The System: Series 1: Level 6: Judgement Day Question Mark.

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 29 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: Alex’s story comes into focus. The Present: Maya goes in search of Jake, hoping together they can stop the System before things get totally out of control. But can they? And who’s really in charge? Alex … Iain de Caestecker 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

A BBC Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams

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

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Everyone wants a nice, clear, simple, reassuring story in which they're the heroes.
0:28.6	Some other people are the bad guys and the bad guys get crushed.
0:32.6	But if you push people out of your story or if you make them the bad guys, they'll come up with a different story.
0:40.9	And you'll be the bad guys and then you'll get crushed.
0:44.4	The system. Level 6. Judgment Day question mark.
0:48.7	Three heroes.
0:50.7	One sits on the roof of an abandoned pub waiting for sunrise, wondering if it might be his last.
0:57.0	Another is at the wheel of a stolen car speeding towards the coast.
1:01.0	A third lies in a hospital bed, watching the light flicker above him.
1:08.0	Fifteen years ago A boys' school
1:11.2	A state school
1:12.7	But the kind people move house
1:15.6	To get their sons into
1:16.6	Year 7 P.E
1:20.1	Basketball
1:21.5	A row of boys backed up against the wall bars
1:24.7	In the gym
1:25.3	One by one the line thins out.
1:29.0	Until, there are just two kids left.
1:32.9	One short and chubby, the other tall and gangly.
1:36.8	The picking stops.
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