The Secretary of State is murdered in a televised conference. ("He's about to be assassinated" Q says. After he is I say "That was your fault" to which she replies "If we wind it back I could say something different" which I thought was absolutely in character with the show - say something different and something different happens!) Holliday Grainger identifies the killer Killian Scott but the murder has been deep faked and shows a different culprit. When the new Head of Station is appointed he turns out to be the murderer, leaving Holliday and us in a very confused state.
(The writers once again have failed to appreciate that cameras record to their own memory cards and that image couldn't be deep faked.)
He turns out to be an operative for 'The Increment' (I know, where do they get these names?) a secret paramilitary operation responsible only to MI5. Which is run by 'Simon', an AI-driven computer!
Holliday is helped by her mates on the inside Ginny Holder and Nigel Lindsay, and by former colleagues Ben Miles and Lia Williams. She realises her own team has many moles.
In the end all the bad guys get away with it and Holliday seems to be compliant and take no further action. We'll see about that if Season 4 comes along.
With Indira Varma (tough broadcaster), Hugh Quarshie, Andrew Buchan, Ron Perlman (CIA), Daisy Waterson (sister), Kenneth Collard ('Wizard').
But why is it shot so darkly? It may be that someone's trying for a Gordon Willis 70s paranoid thriller approach, but it just looks awful and is distracting.
Look - their version of a BBC broadcast -
Here's the Happy Couple -
Well that's another six hours gone.
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