Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Winona Ryder | ... | Melanie Fall | |
Christopher Walken | ... | Curtis Pelissier | |
Bill Nighy | ... | Johnny Worricker | |
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Hansel Piper | ... | Aldous Helier |
Dylan Baker | ... | Gary Bethwaite | |
James Naughton | ... | Frank Church | |
Zach Grenier | ... | Dido Parsons | |
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Julie Hewlett | ... | Natalie Helier |
Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Margot Tyrrell | |
Rupert Graves | ... | Stirling Rogers | |
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Sally Greenwood | ... | Singer |
Ewen Bremner | ... | Rollo Maverley | |
Malik Yoba | ... | Jim Carroll | |
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | ... | Colin Maitlis | |
Meredith Eaton | ... | Clare Clovis |
Johnny Worricker is hiding out from his work at MI5 on the tax-exile islands, Turks & Caicos. But an encounter with a CIA agent forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, then it's their financial PR who seems to know more than she's letting on. But will she help Johnny come to an understanding of what these men do and why they're here? Written by DemonMeister
The first instalment of what has now turned out to be a trilogy, Page Eight, made me long for more and David Hare has certainly delivered. The second episode, Turks & Caicos, is perhaps a bit slower paced and less spellbinding than Page Eight, but it has all the ingredients that made its predecessor such a breath of fresh air: a carefully crafted plot line, believable dialogue, excellent acting, a total absence of fist fights and explosions and a willingness to question the path the Western world has walked in the post-9/11 world.
After his escape from England, Johny Worricker is lying low in the Turks and Caicos islands, a British overseas territory with an American currency. Big men with big money are thick on the ground and Johnny soon gets drawn into a mental chess game with them that threatens to expose some unsavoury secrets about the business aspects of the 'war on terror'. He soon has to fear for his safety again and re-engages some old friends in England to get to the heart of the matter.
'Turks & Caicois' grew on me after repeated viewing. Because of its slower pace and the fact that most of it take place on a small Caribbean island, it feels more like a good stage play than the other two parts of the Worricker trilogy. I relished the well-crafted dialog and subtle gestures and expressions of the actors so much that I actually watched the DVD twice on successive nights.