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The Beeb’s latest thriller could be just the thing to fill the Bodyguard-shaped hole in your TV viewing schedule
‘LET me buy you coffee,” coos Jessica Raine, playing a woman who has just been given back the mobile phone she left on London’s DLR by a Good Samaritan.
Then there are gun shots in the cafe, people are killed, everything spins into chaos.
It’s a gripping start to the BBC’s latest thriller, something to keep viewers sated after the recent success of Bodyguard.
But it’s a complicated plot and you’ll need to pay attention.
Flashback to one year earlier and we follow the life of Raza, played by Nabhaan Rizwan. He’s looking for a flat in Shoreditch, being interviewed by a bunch of creative hipster types. He’s close to his family, helping out when his little brother lands in trouble for taking a pocket knife to school.
Before a night out, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Rotterdam, his dad advises him to tell anyone who gives him trouble that he’s a Hindu.
“Don’t freak, I’m a Sikh,” is their mantra.
Of course, it doesn’t take a genius to guess that his night out with his girlfriend is going to veer off course.
Elsewhere, Paddy Considine plays cynical, world-weary cop DS Gabe Waters, who runs a web of informers for a counterterrorism unit.
He’s hoping to trace an Islamist cell with links to the Rotterdam bombing.
But it’s a dangerous business trying to coerce people into giving information without overstepping the line.
The two lives collide, and this takes us on a thrilling ride through the murky underworld of terrorist informants.