![]() ![]() Or, as her boss, mentor and father figure Jimmy (Phil Davis) tells her: “People say you’re mad you know … 20 years and you’re still on it.” “People can say what the hell they like.” ![]() As the wall of her office proves – even Homeland’s Carrie Mathison wasn’t this overt with her obsessions – she’s been trying to get to the bottom of the crime against Antwi since ‘96. Maya’s plaid shirt is very Angela Chase (how apt: Maya’s so-called life) and she’s rushing into the police station to assist Michael Antwi (Sope Dirisu), a civil rights activist who’s been beaten up, arrested and later dies in custody. So we see both Maya and Nick at an anti-racism rally in Hackney in 1996, flanked by skinheads and heavy-handed police. Nick (Adrian Lester) at an anti-racism rally in the 90s. Moffat has of course been inspired by the real-life exposé and Pitchford Inquiry into undercover officers who infiltrate political groups and have personal relationships with key figures. The air of easy domesticity in the Johnson-Cobbina household (“How many times did you eat pasta while I was away?” “19”) makes it all the more crushing and disturbing when it’s revealed as a sham. ![]() He’s taking off his wedding band and heading in to a hospice to see his dying father – then telling him that no, he doesn’t have a girlfriend because no, he still hasn’t found the right woman. I got so swept up in the Rudy case that I almost forgot what the true premise of this show was until the halfway point, when Nick was suddenly being tailed. Photograph: Lee Searle/BBCįormer lawyer Peter Moffat’s script is engrossing from the get-go. Ella (Shannon Hayes), Dan (Daniel Ezra) and Clem (Tamara Lawrence) in St Just. The easy domesticity makes the story all the more crushing. ![]()
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