Just a short season this time - four episodes. In very topical storyline a youth is stabbed to death and retaliations take place. Gemma Whelan and Tahira Sharif investigate and discover they're treading on an undercover operation led by bearded Emmett Scanlan in which the charismatic Jimmy Akingbola is undercover as a dreadlocked dealer. Lamar Waves is the kid who starts all this. Ella Smith is the useful no nonsense DS.
Best moment - Akingbola seized by Bulgarians, takes one of their guns off one of them and insists he give him his shoes. He was in the first series of Kate & Koji with Brenda Blethyn.
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Features some alarming idiocy, such as when the murder suspect claims he wants to go to the toilet and escapes, which we know he will, or when Akingbola breaks cover at the end. So we'll have a quick shout at the writers over those things, though it's a suspenseful tale, featuring largely annoying people.
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