""The hard work of joining in last time was spending a few episodes just introducing this person and setting them up," she said. "She was 'other', she was on the outside. "Now, you get to see who she is underneath it all. There are friendships, there are real stakes in terms of what she feels accountable and responsible for, having to justify going away and doing this work, the impact it's having on her family. "There's so much more intimacy, softness and complexity this season, and that's what was really exciting about reading it. The minute I read the first episode it was like 'Oh, we're in'.""
"The stakes were firmly ramped up from the get-go in episode one of the new season - a CAB raid ends tragically in Dublin, while a murder in Spain takes DS Wallace to Bilbao, a new setting for the show this season. "It means the decisions my character is making are riskier," Noone said. "She's taking a risk in trusting and partnering up with another agency in Bilbao, in the belief this is all connected somehow. "If she's wrong, it's all on her. As time goes on, she starts to doubt herself. Everything is hinged on her instincts."
"The crew in both countries [Ireland and Spain] are incredible. It's a lovely experience to work with people abroad and get to know a new city. It was Antwerp that brought the European flavour on previous seasons of Hidden Assets. Noone said the Belgian city was a "brilliant" place to work. "Antwerp is gorgeous. I never knew much about it before filming there and it's become one of my favourite places in Europe.""
RTÉ crime drama Hidden Assets fictionalises the Criminal Assets Bureau and returns for a third season with Noone back as DS Wallace. The character shifts from an outsider to a more intimate, softer, and complex figure with friendships and family pressures explored. Episode one raises stakes with a tragic CAB raid in Dublin and a murder in Spain that sends Wallace to Bilbao. Wallace makes riskier choices by partnering with another agency and begins to doubt her instincts if connections fail. Filming involves international crews and locations, with Antwerp previously praised as a favourite European city to work in.
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