a5c7b9f00b Following the events in <a href=">Turks &amp; Caicos (2014) Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrell are in Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the Security Service. Through his old friend and colleague Rollo, he&#39;s managed to plant a story in The Independent about the source of the Prime Minister&#39;s &quot;bridge&quot; fund, but it gains little traction. Running low on cash, Worricker realizes that they&#39;ll have to go home. He pursues getting the story out by contacting The Independent&#39;s editor Belinda Kay and telling her the whole story. Meanwhile Jill Tankard, the head of MI-5, begins feeding information to Deputy Prime Minister Anthea Catcheside suggesting that the PM may be on his way out. For Worricker, he realizes too late that he too is a pawn in a much larger game. The Johnny Worricker Spy trilogy concludes with Salting the Battlefield, in which our hero with his ex girlfriend, Margot are criss-crossing Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the security services and a vengeful Prime Minister. Worricker is being watched - His family and friends are being watched - He is running out of cash and he needs to make a move to reach an endgame. Nothing is perfect but sometimes we have to be grateful for large mercies. In view of the generally mindless dreck that is offered on the screen (big or small) David Hare has at least given us intelligent dialogue written for adults and spoken clearly by a cast of actors who know what they&#39;re doing. No faux dramatic, over-amplified background music and no extraneous background noise … we&#39;re here to hear people speak not how noisy the traffic is on a London street. It goes without saying that Bill Nighy is Worricker personified and it&#39;s hard to imagine anyone else in the role … all that world-weary patience; it was good to see him finally lose his cool in the final episode and lash outeverything seemed to be falling apart. Highly recommended. And while there are far better endings of trilogies, remember this was made for TV. And yes I do know there is quite a lot of great TV work out there (particular in the TV show/series area), but I still think this warrants a 7 rather than a 6. The acting alone is really superb and while the story may be predictable (especially if you&#39;ve seen the previous two entries), it still works.<br/><br/>Do you have to have seen the other two movies? I reckon not, but you do get the relationships between certain characters a lot quicker if you do. And they are fun to watch or at least entertaining and suspenseful enough to warrant that.
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