Trigger Point’s six-episode run all takes place over a few weeks in the sweltering British summer. In the first episode, Vicky McClure’s Lana “Wash” Washington saw her friend and mentor Nut (Adrian Lester) killed, and came dangerously close to meeting her own maker. By the latest episode, the penultimate instalment of the series, she has not only seen a bunch of other people die and dodged a sequence of near misses, but witnessed, up close, her brother Billy (Ewan Mitchell) struggling to escape from a bomb-rigged car and ultimately being blown to what his post-mortem presumably described as “smithereens”. So I say it now for HR executives everywhere: this woman has seen and suffered too much, she should be on mandatory compassionate leave.
Anyway, that would ruin the drama. In fact, Wash has managed to wangle her way back from suspension and onto the case. Yes, she’s still grieving – we know this because she’s staring at photos of Billy while a violin-heavy Max Richteresque score tugs at our heartstrings – but she’s the senior ExPo officer, and she’ll be damned if she lets John (Kris Hitchen) lead the investigation.
