Secret State (Season 1)

7.5

Genre: Plot Suspense
Premiere: 2012
Running time: 42m
Country: UK

The 2012 political thriller State Secrets, starring Gabriel Byrne, Charles Dance and Gina McKee, was inspired by Chris Mullin's novel An authentic British coup. This play delves deeply into the relationship among democratically elected governments, the military and large enterprises. The first hour-long episode was first broadcast on Channel 4 on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, and the other three episodes will be broadcast every Wednesday. During the election, a serious industrial accident in the Teesside area killed a number of people, raising thorny issues about PetroFex's safety regulations. The British prime minister claimed to have guaranteed compensation for the victims, but on his way back from PetroFex HQ, his plane crashed inexplicably in the Atlantic Ocean. Deputy Prime Minister Tom Dawkins (Gabriel Byrne) is appointed in the face of danger, exposing a conspiracy at the heart of the political system in the search for justice and truth for the victims.