'COBRA' Takes Us To The Red Wall in Episode 3

In this episode of COBRA, the focus turns on Britain’s Red Zone: Northumberland, which is currently without power and awaiting the arrival of a new transformer. Major cities (Newcastle, Sunderland) are uninhabitable. At the university, which was invaded by escapees from the Immigrant Holding facility, a shocked young woman (Laura Meredith) tells Stuart Collier that, at first, everything was friendly. But a man with blotched skin became violent with the women, resulting in two rapes, and stabbed another man who tried to protect them.

Known to the authorities, he’s a Lithuanian criminal nicknamed Freckles, who received the distinctive markings in an acid attack on his girlfriend and was awaiting deportation. Now, SWAT teams roam the empty buildings. The students are bussed to a Relief Center, a considerable collection of tents next to the same hospital where the plane crash victims were taken. Collier and his team have a command center in the hospital's basement, sharing its emergency power.

Back in London, Prime Minister Robert Sutherland told his cabinet that it was his duty to visit the Red Zone, taking press members on a bus to see him in action. He and Anna bicker—she doesn't think it’s safe, and ironically, for once, she agrees with Archie, who does not plan to go with them. When Press Secretary Peter Mott invites the press onto the bus, he deflects a surprise question about the PM’s daughter from journalist Cressida McGuire (Katherine Jack) — “There is no situation with his daughter.” However, it turns out that another guest at that fateful party has leaked a story to the press, and a significant story is about to be published.