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"The first series of By Any Means - BBC One&amp;#039;s modern equivalent of The Equalizer meets The A-Team - draws to a close this Sunday night, and things are about to get real bloody, real fast... Elliot Knight (Charlie) opened up to Digital Spy about the finale, told us how it felt to take on ITV&amp;#039;s television titan Downton Abbey and gave us his thoughts on a potential second series of By Any Means. The By Any Means finale is a darker episode than usual... &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be very dramatic - there&amp;#039;s quite a few shocks in there. The series as a whole has got quite a fun feel to it. There&amp;#039;s always that element of knowing that they&amp;#039;ll probably get out of it okay, but you enjoy the ride\u2026 &amp;quot;What is going to make this final episode very special is that you&amp;#039;re not so certain everything is going to be alright. The stakes are higher than they&amp;#039;ve ever been for the team - it just really amps up the drama. &amp;quot;It goes to places that the other episodes have barely touched on. I really think it&amp;#039;s going to be quite a shocker for the audience. It&amp;#039;s something you don&amp;#039;t expect.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ll love to hate the brutal Jamie Caine, brought to life by Lock, Stock actor Nick Moran... &amp;quot;Nick comes in as the lead antagonist and he is fantastic. He plays it with such a great element of enjoyment in what he&amp;#039;s doing... it almost makes you hate his character even more!&amp;quot;  There&amp;#039;s nothing wrong with a bit of flirting between team members... &amp;quot;I think a romance between Charlie and Jessica (Shelley Conn) can only make things more interesting. I think it would be wonderful... and what&amp;#039;s wrong with a little bit of flirting every now and then? Nothing - nothing at all!&amp;quot;  Taking on Downton Abbey is daunting but flattering... &amp;quot;For me, the big picture is... it&amp;#039;s a wonderful thing that there is so much good British drama on television nowadays that it does feel competitive. It&amp;#039;s not a bad thing at all. The other thing is, By Any Means and Downton are two very different shows, so the audiences will be completely different. &amp;quot;It can be daunting but it&amp;#039;s also quite flattering that the BBC have chosen our show to go up against it, because they think it&amp;#039;s the best alternative.&amp;quot;  If By Any Means returns, series two could be grittier and dirtier... &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like for people to find out more about the characters and their back-stories, because I know there is a lot there that we haven&amp;#039;t really touched on in the first series, which would make it a really, really great drama. &amp;quot;Like any first series, the show has come into its own as it&amp;#039;s gone on. If there is a second series, I&amp;#039;d like to see it... really exploring the grittier side of the drama. I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!&amp;quot;  The series finale of By Any Means is on Sunday (October 27) at 9pm on BBC One "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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