Honestly, you wait years for Mr Whishaw to appear in a spy drama and two come along at once. He's currently reprising his role as Q in cinema's latest Bond film, and here he is as a far less geeky Danny, a vulnerable young man in London working in an Amazon-style warehouse. After a chance meeting, he falls in love with Alex, a mysterious and inhibited young man who says he works for an investment bank, but just as they begin to envisage a future together, Alex disappears.
Exquisite and painful. The cast, including Jim Broadbent as Danny's friend Scottie, don't put a foot wrong. It doesn't appear, from this episode, that the homosexuality is a theme at all; these are two young men in love, one of whom has an impossible secret. It's left to Scottie, a Whitehall mandarin with secrets of his own, to suggest that the man the police are calling Alastair worked for MI6. By this time, Danny has made a gruesome discovery of his own, that has similarities to the real-life case of the man found in a holdall. As gripping for its heartfelt portrayal of love as for its murky depiction of espionage, we genuinely can't wait to see what Danny finds out.
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