Lana is again having been despatched off to Estonia to lend a serving to hand to Ukraine’s bomb disposal groups. She is but, nonetheless, to return to energetic obligation: as a substitute meting out her knowledge to another (lesser) safety officers. All of the sudden, there’s a bomb assault within the coronary heart of London. Washington isn’t, technically or psychologically, able to step up however… who else goes to?
Which brings me to the dangerous information. Particularly that, a minimum of by the conclusion of episode one, McClure remains to be largely holding the fort by way of characters to care about. The return of the peripherals prompts solely “oh yeah, them”s. And there are a selection of latest faces – together with that of DS Helen Morgan (Natalie Simpson of Outlander) and Bridgerton season one’s Julian Ovenden as Commander John Francis – who might but present first rate foils-slash-nemeses.