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THE SALISBURY POISONINGS ***New***

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Series synopsis 

In March 2018 Salisbury became the site of an unprecedented national emergency. This four-part dramatisation focuses on the extraordinary heroism shown by the local community.   

Episode 1  

Emergency services descend on Salisbury’s bustling city centre where they find Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious. The source of their illness is unknown. Nick Bailey is the police investigating officer. Following a visit to the Skripal’s home he also begins to fall ill. Tracy, the head of Wiltshire Council Public Health, normally responsible for day to day school kitchen and restaurant hygiene issues, is called into a counter terrorism emergency response meeting and asked to take charge of public health. Whitehall and the Cabinet Office are on speaker phone. In an instant her life has changed. It’s horrifying. The situation is critical: Sergei and Yulia are potential targets of a poison attack and the agent used remains unidentified. Tracy now realises she is dealing with a potential disaster —she tries her best to manage the investigation blind. CCTV footage shows the Skripal’s movements around town, they have been everywhere potentially infecting the entire city centre. Meanwhile Nick goes back to work, to his family home and then to the hospital. He isn’t displaying signs of illness and is released but then, the next morning, is rushed to hospital after his wife, Sarah, finds him passed out on the couch. And it’s now that Tracy discovers that the poison used is a nerve agent called Novichok, one of the deadliest synthetic substances on earth. The implications are apocalyptic. Half a spoonful can kill 15,000 people. And the Skripals and Nick have unwittingly spread it across multiple sites all over Salisbury.