froggatt) and his father, Vic (Lee Ingleby). Despite thinking that persuading his father to stay with his mother might enable him to return to 2006, this plan is revealed to be unsuccessful. Finale During the series finale, a new character is introduced: Acting DCI Frank Morgan (Ralph Brown) to temporarily oversee CID after Gene Hunt is wrongly suspected of murder. Tyler is convinced that Morgan is his surgeon, attempting to revive him from his coma. However, Morgan reveals that Tyler is DCI Sam Williams of C-Division at Hyde and a part of M.A.R.S. (Metropolitan Accountability and Reconciliation Strategy), a taskforce to deal with corruption in the police force. He also reveals that "Williams" was sent undercover with a fake identity, DI Sam Tyler, to infiltrate Hunt's team, but developed severe concussion and amnesia after a bad car accident on the way. After finding evidence to substantiate Morgan's claims, a distraught Tyler begins to doubt if he is actually from the future. Morgan convinces Tyler that exposing Gene Hunt and his CID team while on an undercover operation to catch a violent armed robber, Leslie Johns (Sean Gilder), will enable him to return to the future. While the undercover operation is in progress on the train that Leslie Johns and his team is attempting to rob, Chris, Gene, Ray and Annie all come under fire and are caught out in the open. Tyler rushes to Frank Morgan who is observing the situation from inside the train tunnel and asks for his promised armed assistance. Morgan refuses and tells Tyler that they are to let Hunt and the rest of CID die in the fire-fight, as it is the perfect way to expose Hunt. After talking to Morgan and working out that the way to wake up from his coma is to leave the team to die, Tyler wakes up in 2007. Upon recovering, he becomes a shell of his former self, remaining emotionally scarred and haunted by the promise he made to Annie in 1973, to return and save her from the fire-fight on the train. We see him back in the clinical, bureaucratic, modern world of policing. After alienating his cold, unsympathetic colleagues and confiding to his elderly mother, he commits suicide by joyfully taking a running jump off the police station roof. Tyler re-appears in the railway tunnel in 1973 and promptly kills Leslie Johns, saving the team's lives as he promised. After being thanked by the team and kissing Annie, Tyler receives a message on Gene's car radio from 2007 that he is "slipping away", implying that he has chosen to stay in 1973. This time, Tyler finds the strength to turn the radio off and rides off into the sunset with Hunt and the rest of the team. Series creators Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham have confirmed that they intended Sam's jump to be suicide. In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, Graham states that Sam is now in the afterlife, where time lasts an eternity compared to the suicide's duration of a few seconds: "The truth is, when I wrote it, what I was trying to say is that he's died, and that for however long that last second of life is going to be, it will stretch out for an age, as an eternity for him. And so when he drives off in that car, he's really driving off into the afterlife." Life after 1973 During Life on Mars' spin-off, Ashes to Ashes set in 1981, it is revealed that Sam Tyler lived for a further seven years. Tyler later married Annie Cartwright and died in 1980 after unintentionally driving his car into a river while in pursuit of a suspect, from which his body was never recovered. Jackie Queen described Sam and Annie as the "happiest couple" she had ever seen and that Tyler was the "most loved man she had ever met." During the first episode of series three of Ashes to Ashes, the nature of his death is raised when Alex Drake discovers a witness statement implied to have been written by Gene Hunt with various parts blacked out, accompanied by Alex seeing visions of a man with injuries to the left side of his face dressed in police tunic and greatcoat. In the second episode, DCI Jim Keats, an officer from the Discipline and Complaints department, intent on removing Gene Hunt, states he believes Gene killed Sam Tyler. In the fifth episode, Gene destroys Tyler's clothes (which Alex had requested from Manchester) and the censored file in order to prevent her from learning the truth about his death. In the following episode, a suspect who is not only a known fantasist but appears very different physically from Sam tries to convince Alex that he is Sam Tyler aft.... Discover the Jason John Tyler popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jason John Tyler books.