The Last Enemy
Researcher Dr. Stephen Ezard returns home to the UK after the reported death of his brother, Michael Ezard, only to find that his widow, Yasim Anwar, is harboring a wanted yet deathly ill illegal immigrant. Yasim, on the rebound from her husband's death, becomes very intimate with Stephen. But after the death of Yasim's immigrant friend, she disappears with the body, leaving more questions than answers. Stephen is then hired as a consultant and promoter of a new computer system, T.I.A. (Total Information Awareness). Using his expert computer skills, he secretly tracks down Yasim, unaware that he is a pawn in a government conspiracy.
- 2008-2008
- 1 season
- PBS
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
Researcher Dr. Stephen Ezard returns home to the UK after the reported death of his brother, Michael Ezard, only to find that his widow, Yasim Anwar, is harboring a wanted yet deathly ill illegal immigrant. Yasim, on the rebound from her husband's death, becomes very intimate with Stephen. But after the death of Yasim's immigrant friend, she disappears with the body, leaving more questions than answers. Stephen is then hired as a consultant and promoter of a new computer system, T.I.A. (Total Information Awareness). Using his expert computer skills, he secretly tracks down Yasim, unaware that he is a pawn in a government conspiracy.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Oct 5, 2008 85 mins
After a four year absence, Stephen Ezard returns to the UK to attend his brother Michael's funeral. The two had grown apart and lost contact so Stephen's not aware of just how much his brother was loved in the community. Michael was an aid worker who was killed when he drove over a landmine in his jeep. At Michael's flat, Stephen is surprised to meet his brother's wife, Yasim Anwar, a medical doctor who is treating a severely ill woman in the spare room. Stephen is a mathematician and is soon offered funding by a company that is hoping to win a contract for total information access or TIA, a single all-purpose database for all of the UK that is about to become law. As strange events build upon one another - Yasim disappears, as does the downstairs neighbor - Stephen begins to use TIA to find out exactly what may have happened. What he doesn't realize is that agents of national security are also monitoring him and are particularly interested in the woman who lay dying in the spare room of Michael's flat.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Sun, Oct 12, 2008 56 mins
Stephen Ezard awakens in the lab to find that Professor Moreton and an unknown woman have been shot. He foolishly handles the gun that is near the body and the entire episode is caught on closed circuit TV. He flees and seeks out his former girlfriend Eleanor Brooke for help but as a Minister, she is in Parliament defending the government's proposed TIA. Stephen's problems continue to mount when David Russell kidnaps him and tries to get information on the missing Yasim Anwar. It's obvious that she was the intended victim in the lab but Stephen knows little and Russell eventually releases him. A British intelligence officer visits the site of Michael Ezard's death and comes away with more questions than answers. Stephen arranges for someone to conduct an autopsy on Nadir, the woman he found in his brother's apartment. Russell has some interesting information about Michael's death.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Sun, Oct 19, 2008 56 mins
David Russell saves Stephen and Yassim just as they are about to be shot. He wants Stephen to go into the TIA database and wants him to go back to the beginning and find out what is going on. It starts with a batch of bad vaccine and the solution to who is out to kill them lies there. Stephen knows his movements are being tracked and must take steps to elude his followers. His former girlfriend, a junior Minister in the Government, learns that TIA is being assigned to someone else. She is also approached by security officials when Stephen can't be found. Stephen also discovers something quite interesting his brother Michael.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Sun, Oct 26, 2008 56 mins
Stephen deals with a rival for Yasim's affections and sudden homelessness after his identity is removed from the database.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Sun, Nov 2, 2008 56 mins
As Stephen finally pieces together the conspiracy, Michael's illness worsens and another moves to tie up all the loose ends.