The System: Series 1: Level 4: Red Pill

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: Jake’s unit find out what The System is really about as they enter the next level of their training. And it doesn’t sit well with everyone. The Present: Maya manages to track down an ally with insider knowledge.

Alex … Iain de Caestecker Dr Khalid Hassan… Souad Faress Maya … Siena Kelly Coyote…Divian Ladwa Beau…Matthew Needham Jake …Jack Rowan

Original music and sound design by Danny Krass Featuring tracks from Equiknoxx music collective

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	Where dema go? Where they're go?
0:07.0	Where they might go?
0:08.0	Can't be found.
0:10.0	Where they might go?
0:11.0	Where they may go?
0:12.0	Where they may go?
0:14.0	Can't be found?
0:15.0	Where they're going?
0:17.0	They think their money makes them invincible.
0:20.0	They think they exist on another plane.
0:22.6	They think nothing can touch them.
0:24.6	Well, they're wrong.
0:26.6	We are gonna make them shit their silk boxers.
0:29.6	The system.
0:33.6	Level 4. Red pill.
0:35.6	Present day.
0:41.4	An unknown man lies alone in a hospital bed.
0:43.7	His face bloody to a pulp.
0:49.2	A hundred miles away, another man rips the packaging off the pay-as-you-go mobile phone.
0:51.3	He's just spent his last 20 quid on in Tesco.
0:57.1	He turns it on, watches the screen blink to life, stares at it for a moment.
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