Trainspotting 2: 6 Biggest Talking Points From The T2 Trailer

6. Renton's Return To Edinburgh

The final sequence of Trainspotting sees Renton; wishing to escape the cyclical life of drug addiction and deception that follows him wherever he goes, discarding the uneasy truce which the gang had maintained during their massive London drug deal and fleeing with the sports bag full of money that Begbie was so tenderly clutching in his sleep.

Vanishing into the night with a new lease on life and nothing other than optimism running through his veins, the film's main protagonist leaves every one of his cohorts in the lurch save for Spud who'd later receive compensation for refusing to foil his plan.

Untraceable in the time that's elapsed, he's made his way back to Scotland's capital and is preparing to reacquaint himself with his old friends and it's something which the trailer shows us in more depth than anything else. As 'Rents' traipses into a dilapidated pub manned by none other than Sick Boy himself, we get the first indication of the group's mixed reaction as he passive aggressively enquires "so what have you been up to for 20 years?' with visible rage in his eyes.

At the other end of the spectrum entirely, we are next made privy to the reunion between himself and Spud, a much more heartwarming affair in which they touchingly inform each other how much they've missed one another.

Most predictably of all, the brief interactions that we witness between Leith's resident psychopath Francis 'Franco' Begbie and his long exiled pal turned nemesis are of a more volatile nature as he bellows at Renton from above a cubicle before presumably giving chase. As those familiar with the story would've gathered, it's likely that the road to reconciliation between all parties will likely constitute the entire opening section of the film as they attempt to come to terms with what took place in their chequered history.

Where Renton has been in the meantime isn't explicitly referenced in the trailer but we'll get to that a little later on.