With only four episodes to tell its story, Collateral, created and written by playwright David Hare,wastes no time throwing the audience right into the center of a seemingly inexplicable mystery: In London, a delivery worker is shot and killed while delivering a pizza to the ex-wife (played by Billie Piper) of a member of Parliament, in what appears to be a military-style assassination.
With only four episodes to tell its story, Collateral, created and written by playwright David Hare,wastes no time throwing the audience right into the center of a seemingly inexplicable mystery: In London, a delivery worker is shot and killed while delivering a pizza to the ex-wife (played by Billie Piper) of a member of Parliament, in what appears to be a military-style assassination. Assigned to investigate the case is Detective Inspector Kip Glaspie (Carey Mulligan), who quickly begins to realize that the whole murder plot is part of a knotty web that involves disparate factions of the British establishment, from the military to the church. Collateral takes the time to flesh out the criminals and the cops. It employs a handful of suspenseful twists and a prescient commentary on Europe’s refugee crisis.