Season highlights. Dearbháile McKinney experiencing road fatality; narrowly escapes Republican attack. Later saves women from being abused by her husband (in a curiously unexplored story).
Sian Brooke steals acting honours confronting young girl in care - they both have been. Episode 4. Great editing here also.
Then: hit men after Brooke as she transports a witness to a safe house.
Rest of great cast: Martin McCann, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff, Joanne Crawford, Andi Osho, Frank Blake, Michael Smiley. Bad guys: Cathy Tyson, Abigail McGibbon, Charlie Maher.
Lawn was an investigative reporter who had written plays at school then nothing since. A friend, an editor called Tom Lindsay, put on the short Bullet in the Brain which Lawn loved, and his fiend said to him "You should do that." Lawn then formed a relationship with photographer turned documentary make Adam Patterson, who - again impressed by seeing the same short film - suggested they work together as writers. First success - The Salisbury Poisonings, led to short film Rough (2020) - about Belfast punishment killings, which they had come up with first - and they coaxed editor Tom out of retirement (he's given up work to look after his little boys) to cut it. Declan tells this story rather well here.
They then co-wrote The Undeclared War, the feature Rogue Agent (2022) with James Norton, then this.
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