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Crossfire viewers baffled as police are nowhere to be seen hours into violent siege: ‘Are they on strike?’-Louise Griffin-Entertainment – Metro
They seemed to be taking their time.
Keeley Hawes stars in the new BBC drama (Picture: BBC / Dancing Ledge Productions)
New BBC drama Crossfire has divided viewers, with some hooked and others left unimpressed. But one thing has united them all – an absolute sense of puzzlement about where on earth the police are in this show.
Keeley Hawes stars in the new drama as Jo – a character whose world is turned upside down when a terrorist attack takes place during at her holiday resort.
Gunmen quickly turn the paradise holiday into hell as they’re out for revenge, while Jo must do what she can to save herself and her family.
It’s a terrifying watch, but viewers of episode two were a little distracted after they realised that, despite the characters calling the police and being assured they were 30 minutes away, they were nowhere to be seen.
‘Are the police coming by kids tricycle or something?’ one asked, while another added: ‘Surely to god the police would be there now. Where are they? Mars?’
‘Has anyone actually thought to call the police and inquire where the hell they are?’ another asked, with one more saying: ‘Are the police living in a different time continuum to everyone else?’
Another viewer suggested that police may have been waylaid with recent events, adding: ‘I’m guessing the local police been in the UK for the state funeral…’
Finally, at the end of episode two, we hear a helicopter approaching, which we can only assume is the police eventually arriving.
The whereabouts of the police force aside, many have been wondering if Crossfire is based on a true story.
However, creator Louise Doherty has revealed that Crossfire wasn’t based on any one particular true event.
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Speaking to Metro.co.uk and other publications, when asked if Crossfire mirrors any tragic events across the world, Louise shared: ‘I think the first thing to say is how appalling it must be for anyone who has ever experience like this. I mean, you know, none of us can begin to imagine how awful that must be. And I think you know, our hearts go out to all of them because it’s just an unspeakable horror really to have to go through
‘I was very clear that I wanted this to be an entirely fictional story, because I just wouldn’t have been comfortable basing it on a real life event.
‘I would have found that too difficult to do.’
She continued: ‘But obviously, I watched a lot of documentaries and I read a lot of survivor accounts, I researched very carefully what has actually happened in these incidents.
‘And the thing that I’ve felt really, really passionately about is that this story was going to be from the point of view of the victims, because we have a lot of action dramas where it’s this kind of hero anti hero thing going on with the shooter, and it’s very much from the shooter’s point of view, and I was adamant from the start that we’re not we’re not doing that.’
Crossfire continues Thursday at 9pm on BBC One.
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