Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestMartin prepares Carl to confront Kate in the hopes of a confession, but the surveillance operation takes an unexpected turn, leading to devastating consequences. Manchester primary school teacher Gemma Hillman goes missing and DCs Martin Young and Stella Beckett are given the task of putting her boyfriend - the prime suspect - under surveillance.
This gripping five-part drama follows a tense police surveillance investigation into a tight knit Manchester community and explores whether it is ever possible to observe the lives of others with true objectivity and zero effect.
Acting
Noel Clarke's unraveling DC will make you deeply uncomfortable
Direction
Harry Bradbeer turns voyeurism into visual poetry
Creators
Ed Whitmore, Harry Bradbeer
Noel Clarke
DC Martin Young
Alexandra Roach
Zoe Sterling
Kíla Lord Cassidy
Caitlin Sterling
Catherine Tyldesley
Kate Tuckman
Sarah Niles
DCI Jill Conroy
Amy Wren
Gemma Hillman
Fehinti Balogun
Greg Sullivan
Phil Davis
DI Liam Cox
Marcus Garvey
DC Roly Dalton
Dominic Allburn
Carl Tuckman
Bronagh Waugh
DC Stella Beckett
Hubert Hanowicz
Pavel Ludic
Sia Kiwa
Melissa
Erin Shanagher
Fiona Baker
Karen Henthorn
Janice Baines
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely during Manchester's 2020 lockdown, making the empty streets and isolation feel eerily authentic — the surveillance paranoia hit different in that specific moment.
The series quietly interrogates British policing post-Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, asking whether 'observing' communities from outside can ever be neutral — or if it inevitably becomes control.
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