"Vigil", a claustrophobic thriller aboard a submarine

• Arte and the BBC have joined forces to produce Vigil, broadcast this Thursday at 8:55 p.m. on the Franco-German channel.

• This thriller gathered more than 10 million Britons when it was broadcast across the Channel.

• Carried by Suranne Jones and Leslie Rose, the high-voltage thriller Vigil follows the investigation into a murder aboard a nuclear submarine.

A concentrate of British know-how in terms of thriller under high tension! 

, a 6-volume miniseries broadcast this Thursday at 8:55 p.m. on Arte and available on Arte.tv by the producers of

and

follows Amy (Suranne Jones, ex -

and

, a Scottish inspector sent to investigate aboard a military submarine following the suicide of one of the crew members while on patrol. The starting point for a breathless and suffocating thriller, which seduced more than 10 million Britons when it premiered at the opening of Series Mania and was broadcast on the BBC this fall.

The opening scene shows a trawler being speared by something and sinking inexorably into the depths of the ocean with all its crew.

A knot away, the golden ear of

hears their distress call.

Petty Officer Craig Burke (Martin Compston) argues that the ship should come to their rescue.

He is met with a plea of ​​inadmissibility: the

, which is part of the British nuclear deterrent force Trident, must not reveal its position, nor put itself at the mercy of the building which sank the boat.

Captain Newsome rushes Burke to his bunk to calm down.

A moment later, a member of the crew discovers him dead, apparently the victim of a heroin overdose.

An investigation in a confined universe

Commander Amy Silva of Glasgow Police is airlifted aboard the vessel to shed light on the death.

A three-day mission in a confined, predominantly male universe, governed by iron discipline and hostile to the intervention of a female police officer in a military affair.

An environment, moreover, which is not ideal for the one who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a tragedy that left her depressed and claustrophobic.

Examination of Burke's corpse quickly shows that the overdose was staged and that it is dealing with murder.

A parallel investigation in the Scottish fjords

On dry land, Lieutenant Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie, seen in

and

), her teammate at the police station and in life, is leading investigations into a possible link between Burke's murder and militants. antinuclear. If Kirsten can send messages to the submarine, Amy does not have permission to communicate with the outside so as not to jeopardize the position of the ship.

Since no one wants to cooperate, like Sherlock Holmes, Amy can only count on these capacities of deduction and observation to unmask the assassin.

Like Doctor Watson, Kirsten Longacre will compete in ingenuity to send him useful information that only Amy can decipher.

“For me, the biggest challenge in writing was to succeed in bringing these two worlds together, on land and under the sea, explains Tom Edge, the creator of the series in the file, by managing to hold a single and same story over the six episodes.

"

Formally, a successful bias too: the Scottish fjords and the raw energy of Kirsten Longacre give oxygen to the claustrophobic promiscuity of the Vigil and the neurotic character of Amy Silva

A tangle of intrigues mixing intimate and geopolitical

From this mysterious murder in the manner of the novels of Agatha Christie the creator of the series Tom Edge (who notably contributed to the writing of

or The Crown) will unfold over this two-part investigation a tangle of dense and captivating intrigues conducted at full speed.

Vigil

interweaves intimate and geopolitical.

Tom Edge explores humans' unfathomable ability to complicate a situation.

He was interested in the scandals that shook the British Navy in recent years: failing submarines, crew members tested positive for cocaine, the Bugaled Breizh affair.

He weaves his web from real events such as the invasive presence of Russian buildings in the English Channel and the North Sea.

Despite some convoluted twists,

is an underwater Cluedo that will hold you breathless for six episodes.

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