I may have overdone my Hijack theories because this week’s episode shatters my suspicions about Sam (Idris Elba) and uses the old Die Hard effect, where the man best able to thwart a terrorist action is an unsuspecting middleman. -age who just wants to be with his family. By the way, it is an almost perfect adaptation of the 1988 film, with Sam also playing a British John MacLane, after all the policeman also found himself in the middle of a gang of German bandits when his wife had left him and he was desperately trying to save his marriage.

The time we follow flight KA 29 is when it flies over Romania and is in serious danger of being shot down. I just feel less bad for wondering what Sam’s is because no one on or off the plane fails to ask the same thing. At this point, I’m even suspicious of his ex-wife’s current boyfriend, who is ultra comfortable with free access to MI6 and apparently “helping” British intelligence. Guys, we’re halfway through the season not knowing what the terrorists want! It’s ALL still up in the air, literally.

So Sam, the negotiator, goes on and on about his strategy: to keep everyone calm so they can get to London alive. It doesn’t care about anyone in particular, it just doesn’t want to die so it depends on general cooperation. OK. In the same way he “helps” the injured bandit to take advantage of a chance to send a message to the team on land. Super James Bond, just rub salt in our wounds and Idris will never be 007.

We ended the third episode with a shot and the victim was the saint who put up with the rudeness of the stressed mother and the noise of misbehaving children. Rest in peace. At least one of the passengers managed to reduce the number of terrorists in the air. The poor guy names the leader, reveals that there are plans for every possible scenario, and then gives Sam the advantage of changing strategy (or sticking to it) again.

With everything that happens in Hijack, the other big revelation is that the target is really in England and the list of demands was (finally) handed over to the Government. Only 3 hours to Heathrow, what else is Sam going to get? At this point, he doesn’t even suspect it, but the bandits have already surrounded his house and are targeting his family, most likely already kidnapping his son. Will he keep calm when he knows what’s going on?

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