Things are well and truly heating up in the second season of The Night Manager, with ghosts from Jonathan Pine's past coming back to haunt him. Now that we know Richard Roper is not only alive, but still heavily embedded in illegal activity, why did Angela Burr lie about him being dead?
Cast your mind back to the first episode of season two, and we joined Jonathan and Angela (played by Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman) four years after they had captured Roper (Hugh Laurie) in Cairo for selling illegal weapons under the guise of farm machinery.
They had been called to Syria to identify the body of Richard Roper, who was lying on a table, almost unrecognisable under a heavy beard. During the identification, only one of them was allowed into the room where Roper was, so Angela went, and confirmed it was indeed him, and he was dead.
Only fast forward to episode three of season two, and it's actually revealed that Roper isn't dead at all, and instead has been working with new villain Teddy dos Santos - his son - on the same illegal arms deals. So why did Angela lie?
It turns out, the night before the formal identification, Roper had appeared in Angela's bedroom, explaining he had done a deal with his Syrian captors. He said he would pay them $300 million to let him free - the only hurdle being her formal identification - which is why he's hiding in the Colombian hills while Teddy handles the deals, to slowly add up to that total.
He manipulated her, threatening that if she didn't lie and say he was dead, he would kill both her and Pine and also her child back in the UK, focing her to declare him dead at the identification and retire from The River. Unsurprising behaviour for such a wicked man.
She lied because Jonathan had to believe Roper was dead, and Angela feared that if he did not, he would refuse to let it go and risk compromising the entire operation.
So, with Roper back and working with Teddy - will Jonathan Pine be able to take them down for good?
The Night Manager continues on BBC at 9pm on Sundays.
