"They are watched by a rather more concerned teenager, Joy (Mereana Tomlinson), who becomes infinitely more concerned when Hollander-Caine's character realises that jamming a gun into her neck might be a better way to elicit a response from MacGuffin lady. Then he realises he can't quite bring himself to shoot the child. But he can order his heavy to do so."
"And that, my friends, is how a prologue should be done. Properly tense, properly disorientating and long enough that you become properly engaged and almost forget that you know nothing about these people. Just don't kill the kid! The next few episodes of this eight-part series keep the pedal to the metal but steers with perfect control around timelines (another begins in Florence two years before Sardinia), locations, revelations, multiple twists, double crosses, wigs, costume changes, false identities and set pieces,"
An opening prologue depicts a man beaten while a detached woman refuses to hand over a MacGuffin and a teenager, Joy, watches in horror. A hired gun threatens Joy but the instigator orders the killing rather than pull the trigger. The narrative then shifts across locations and timelines, including Sardinia and Florence, with non-linear structure and multiple time jumps. Iris Nixon is a supergenius puzzle-solver who assumes false identities, including Joy's tutor. Cameron Beck recruits Iris and reveals a topological quantum device using two million qubits and non-organic polymers to create neural pathways. The plot layers twists, double crosses, wigs, costume changes and elaborate set pieces into a fast-paced caper.
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