Not only are real-life experts watching Trigger Point, starring Vicky McClure as Met Police bomb “expo” Lana Washington, but casual TV watchers as well. Here, they discuss what the show is doing well and poorly with News.
In the second season of the ITV drama Trigger Point, the BAFTA-winning actress plays Lana Washington, who is in charge of a group of bomb disposal specialists, or “expos,” who work for the Met Police.
The tension has increased in the penultimate episode, which airs this evening. Lana has had to deal with bombs in car parks, abandoned subway stations, and laptops. She has also witnessed her former detective being pushed down a lift shaft by a woman posing as a firefighter who was investigating the scene, just after their romance had returned.
However, to what extent can Trigger Point accurately replicate the tasks of an actual expo?
Extreme Risk and Eight Lives Down are among the books authored by Major Chris Hunter, whose career in bomb disposal for the army and Special Forces spanned years and served as the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker.
