The Flip
- Episode aired Sep 12, 2022
- 1h 9m
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After DCI Carey is kidnapped, her instincts are proved right. Isaac Turner pursues his own agenda.After DCI Carey is kidnapped, her instincts are proved right. Isaac Turner pursues his own agenda.After DCI Carey is kidnapped, her instincts are proved right. Isaac Turner pursues his own agenda.
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- GoofsTowards the middle of the episode, Frank Napier is given a supposedly unhackable encrypted disk, with an "AES 256-bit" encryption. The unlock code is later revealed to be simply a 12-digit number. A password this long, made up of numbers only, would take less than 30 seconds to decrypt. (Unless it only allowed, for example, a certain number of wrongs attempts before the data got destroyed)
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I really enjoyed the first series of this BBC tech-thriller starring Holliday Granger
as DCI Rachel Carey and was hooked by the introduction to this second six-part series as we see a prominent Chinese dissident callously murdered in his seemingly secure apartment by assassins who appear to be invisible.
The political fall-out from this initially seems to point to China with coincidentally a major U. K. government policy decision to award a video technology contract in the offing with a Chinese company in the running to benefit. However, the final decision will fall to Security Minister Isaac Turner who makes it quite clear that he won't risk British national security by giving the nod on such a sensitive issue to China. Things move quickly though with fresh murder attempts in the capital with the minister himself apparently under threat and the decision made to move him to a safe house. So how come, once ensconced there, do we see him simultaneously appearing live on the BBC's flagship "Newsnight" programme now awarding the contract to the Chinese and compounding the situation by supporting its use in racially profiling visitors to the U. K.?
Just like the previous series, you often literally can't believe what you're seeing as Carey and the minister are drawn inexorably into a major conspiracy revolving around deep-fake technology which will take in Russia and America.
Occasionally, I felt that the plot was in danger of flying away with itself, especially when the Minister appeared as if he might be tempted into a Machiavellian power-grab of his own, but this was railed back just in time for a genuinely gripping conclusion centring on another live TV interview with Turner where we witness the apparently beaten Carey turn the tables at last on her various oppressors.
Watching this, I was reminded of nothing so much as those wonderful fantasy series from my childhood like "Department S" or "Mission Impossible", with its intricate narrative, plot twists and cliffhanger moments. The action was non-stop and constantly kept the viewer on the hop, helped in this by the convenient use of actual, familiar BBC locations outside Broadcasting House and indeed in the real-life "Newsnight" studio itself.
As to how far deep-fake technology could actually be used for political ends, I'd like to think the examples shown couldn't happen here...or could they?
Anyway, I really like Granger's Carey character and hope that she'll return in another no-doubt mind-boggling, seeing-is-disbelieving series such as this.
The political fall-out from this initially seems to point to China with coincidentally a major U. K. government policy decision to award a video technology contract in the offing with a Chinese company in the running to benefit. However, the final decision will fall to Security Minister Isaac Turner who makes it quite clear that he won't risk British national security by giving the nod on such a sensitive issue to China. Things move quickly though with fresh murder attempts in the capital with the minister himself apparently under threat and the decision made to move him to a safe house. So how come, once ensconced there, do we see him simultaneously appearing live on the BBC's flagship "Newsnight" programme now awarding the contract to the Chinese and compounding the situation by supporting its use in racially profiling visitors to the U. K.?
Just like the previous series, you often literally can't believe what you're seeing as Carey and the minister are drawn inexorably into a major conspiracy revolving around deep-fake technology which will take in Russia and America.
Occasionally, I felt that the plot was in danger of flying away with itself, especially when the Minister appeared as if he might be tempted into a Machiavellian power-grab of his own, but this was railed back just in time for a genuinely gripping conclusion centring on another live TV interview with Turner where we witness the apparently beaten Carey turn the tables at last on her various oppressors.
Watching this, I was reminded of nothing so much as those wonderful fantasy series from my childhood like "Department S" or "Mission Impossible", with its intricate narrative, plot twists and cliffhanger moments. The action was non-stop and constantly kept the viewer on the hop, helped in this by the convenient use of actual, familiar BBC locations outside Broadcasting House and indeed in the real-life "Newsnight" studio itself.
As to how far deep-fake technology could actually be used for political ends, I'd like to think the examples shown couldn't happen here...or could they?
Anyway, I really like Granger's Carey character and hope that she'll return in another no-doubt mind-boggling, seeing-is-disbelieving series such as this.
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- Lejink
- Oct 1, 2022
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