Policeman DS Nick Bailey, who is portrayed by Rafe Spall in new BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings, has hit back at viewers who complained about his wife Sarah’s behaviour.
Airing across consecutive nights on BBC One, the three-part drama is a retelling of the public health crisis that followed the nerve agent attacks in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 2018.
What happened in episode two?
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In the second episode, shown last night (Monday, June 15), Wiltshire Council’s director of public health, Tracy Daszkiewicz (Anne-Marie Duff) and Supt Dave Minty (Darren Boyd) watched bodycam footage of DS Bailey walking through the Skripal house. They realised he and the Skripals were poisoned by Novichok present on the property’s front door.
While Nick was left fighting for his life in hospital, his wife Sarah (Annabel Scholey) tried to remain calm for the sake of their two daughters.
In emotional scenes, Sarah desperately tried to calm her husband down as he deliriously shouted for his kids from his hospital bed.
Later, the mum-of-two took the children to hospital to visit their dad. She was kept waiting, so she sent the girls home with their granddad.
Two people later arrived and told Sarah they were assigned as family liaison officers.
They insisted that Sarah and the kids couldn’t return to their home, telling her: “They have to test in there, Sarah. The stuff could be inside, on Nick’s clothes…”
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