Was I the only one who hadn't realised that was the last one?
I also wondered if they were setting up for a sequel...but I suppose not.
Anyhow, it was quite good and clever but yes, a bit brutal.

I'm assuming they used his own technology against him, based on what seemed like pattern tracking.

Very good last episode with surprising twists. Loved the return of Charlotte Rampling, a wonderful actress. 

And I was glad that Scottie was not involved. And that the real mother was not the real mother and then she surprisingly was revealed as the real mother again. And the glimpse of hope at the end. Strange though that they just let Alex's mother burn in the maze and drove away.

Not sure about that … 
 

I agree, Liberty. 

Danny had help and could not prevent Scottie being killed and himself being infected with HIV. The mother seemed to have a certain influence since she was brought to the house to persuade Alex but in the end she got sedated and delivered to her own front door like a parcel. 

I have a question: Danny sent the parcels containing Alex's work to various media outlets. What were the packages he found in Scottie's garage? They looked the same as his printouts. I did not understand that part.

I took it the authorities had intervened to stop it being published.

Yes to the former...ah, didn't think of the latter.
I took it either the recipients were leaned on, not to publish, or else the recipients didn't because of Danny having been discredited.(This was referred to, by Danny's adopted Mum I believe...'you will not be believed' etc.)

In Tumblr issues (to which everything should be taken with a grain of salt): I do know that people were upset about the unhappy ending of every homosexual in the show. But my question to that is: which of the heterosexual couples had happy endings? Aside from Danny's roommates of unidentified sexuality and the unnamed people walking down the street, who in the show left the series unrattled, at the very least? Because even the government agencies were shaken enough to

lock one of their spies in a trunk and leave him to suffocate because of his dangerous research.

I'm pretty sure the writer is gay too.  I agree about the genre - it was meant to be dark.   The main characters happened to be gay, so when they were killed off, gay characters were killed off.  They weren't killed because they were gay, but were put at risk of being killed because of their connection to a government coverup AND because they loved somebody.   I felt the story was as much about love as it was about espionage. 

I know that there is a lack of good shows/films with gay main characters who don't come to tragic ends.  But I don't know why people would want no deaths in this particular story - it wouldn't be the same story.  (Or want to change Danny to Danielle, to make sure only straight people die).  Can't we just have main characters who happen to be gay, whatever the genre?

I fully agree, Liberty. And let me say that UK television has come far with films like this, telling a story about people who are gay but where this is not the focus but their being in love, in danger, etc. We recently had a gay police investigator in the most popular German crime show and it was big news (and he was revealed to be gay only in his last episode). Still waiting to see a story like LS over here.