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- Season 1 overviewFeb 12-Mar 5, 20184 episodesSeason 1 episodes1. Episode 1 Feb 12, 2018
- Probing what could be a random street shooting, DI Glaspie turns to the victim's family for clues.
- 2. Episode 2 Feb 19, 2018
- Glaspie and Bilk uncover a promising lead while MI5 gets involved; David reveals Linh's secrets.
- 3. Episode 3 Feb 26, 2018
- After another murder, Glaspie uncovers a deeper conspiracy; Karen spins out of control.
- 4. Episode 4 Mar 5, 2018
- Glaspie closes in on the conspirators; Jane confronts a wrenching choice.
Mar 9, 2018 · The discovery of two Syrian refugees living in a garage lock-up and calling themselves Abdullah’s sisters broadens the story from a murder investigation to a state-of-the-nation drama.
- Eleanor Bley Griffiths
- What's the deal with the pizza shop manager? It's a Monday night when we meet Laurie Stone (Hayley Squires) at work at Regal Pizza, furiously boxing up pizzas and handing them out to the delivery drivers who cluster around her counter.
- Who are the pizza place's mysterious new owners? Laurie may manage the pizza place, but she doesn't own it. In fact, she tells Kip, the business changed hands only a month ago, and she hasn't even met the men who now own her restaurant.
- Why is Billie Piper's character being super shifty? Karen Mars seems a bit all over the place, but something she says to DS Nathan Bilk (Nathaniel Martello-White) gets him thinking.
- Where was the vicar on the night of the murder? We saw our unconventional vicar Jane Oliver (Nicola Walker) throwing herself into a church pew, declaring aloud that she was a complete mess, and walking the London streets.
Feb 27, 2018 · Collateral fronts as a mystery for most of the investigation with the police whilst hilariously forgetting the killer is revealed at the end of the first episode making the slow pace a pointless exercise.
- Carey Mulligan's Di Kip Glaspie Saves The Day
- Snobbish Mi5 Man Sam Spence Is Outwitted
- John Simm's self-pitying Mp Found A Backbone
- Nicola Walker's Lesbian Vicar Chooses The Church
- Soldier and Shooter Sandrine Goes AWOL
- Kip Glaspie Botches Her Suicide Intervention
- Mona Asif Has Her Baby – with Fatima at Her Side
- "Pimlico Travel" Operator and People Smuggler Peter Westbourne Gets Away
It is Carey Mulligan who carries this series and makes Collateral such an enthralling watch. The Oscar-nominated actress is excellent as a determined detective with a wry smile and a plan, who keeps her cool and her counsel. In the final episode, she's in trouble with her boss: to get the information she needs about the people-smuggling operation a...
John Heffernan is so, so good at playing twits and bastards and pompous know-it-alls. In The Crown he is the Queen's critic Lord Altrincham; in Outlander he is sneering Redcoat Lord Thomas; in The Loch he is unpleasant doctor Simon Marr. In his hands, MI5's Sam Spence becomes the ultimate villain. Sam forges a relationship with Kip's dissatisfied s...
Even if you agree with his politics, shadow transport secretary David Mars (John Simm) has been consistently annoying since episode one. He is prone to lecturing his estranged wife Karen (Billie Piper) and yet never quite untangles himself from their disastrous relationship, letting her order him around and wind him up. He's also spent the whole se...
Ever since the Bishop turned up in her kitchen with an ultimatum, Jane Oliver (Nicola Walker) has been struggling to decide what to do. Should she stay with her Korean girlfriend Linh (Kae Alexander), who is illegally in the country and was caught high on drugs when she witnessed the murder? If so, she'll have to give up her position in the Church ...
Ever since she carried out the assassination on behalf of family friend (and secret people smuggler) Peter, Captain Sandrine Shaw has been unravelling. She is struggling with the vivid memory of her friend's death in combat, and with her uncertainty over whether she has killed the right pizza delivery boy, and in episode two she is blackmailed and ...
By this point, Kip Glaspie has pieced everything together after interrogating Berna Yalaz (Maya Sansa): the soldier who the police have been told is AWOL from the Royal Surrey Artillery is, in fact, the same one who committed the murder on the orders of a British people smuggler. And that soldier is Captain Sandrine Shaw. And where is Captain Shaw?...
We may have had two deaths, but the series ends with a birth. Mona Asif, who was raped in Iraq and forced to flee as a refugee, goes into labour at Harsfleet detention centre and is taken to hospital where she gives birth to a baby girl.
In the final episode the police work out that former military man Peter Westbourne (Richard McCabe) is a people smuggler, operating under the cover of "Pimlico Travel". But by the time the police raid his offices, he is gone. With his Turkish henchmen in custody and his identity exposed, the game is up for Peter. But for now at least, he has escape...
- Eleanor Bley Griffiths
Feb 12, 2018 · The (Doctor Who) stars align next week as Carey Mulligan, Billie Piper and John Simm team up for new BBC Two series Collateral. But is there more lurking beneath the surface of this political drama than its dream casting?
Feb 12, 2018 · Collateral is a bold detective drama which hopes to defy the genre at every turn, with this promising first episode feeling like a small beginning... Our verdict on David Hare's ambitious...
Collateral, Episode 1 review: Carey Mulligan's new crime drama doesn't shy away from politics. BBC mini-series kicks off with a thriller about the murder of a Muslim pizza deliveryman....
