As we reach the penultimate episode there are still questions to be answered; most notably who wants the Stein Group's project in the West Bank to fail. Having been compromised Nessa agrees to work with a Palestinian company and agrees to their stipulation that she must take part in the ceremonial digging the first spade of soil in Hebron. While she is there Atika lures her brother Ephra away to his house in the country; ostensibly for a dirty weekend but in fact for a far more sinister reason. Meanwhile Hayden-Hoyle's investigation is progressing and he is making links between the events in the Middle East that tie back to Washington.
The tension was always fairly high in this series but here it raises even further as at least one, possibly two major characters are killed off and we still don't know who is ultimately behind it and what their motivation is. Writer/Director Hugo Blick manages to do this without things feeling unbelievable and anybody who watched his previous work; 'The Shadow Line' will know that he is willing to kill off main characters so there isn't the usual feeling that certain people are safe. As in previous episodes the acting is good; most notably from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Stephen Rea. With only one episode to go I'm left with mixed feelings; on the one hand I want to see how it resolves on the other I don't want it to end yet!
The tension was always fairly high in this series but here it raises even further as at least one, possibly two major characters are killed off and we still don't know who is ultimately behind it and what their motivation is. Writer/Director Hugo Blick manages to do this without things feeling unbelievable and anybody who watched his previous work; 'The Shadow Line' will know that he is willing to kill off main characters so there isn't the usual feeling that certain people are safe. As in previous episodes the acting is good; most notably from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Stephen Rea. With only one episode to go I'm left with mixed feelings; on the one hand I want to see how it resolves on the other I don't want it to end yet!
