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The season closer begins with a big question—will Harriet (Anna Torv) find the USB stick and reveal the full extent of illegal drone strike program? The whitewashed version as it stands is that Pakistan hacked the drone. The fuming PM (Don Hany) has no choice but to expel the Pakistani ambassador (Dalip Sondhi) and surely he must explode in a frenzy of recriminations soon. In the meantime, he is watching Eisenhower speeches on youtube and getting psyched up. He now knows he is being stitched up ...

We are nearly there now! And things are cranking up nicely. Episode five begins with Caroline (Laura Gordon) surprising Harriet (Anna Torv) and demanding that she gets her another audience with the PM. Caroline now seems a bit unhinged and she doesn't confirm or deny she killed her friend. It's just a shame she didn't spill the beans when she was talking to the PM before. The irony is of course that he also wants to talk to her!

This is episode four of six in season two. The tension is already quite high, and if it's anything like season one, it will continue to ratchet up from this point on.

The episode begins with Caroline Treloar (Laura Gordon), the rogue drone operator, being held in detention and brusquely told to pretend to her dad that she is in Hawaii. She is interrogated throughout the episode, and later on we find out she has killed almost 450 people!! Harriet (Anna Torv) shows the missile strike footage to Karen Koutoufides (Danielle Cormack) and then gets carted off for a chat with the toad-faced head of secret services Vaughn (Justin Smith) who we haven't seen much of so...

First off in this episode, we hear some more about the operation that went wrong in Pakistan. Meanwhile, our heroine Harriet (Anna Torv) is busy trying to find out where the classified document sent to Mina (Louisa Mignone) came from and tries to get help from signals analyst Thomas Maher (Aleks Mikic) who, this season, is giving off a smart Ben Whishaw vibe. He refuses to help at first, being a goody two shoes and then is persuaded to change his mind when Harriet gets Mina's husband, Sami (Robe...

This is a review of Secret City Season Two Episode One—"Run Little Rabbit," which contains major spoilers both for season 1 and for this episode. Season one of Secret City was an unexpectedly delightful Netflix binge delivered all the way from Australia, from the capital city of Canberra to be precise. Over six episodes, investigative journalist Harriet Dunkley (Anna Torv) got sucked into a huge conspiracy involving Chinese political interference, home-grown secret service repression, and high l...