When you see that the season opener The Penitent is written by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble, with Dudi directing, you're on fairly safe ground it's going to be a good one. And it is, with the 'Ndrangheta's tentacles being felt everywhere and everyone and their families threatened.
Nikki is being forced into finding one of their number in witness protection and kill him. We think she'll come up with a plan to make it seem like this has happened, but in the end, doesn't get the chance to go through with it.
Great moment where she enters Jack's (new) house and a menacing man appears over her with a hammer - it's a Hitchcockian moment - but he's the contractor... or is he? Sense of menace not helped by fast flash-forwards of Nikki seeing Jack being killed.
The denouement is really clever and totally unexpected.
Felt there were film references - scene in church and hospital felt like The Godfather, Q noticed tin can in pig likely a Jaws reference, others..
Whilst all this is going on we're introduced to lapsed Orthodox Jew Alastair Michael and brusque data-obsessed pathologist Aki Omoshaybi.
With William Willoughby, Sophia Myles, Matteo Carlomagno, Issy Knopfler (daughter of Mark).
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