Finale (Part 2)

Synopsis
Ashlee decides to tell the rest of the staff her news about winning on the lottery whilst the school prepares to close it's doors for the final time with the staff reliving moments in their lives with quite a few familiar faces returning to say goodbye to the school.

As Jonathan delivers his last announcement, we can see a year into the future that Jonathan and Ashlee have since moved out of Manchester and moved to London. Allie, Kylie and Vicky have all moved to Spain to open up an international school with the money that their parents left for them in their will. Emmett and Lucy have got married. Sienna has since taken up a role at a nearby secondary school and is now engaged to Jordan. Ethan and Jack opened up a beach bar in Spain, naming it Melissa's. Sienna has also since moved into Jonathan's old house.

Jonathan delivers a monologue during the final scene that says: "'Some of us are lucky to have such wonderful family and such wonderful friends and if your lucky, both. We are the only ones who can pick the moments that we cherish, only we know what's going to happen next. But no matter what, we will remember the moments that matter, the days where we thought, we're a family, we're a collective, we're a team. I'm so very fortunate to be able to say that I've had all of those moments, I could not have chosen a better group of people to work with, just know, it's never goodbye, just adios.'"The second to final scene sees all remaining staff members and a few past ones at a Barbeque at Sienna's house, and Jonathan repeats the same line that he said as the first line of the show "We will always be Waterloo Road, no matter what."

The final scene sees Jonathan going through a memory book featuring all staff from the past.

Cast

 * Michael Winterhouse as Jonathan Whitmore
 * Denise Vorderman as Ashlee Whitmore
 * Sienna Morgan as Sienna Whitmore
 * Andy Drew as Ethan Whitmore
 * James Cartwright as Jack Whitmore
 * Eva Charles as Rachel Mason
 * Belinda Stewarts as Natalie Gordons
 * Sarah Kane as Sienna Lawson
 * Penelope Deans as Gem Cartwright
 * Jordan Kingsley as Jordan Cartwright
 * Perry Dennison as Andrew Cartwright
 * Tony Morgenson as Carl Bradley
 * Emily Michaels as Andrea Mason
 * Allie Morrison as Allie Pemberton
 * Victoria Gunthorpe as Vicky Pemberton
 * Alistair Marshall as Robert Pemberton
 * Emma Davies as Kylie Carrington
 * Stephanie Carrington as Emma Jones
 * Marcus Chambers as Marcus Evans
 * William Martin as Daniel Lowell
 * Marcus Ryde as Harrison Lowell
 * Josephine Winters as Melissa Whitmore
 * Jess May as Jess Fielding (cameo)
 * Matt Green as Matt Fielding
 * Laura Anderson as Lauren Tate
 * Carl Tate as Carl Harrington
 * Katrina Evans as Nina Evans
 * Simon Dale as Simon Armitage
 * Timothy Sampson as Ted Archer
 * James May as Laurence Whitmore (cameo; archive footage)
 * Joanna Chalk as Sue Sampson
 * Katie Morgan as Katie Jessop
 * Jonathan Pembrook as Steve Cartwright
 * Colin Matthews as Gary Hollins

Trivia

 * This episode was filmed between 10 days in Late 2021.
 * This is the final episode in the Waterloo Franchise, confirming that the franchise ran for 42 years.
 * Michael Winterhouse confirmed that the script writing had begun in March 2021.
 * The school set, the former Kingsmead School was demolished between 19 January and 23 January 2022.
 * The set of The Whitmore's house was demolished on 29 January 2022.