Michael Wood closes his six-part investigation into Homer's Iliad with the episode built around Troy's final destruction. Wood stands at Hisarlik in northwestern Turkey, the mound Heinrich Schliemann excavated in the nineteenth century, and weighs the archaeological layers against the story of the wooden horse, the sack of the city, and the fate of its people. He reads the evidence for burning and destruction at the site alongside the literary account, asking how much of the Iliad's ending could describe something that actually happened to a real Bronze Age settlement. The episode moves between the dig site, artifacts, and Wood's own on-camera argument rather than reenactment, treating Homer as a possible witness to be cross-examined rather than a source to be illustrated. As the last installment of the series, it delivers the verdict the previous five episodes have been building toward: what the ground under Troy can and cannot confirm about the war that ended it.