Steal - Fill or Kill
The opening episode of the six-part Amazon series features a heist of the pension management company Lochmill Capital by a group of armed robbers (Jonathan Slinger, Yusra Warsama, Andrew Howard, DÃana Bermudez, Shaun Mason, and Tomisin Ajani) taking control of the entire floor of the skyscraper and forcing through a trade worth four-billion pounds. Filled mostly with chaos and panic, the characters we learn the most about are trade processors Zara Dunne (Sophie Turner) and Luke Selborn (Archie Madekwe) who, after showing the new intern around that morning, are forced into cooperating with the robbers and are instrumental in getting the trade approved.
With a few scenes setting up what a normal day looks like, allowing our new intern to be the audience's eyes and Zara to introduce her to her world, the episode soon throws that out the window and focuses on the terror of the robbery and its immediate fallout. This works for a single episode, but I am curious how the series plans to manufacture more thrilling moments over the remainder of the series (as this doesn't feel like the kind of show that's interested in diving into the emotional repercussions for our characters over the next several episodes).
We end with the robbers making their successful getaway and the beginning of the follow up investigation which introduces Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as the lead inspector on the case. Through her final scene on-camera, alone in a restroom stall, and in the added spliced together scenes of what's to come in the remaining five episodes, it's clear that Zara is more involved in what is happening than being just another victim of the attack. As to what exactly that involvement is, and how that's going to continually put her in danger, remains to be seen.
- Title: Steal - Fill or Kill
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