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.
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.