Venables turns out to be innocent of the murders, in no small part vindicated because he is confined to a wheelchair. (AKA the day Easterbrook murdered her because he thought she was cheating with Venables, a thought inspired by the fact he left his number on the train schedule in case she needed help.) In the book, however, Venables is the McGuffin, the guy you think is behind the big murder ring with ties to Much Deeping. Venables barely shows up in the Amazon series show, and when he does he's merely the guy who drove Easterbrook's first wife to the train station the day she was killed. What does that mean exactly? Has he officially gone mad? Are ghosts actually real? And what in the world is that final word, "again," all about-him tired of having the same dream of her death over and over? Did he die in that fire and this is now his personal hell? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: the ending for Easterbrook is definitely not happy. And then he sees his dead first wife standing in front of him and moans the words, "Please, not again," before the credits come up. Easterbrook then stumbles back to his apartment in a crazed daze, and picks up a newspaper emblazoned with the headline that's he's died a horrible death. On the show, Easterbrook ends up killing Osborne and burning his place down (he's merely arrested by Lejeune in the book).
And while the person behind the murders is basically the same-the over-eager Osborne is the head of the operation in both works-the final few minutes of the show are anything but satisfying or happy. In fact, the audience hates Easterbrook by the end, when it's revealed that he killed his first wife, was cheating on his second, and pretty much only cares about himself when those around him are dying.
The show's ending is anything but happy-to start, there's no Ginger for Easterbrook to happily end up with.
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