But perhaps, as he says in his scrawled autobiography, life is such a random “ragbag of incoherent happenings” (oh the irony) that it’s natural a drama would leave us with the real villain on the loose – “my freedom is unrestricted” – and Nick still loved by his family. Will the minister of justice finally be held to account? Photograph: Sally Mais/BBCīut forget all that: Nick’s finally written a book! “This is my story” – hardly going to go down in history as a classic opening line. We live in a tolerant society and none of us want to disturb that.” It seems so weak.
The triumvirate of evil’s reasoning was: “we’ve been making sure police officers are not put on trial. Surely he’s just there to save face for them.
Why did it take Maya so long to investigate Michael Antwi’s death? Why is she still driving when she has epilepsy? And can it really all come down to the elected mayor of Baton Rouge? Did the minister of justice and the mystery Scotsman enlist Antwi to assassinate the mayor? Why have they expended so much energy and evilness to cover this up for so long – to stop a riot? Nick’s work seems unlikely “to make the world a safer place”. There’s still so much that fails to add up. I know we always have to suspend a bit of disbelief, but it’s hardly ideal to leave your audience hollering at copious plotholes every couple of scenes, is it? It was the aftermath, and indeed the bulk of what came before, that was not such good television.Īs I see it, Undercover’s great potential – brilliant cast, huge angry knotty issues – has been fatally undermined by implausibilities. But I found the climax in the forest a fine few minutes of television.
You may equally have scoffed – at the lovely family racing to save the dad they’ve just discovered is a dissembling undercover cop.
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