The System: Series 1: Level 5: Kill the Past
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A witty and propulsive six-part thriller about a group of young radicals and the hunt for their leader. Starring Siena Kelly, Jack Rowan and Iain de Caestecker.
Written by Ben Lewis.
The Past: Jake and Alex have a stand-off when Jake’s given a target dangerously close to home. The Present: Maya’s TV habit, once described as her downfall, is about to become her greatest asset.
Alex … Iain de Caestecker Jerome… Don Gilét Maya … Siena Kelly Coyote…Divian Ladwa Beau…Matthew Needham DI Cohen / Jess …Chloe Pirrie 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. |
| 0:18.0 | Generally speaking, there's no clear moment when you become a man. |
| 0:21.6 | There's no final test, no thousand-year-old ritual. |
| 0:25.6 | You don't go into the wilderness and take a powerful hallucinogenic. |
| 0:28.6 | You don't get covered in mud and have your foreskin chopped off in front of your extended family. |
| 0:33.6 | You don't stick your hand in a glove full of bullet ants for ten minutes. You don't jump off a hundred foot tower with nothing but a vine tied around your ankle. |
| 0:42.3 | And if you ask me, that's a damn shame. |
| 0:46.3 | The system, level five, kill the past. |
| 0:56.0 | A man sits shivering in a derelict holiday chalet. |
| 1:08.0 | He's been awake for three days straight. |
| 1:11.8 | Rain drips through the ceiling. |
| 1:13.9 | Who can save him now? |
| 1:16.0 | Present day. |
| 1:17.6 | Maya. |
| 1:18.4 | Maya, this is D.I. Cohen. |
| 1:20.2 | I know you don't have your phone because I'm holding it. |
| 1:22.6 | But if you are accessing your messages, we're still at your house. |
| 1:25.5 | Please come back as a matter of urgency. We want to |
| 1:29.3 | find your brother as soon as possible. TV is my drug of choice. I can be whoever people |
| 1:35.1 | need me to be for so long, but eventually I need to be no one. I need to be a blob on the sofa, |
| 1:42.0 | slumped in front of something glossy and American and mindless. |
| 1:46.7 | Ideally, where people in nice clothes stab each other in the back. |
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