Jed (Elizabeth Debicki) is the one main character we learnt the least about in the opening episode, although that is about to change as we’re to learn that she too has secrets that she’s hiding from those she is close to. Debicki describes her as, “a bit of a swan – she is very serene on top and desperately paddling underneath…she’s a chameleon and she adapts to whatever environment she finds herself in.”
She may not be entirely aware of the business deals her lover involves himself in but she certainly knows her position in his life and what it entails to maintain it successfully. Therefore all the skeletons in her closet must stay under the radar, no matter what the cost. Unfortunately events are about to take a startling turn for the worse. …show more content…
While out one evening, feasting like kings at a secluded restaurant, a couple of thugs burst in, managing to take Roper’s son, Danny, hostage before his guards can react to the threat. The smooth talking arms dealer may not have many weaknesses but when it comes to his family he doesn’t take any chances, so he attempts to broker a deal with the gunmen. All is not as it seems however, and no-one seems to have noticed a stranger lurking in the shadows.

Before any more owe come back to see how the rest of that scene unfolds, we flashback six months to where the first episode left off, with Angela Burr gently planting notions and incentives in Jonathan Pine’s head, before she finally lays out her plan for taking down Roper. Pine is fully aware of her motives throughout I feel; the two are as astute as each other, yet it is Burr’s passion for the case that turns his patriotic stirrings into