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Amy decides to accompany Sabiha back to Wudyan, she uses it as an opportunity to question all and sundry on The Base, meanwhile back in Scotland, Kirsten follows her own lead.

Ok, so I have to start with the annoyance, and I hate doing this, but why does The BBC have to do it in every single production, why can it not just entertain is, here it takes great pleasure in telling us that oil is bad, and that any decent human being would have an electric car, I kid you not, we all groaned.

I thought this was a pretty average follow up, we all knew that Any would head to Wudyan, and of course she's allowed to interview everyone, including various important foreign military officers.

Kirsten, back in Scotland, heavily pregnant is chasing after various armed vigilantes, credibility has very much started to slip away, after what I thought was a very good first episode.

BBC, we're all aware of the organisation's views, do we need to be told on EVERY single thing you put out, what happened to just entertainment?

I'd have scored this higher were it not for the annoying subtext.

6/10.

The second episode of the second series very much marks Vigil as a flat police procedural.

Gone is the claustrophobic atmosphere of the characters trapped in a submarine. Where there were people who altogether could not be trusted.

DCI Amy Silva ends up in Wudyan, crossing swords with the growling squadron leader Eliza Russell. Silva soon realises that the drone attack does not add up.

Anthony Chapman may not had been acting alone and his daughter Sabiha might be more involved.

Kirsten Longacre is carrying her bit of the investigation back in Scotland. She is in desperate need of a protective vest and a firearm. She keeps bumping into the same armed man.

The cliffhangers look like a cynical measure, to give some misplaced tension.