The Last Enemy

bryce · Oct 5, 2008

This is on PBS' Masterpiece Contemporary tonight/this week...originally aired in the UK in February...looks interesting...

(But what is it with you Brits and dark dystopian near futures?)

When the reclusive Stephen Ezard returns to London for the funeral of his brother Michael, an aid worker killed by a landmine, he feels like a stranger in his own country.

Britain has been transformed into a security state after a major terrorist attack, ID cards are strictly enforced and citizens' every movement is watched so the government can catch the terrorists before they strike again.

After four years abroad, Stephen is confused and vulnerable and doesn't know who he can trust.

A pawn in a mysterious conspiracy, he discovers to his cost just how far the country will go to protect its people. But, even as time is running out, Stephen becomes determined to find out what really happened to Michael... even at the risk of losing his own identity.
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Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch, Atonement) returns to London to mourn the loss of his brother, Michael, and enters a society now obsessed with surveillance. Searching to make sense of Michael's death, Stephen uncovers secrets about his brother's life — including a wife he never knew Michael had. Taking a government job to trace leads through a powerful new database, Stephen exposes troubling revelations and soon finds himself stalked by a rogue agent (Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty). But when Stephen stumbles into an international conspiracy, he realizes that the omnipresent and menacing eye of the government has turned on him. Scripted by Peter Berry (Prime Suspect 6), The Last Enemy offers a frenetic ride through the paranoia and politics of a futuristic surveillance society.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/lastenemy/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lastenemy/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Enemy_(TV_series)

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