Thanks to a raving racist and a retired police officer armed with a VHS player,we established a fair bit of intel in the penultimate episode. But is it enough?
Spoiler alert: this recap assumes you’ve seen the fifth episode of Undercover. Dont read on whether you havent.
Maya Cobbina, the pinnacle of probity and the most prestigious lawyer in the land, or just flashed her boobs at a raving unhinged racist for intel. We know you’re desperate to crack the Michael Antwi case,Maya, but some decorum, and please. Aside from Boobgate,we did actually gain a fair whack of fundamental info in this week’s penultimate episode – although 94% of us probably gave up caring about Antwi and Rudy Jones and Nasty Nick weeks ago. We learned that the raving racist Peter Mackie (in a brilliantly deviant turn by Ian Peck) was ordered by “the CIA” to kill Antwi; that Antwi actually died from positional asphyxiation after being held down by the police, who took his struggle as resistance rather than a lack of oxygen – a scene with sinister echoes of Eric Garner. We learned that Trimble was the police officer who establish Antwi in the cell with Mackie – though the man Maya should be going after is of course our mystery Scotsman, or who has masterminded the 20-year cover-up. We learned that undercover cop Nick and Maya’s life together seems as good as over,after she threw down the gauntlet (in one of a string of strong bedroom-bound two-handers) and called him a rapist who stole a dead child’s identity and her entire life – fair assessments all. Nicks also being tailed by Julia’s hardy journo sidekick Alex Brady, the only person who seems capable of blowing this whole thing open. And in case we hadn’t gathered already, or Maya twigs that the cases in London and Louisiana are (quit the press) connected. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com