Watching the final ever episode of Gavin & Stacey, there will be fans all over the country asking what on earth happened on the infamous fishing trip.
It is one of the greatest mysteries in TV history, and all we have known prior to the finale is that it caused Bryn and Jason to become less close due to how heinous whatever happened is, it was cold, soup is involved, it’s legal in the United Kingdom specifically, and they were on their knees.
Many hoped that what actually happened would be revealed in the final episode of Gavin and Stacey.
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Those people would all have been disappointed as the finale seemed set to reveal it - just to pull it away and lock away the truth for eternity, though we probably should have seen it coming given Larry Lamb's prior comments about it.
Despite this though, some fans reckon they already had it figured out prior to this.
The topic was started on the subreddit r/GavinandStacey following a theory that someone put in.
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They posted the long theory, stating: “Hear me out: I think Bryn and Jason accidentally killed someone on their fishing trip.”
Before you go clicking off because they said the incident is ‘legal in the country’ and this person thinks they killed someone, hear them out, they address that too.
They referred to how the 2019 Christmas special has Bryn saying it’s ‘dark in every sense of the word’ and Jason saying that they ‘knew nothing about camping’.
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The poster went on to say: “This makes me think that while setting up the tent, Bryn and Jason somehow accidentally killed someone, maybe with the hammer or tent poles, im not too sure on the specifics of how they did it.
“Then to answer the question of the soup, I think that Bryn and Jason, in an attempt to stay warm when it was “freezing cold” decided to make some soup to also take their minds off what they'd just done.
“Dave doesnt understand how a man and his nephew could kill someone and hide the body only to just carry on with what they were doing.
“Then when Dave speaks about it defying the laws of gravity, they could have hid the body in a tree using the rope they’ll have had from the tent.”
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Then, finally, how is that legal in this country? Well, to that they claimed that 'involuntary manslaughter wasn’t introduced as a law in Wales until the late 1990s' - however, this part of the theory is a bit questionable as involuntary manslaughter laws were introduced in England and Wales with the Homicide Act in 1957.
While one person commented querying that they don’t know they’d call that ‘perfectly legal’, to which they said: “I get where youre coming from, and to most people it would be, but maybe that’s just what Brynn said to a young Jason to calm him down.”
Another fan pointed out: “I like the theory, especially as the two families are named after serial killers.”
The reason why we've never found out was explained at the film's screening, so we'll just have to accept that it'll be a mystery forever.
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But in retrospect with how unsettling this theory is, maybe it *is* better to just accept we’ll never know.
Topics: Nostalgia, TV and Film, TV, BBC, Gavin And Stacey
Michael Slavin