ITV and BritBox International are making a six-part crime thriller for those of us who can’t get enough of police dramas, executive produced by Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio.
The series, which will be filmed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and surrounding areas, is described by ITV as “compelling” and “character-led”, with Morven Christie playing the lead role of Lexie Noble who gets entangled in a perilous police operation to topple a notorious crime lord, played by Ozark and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power actor Peter Mullan.
Penned by writer Debbie O’Malley (Call the Midwife, All Creatures Great and Small), Payback is set in the suburbs of Edinburgh and meets Lexie when she is unaware that her husband, Jared, has been laundering money for crime lord Cal Morris (Mullan).
The synopsis reads: “Jared’s every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan (Prasanna Puwanarajah) and DCI Adam Guthrie (Derek Riddell), who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice.
“A partner in Jared’s business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger.”
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