Payback continued on ITV this week with episode 2, and Peter Mullan‘s chilling portrayal of crime boss Cal Morris continues to give us the chills.
Morven Christie is typically watchable as Lexie, who radiates pure fear at her terrifying predicament. Meanwhile, Cal and his associate Malky (Stephen Mackintosh) are brilliantly sinister in their respective roles.
Oh, and add some Julie Graham sprinkles as Cal’s moll wife, and we’ve got ourselves a truly unmissable cast.
After episode 1 of the ITV crime thriller, some ED! readers complained the series started off with bad sound, and a “boring” and “confusing” plot.
But we agree with those who called it “fantastic”, “brilliant”, and “bingeworthy”. It might be a slow burner for some, but we’re desperate to know what happened to Cal’s dosh…
Here’s all the questions we desperately need answering after watching episode 2 of Payback on ITV.
***Warning: spoilers from Payback episode 2 ahead***
Questions we have after watching Payback episode 2 on ITV1 – was Jared stealing from Cal?
In episode 2 of Payback on ITV, Lexie was left feeling increasingly isolated and alone. Deceived by her husband – we think! – Lexie was left with no choice but to agree to help crime boss Cal Morris track his lost money.
At the end of Payback episode 1, Lexie discovered that her late husband had arranged copies of fake passports for the whole family. Which implies he had robbed Cal, and was planning to take the family to the US to start a new life under new identities.
Of course, he was murdered before that happened. And we still don’t know who killed him, although we have to suspect it was one of Cal’s rivals. In the second instalment of Payback (Wednesday, October 11, 2023), we discovered that Jared stole MILLIONS from Cal ‘you don’t say no to me’ Morris.
So he either had a death wish, or there was something else going on… Was he being forced to filter money? And if so, by who?
Who is the third party who has all the money?
In the latest episode of Payback on ITV, we learnt that Jared had arranged for a third party to withdraw Cal’s money in cash from one foreign account, and then deposit it in another. But, for security reasons, he didn’t share the details of the second account with Malky or Cal.
So who was the third party? We feel in our guts that Malky is somehow involved in this. Or if not, it’s definitely an inside job. Malky is shifty as hell, and we only have his word for the fact that Jared didn’t share this info… Malky (Steven Mackintosh) has shark eyes, and that’s all the evidence we need to distrust him right now!
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