Is it Nabhaan Rizwan (who's rather good) after the frankly unbelievable way he is blackmailed into becoming a snitch by Paddy Considine and Bel Powley - who could blame him? It's a damning indictment of the way counter-terrorism operates, in fact, emphasised by Considine's question 'Do you feel safe?', which is less to Nabhaan as it is to the audience. And Powley making out Nabhaan was sexually abused at school to get the information which blackmails him.
The writers (whose debut this is) show lots of promise, humour and leading the audience down the wrong path (the eventual identity of the killer doesn't really make sense to me). I really liked Bel correcting one of the suspects on his misunderstanding of the Koran - she then gives him the next line in Arabic. And we were hoping that they would re-use the statue dripping with red paint later... and they did!
Jessica Raine also very good. With Sunetra Sarker, Reiss Jeram (brother), Sharon D Clarke & Stanley Meadows (police bosses), Paul Tylak, Arsher Ali (good, Four Lions, Line of Duty, The Missing), Nell Hudson. We weren't entirely sure about Roger Jean Nsengiyumva's performance in an otherwise strong cast.
Tony Slater Ling shot it and the rather good music was by Ilan Eshkeri.
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