As disasters hit the flight, MI5 director Madeleine Delaney (Lesley Sharp) works back in London to uncover the truth, treading carefully while doing so, as a Chinese-British nuclear deal could be at risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sharp said: \u201cI think it\u2019s that, at the end of every episode, first of all, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen next. And the second thing is, you don\u2019t know who it is that\u2019s pulling the strings on this and putting people in danger. And you don\u2019t know whether people are pretending to be in danger or whether they\u2019re really in danger. So you\u2019re right in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read all the scripts so I know what happens, but when I started watching it, I was going, \u2018Oh my God, what\u2019s going to happen next?\u2019 So, I think that\u2019s the thing \u2013 that it\u2019s genuinely [unpredictable].\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>Sharp continued: \u201cIt\u2019s a thriller\u2026 and I think that there are ways of telling those stories that are very efficient and very entertaining. But I think what Pete has managed to do is make all of the leading characters psychologically complex and three dimensional, so you invest in all of them as people alongside a very compelling edge of your seat narrative.<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSo the marriage of those two things makes the show very elevated and engaging. And I just found, when I started watching it, \u2018yep, I\u2019m in, I want to see this.’\u201d<\/p>\n Armitage also spoke with RadioTimes.com<\/strong> about the show, and said that he wanted his character to be an \u201cenigma<\/a>\u201d to the audience.<\/p> He explained: \u201cNormally, I would probably have written a biography of him, but I didn\u2019t. I focused on his job and I focused on the here and now, because I wanted this man to be an enigma.<\/p>\n \u201cI did like the idea of the viewer fluctuating between completely trusting him and really having serious doubts about who he really is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n