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Who is the bomber on Trigger Point?

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The previous episode ended with Vicky McClure’s Lana “Wash” Washington, scalpel in hand, breathing heavily in the direction of a new bomb, this time planted in a mosque. “I’ve neutralised an IED while the Taliban are taking pot-shots at my head,” Wash tells Karl, while lining up the black, “so I think I’ll be alright.” This is but one of many lines in Trigger Point that are clunkier than a stone age Rube Goldberg machine. “Lana, you’re in the danger zone!” Youngblood yells as she approaches the vehicle, a line that, for fans of adult cartoons, was almost certainly said at some point in Archer. “They know how we think, how we move, everything,” Wash observes, “it’s got to be an inside man.” It seems like Trigger Point, which often feels likeLine of Dutybut with a few more bangs, is on the trail of a bent copper…