Winter be Bingeing 26' - Trigger Point - Season Four

Like yesterday's The Walking Dead: Dead City third season, Trigger Point, streams on Aussie streamer, Stan. The British crime/thriller series, starring Vicky McClure as a police bomb disposal expert in London. The fourth series was released late August, with all episodes landing at once. Currently there is no news of a fifth season.

Season four begins, acting on intelligence from a STRAP 3 MI5 source, Washington’s team and CTSFOs pursue a suspected explosive equipped truck heading to the Bank of England. SO15 orchestrates road closures, directing the truck into a tunnel out of sight of a drone monitoring it. CTSFOs remove the driver, allowing Rahim to take his place and Washington to enter, resuming the route so the drone operators do not become suspicious. She discovers the bomb is linked to a satellite phone, rendering their radio jamming useless. 

Whilst searching an address linked to the driver, DS Morgan fails to call it in and DCI Batra is killed by an explosive booby trap. Morgan takes the SD card from her body camera and fakes injuries. Hassan disobeys orders from Commander Quentin to change direction, giving Washington enough time to defuse the device. The drone is shot down, but two more bombs immediately detonate in another part of the city. 

Some time later, Washington reluctantly undergoes treatment for PTSD with Eddie, a new therapist.

Now I don't want to sound like a negative Nancy, but four seasons in, whilst exciting, the series is becoming a little predictable.

In the finale (where I became a bit of a negative Nancy), Washington enters the stadium with CTSFOs led by Phil Croxley, ordering Danny not to accompany her and leave the blast radius should she fail. 

Francis doesn't order an evacuation, knowing it would disrupt the search. The Prime Minister scrambles RAF Typhoon’s to bomb the stadium and stop the detonation as a last resort. 

CTSFOs engage the PMC’s so Washington can find the bomb, with Croxley giving her a pistol. Morgan rescues her brother and finds out the bomb's location, conveying it to Washington. 

The Chief of Defence Staff orders the fighters commence bombing ten minutes before detonation, giving Washington just six minutes. Out of detonators, she uses the primer from a disassembled 9mm round to detonate plastic explosive and break the device in half, but is shot by a sniper. 

Croxley kills the sniper, the device is neutralised and the strike aborted at the last second. Washington survives her injuries and helps Oldfield to track down and arrest Morgan in France. 

Formally resigning from EOD with a recovered Hassan taking her place, Washington begins a road trip with her new pet dog, seemingly more at peace.

I enjoy this series, however after four seasons, it feels like the outcome is always the same. Like Dexter (the first time around). Each season would roll around, a new villain would enter, Dexter would always cover everything up neatly. For a few seasons it's fun. Then it just becomes a predictable formula, rolled out again and again.

Until next time, Reacher concludes today, Lioness Sunday, with Fightland on break, then returning for a finale next Friday.