The series kicked off in devastating fashion with the shock death of Lana\u2019s best friend Joel Nutkins<\/a> (played by Adrian Lester), while her brother Billy (The Last Kingdom<\/a>\u2018s Ewan Mitchell) also fell victim to a cunning attack in a later episode.<\/p>\n Needless to say, things became deeply personal for Lana, who suffered another emotional blow when she learnt the culprit of the atrocities she has been fighting. (Spoilers follow).<\/p> In the end, it was none other than Lana\u2019s lover Karl Maguire (Warren Brown) who had been behind the attacks all along, revealing he had been motivated by a grudge against parliamentary candidate Ayesha Campbell-Khan (Salima Saxton).<\/p>\n The scene may have been a shock for the characters in the show, but RadioTimes.com<\/a> readers claimed to have seen it coming from a mile away.<\/p>\n Twitter user Claire told us: \u201cPredictable. Not even sure why I carried on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jed Mercurio served as executive producer on the series, but the general consensus seems to be that it doesn\u2019t stack up to his smash-hit BBC One drama, which tackles similar themes.<\/p>\n \u201cLine of Duty viewers will have seen that one coming,\u201d said Gerry Dolan.<\/p>\n Another respondent, Jan Harvey, questioned whether the reveal of Karl as the terrorist could even be considered a twist, given how many people had been suspicious of him since his introduction.<\/p>\n In an interview with\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/strong>, Trigger Point writer Daniel Brierley admitted to being \u201cworried\u201d that people would easily guess the culprit, but hoped that viewers would think it was simply too \u201cobvious\u201d.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cSomething we worried about a lot in the process was that it\u2019s clear when Karl turns up that he\u2019s the villain. He turns up and you\u2019re like, \u2018Okay, we know that actor, we know this person, it seems too good to be true, etc.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd then I think we wanted to set up this kind of duplicity. We wanted it almost to look like he was so obviously the villain that he couldn\u2019t possibly be the villain, if that makes sense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the mixed response from viewers, Trigger Point has officially been renewed for season 2<\/a>, with Brierley teasing his ideas for the next episodes<\/a> in our exclusive interview.<\/p>\n Trigger Point is available to stream on BritBox. Check out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By David Craig Published: Monday, 28 February 2022 at 12:00 am Trigger Point viewers were left divided by last night\u2019s series finale, with the show\u2019s villain reveal being branded \u201cpredictable\u201d by some social media users. Line of Duty star Vicky McClure leads the cast of the show as Met Police explosives officer Lana Washington, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By David Craig Published: Monday, 28 February 2022 at 12:00 am Trigger Point viewers were left divided by last night\u2019s series finale, with the show\u2019s villain reveal being branded \u201cpredictable\u201d by some social media users. Line of Duty star Vicky McClure leads the cast of the show as Met Police explosives officer Lana Washington, who…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/11589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Warren\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/trigger_point_warren_brown-9697915.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"trigger_point_warren_brown\"\\"\/")
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