Less Than An Hour – As the episode opens, Lewis’s (Jack McMullen) life hangs in the balance. Stuart Atterton (Neil Maskell) demands to know who left Lewis in this condition. Arthur (Jeremy Ang Jones) claims they were trying to help him. David Miller (Marcus Garvey) is identified as the doctor. Ordering everyone back to their seat except David, Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) overhears Lewis telling Stuart that he called his “mom.” Terry (Jasper Britton) leads a shackled Sam toward his seat when Jamie Constantinou (Aimee Kelly) approaches. Now on his own, Sam grabs a bottle of water from Anna Kovac (Kaisa Hammarlund). Returning to his seat, he creates a sketch of the flag on her badge. Leesha (Antonia Salib) identifies it as a Hungary’s flag. Sam ignores Hugo’s (Harry Michell) pleads for answer.

Collingwood House – Louise (Hattie Morahan) receives a call from Home Secretary Neil (Neil Stuke). She informs them of their location. He explains the hijacker’s demands without divulging too much information. He orders his assistant to collect the Whitehall building CCTV. She shares the hijacker’s demands with the team. Detective Zahra Gahfoor (Archie Panjabi) instructs her team to look into the hijackers’ contacts, instead of the hijackers. Daniel O’Farrell (Max Beesley) and Erica (Liv Spencer) are dispatched to one of the hijacker’s mother’s house to conduct a search. Neil says Edgar Janssen (Simon McBurney) and John Bailey-Brown (Ian Burfield) were wrongfully imprisoned in January. The hijacking of Flight KA29 is to protest the wrongful conviction. The British Parliament has two options – comply with the demands to save innocent passengers or ignore the demands and have 216 dead victims on their hands.

Flight KA29 – Sam and Hugo question Lewis’ claims of calling “mom.” Sam suggests Stuart and Lewis have the same mother. Hugo is skeptical. Pilot Robin Allen (Ben Miles) announces their current location, Romania. He urges them to implement their plan sooner than later. They plead with Stuart to land the plane to save Lewis’ life. Stuart tells them that the plane won’t be grounded for one person. Sam points out that Lewis is his brother. Stuart demands to know where he heard it from. After claiming Lewis told him, Sam says David warns he will die within the hour. When Stuart leaves to speak with David, Sam contacts Deevia Khan (Zora Bishop) to convince her to alert David.

Collingwood House – Neil and his colleagues debate a negotiation. Louise warns against labeling the hijackers “terrorists,” Organized Crime Group “OCG” is safer. He questions if the OCG will make good on its claim.

Neela’s Apartment Complex – Neel (Nikkita Chadha)who had been rushed home to her husband is attracting unwanted attention. A neighbor sends her son over to invite Gala outside to play. Cleaners, Maz (Samson Cox-Vinell) and (Graeme McKnight) assure Neel that he has the wrong apartment. The lady watches as they make their departure.

Flight KA29 – Stuart and Jamie debate over landing the plane. Stuart reminds him of his romantic relationship with Lewis. She passes it off as nothing. He assures her that Lewis wouldn’t agree. When she looks away, he grabs her face until she is looking him in the eye. She orders him to let go. He immediately complies. She is vehement about confirming his action with the other crew members. Sam urges Anna to send a message in Hungarian, the hijackers won’t pick up on it.

David is with Lewis when Devvia approaches with medicine. He tells her how to prepare the medicine. They must validate that the airport will permit the hijacked plane to utilize its landing pad. Anna is given instructions from the hijackers. She is perfectly fine with not getting Robin involved, after all, he beat her within an inch of her life for Colette (Kate Phillips).

Collingwood House – Detective Gahfoor fills Neil in on the two inmates that the hijackers want to be released. Edgar and John run a smuggling operation known as “Cheapside Firm.” They help smuggle drugs, human trafficking victims, and counterfeit money in and out of the country. They were convicted and sentenced to a 35-year prison sentence. Louis refuses to be part of their release. Neil assures her that he is only complying with the hijackers’ demands to save innocent lives.

