Anyone watch this? I thought it was excellent and carried the obvious debt to le Carre very well.
I am troubled by the ending though. It seemed as if Worriker gave the Israeli report to the BBC himself so the PM was forced to comment on it rather than go ahead with the deal he himself had suggested of the government leaking it.
He still had the file at the airport and I thought putting it in the bin might have been a dead letter drop but it seemed too spontaneous for that.
So in the end he's got what Nancy wanted by publicising the facts of her brother's death but hasn't fulfilled Benedict's seeming dying wishes; expose the PM and protect the integrity of the intelligence services (presuming the reshuffling of them in to a Ministry for Homeland Security was still going ahead).
Anyone got a different take on it? There is at least one more film/play featuring the Jonny Worriker character that Hare is writing which may be a direct follow up on the same story or not but I think it will take some time to see the light of day.
I am troubled by the ending though. It seemed as if Worriker gave the Israeli report to the BBC himself so the PM was forced to comment on it rather than go ahead with the deal he himself had suggested of the government leaking it.
He still had the file at the airport and I thought putting it in the bin might have been a dead letter drop but it seemed too spontaneous for that.
So in the end he's got what Nancy wanted by publicising the facts of her brother's death but hasn't fulfilled Benedict's seeming dying wishes; expose the PM and protect the integrity of the intelligence services (presuming the reshuffling of them in to a Ministry for Homeland Security was still going ahead).
Anyone got a different take on it? There is at least one more film/play featuring the Jonny Worriker character that Hare is writing which may be a direct follow up on the same story or not but I think it will take some time to see the light of day.
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