The System: Series 1: Level 3: Field Work

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A witty and propulsive six-part thriller about an exclusive personal development programme with a radical twist. Starring Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan and Iain de Caestecker.

Written by Ben Lewis.

The Past: pumped up and fighting fit, Jake and his unit learn how to hunt. And it’s not just animals they’re in search of. The Present: Maya meets a woman she hopes can explain why Jake’s life hangs in the balance.

Alex … Iain de Caestecker Maya … Siena Kelly Coyote…Divian Ladwa Beau…Matthew Needham DI Cohen… Chloe Pirrie Grace…Ashna Rabheru Jake …Jack Rowan

Original music and sound design by Danny Krass

With thanks to Dr Joel Busher at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry.

A BBC Scotland production directed by Kirsty Williams

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	This one thing to run through the moves in the warmth and safety of a brightly lit gym, but what about when you're out there in the cold, dark night of the real world?
0:23.2	When the adrenaline hits your bowels, do you A, want to run back to your childhood bedroom
0:29.0	and hide under your blanket?
0:31.0	Or B, hurl that tender body and those oh so breakable bones into the fray and take a grab at some real power.
0:41.3	Well, this hope is B.
0:44.3	The system. Level 3. Fieldwork.
0:48.8	Present day, Maya.
0:50.8	I'm standing by my bedroom window.
0:53.6	It's the middle of the afternoon, but the curtains are drawn.
0:56.0	I peer through the gap.
0:59.0	Yep. It's still there.
1:02.0	An SUV with blacked out windows.
1:05.0	I picture him inside, the pale guy with the dead eyes who followed me yesterday.
1:14.2	Maybe I should go out there and confront him.
1:17.1	Take the gun from the box under my bed and just... Hello?
1:22.3	Hello?
1:24.3	You left me a message about Jake?
1:26.4	Grace?
1:27.8	Yes. Is he okay? Has something happened to him?
1:31.8	No, sorry, he's fine.
1:33.0	I tell her I'm a journalist researching this system, this weird and increasingly shady men's program he'd become involved in.
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