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    • Source: The Last Enemy (TV series)

      • The Last Enemy is a five-part BBC television drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and featuring Robert Carlyle and Max Beesley. It first aired on 17 February 2008.


      Plot


      Set in a recognisable dystopian near-future London, The Last Enemy features the introduction of "TIA" (Total Information Awareness), a centralised database that can be used to track and monitor anybody, by putting all government and corporate – i.e. credit card and bank activity, phone use, internet use, purchases, rentals, etc. – information in one place.
      The story deals with a political cover-up of a sanctioned but secret medical experiment run amok with key members of the government trying desperately to hide all evidence of their experimental batch of vaccine that seems to be causing a deadly virus. The complex story unspools to reveal the moral, social and privacy concerns of this hypothetical TIA system in a post-7/7 world, including such control mechanisms familiar to both real life and science fiction as retinal scans, fingerprint identification and ubiquitous camera and mobile phone surveillance footage.
      The story is told through the eyes of a mathematical genius, Stephen Ezard, who is portrayed as a recluse showing some signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The shy genius overcomes his inhibitions to burrow into a highly compromised British government using his brilliance and their TIA system only to find himself ultimately trapped by the people he most trusts and to learn he is a pawn in manipulative Security State machinations which take the people he most loves from him and compromise him forever.


      Cast


      Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Ezard
      Anamaria Marinca as Yasir Anwar
      Max Beesley as Michael Ezard
      Robert Carlyle as David Russell
      Eva Birthistle as Eleanor Brooke
      Geraldine James as Barbara Turney
      David Harewood as Patrick Nye
      Christopher Fulford as George Gibbon
      Alina Serban as Nadir Al-Fulani
      Paul Higgins as Professor Lawrence Cooper
      Nicholas Sidi as Professor John Moreton
      David Calder as Lord Cawston
      James Lance as Bryan Holland
      San Shella as Andrew Wilcox
      Nikki Amuka-Bird as Susan Ross


      Viewing figures




      Distribution


      The Last Enemy aired in the United States on Masterpiece Contemporary on PBS from 5 October 2008 to 2 November 2008.
      In Australia, The Last Enemy TV series commenced airing on free-to-air-TV on ABC1 (the national public television channel) from 8:30pm on 19 July 2009 and concluded on 16 August 2009.
      The Last Enemy aired on TVO in Ontario, Canada from 9:00 pm on 1–29 April 2009
      The Last Enemy aired weekly in Denmark on DR1 from 10:45 pm on 26 January 2012.
      The Last Enemy is available on Amazon Prime Video and on YouTube. As of 2020, it is available on the STV Player in Scotland. In January 2023, it was made available on ITVX and Britbox in the UK.


      References




      External links


      The Last Enemy at BBC Online
      The Last Enemy at the BBC
      The Last Enemy at IMDb

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