'Trigger Point' Season 2 Brings a New Terrorist Plot & a Whole Lot of Heartbreak

Well, friends, it appears that Lana Washington (Vicky McClure) did not take my advice at the end of Trigger Point Season 1 and get a job working at Starbucks. In the six months that have passed since the first season finale, Lana has not been making lattes, catching up on Ted Lasso, and learning how to knit. (To be fair, if she's got Apple TV+, there was only one season of Severence, which wouldn't take her long to watch.) Alas, she has been in Kosovo training bomb disposal teams. She returns back to London, not precisely healed but not as shattered as she was when viewers last left her.

She’s in the middle of a corporate talk (“Be alert to the absence of the normal and the presence of the abnormal”) when, naturally, a terrorist attack occurs at a power plant, and she’s pulled right back in. (Welcome home!) She discovers two linked bombs at the power plant gate and gets right to work. However, it turns into an awkward situation because her newly promoted-to-DCI ex-boyfriend, Thom Youngblood (Mark Stanley), and his new partner, DS Helen Morgan (Natalie Simpson), show up. Helen also happens to be Thom’s new girlfriend. (Thom has not learned a thing about not mixing business with pleasure.) Helen seems fine, but she’s also worried that Thom hasn’t told Lana about their relationship when a coordinated terrorist attack seems like a more significant concern.

There have been other workplace changes since Lana was last in London. Fellow EXPO Hassan Rahim (Nabil Elouahabi) has been in charge of the team while Lana has been away. He’s allowed John Hudson (Kris Hitchen) to come back. “He’s trying to change,” Hass insists. But John hasn’t precisely grown as a person, telling Lana that he “has nothing to apologize for” while reminding her that she “screwed a terrorist.” A real charmer that John. Honestly, the only good news anyone has is Danny (Eric Shango), who is getting married in two weeks and three days.