We were warned off this by several (general public) reviewers who found it crap. Didn't seem particularly good or bad to us.
Shaun Evans is something of a burned out MI5 operative who stumbles upon a terror plot involving Iran. Zahra Ahmadi (who we're used to seeing in Beyond Paradise) is assigned to look after him as he faces disciplinary action.
Meantime his marriage is in trouble following years of not telling his wife Romola Garai what his job involves; and having had an affair, she doesn't trust him (although it was seven years ago?) and they're now in counselling.
With Nikki Amuka-Bird, Matthew Tennyson (gay MI5), Gamba Cole, Omid Djalili.
4 x 45 for ITV.
It had or two points of difference I quite enjoyed: a long tailing scene with the suspects' dialogue running throughout, and a climax involving Sarin gas and a community centre largely told from security cameras and drone footage. Seemed to have some quite daft moments but no more than anything else in this genre. The Betrayal / marriage counselling thing is a bit clumsy.
Yes, I'm sure we've come across this Rumi fellow before. 'The truth was a mirror in the hand of God, It fell and broke into pieces'. Not quite sure where that leaves us, but there you go!
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