sentences:  The character received critical and public acclaim for his role in "Life on Mars", being dubbed a "national hero", an unlikely sex symbol and a "top cop".A third and final series of "Ashes to Ashes" was said to "reveal all about Gene Hunt and what his alternative world really means in a stunning finale" and that the "truth [would] out".The character is ultimately revealed to be an integral part of the strange world that both Sam Tyler and Alex Drake inhabit.