Flight KA29 – Anna contacts the Budapest Airport. The controller identifies Flight KA29 as red-flagged. She assures the controller that the issue aboard the plane was resolved. After getting confirmation from Stuart and Jamie, she requests authorization to land the plane at Gyor Airport in Hungarian. She asks for a medical team and ambulance to be waiting on standby. She deceptively alerts that the hijacking is still in progress.

British Suburb – Daniel and Erica watch an older lady move her trash to the curbside. They receive a confirmation to approach the house.

Flight KA29 – Unaware of the landing, Jaden (Mohamed Elsandel) questions why Jamie and Stuart retrieved Anna. Terry denies any knowledge of what is going on. A Budapest controller informs Anna that a supervisor must override the landing. Ignoring the claims, she directs the plan toward the landing pad. The military is assembled around the airport. The passengers pick up on the landing.

British Suburb – Daniel and Erica enter Lewis and Stuart’s mother, Elaine Atterton’s (Ruth Sheem) house. Daniel demands to know the names of her sons’ contacts.

Collingwood House – Neil receives calls from the British PM and FPCC. Louis urges him to speak with FPCC first to gather information. Alice Sinclair (Eve Myles) informs them of the emergency landing at the Gyor Airport in Budapest.

Flight KA29 – As Flight KA29 reaches 12,000 feet, Anna requests authorization to make landing. The tower is waiting on a supervisor. Jamie orders Stuart to confirm the landing with the other crew members. As Stuart ignores her demand, Budapest asks if the plan is to drop Lewis off at the airport and immediately take off. When she yes, the tower asks if she wants the plane permanently grounded. She says yes. Everything is in order to make the landing when Terry demands to know what is going on. Removing Stuart to first class, Terry reminds him that the hijacking is a suicide mission. They are given a job to do, they do it. Stuart assures him that it will be completed as requested.

Atterton House – Elaine tells Daniel and Erica once Stuart and Lewis make up their minds, it is impossible to convince them otherwise. She assures them that they will come for her like they did their father, Peter. After 20 years of trusted service, one mishap resulted in a bullet in Peter’s the head.

Flight KA29 – Terry orders David to tell Stuart that Lewis will be okay and there is no need to land the plane. He warns that the passengers will die if the plane makes a landing. Lewis confirms Elaine’s story about the OCG killing his father. Sam asks for confirmation. Terry confesses to ordering the assassination which surprises Lewis.

Atterton House – Erica steps out to take a call from Gahfoor. Elaine claims John and Edgar are behind the OCG. She assures them that Peter never ratted on them. Gahfoor orders Erica to take Elaine hostage to an undisclosed location. She relays the order to Daniel when they discover Elaine escaped out the bathroom window. A short time later, Elaine steps out in front of traffic on an interstate.

Flight KA29 – Deevia takes to the airways and issues the standard landing procedures. Lewis pleads with Sam to stop the landing. Sam confesses to being behind the landing. Stuart discovers Lewis’s lifeless body. He instantly accuses David. Sam points out that the makeshift breaking tube is in his hand. He contacts Deevia to abort the landing. Anna takes the place out of descent, leaving Budapest stunned.

Collingwood House – While the team discussed aborted landing, Heidi (Camilla Beeput) alerts of the bodies at Neela’s apartment complex. Someone suggests Neela was leveraged for the hijackers to gain access to Flight KA29.

Kai (Jude Cudjoe) is upstairs in Sam’s flat when the cleaners arrive. As they load their silencer weapons, they ascend the stairs when the episode ends.

 

Hijack Review

A decent episode, although some aspects were stunning. The mother’s escape was certainly the most cringe-worthy of all. I can appreciate the thought of an all-powerful 1% entity but the lady’s daring escape was too much.

The aborted landing was frustrating. I assume it is a play to drag out the hijacking. I almost feel that it would have been better to scrap it and come up with another plotline. Despite that, I cannot deny that they did well with what they had to work with. Lots of interesting plots still left to explore with just 2 episodes remaining. Can’t wait to see how it all ties together. I would still rate this episode a 5 out of 10.

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