‘The Gold’ Season 2 Goes Full Honeypot & Sinkhole
Men all have the same weakness: women.
We’re in the back half of The Gold’s second season. Once again, we’re adding to the roster of filming locations, opening in the jungles of Burma at the headquarters of the local drug cartel with a bunch of characters we’ve never met before. The central figure is journalist Tina Keyes (Perdita Weeks), who has allowed herself to be blindfolded and led to their leader, Han-So (Adrian Pang). She wants an interview with him, a feather in her cap to interview a major drug lord – he also wants the interview, because the recognition will help their global distribution. More importantly, he wants visas so they can travel. She refuses, bringing them to an impasse.
It’s not immediately clear what the point of all this is, or how it ties into the promised return of Kenneth Noye that concluded last week’s episode. Instead, we cut back to the London Met, where Boyce is being read the riot act over Jennings and Brightwell causing a scene at Heathrow, arresting Baxter and Scott. Stewart and McLean want to know what the hell he was thinking; Boyce tells them that it’s about getting the Brink’s-Mat money back. They got £500k along with their arrests, which they can claim under the new “Drug Trafficking Offenses Act.”
It’s a drop in the bucket compared to the original £26 million, but hey, it’s something, and they can use it as a precedent to do the same to John Palmer once he’s arrested. It will also make them look better in the press. Boyce volunteers to handle the PR and heads over to the ITV offices.
