State of Play

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Journalists uncover a government conspiracy when a young politician's assistant and mistress is killed.

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6 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1Teenager Kelvin Stagg is shot dead in a London street. Then politician Stephen Collins breaks down when he hears his assistant Sonia Baker has been killed by falling under a train. A newspaper editor asks his journalist Cal McCaffrey (Stephen's former campaign manager) to look for a connection between the two deaths, and McCaffrey finds the dead teenager had stolen a silver metallic briefcase. McCaffrey traces the briefcase and in it he finds pictures of Stephen and Sonia - and a gun.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Investigations suggest a relationship between the murder of Stephen Collins's assistant and the drug dealer. Collins's wife Anne makes a veiled public admission. Tough questions come from surprising sources. The killer resurfaces.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Cal is released on bail. In order to get a decoy for Della, Cal arranges to get a story to the press about his release. Cal has now become a target for the hit man and needs police protection. DCI Bell questions Stephen Collins and suggest that Sonia Baker was blackmailing him and had threatened to make their affair public knowledge. Both Bell and The Herald want to interview Dominic Foy, especially when they discover he has had a past relationship with Sonia Baker.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Foy tells his side of the story, but something doesn't add up. Helen uncovers a connection between Foy and a shady lobbying firm that works for the energy sector. Collins discovers that the dead girl may have been 'a plant.'
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5Della manages to get Dominic Foy back into the hotel for another interview. Stephen Collins is listening to the interview next door and speaking through a concealed microphone tells Della what questions to ask. When he discovers that Sonia was pregnant and Foy adds that Collins didn't care about her he forces his way into Foy's room and phtsically attacks him. Foy is taken to hospital. Greer tells Cal that George Fergus convinced her to employ Sonia Baker, even though Sonia had less qualifications than the other applicants. Cameron now has a story, but is 'gagged' by U-Ex oil and Westminster, he prints this fact in short headlines. As a result The Herald brings in another editor to edit 'the headlines' . Cameron has a document witnessed by Della and tells Cal that the copyright to the final story will be his.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Cameron tells Yvonne Shaps that he has sacked Cal making him a freelance journalist and that Cal has the copyright to the story if she does not give them more money for the story Cal will go to another paper. Yvonne gives them the money. Foy gives them an e-mail linking Sonia with U-Ex Oil and Warner-Scloss. Stephen tells Cal he will resign from the Energy Select Committee and help get him a story that will link George Fergus to Sonia's murder. During an interview Collins talks about Sonia meeting Paul Canning from Warner-Scloss at the Trocadero everyday. Cal realises that this is information that Collins should not know and that there may now be a link to Stephen and Sonia's hitman.

Cast of Miniseries

  • Bill NighyCameron Foster
  • David MorrisseyStephen Collins
  • Kelly MacdonaldDella Smith
  • John SimmCal McAffrey
  • Polly WalkerAnne Collins
  • Philip GlenisterDCI William Bell
  • James McAvoyDan Foster
  • Mickey FeastAndrew Wilson
  • Amelia BullmoreHelen Preger
  • Marc WarrenDominic Foy
  • Rebekah StatonLiz
  • Benedict WongPete Cheng
  • Johann MyersSonny Stag
  • Jane HoustonDirector
  • Beni TurksonDirector
  • Stephen WoolfendenDirector
  • Susie ConklinWriter
  • Hilary Bevan JonesProducer

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