If you want to get some healthy perspective on the stresses of your office job, may I direct you to ITV’s Trigger Point? Exec-produced by Jed ‘Line of Duty’ Mercurio and created by debut screenwriter Daniel Brierley, the first episode throws us straight into the adrenalised world of the Met Police’s bomb disposal squad, where the slightest wrong move could have devastating consequences.
Not that you’d know it from the cool demeanour of “expo” (explosives officer) Lana Washington, played by Vicky McClure, who arrives on the scene - a block of flats, the site of a suspected “bomb factory” - wearing Ray-Bans and decompresses after a successful deactivation by bopping along to rap music on her car stereo, in perfect time with the nodding dog that sits on the armrest. Slightly less laidback is her partner Joel Nutkins, played by Adrian Lester. Like Lana, he is ex-military and seems to run on a heady cocktail of sheer exhilaration and off-brand energy drink; after one nerve-shredding near miss he concedes he is “getting too old for this s**t.”
