Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
8 episodes
E01
Mort
After being betrayed and nearly killed in Tangier, private security operative Sam Hunter recovers in a remote cottage. She soon returns to London to resume work for her employer, Byzantium, and determine which of her colleagues set her up. Her new assignment: posing as a tutor to the grandson of criminal multi-millionaire, Jack Turner.
E02
LB
After a colleague is kidnapped by the criminal multimillionaire she is spying on, Sam is ordered to kill him to keep him from being tortured and compromising the team. But her colleague delivers a stunning revelation - he has information on who tried to assassinate her in Tangier. If Sam carries out the order to kill him, she will never find out.
E03
Hourglass
Travelling undercover with the criminal multimillionaire she is spying on, Sam comes face-to-face with Bernard Faroux, the Frenchman she seduced and betrayed in Tangier. He offers to tell her who tried to assassinate her, but only if she gives vital information to him instead of Byzantium.
E04
Kismet
After witnessing a brutal murder, Sam discovers that Jack Turner, the criminal multi-millionaire she is spying on, is engaged in sabotage to make millions on the stock market. But the discovery comes too late for her colleague, Aidan Marsh, who rushes to stop a London office tower from exploding - only to get caught in the blast.
E05
Ambassadors
A mysterious assassin tells Sam that he is trying to protect her from Hourglass, a conspiracy orchestrated by five multinational corporations. Sam's investigation of the conspirators takes her to a country estate where she had been years before - it was where she was taken as a child after her mother was murdered and she was kidnapped.
E06
Polyhedrus
Sam suspects that Jack Turner intends to assassinate Fatima Zahir, a Pakistani presidential candidate opposed to the sale of the dam he is trying to buy. Sam and the team race to save Zahir's life, only to discover Turner has an even more important target - a scientist possessing a deadly secret that implicates Byzantium's own client.
E07
Khyber
Jack Turner demands he be awarded the dam, revealing he has evidence implicating Byzantium's client in a terrible crime. With the operation nearly over, Aidan presses Sam to revisit childhood memories of her mother's murder and her own kidnapping - to understand the reasons why the Hourglass conspirators have targeted her for death.
E08
Snow Maiden
Byzantium is ordered to kill Jack Turner, but when the assassination attempt fails, Sam is exposed as a spy, and trapped inside the house. Turner produces the evidence he has against Byzantium's client, while Sam - secretly being poisoned to death - at last begins to recover terrible memories that explain why the Hourglass conspirators want her dead.
Cast
Melissa George
as Sam Hunter
Adam Rayner
as Aidan Marsh
Stephen Dillane
as Rupert Keel
Stephen Campbell Moore
as Stephen Turner
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
as Deacon Crane
Morven Christie
as Zoe Morgan
Lex Shrapnel
as Ian Fowkes
Oscar Kennedy
as Edward Turner
Patrick Malahide
as Jack Turner
Scott Handy
as Blank-Faced Man
Dhafer L'Abidine
as Bernard Faroux
