Removed Scene
00:00

The entire beginning is missing in the International Version. At first, there is the usual recap in the UK Version (no screenshots). Then the title of the show "Ashes to Ashes". Subsequently, we see Alex sleeping. She is having another one of her surreal dreams.
There is whistling, then we see Alex who looks like as fair guy.
One can hear Stewart Hall: "It's a knockout! And Alex is off!"
Molly screams in Alex's direction: "Come on, Mum! You can do it!"
Stewart Hall: "She's found the numbers 6620!"
Now Gene who looks like a fair guy as well and Stewart Hall as comentator again: "Gene Hunt's after her. He's gaining!"
Then we hear shouting down Gene. Stewart Hall laughs.
Now Molly again: "Mummy, get up, he's coming!"
Alex wakes up and raises her head. She sees Sam Tyler behind the glass while Molly yells "Mummy!" one more time.
Then the dream again resp. Molly: "Mummy, get up, he's coming!"
Another shot Alex looking at Sam Tyloer follows. Subsequently, the dream sequence goes on. At first, the cop with half his face blown off. Then Gene and Alex as fair guys again. A shot is fired, Alex goes down.
Molly yells: "Mummy! Mummy! Get up, he’s coming."
Then Alex again, except she does not look like a fair guy anymore.
Alex: "I have to know the truth. The truth will set me free."
Aside from Sam behind the glass, we now see "Fair Guy Gene" approaching Alex. (all in all 70,56 sec)
With the following tracking shot to Alex sleeping at her desk, the versions are back in sync. Well, almost. The black screen at the beginning is insignificantly shorter. (1 sec / no screenshot)

69.56 sec



Alternate Footage
01:38

Due to the fac that the title of the show already popped up in the UK Version, only the International Version shows the title "Ashes to Ashes – Zurück in die 80er" (Back to the 80's) here. And as always, the title of the episode is being illustrated exclusively in the International Version.

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Removed Scene
03:49

Gene's "speech" is longer in the UK Version.
Ray: "What is it that's getting at you, guv?"
Gene: "I'll tell you what's getting to me. I've been too easy on you lot. Well, not anymore. This place is mine. You lot belong to me. Not Drake, not Keats. Me."
Then Alex in the International Version. In the UK Version, the scene goes on.
Gene: "Now somebody tell Drake to get her bony pointless arse into my office A-S-A bloody P!"
Gene goes back to his office and slams the door. Shaz then comes back with several cups of tea.
Shaz: "Those two should either get a room or kill each other."
Chris: "It's changed anyway. This whole place feels different and we all know it. I thought it was cos I switched to Denim For Men but there's something more."
Ray: "It's not been the same since Viv… well, since Viv went."
Chris: "I had a nightmare about Viv as it happens. He was all hunched up amongst this fire."
Shaz: "Chris, stop it."
Ray: "Not interested, Chris."
Chris: "OK. We all know something bloody weird is going on."
Ray: "Write to 'Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World'."
Dann schreit Gene aus seinem Büro: "Granger! Seven sugars!"
Then the versions are back in sync.

33.92 sec



Removed Scene
07:57

After Alex's "I take you very seriously, Gene.", the conversation goes on in the UK Version.
Gene: "Do you know our problem, Bolls? We've lost sight of who we are."
Then a shot of Ray. He comes in with a gun in his hand and talks to Viv's successor.
Ray: "Hey, check this out. Terry and Bammo nicked it from some scrote last week. Oh, well tasty!"
Ray laughs but the new skipper does not seem to be thrilled.
Ray (rather serious): "Yeah, so, you know, if you want to ring firearms, let 'em know that we've still got it."
Now a shot of Chris. He hears whistling.
Chris: "Did no one hear that whistle?"
Back to Ray: "God, I miss Viv."
Ray leaves and when he does, the person next to the new skipper starts playing the flute. Ray turns around, said person salutes, Ray finally leaves. On the way to his office, he bumps into someone.
With the following shot of Ray opening the door to the office, the versions are back in sync.

46.12 sec



Removed Scene
10:52

When Alex has left Gene's office, she gets in a car in the International Version.
The UK Version also shows Alex on her way out. Then Gene appears behind her all of a sudden.
Gene: "If Jim Keats comes to see you, you tell me. If you don't, I will consider it an act of war."
Alex: "Did Sam commit an act of war?"
Gene: "The last thing Sam told me was that he was gagging for a pint. I said 'Get one in for me and all.'. No threats, no shouting, no violence. Just two mates talking about the boozer."
Gene turns around and gets back. Alex stands there for another second, then she leaves as well.
With the shot of Alex opening the car door, the versions are back in sync.

25.88 sec