Set in a near-future United Kingdom beset by terrorism and illegal immigration, it features the introduction of "TIA" (Total Information Awareness), a centralised database that can be used to track and monitor anybody effectively by putting all available government information in one place. The story deals with a political cover-up centred around a rogue batch of vaccine that seems to be causing a deadly virus, as well as the moral, social and privacy concerns of such a system in a post-7/7 world. The story is told through the eyes of a mathematical genius, Stephen Ezard, who is portrayed as a recluse and showing some signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The final episode then has a plot twist in which this apparent virus is shown to be in fact an ethnicity-specific side effect of an experiment in producing an internal, injected and unfakeable bio-tag, a side-effect, which affects Arabs, but not Caucasians, and so (to avoid international scandal) has had to be shut down.
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重演于信息时代的1984。极权,除了tag什么都不是的人,加上些基因工程和种族主义危机,本子对困境的探讨还算足。问题实在冗长拖沓,思路也较混乱,越往后反转得越轻率,配角功能也越模糊。然后爱情线极失败,故事展开是需要契机,那样的情感化合也可以理解,但干柴烈火就可笑了。顺便一说,剧中好多人自始至终没培养出一点反侦察意识实在是不可思议……剪辑没章法。演员不错。